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Drew Barrymore and Justin Long have signed on to New Line’s upcoming romantic comedy, Going The Distance. Read more about the film, plus see pictures and video here.

Going The Distance Stars

Just as Drew Barrymore and Justin Long are getting over the tabloid feeding frenzy, they’ve decided to team up for a big screen romance comedy. The duo has signed on to Going The Distance, an upcoming movie by New Line production.

The film’s script was written by a fresh new writer, Geoff LaTulippe, and will be directed by “American Teen” director Nanette Burstein.

According to MTV this is the film’s rundown. The plot is based around a couple in a long-distance relationship who are facing difficulties. Barrymore moves to Chicago for a teaching position, and Long stays put working as a script reader. They soon realize that the distance between them is ruining their relationship.

Regardless of the couples on and off again relationship, it is obvious that they take pleasure in working together. Barrymore had her hand in getting long his roll in He’s Just Not That Into You, for this project Long returned the favor bringing the it Barrymore’s attention, according to New Line president Toby Emmerich.

Will this former couple be going the distance or be going for distance after the films release? What do you think?

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Leonardo DiCaprio is set to star in Dream Works upcoming comic strip based film, Button Man. Read more about the movie, plus see pictures, and video here.

Leonardo DiCaprio: Button Man

Leonardo DiCaprio is set to star in the upcoming Dream Works comic strip based film Button Man. The movie is inspired by the British comic strip with the same name.

According to Production Weekly the comic tells the story of, Harry Exton, an Ex-mercenary facing off against other killers in the underground sport of murder. Each killer is employed by what they call the “Voice” who is an anonymous wealthy man. The games objective is to murder you opponent, or to cut off the first two joints of a finger as a trophy. If you loose three fingers you’re killed anyway. The “Voices” place bets on the game, meaning callous killers such as, Harry Exton, can generate large sums of cash for the “Voices”. Exton wants to quit, but he finds that it’s easier said then done.

The film’s script was written by, Hilary Seitz, and has been floating around Dream Works since 2006.

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Mathew McConaughey has singed on to join the cast of the upcoming thriller The Lincoln Lawyer. The movie is a Lakeshore Entertainment project and is based on the Michael Connolly novel. Read more about the movie, and see pictures, and video here.

Matthew McConaughey: The Lincoln Lawyer

Mathew McConaughey has joined the cast of the upcoming film The Lincoln Lawyer. The film will be based on the 2005 Michael Connolly novel and will be brought to you by Lakeshore Entertainment. McConaughey will be playing a lawyer inspired by Lincoln - hence the name The Lincoln Lawyer.

Lakeshore Entertainment snatched the rights to the film six months before the books release. Here the movies rundown:

The film is based on an attorney with a questionable set of morals who uses an old Lincoln Town Car as his workplace. He realizes that a man he helped sentence to death for a murder is not guilty, and that his current client who he is defending is the true murderer.

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Summit Entertainment has reportedly acquired the feature-film rights to the Harry Houdini biography, The Secret Life of Houdini: The Making of America’s First Superhero. Read more about the movie, plus check out pictures, and video here.

Harry Houdini

Summit Entertainment still riding Twilight’s recent wave of success, has acquired the feature-film rights to the Harry Houdini biography “The Secret Life of Houdini: The Making of America’s First Superhero,” according to the Hollywood Reporter..

The biography was authored by William Kalush, and Larry Sloman, and was published in 2006 by Atria books. The book suggests that Harry Houdini was a British spy, as well as an adviser to Czar Nicholas II’s. It also depicts Houdini as a con-artist debunker exposing spiritualist swindlers.

Summit Entertainment through out the biopic concept, and went with a character who is Indiana Jones and Sherlock Holmes all rolled into one.

The project will be supervised by Ashley Schlaifer Summit’s creative executive, Erik Feig president of production, and senior VP of production Geoff Shaevitz. The studio is still in the process of finding screenplay writers.

Hollywood has seen numerous Houdini projects over the years with very few successes; does summit have the magic to keep this Houdini film from disappearing?

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Next year’s 82nd annual Academy Awards ceremony has been bumped from late February to early March of 2010. Read more about this story, and see pictures, and video here.

