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This is the story of one week in my life. I was seventeen. It was the week I slept in Orson Welles’ pajamas. It was the week I fell in love. It was the week I fell out of love.

I think the above, which comes from Robert Kaplow’s book, Me and Orson Welles, is the best description of the upcoming film that I’ve seen. It sounds more fun than just “learning about life and love,” and it begs the question: How does the kid end up in Welles’ pajamas? As Jessica told you earlier this month, Zac Efron has signed on to star as the kid, Richard Samuels, who comes under Orson’s wing, Christian McKay will play the epic filmmaker, Ben Chaplin is playing George Coulouris, and Richard Linklater is directing from Vince and Holly Gent Palmo’s script.

Now the love interest has been picked. According to Empire, Zac Efron will fall for Claire Danes. First, he certainly isn’t a Jordan Catalano replacement, but times have changed. Second, what is it with Claire taking on roles where she gallivants around New York City with boys much too young for her? (This is like a 1930s-style Igby Goes Down.) According to Publisher’s Weekly (from the Amazon title link above), Richard falls in love three times (busy kid) — first with a fellow student Caroline, then with Sonja, a production assistant who is also canoodling Orson, and finally an aspiring writer named Gretta. I’m going to assume that Claire will probably be Sonja.

Variety, meanwhile, reports that the film will be backed by CinemaNX, and will start filming late next month in England and New York.

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This is the story of one week in my life. I was seventeen. It was the week I slept in Orson Welles’ pajamas. It was the week I fell in love. It was the week I fell out of love.

I think the above, which comes from Robert Kaplow’s book, Me and Orson Welles, is the best description of the upcoming film that I’ve seen. It sounds more fun than just “learning about life and love,” and it begs the question: How does the kid end up in Welles’ pajamas? As Jessica told you earlier this month, Zac Efron has signed on to star as the kid, Richard Samuels, who comes under Orson’s wing, Christian McKay will play the epic filmmaker, Ben Chaplin is playing George Coulouris, and Richard Linklater is directing from Vince and Holly Gent Palmo’s script.

Now the love interest has been picked. According to Empire, Zac Efron will fall for Claire Danes. First, he certainly isn’t a Jordan Catalano replacement, but times have changed. Second, what is it with Claire taking on roles where she gallivants around New York City with boys much too young for her? (This is like a 1930s-style Igby Goes Down.) According to Publisher’s Weekly (from the Amazon title link above), Richard falls in love three times (busy kid) — first with a fellow student Caroline, then with Sonja, a production assistant who is also canoodling Orson, and finally an aspiring writer named Gretta. I’m going to assume that Claire will probably be Sonja.

Variety, meanwhile, reports that the film will be backed by CinemaNX, and will start filming late next month in England and New York.

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Things certainly seem to be moving quickly for Gentlemen Broncos. Five days ago, Patrick had first broke the news on the follow-up project for Napoleon Dynamite and Nacho Libre creator Jared Hess. Now, The Hollywood Reporter has already announced that Sam Rockwell has signed to star along side Flight of the Conchords creator Jermain Clement for the teen comedy. The story centers on a teen fantasy novelist who has his story ripped off by his idol at a writer’s camp. Michael Angarano (Lords of Dogtown) will play the teen that comes up with the fantasy story with the unfortunate title of Yeast Lords.

Rockwell will play the fictional character in the story and there will be some “book-come-to-life sequences under two guises: one in the teen’s story and one in the author’s story”. Well, if anybody can pull it off, it would be Rockwell — the man has a knack for playing some of the most diverse characters without breaking a sweat. If you don’t believe me, take an afternoon and watch The Green Mile and then Confessions of a Dangerous Mind and tell me those are two pretty impressive ends of the spectrum.

The script was written by the husband and wife team of Jared and Jarusha Hess, and will be produced Mike White and Ben LeClair. Both White and LeClair worked with Hess before on Nacho Libre. So it looks like Patrick’s prediction came true and the cast is going to be an ‘indie’ affair, but with the addition of Rockwell and Clement there’s just a smidgen more of ‘hipster’ cred. Gentlemen Bronco’s is scheduled to start production this March and arrive in theaters some time in 2009.

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Things certainly seem to be moving quickly for Gentlemen Broncos. Five days ago, Patrick had first broke the news on the follow-up project for Napoleon Dynamite and Nacho Libre creator Jared Hess. Now, The Hollywood Reporter has already announced that Sam Rockwell has signed to star along side Flight of the Conchords creator Jermain Clement for the teen comedy. The story centers on a teen fantasy novelist who has his story ripped off by his idol at a writer’s camp. Michael Angarano (Lords of Dogtown) will play the teen that comes up with the fantasy story with the unfortunate title of Yeast Lords.

Rockwell will play the fictional character in the story and there will be some “book-come-to-life sequences under two guises: one in the teen’s story and one in the author’s story”. Well, if anybody can pull it off, it would be Rockwell — the man has a knack for playing some of the most diverse characters without breaking a sweat. If you don’t believe me, take an afternoon and watch The Green Mile and then Confessions of a Dangerous Mind and tell me those are two pretty impressive ends of the spectrum.

