Per The Hollywood Reporter‘s coverage of a Judicial Watch Freedom of Information Act request, Kathryn Bigelow and Mark Boal, director and screenwriter of the upcoming Kill Bin Laden, met with government officials to discuss the mission to, well, kill Osama Bin Laden. According to 153 pages of records obtained, Mr. Boal met Read More
The Hollywood Reporter is, today, the beneficiary of a recent Conan O’Brien publicity tour that’s seen him getting interviewed by fellow NBC jiltee David Letterman–and it seems like his last publicity tour, complete with a documentary, was less than a year ago! Mr. O’Brien, with a TBS program, lacks the platform of contemporaries Read More
The first trailer for The Great Gatsby is out–the adaptation starring Leonardo DiCaprio as Gatsby and Carey Mulligan as Daisy is to be out at Christmas, and is, incongruously, advertised using music by Jack White and a rap track from “Watch the Throne.” Everything one would like to see is there–the eyes of T. J. Read More
Fewer fears for reality star Snooki’s unborn child: the Jersey Shore cast member is reportedly moving out of the house that serves as staging-ground for the show’s drama to live by herself. Though she’ll be filming this summer, she’ll be living “nearby”–but isn’t moving away from the nest, like so many Growing Pains kids Read More
Lee Daniels, director of Precious, is currently in Cannes promoting the thriller The Paperboy, but he’s already planning his next film, an adaptation of a Washington Post article on a long-serving black White House butler who lived to see the election of Barack Obama. Early reports indicate that the butler, Eugene Allen, is to Read More
In her new lyric video for “Wide Awake,” pop singer Katy Perry uses the Facebook timeline as a visual motif to convey the myriad successes she’s had since the release of her last album in 2010. (All that success stacked up upon itself is sort of a kiss-off to her ex-husband, Russell Brand, as their Read More
Onetime pop star Justin Timberlake–whose most recent album, FutureSex/LoveSounds, is nearing its sixth anniversary–is to make music once more after an extended period during which he focused on movie acting. The music he is making, though, is a score for the just-announced film The Devil in the Deep Blue Sea, which is to star Read More
The Master, Paul Thomas Anderson’s follow-up to There Will Be Blood, is expected to be released in the fall (per IMDb, on October 12)–and its first trailer depicts Joaquin Phoenix being interrogated, and possibly brainwashed, by an unknown interlocutor. The film also stars Philip Seymour Hoffman and Amy Adams.
After swirling rumors that Kristen Wiig and Andy Samberg–along with costar Jason Sudeikis–would be leaving the cast of Saturday Night Live at the end of the 2011-12 season, Ms. Wiig and Mr. Samberg were indulged with tributes during this weekend’s season finale. At episode’s end, Ms. Wiig was serenaded by the Arcade Fire in a Read More
The Hairpin columnist Jolie Kerr, one of three “mini-Marthas” we recently profiled for bringing housekeeping advice to a generation that can’t use a vacuum, has sold a book of advice to Alison Lorentzen at Plume. The news was first announced on Publishers Marketplace (behind a paywall). The book is to nod at Read More
