Four scribes are in the running. Universal and producers Michael De Luca and Dana Brunetti are now a step closer to filling that assignment after meeting to explore a quartet of writers: Karen Croner, Dan Fogelman, Veena Sud and Kelly Marcel.
Although Fogelman is the most seasoned of the group, with such credits as Bolt and Cars 2, he frequently works in the family-friendly arena -- a far cry from the S-and-M themes depicted in E.L. James’ best-seller.
Toronto-born Sud has forged darker subject matters, having developed AMC’s The Killing, based on the Danish series The Crime. Paramount also tapped Sud to write a remake of Alfred Hitchcock’s Suspicion.
Croner is in business with Universal/Focus on another adaptation: the Tina Fey-Paul Rudd starrer Admission, which is based on Jean Hanff Korelitz’s 2009 novel. She also adapted Anna Quindlen’s novel One True Thing, which starred Meryl Streep and Renee Zellweger.
Marcel, a British writer and actress best known for her work on the Fox TV series Terra Nova, wrote the Tom Hanks-Emma Thompson starrer Saving Mr. Banks, which goes into production next month.
Universal and Focus nabbed rights to the mega-selling Fifty Shades trilogy for $5 million in March after a heated Hollywood bidding war but have taken their time in setting a writer. The books, about a torrid love affair between a college student and a twentysomething billionaire, have sold about 40 million e-book and print copies worldwide to date.
* Surely they can't be serious with the listed screen-writers. All of 'em are more into PG-stuffs than the erotica genre. The only reason they going for Fogelman is perhaps to bait in Analeigh Tipton. Both worked together on syrupy Crazy, Stupid, Love (2011). I beginning to suspect the reason for going with these scribes is more to do with whom they worked with in sort of 2-in-1 package deal. Veena is chummy with Katie Findlay. Marcel likewise with Allison Miller. Only Croner seems to be a serious choice.
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'Fifty Shades of Grey': First Look at Anastasia Steele
by Alicia Lutes
Remember last month when we took a look at the rendering sketch of Christian Grey? I believe polarizing was the name of that game. It caused quite a frenzy with fans of the E.L. James book, Fifty Shades of Grey, because most of you had an idea in your head as to who should or should not be cast as the film's leading man. While we're no casting directors here, it was fun to think about, and brought us to this point today: Anastasia Steele!We're here again to cause another tizzy with BDSM novel-reading fans, by presenting you with a picture of the novel's main character. For those ladies who pictured the perma-lip-biting brunette, this image may cause a little...whiplash (see what we did there?!), as this lady looks decidedly un-Kristen Stewart-y (since Anastasia was technically Bella in her original Twilight fan fiction story form). Thanks to a very kind sketch artist and the descriptions from the novel, you can see (at left) the image of what our young Anastasia Steele looks like to an unbiased eye. Is it what you thought? Do you think it matches the image in your head? Well is this is truly our Miss Steele, how about we take another sit in the casting office, shall we? Here are some of the actresses we at Hollywood.com think make the grade and could have great potential...in the role.
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Stephen Elliott :
About Cherry will be available Tomorrow for Video On Demand on iTunes and Amazon and Comcast, but if you live in San Francisco, Portland, Chicago, Los Angeles, or New York, you should wait to see it in a theater beginning September 21. Unless you have children. Or don't like to leave the house.
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Keaton Simons, David Duchovny, Maggie Grace (in white dress) Performing "The Weight"
Live @ Californication Season Finale Taping (Greek Theater, LA, CA) 08/02/2012.
(Also featuring Johnny Flower, Nikki Leonti, Paul Allen, Tom Kapinos and Tree Adams.)
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blast from the past : Alexis Bledel [Elton John Oscar Party] (2006)
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20-years old Aussie actress Samara Weaving :
"Home and Away" set candids [Sydney] (August 7 2012)
well-known talented performer..........ha ha...again who the fuck I'm kidding....the blonde is famous for walking around in a bikini than anything else. Hollywood beckons this young nimble busty babe and for perves like me to anticipate the day Sami bare it all on-cam.
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In or Out: Lizzy Caplan in Dolce and Gabbana and Rachel Zoe
Lizzy Caplan attends the premiere of “The Campaign” in Los Angeles in a Dolce and Gabbana top and Rachel Zoe skirt. Wedge sandals also by Dolcea and Gabbana. Clutch by Kotur.
