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Gossip Girl Creator Josh Schwartz Looks to X-Men11/20/2008 06:10 PM
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Gossip Girl creator and scribe Josh Schwartz will write the script for X-Men: First Class, the fourth film in the blockbuster X-Men franchise for Fox Studios. The film's plot will have a teenaged bend to it and given Schwartz's background, he was an obvious fit for the studio.
X-Men: First Class
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Bill Pullman, John Leguizamo Are Celestial11/20/2008 06:04 PM
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Bill Pullman and John Leguizamo are attached to star in Celestina for Esperanza Productions. The film centers on a pregnant woman desperately searching for the father of her child.
Celestina will be executive produced by director Walter Salles of The Motorcycle Diaries fame. Diaries scribe Jose
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The Bee Gees Ready 'Odessa' Reissue11/20/2008 05:59 PM
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The Bee Gees' sprawling double album, 1969's Odessa, has been expanded to a three-disc set for its 40th anniversary. Due out January 13 through Reprise, the collection includes stereo and mono mixes of the original record, as well as 22 unreleased tracks from the same time period.
Among those
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Whoopi Goldberg Makes Discovery11/20/2008 05:58 PM
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Actress and former Academy Awards host Whoopi Goldberg has entered into a development deal with Discovery Emerging Networks. The actress will develop a few series projects for Investigation Discovery and the Science Channel through her Whoop Inc. production company. Goldberg's production partner Tom
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First Independent Pictures Acquires Gigantic11/20/2008 05:47 PM
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Gigantic, an oddball indie comedy that features Paul Dano as a mattress salesman named Brian who wants to adopt a Chinese baby but eventually becomes obsessed with Happy, a young woman played by Zooey Deschanel, has been acquired by First Independent Pictures. Matt Aselton wrote and directed the
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CMJ Announces 2009 Dates11/20/2008 05:43 PM
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The recent wrapping of this year's CMJ Music Marathon hasn't kept the conference's organizers from announcing 2009's dates. According to a press release today, more than 75 New York City venues and movie theaters will host the 2009 CMJ Music Marathon & Film Festival on October 20-24. Early bird
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America Ferrera's American Tragedy11/20/2008 05:42 PM
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America Ferrera and Melissa Leo will join forces in American Tragic, a drama about the post-Iraq war effect. The film will be produced by Maya Entertainment, a burgeoning Latino film banner. Ryan Piers Williams will direct from the screenplay he penned himself.
The young powerhouse Ferrara will
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Live Review: Deerhoof - The Echoplex - Los Angeles, CA11/20/2008 04:03 PM
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In a musical society over saturated with acts in even the most specific genre niches, sonic individuality has become a scarce commodity. These days a vast majority of bands can be boiled down to a simple equation: X band's attitude + Y band's melodies = new band Z—often with a plus or minus
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Live Review: Usher - Club Nokia, Los Angeles11/20/2008 12:55 PM
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Ne-Yo may have proclaimed 2008 the Year of the Gentleman, but Usher's been playing "gentle" for the better part of the last decade. Out of the young guns, he's still the best at it too. That's what he proved at Club Nokia during the Los Angeles stop of his Ladies Only tour. Hip hop-laden R&B is all
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Children of Bodom, Cannibal Corpse Team Up For Tour11/20/2008 12:08 PM
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Children of Bodom and Cannibal Corpse have announced an extensive European tour that begins on January 31 in Leipzig, Germany and runs all the way into March. Confirmed shows include stops in Sweden, France, Belgium and Switzerland. Children of Bodom's latest album, Blooddrunk, debuted at No. 22 on
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Andrew Bird Announces 'Noble Beast' Tour11/20/2008 12:01 PM
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With his Noble Beast LP now set for a late January release, Andrew Bird has lined up a month of shows in early 2009. The winter trek gets started at Carnegie Hall on January 29 and winds down in Omaha on February 27. Loney, Dear will open all dates except for New York, which will be supported by
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Blink-182 Gets Back Together11/20/2008 11:49 AM
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Blink-182's three former members—guitarist/vocalist Tom DeLonge, bassist/vocalist Mark Hoppus and drummer Travis Barker—are finally on speaking terms again, more than three years after the band's nasty breakup in 2005. Explaining the situation on his blog, Hoppus said, "We're just reconnecting as
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Feature: John Travolta and Bolt11/19/2008 07:39 PM
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A great actor can become any role that he takes on. John Travolta is certainly no exception. He plays the canine namesake of Disney's latest animated epic, Bolt. "Fortunately, I was already in touch with my inner dog," laughs Travolta.
Whether he's a heroin-addled hitman in Pulp Fiction or a
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Kings of Leon Tack on 2009 Dates11/19/2008 05:26 PM
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Kings of Leon have added a handful of 2009 tour dates to their push behind the Only by the Night LP. Running between a January 20 stop in Louisville, KY, and a previously announced January 29 gig at Madison Square Garden in New York, the trek includes six shows. A European leg, as well as a hometown
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Interviews: Twilight11/19/2008 05:11 PM
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Love hurts. That's the message at the heart of Twilight. However, in this case, it's well worth the pain. The love between Bella Swan (Kristen Stewart) and vampire Edward Cullen (Robert Pattinson) is fraught with tension, obsession, and passion. That love made for a great novel, and now it makes for
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Stephen Colbert Unveils Christmas Special, CD11/19/2008 05:04 PM
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Stephen Colbert has revealed his plans for A Colbert Christmas: The Greatest Gift of All!, an hour-long holiday special featuring appearances by Feist, Elvis Costello, Toby Keith, John Legend, Willie Nelson and his former Daily Show cohort Jon Stewart. Set to premiere on Comedy Central Sunday,
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Diddy Set to Appear in 'CSI'11/19/2008 04:27 PM
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Sean "Diddy" Combs has signed on for two episodes of CSI: Miami. According to the Associated Press, Combs will play a prosecutor who doesn't get along with a police lieutenant in two episodes. His appearances will air sometime this winter.
—The ARTISTdirect Staff
11.19.08
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Taco Bell Names 'Feed the Beat' Winners11/19/2008 04:11 PM
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Hit the Lights, Thousand Foot Krutch and Fireflight have prevailed in Taco Bell's first-ever "Best of the Beat" competition, winning the chance to record a single with a well-known producer for a Taco Bell promotion in spring of next year.
"Music fans have spoken and they've selected three
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Photo Recap: Marnie Stern - The El Rey Theatre - Los Angeles, CA11/19/2008 03:16 PM
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Virtuosic axe slinger Marnie Stern let her fingers do the walking on stage at the El Rey in Los Angeles over the weekend. Backed by fellow guitarist Mark Shippy and Parts and Labor skinsman Jim Sykes, who beat out rhythms in multiple time signatures like an octopus, she tapped up and down her guitar
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Of Montreal Extend 'Skeletal Lamping' Trek11/19/2008 01:45 PM
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Of Montreal have added a number of European tour dates to their ongoing Skeletal Lamping trek. Set to run between a January 20 stop in Berlin and a March 7 gig in Golden Plains, Australia, the overseas leg will be prefaced by a number of North American shows including a New Year's Eve extravaganza
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