· Jonathan Demme has stepped in for the departing Martin Scorsese on the authorized Bob Marley documentary project. This is the movie Marley's estate want released before the Weinstein's Bob biopic, a scheduling snafu that caused an irate Harvey to whip a can of Diet Coke at an assistant's head as he taunted the incapacitated call-roller to, "C'mon, Josh! Get up, stand up. Stand up for your rights!" [Variety]
· More legend docs! Spike Lee told a crowd at Cannes that he's hoping to bring a feature-length documentary about Michael Jordan to the festival next year, contingent of course on Denzel playing Michael. [Variety]
· Miss Guided casualty Jude Greer was cast in Barry Sonenfeld's HBO pilot Suburban Shootout, about a woman who finds "herself caught between two rival gangs of homicidal housewives as they vie for control of their idyllic town." [THR]
· For the first time, Fox was the overall winner of the strike-marred 2007-08 TV season. [Variety]
· Sony Pictures Releasing launched the Hot Ticket, which will distribute live shows to digital-cinema-equipped movie theaters, giving musical theater lovers who can't be bothered to catch the touring production a viable, Rent-seeing alternative. [THR]













Comments
Wow, Matthew Perry has not aged well at all, has he.
If I wanted to watch 2 hours of trenchtown rasta scuffles, jangly out-of-tune guitar rambles, and weepy extended-family resolutions that are jerkchicken-y on the finish, I'd just get trashed at Rick's in Negril. HULLO?
While that Judy Greer project actually sounds like it has potential, I wish Sonnenfeld would direct more episodes of Pushing Daisies instead. It's a brilliant show regardless, but the few with his fingerprints on them have been measurably cooler than the rest.
"Shootout" is the best! Just another take on the whole desperate, orange county, manhattan housewives theme only with guns.
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