Next year’s 82nd annual Academy Awards ceremony has been bumped up a few days to March 7. It will air live on ABC, from the Kodak Theater, in Los Angeles.

Leslie Unger, a spokeswoman for the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences said that they had moved the Ceremony to avoid it overlapping with the Winter Olympics.

The 2010 Winter Olympic Games will take place February 12-28, this year’s Oscars was held on February 22. Until just recently the Academy Awards were an end of March event.

Unger commented on the Academy Awards date change on Wednesday saying:

“It has been in February since then, except for one year, in 2006, where the circumstances were the same as next year, to not coincide with the closing ceremonies of the Winter Olympics, nominations ballots will be mailed to members Dec. 28 and nominations polls will close Jan. 23. Nominations will be announced Feb. 2. In terms of the nominating process, that puts another week in the schedule for members to see movies.”

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Zac Efron will no longer be starring in Footloose instead he has decided to take on a much more serious role. Variety reports that he is in negotiations to star in the upcoming film, The Death and Life of Charlie St. Cloud. Read more about the film, and check out video, and pictures here.

Zac Efron at the Paris Premiere of 17 Again

Now that Zac Efron is no longer doing Footloose he is on the prowl for a more serious film. According to Variety, he’s in negotiations to star in an upcoming film “The Death and Life of Charlie St. Cloud”, which is based on the Novel.

“The Death and Life of Charlie St. Cloud” in short revolves around a cemetery custodian who survives a horrific accident, and gains new perspective on the world around him.

The book’s description asserts that it contains “a love that transcends everything you may have believed about life and death.”

Zac Efron, whose rise to fame began with starring in Disney’s, High School Musical, has managed to avoid the negative stigma attached with being a young Disney performer. He takes chances and they appear to be paying off, like his exceptional performance in Hairspray, or his role in the upcoming film Orson Welles and Me.

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Seth Rogen and Stephen Chow have signed on to star in the highly anticipated upcoming film, The Green Hornet. The official press release reveals that Michel Gondry is in negotiation to direct the film. Read more about The Green Hornet, and check out video and pictures here!

Seth Rogan At The 81st Annual Academy Awards

The Green Hornet, which will star Seth Rogen and Stephen Chow, is scheduled to start shooting this summer. According to Doug Belgrad and Matt Tolmach, the president of Columbia Pictures, Michel Gondry is in negotiations to direct the film.

The screenplay was written by Seth Rogen and Evan Goldberg, who will also be the executive producers along side Micheal Grillo. Tolmach, commenting on the movie, said:

“From the very beginning, Seth, Evan, and Neal wanted this film to stand out from the pack with its originality. You couldn’t ask for a better director than Michel Gondry to bring that to life. We’re huge fans of Michel Gondry.”

Gondry, who has won awards as a film, commercial, and music video director exclaimed:

“I’m very excited about The Green Hornet and all that I hope to bring to it. This story has always been close to me and now Seth & Evan have written a script that is both funny and real - the best of both worlds. I cannot wait to further collaborate with them on it.”

The Green Hornet release date is set for June 25, 2010.

Click here for the official Green Hornet press release.

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Anne Hathaway has agreed to play the roll of, Judy Garland, in the upcoming biopic of the legendary actress, entitled Get Happy: The Life of Judy Garland. The film will be based on the, Gerald Clarke, biography of Garland. See pictures and video here!

The Weinstein Company has announced that the role of, Judy Garland, will be played by Anne Hathaway, in the upcoming film Get Happy: The Life of Judy Garland. The film based on The Gerald Clarke biography, is a biopic about the legendary singer/actress Judy Garland. It will cover everything from her rise to fame to her struggle with alcohol. I couldn’t think of a better role, for the 26-year-old ex-Disney starlet, who was recently nominated for an Oscar, for her role in the film Rachel Getting Married.

Hathaway is so determined to bring Garland’s life to the big screen; she’s willing to toss away her lead role in the future comedy The Fiance. A Hollywood tipster told The Daily Mail:

“Anne dearly wants to do a musical and this could be her chance. The big attraction is that it really will be her singing, not recordings of Judy. She is determined to do it justice. If she nails the part, she will be a shoo-in for some big awards.”