The script was written by the husband and wife team of Jared and Jarusha Hess, and will be produced Mike White and Ben LeClair. Both White and LeClair worked with Hess before on Nacho Libre. So it looks like Patrick’s prediction came true and the cast is going to be an ‘indie’ affair, but with the addition of Rockwell and Clement there’s just a smidgen more of ‘hipster’ cred. Gentlemen Bronco’s is scheduled to start production this March and arrive in theaters some time in 2009.

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Filed under: Action, Romance, Casting, Sony, Celebrities and Controversy, Fandom, Newsstand, James Bond, Remakes and Sequels, Daniel Craig

Is Gemma Arterton feeling the heat for having recently (apparently) blurted out a key plot point involving her character in Quantum of Solace? Seems that way. “You have to work out what you can say and cannot say,” Arterton tells Reuters in a recent article. “It’s quite hard for me who has a bit of a motor mouth. I’ve been learning for the last six months to think before I speak.” As she continues to work on her problem, Arterton also continues to give away more plot details for the upcoming film, intimating in the same Reuters piece that oil — “a lot of oil” — is what the villains are after this time, and South America is apparently where they’re looking for it. Arterton also tells IGN in another new interview that her character does become sexually involved with Bond — there’s a kiss, at least — and that something happens to her in a “scene which is an homage to something iconic, but I cannot tell you what that is. But it will be remembered.”

What is she talking about? Let’s speculate. Given what Arterton has already let slip about her character’s destiny and given that in this IGN interview she mentions Diana Rigg more than once — noting her as one of her favorite Bond girls and saying “my hair is reminiscent of Diana Rigg’s hair” the most obvious answer is that perhaps the “homage scene” is a climactic one for her and is something similar to the climactic scene in On Her Majesty’s Secret Service. That would fit in with everything she’s saying, but it wouldn’t seemingly fit in with Bond’s journey at this point, since it would be so similar to the ending of Casino Royale. Although, it might work if Arterton’s Agent Fields is only a minor character, which she appears to be. A minor character could be resolved in such a way. Gemma, you’re making my head hurt!

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Entertainment Weekly announced earlier this week that Zooey Deschanel and Glenn Close would lend their voices to upcoming episodes of FOX’s hit animated series The Simpsons. Deschanel will appear in an episode that will air in April, while Close will reprise her role of Mona, Homer’s mother, in an episode that is set to air in May.

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About two months ago, we learned that Donny and Marie Osmond were being considered for their own daytime talk show. One of the Osmonds will indeed host a talk show in the somewhat near future. Earlier this week, Marie, who recently appeared on Dancing with the Stars, announced that she will host her very own syndicated daytime talk show set to premiere in the fall of 2009.

This will not be Marie’s first time as a host. If you recall, from 1998 to 2000, she co-hosted Donny & Marie with her brother, Donny Osmond.

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I loved Tom Tykwer’s Perfurme: The Story of a Murderer, starring Ben Whishaw as a sociopathic serial killer. Whishaw’s performance in that film — in which he had very little dialog and had to convey almost everything through facial expression and body language — was just outstanding. In poking around IMDb a bit while writing some Sundance reviews, I found out that Whishaw (most recently seen in Todd Hayne’s I’m Not There) has three new projects lined up, and I’m excited about all of them.

First up is The Restraint of Beasts (currently in post-prod), an adaptation of Magnus Mills’s first novel. The film is being directed by Polish director Pawel Pawlikowski, whose film My Summer of Love back in 2004 first brought Emily Blunt to notice.The darkly comedic story is about an unnamed supervisor (presumably Whishaw) working with two Scottish high-tensile fence builders in the countryside and “accidentally” killing people along the way by day and hitting the local pub at night. I have the book on reserve to read before the film comes out — I like Mills’s work but I’ve not read this one yet. If this film does well, perhaps it will be the beginning of a series of adaptations of Mills’s books.

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If you were wondering how a group of teens could find themselves partying alone in a Maine vacation home, and then have to fight off aliens who invade from upstairs, we have our answer. Ashley Tisdale’s dad in They Came From Upstairs is going to be played by Doug Wilson, err — Kevin Nealon, who has been co-starring on Weeds as the pot-smoking ex councilman Doug for a few years now. Of course, there’s a chance that the teens are not alone, and that mom and pops are sleeping upstairs, but since they haven’t been mentioned in previous news releases, I’m going to guess that the parents either went out for the night, or don’t know where their rabble-rousing children are.

So yes, The Hollywood Reporter has posted that Nealon will play Tisdale’s father, Stuart Pearson, while Gillian Vigman (Mad TV and one of the speed dating women from 40-Year-Old Virgin) has been cast as his wife and Ashley’s mom. Since Tim Meadows already nabbed himself a role earlier this month, the adventure comedy will be a bit of a reunion for the SNL alumni. With these adults in place, you’ve got your comedy, and I guess the kids will provide the adventure. Now, if only we could hear something more about the film other than it being a comedy adventure about kids trying to defend a vacation home from aliens who invade from upstairs. Production is getting into gear, so maybe we’ll hear soon.  Via [hreporter] and [cinematical]

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