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Kristen Bell and Dax Shepard's Intimacy Coach
Dax Shepard and Kristen Bell hire Tom Arnold as an intimacy coach to add some heat to their on-screen sex scenes.
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The change will turn Starz into a separate, publicly traded company. That should “provide better transparency on the Starz operating business” and “optimize the Starz capital structure,” Liberty Media CEO Greg Maffei says this morning. In addition, it could become easier for Liberty and Starz to use their shares for acquisitions — even as it preserves for Liberty “all our options with respect to Sirius XM and Live Nation,” companies in which it has substantial investments. Liberty investors will receive shares of Starz as a dividend. The new company will include all of Starz’ assets as well as $1.5B in debt and “an undetermined amount of cash.” The transaction, expected to close late this year, is designed to be tax free — a key consideration in deals by Liberty Chairman John Malone — but is contingent on a letter from the IRS verifying that fact. Although it will need the usual approval by anti-trust officials, it will not require a stock holder vote.“I believe this stand-alone structure is the first step to unlocking the real potential growth opportunities for our business,” Starz CEO Chris Albrecht says. Starz had 20.7M subscribers at the end of June, up from 20.1M in March, while companion channel Encore had 34.2M, up from 33.6M. But investors are sure to have lots of questions about Starz’ financial prospects based on the results Liberty reported today in its quarterly earnings. Starz generated $100M in operating income in Q2, -10.7% vs the same period last year, on revenues of $403M, unchanged. The company says that while revenue increased at the Starz channels, it dropped in its distribution and animation businesses — and profits were hurt by rising programming costs. Like its premium channel competitors HBO and Showtime, Starz is beefing up its collection of original productions as TV audiences lose interest in seeing theatrical movies that have already been available on home video. The company’s original productions include Boss and Spartacus; it’s also working on a new series, Da Vinci’s Demons, and the second season of Magic City.
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Jacksonville Fire and Rescue Department racy pics under investigation
JACKSONVILLE, Fla. -- The photos show several nearly naked firefighters. Some of them are captured in compromising positions as they stripped down for charity. But now, those captured in the images may be in trouble for a performance that looked more like a scene from the movie Magic Mike.
In one of the photos, Lt. Jenny Kabisch is shown topless except for the suspenders covering her nipples. She's wearing her bunker uniform pants and posing for the camera.
Others are shown decked out in firefighter gear in racy positions that were all caught on camera Thursday night at the Whisky River bar and restaurant on the Southside of Jacksonville.
Jacksonville Fire and Rescue Department spokesperson Tom Francis said Martin Senterfitt, the Director/Fire Chief of the Department, is not happy about it and now an internal investigation is underway.
"No one can represent the JFRD in or out of uniform at a public or social gathering without the permission of the Director/Fire Chief," Tom Francis said.
Francis said they're identifying who is in the photos and interviewing witnesses. No doubt Chief Mike Allen could be on that list of witnesses since he was captured in a photo at the event in street clothes. There are questions about his presence and whether he was there during the strip show watching it all unfold.
Chief Allen recently received a 20-day suspension without pay for viewing porn on his fire station office computer.
Francis said participating in the charity event was not affiliated or sanctioned by the department. But he said what's also at issue is the public's trust. He said they're also looking into whether personnel at the event were on duty or off.
"No one's really ever off duty," Francis said, "In other words, as you pass an incident even if you're off duty, you have an obligation to stop and render assistance if there's another accident."
Randy Wyse, president of Jacksonville Association of Fire Fighters, said there's still a lot of unanswered questions. He looked at a handful of the photos and questions whether all of those pictured are even with the department and where all the gear came from.
Wyse said "we'll have to determine whether or not all of that is city issued gear ... that I don't know."
He said he does want the public to know that the "First Responders Appreciation Night" was a fundraiser that was being held for a good cause -- to pay for the education of fellow firefighter Jason Bishop's three children. "It was a fundraiser for a firefighter that was killed doing side work," Wyse said.
No word yet on what type of punishment those involved could face. Francis said it will all depend on what rules, if any, were broken.
Tammie Fields, First Coast News
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Cash-strapped Nadya Suleman, better known as Octomom, has turned to various X-rated money-making ventures to help pay the bills – all with the encouragement of Orange County (Calif.) Child Protective Services.
