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— New York Times on the Gilmore Girls creator’s Return of Jezebel James starring Parker Posey and Lauren Ambrose (Registration required). Also: Rashida Jones (The Office) in the Farrelly brothers sitcom: Unhitched, Gus Van Sant’s latest: Paranoid Park, and the interactive “Be Kind Rewind” exhibit at the Deitch Projects in Soho.

— Ellen Page drops out of Sam Raimi’s horror flick Drag Me to Hell due to delays that would have caused conflicts with her upcoming roles in Whip It!, a roller derby comedy directed by Drew Barrymore, and Peacock, a thriller with Cillian Murphy (Hollywood Reporter)

— Diablo Cody’s United States of Tara, her rookie TV offering to Showtime, will start shooting this month. The comedy stars Tilda Swinton as a mother with multiple personality disorder. Craig Gillespie (Lars and the Real Girl ) will direct. (Variety)

— Coens at Cannes: their next film, Burn After Reading - a spy comedy starring George Clooney, John Malkovich, Tilda Swinton, and Frances McDormand - rumored to be premiering at the Cannes Festival on May 14th. (NY Post)

— “Well, the ball has started rolling down the hill again. So hopefully, all the adults can get the business stuff together - because all the creatives are on board.” Jason Bateman’s status report on the Arrested Development movie along with his upcoming State of Play. (MTV News)

— “Man, I hope they talk about blogs and the Arcade Fire. I also hope that the Cloverfield monster attacks these people as well.” Skeet on Mischa on Bumped, a film unfortunately described as The Breakfast Club at an airport.

— “I saw Sacha Baron Cohen doing filming as Bruno (gay Austrian)…He was interviewing parents with their children pretending to be an german/austrian ad agent looking for a child to do a car commercial. He asked questions like : are you willing to film your child with ants? bees or wasps?” (Defamer)

— Glen Hansard and Marketa Irglova (of Once) go major label (Variety)

— ABC and NBC fighting over Scrubs? What the hell for? (Show Tracker)

— AV Club compares There Will Be Blood to its source material: Upton Sinclair’s work of historical fiction - Oil!

— Adam Yauch of The Beastie Boys vaguely lists his top ten Criterion DVD’s (Row Three)

— “8 Mile’s focus on Eminem’s early, pre-fame career gave the film a natural story arc and taught us things we didn’t already know. Notorious — on paper, at least — plays like a loose-knit highlight reel; it’s basically the screenplay adaptation of Biggie’s Wikipedia entry.” (Vulture) Related: watch the Biggie casting videos from Fox Searchlight’s internet search, because I can’t bring myself to do it.

— A project once thought to be D.O.A., a trailer for The Onion Movie has resurfaced on The Darjeeling Limited DVD (Film Junk)

— Heady stuff: 24 Lies a Second draws parallels between the real-life trials of Owen Wilson to themes explored in his Wes Anderson collaborations (via Kottke)

— Video: Unlikely pairing of the week goes to Jack McBrayer (30 Rock) and Mariah Carey for her video: Touch My Body (A.V. Club)

tedzee | Permalink | March 3 2008 | Comments (View)