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Rebecca Romijn and Donald Sutherland have both joined the cast of The Love Child of Andy Warhol and Yoko Ono. The movie will be directed by Risa Bramon Garcia, and will begin shooting at the end of March in Toronto, Canada. See pictures and video here!

Rebecca Romijn

Rebecca Romijn and Donald Sutherland have singed on to join the cast of The Love Child of Andy Warhol and Yoko Ono. The peculiarly titled film tells the story of a middle class man who gets wrapped up in the complex world of art.

According to cinemablend.com this is the official plot synopsis:

“When Vince is paroled from his five-year stint for a heist gone wrong, he finds life on the outside to be incredibly challenging. Forced back into a dangerous life of crime by his former boss Kranski, Vince is pressured with having to pay back a hefty debt for botching up the heist. Working as a welder in Kranski’s garage/chopshop, Vince finds solace in making sculptures from metal shards and found objects in his spare time. But when his brilliant sculptures are discovered by the sexy, predatory art dealer Belinda, his chance for a new life starts to change as well as his problems. Caught between the pressure to pull off heists for Kranski and becoming the toast of the art world, Vince has to cleverly maneuver and fight his way out to become a free man and his own artist.”

The movie will be directed by, Risa Bramon Garcia, who will begin filming in Toronto at the end of March.

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Here is the ‘Duplicity’ trailer video. Tony Gilroy’s highly anticipated espionage thriller stars Julia Roberts and Clive Owen was released in theaters on March 20, 2009. See photos and the movie trailer here.

The movie chronicles the lives of two former spies with a romantic history together; CIA officer Claire Stenwick (Roberts) and MI6 agent Ray Koval (Owen). Both have left government intelligence to become corporate spies. They become involved in a high stakes war between two rival multinational pharmaceutical corporations who are seeking market domination. Tom Wilkinson and Paul Giamatti portray the CEOs of the rival corporations which are both in a race to secure a formula and the first patent for a product. The former spies collaborate in an elaborate scheme against the corporations.

But as the ‘Duplicity’ trailer reveals, two former CIA spies remain true to their roots, so to speak, and they must cope with each other’s dirty tactics and their overwhelming attraction for each other.

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The Zac Efron Interview Magazine photo shoot puts the ‘High School Musical’ actor in a new, and quite mature light. Squeaky clean image begone! See photos, video and find out more here.

The 21-year-old actor appears in the April 2009 issue of Interview magazine in a provocative photo spread with a model. In one of the photos, the two are embracing in a sandbox and she is wearing nothing at all except traces of sand and mud which are neither large nor strategically placed. The striking black-and-white photograph is sure to be be talked about, as it cuts so strongly against perceptions of the young actor as a Disney movie teen heart throb. In real life, he is dating his ‘High School Musical’ costar Vanessa Hudgens and the couple frequently appears together on the red carpet.

The model has been revealed to be 20-year-old Lithuanian Edita Vilkeviciute.

Zac Efron talked about his motivation for the racy photos.

‘It was definitely different from anything I had ever done before. You know, everything I’ve done in the past has felt very safe, and it was great for a while, but now I’m looking for a place to take chances. I want to play with things.’

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As Season 8 of ‘Dancing with the Stars’ gears up for action, we’re getting ready to experience every turn, twirl, and missed step with a live blogging event! Read below for more details.

‘Dancing with the Stars’ Saucy Judge Bruno Tonioli

Are you as excited about the new season of ‘Dancing with the Stars’ as we are? Good! Seriously - who doesn’t want to see the ‘Sex and the City’ penis guy shake his thing? Maybe he’ll one day be known as something other than the “penis guy.” And maybe Denise Richards can erase memories of “tranny infested sperm” with some graceful ballroom moves? Guess we’ll have to wait and see!

Join us at 8 pm Eastern and 7 pm Mountain for a live blogging event! This season promises to be great - two contenders are already out due to injury! I, for one, can’t wait to see how former “number one girlfriend” Holly and dumped Bachelor contender Melissa are able to hack it after stepping in at the last minute.

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