JACKSONVILLE, Fla. -- The photos show several nearly naked firefighters. Some of them are captured in compromising positions as they stripped down for charity. But now, those captured in the images may be in trouble for a performance that looked more like a scene from the movie Magic Mike.
In one of the photos, Lt. Jenny Kabisch is shown topless except for the suspenders covering her nipples. She's wearing her bunker uniform pants and posing for the camera.
Others are shown decked out in firefighter gear in racy positions that were all caught on camera Thursday night at the Whisky River bar and restaurant on the Southside of Jacksonville.
Jacksonville Fire and Rescue Department spokesperson Tom Francis said Martin Senterfitt, the Director/Fire Chief of the Department, is not happy about it and now an internal investigation is underway.
"No one can represent the JFRD in or out of uniform at a public or social gathering without the permission of the Director/Fire Chief," Tom Francis said.
Francis said they're identifying who is in the photos and interviewing witnesses. No doubt Chief Mike Allen could be on that list of witnesses since he was captured in a photo at the event in street clothes. There are questions about his presence and whether he was there during the strip show watching it all unfold. Chief Allen recently received a 20-day suspension without pay for viewing porn on his fire station office computer.
Francis said participating in the charity event was not affiliated or sanctioned by the department. But he said what's also at issue is the public's trust. He said they're also looking into whether personnel at the event were on duty or off.
"No one's really ever off duty," Francis said, "In other words, as you pass an incident even if you're off duty, you have an obligation to stop and render assistance if there's another accident."
Randy Wyse, president of Jacksonville Association of Fire Fighters, said there's still a lot of unanswered questions. He looked at a handful of the photos and questions whether all of those pictured are even with the department and where all the gear came from.
Wyse said "we'll have to determine whether or not all of that is city issued gear ... that I don't know."
He said he does want the public to know that the "First Responders Appreciation Night" was a fundraiser that was being held for a good cause -- to pay for the education of fellow firefighter Jason Bishop's three children. "It was a fundraiser for a firefighter that was killed doing side work," Wyse said.
No word yet on what type of punishment those involved could face. Francis said it will all depend on what rules, if any, were broken.
Tammie Fields, First Coast News
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Octomom says California child services encouraged her to work in adult entertainment industry
Cash-strapped Nadya Suleman, better known as Octomom, has turned to various X-rated money-making ventures to help pay the bills – all with the encouragement of Orange County (Calif.) Child Protective Services.“They’re on my side–they’re supporters,” Suleman told FoxNews.com in an interview. “It’s ironic. Once I talked with a CPS worker in regards to the adult stuff, she was like, ‘Are you really doing that?’ Well, it’s not illegal. More power to you!’ So it was almost like a green light–like, ‘Do what you need to do to take care of your family.’ They were supportive. It was funny.”
The single mother of fourteen children has starred in an erotic video, posed topless and made personal appearances at various strip clubs.
A rep for the Orange County (Calif.) Social Services Agency, which includes Children and Family Services/Child Protective Services acknowledges that parents have “a wide latitude” when it comes to suitable employment options.
“The Social Services Agency makes every effort to help children be safe in their own homes with their own families whenever possible,” Terry Lynn Fisher, Public Information Officer for OCSSA, told FoxNews.com. “The law allows a wide latitude in parenting styles and in parenting vocations. I don’t think that anybody would ever want it any other way. So as long as children remain free from harm or danger, where there’s no imminent risk of harm or danger to the child, then the Social Services Agency would not become involved.”
The single mother of fourteen children has starred in an erotic video, posed topless and made personal appearances at various strip clubs.
A rep for the Orange County (Calif.) Social Services Agency, which includes Children and Family Services/Child Protective Services acknowledges that parents have “a wide latitude” when it comes to suitable employment options.
“The Social Services Agency makes every effort to help children be safe in their own homes with their own families whenever possible,” Terry Lynn Fisher, Public Information Officer for OCSSA, told FoxNews.com. “The law allows a wide latitude in parenting styles and in parenting vocations. I don’t think that anybody would ever want it any other way. So as long as children remain free from harm or danger, where there’s no imminent risk of harm or danger to the child, then the Social Services Agency would not become involved.”
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