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David Duchovny to star in Showtime series
The actor, whose last regular TV gig was The X-Files, will be the lead in the cable net's new comedy, which is expected to debut this summer (paired with new episodes of Weeds). Duchovny's character, divorced writer Hank Moody, is addicted to women and has complicated relationships with two ladies he loves: his 16-year-old daughter and his ex-girlfriend (Natascha McElhone). (Variety)
Don Cheadle to direct and star in Miles Davis biopic
The Oscar nominee (Hotel Rwanda) and star of March 23's Reign Over Me will play the jazz legend in a film he plans to make his feature directorial debut. (Attached to write are Stephen J. Rivele and Chris Wilkinson, who penned the screenplay for Nixon.) Other new roles on tap for Cheadle, who is being honored today (March 15) as male star of the year at the movie-industry convention ShoWest in Las Vegas: He'll play a terrorist operative in the drama Traitor; a lawyer who dreams of becoming a basketball ref in the comedy Quest to the Ref; an ex-con who befriends a border-patrol officer in Michael Apted's Broken Adonis; and a drug dealer/prison tour guard in Marching Powder. (Variety)
Daniel Craig, Julianne Moore eye Blindness
The blond Bond and Oscar-nominated Moore are in talks to star in the adaptation of Nobel Prize winner Jose Saramago's novel, about an epidemic of blindness that threatens to destroy an unnamed contemporary city. The movie will be directed by Fernando Meirelles (City of God, The Constant Gardener). (Hollywood Reporter)
Angelina Jolie has a new son
It's official: Angelina Jolie has adopted a 3-year-old Vietnamese boy named Pax Thien Jolie, from a Ho Chi Minh orphanage. The boy, whom an adoption official described as in good health, a soccer fan, and ''a little bit shy,'' had been abandoned as a baby at a hospital. (People.com)
Kristen Bell cast in big-screen comedy
The Veronica Mars star has signed on to Forgetting Sarah Marshall, which will be directed by How I Met Your Mother's Jason Segel (who also wrote the script). The story follows a man (Segel) who gets dumped by his sitcom-star girlfriend (Bell), and later runs into her — and her new boyfriend — while on vacation in Hawaii. Judd Apatow will co-produce. (Hollywood Reporter)
Daytime Emmy nominations announced
CBS and its daytime drama Guiding Light racked up the most nods — the long-running soap scored 17 nominations, adding to the Eye's tally of 57. In the talk-show categories, Ellen DeGeneres' show led the pack, scoring 12 nominations. She's also up for best talk show host, along with Rachael Ray, Dr. Phil, Tyra Banks, and all four regular hosts of The View. The 34th annual Daytime Emmy Awards will air live from Hollywood on June 15. (Reuters)
Record-breaking printing for new Harry Potter book
Publisher Scholastic Inc. has announced that it will release 12 million copies of the final book in J.K. Rowling's series, Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows — a new record for a first printing (the record was previously held by 2005's Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince). Deathly Hallows hits stores July 21. (Reuters)
Pilot roundup: More castings...
Ricki Lake is attached to ABC's comedy pilot The Middle, in which she'll play the harried matriarch of a Midwest family... Chris Klein and Al Madrigal are on board for the CBS comedy pilot The Captain, about the residents of an old Hollywood building... Michael McKean has signed on for the ABC comedy pilot The Thick of It, set in the office of a low-level congressman. (Hollywood Reporter)
Meanwhile, Jason Biggs has been cast in the pilot for I'm in Hell, a comedy about a Wall Streeter who dies in a BlackBerry-caused car accident and, since hell proper is full, is sentenced to live a hell on earth. (Hollywood Reporter)
Get ready for a movie version of The Surrogates
Disney has acquired the rights to make a sci-fi flick out of the graphic novel, about a world where humans live in isolation and communicate through robots. Jonathan Mostow is attached to direct, from a script written by Michael Ferris and John Brancato; the trio last worked together on Terminator 3: Rise of the Machines. (Variety)
Fox orders more episodes of Smarter
The Jeff Foxworthy-hosted game show Are Your Smarter Than a 5th Grader, a breakout hit in its initial timeslot (following American Idol), will get at least 13 more episodes. Though it will likely take a ratings dip when it airs tonight (March 15) in its regular slot, without the benefit of the Idol lead-in, execs are betting it has attracted enough fans to boost the network's Thursday numbers. (Variety)
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