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Paranormal Activity’s Katie Featherston, Jessica Biel, January Jones, Gabourey Sidibe, Amy Adams, Milla Jovovich and Joss Stone lead this installment of the Hollywood Trade Roundup, a collection of hotties making headlines in The Hollywood Reporter and Daily Variety.
Paranormal Activity’s Katie Featherston, Jessica Biel, January Jones, Gabourey Sidibe, Amy Adams, Milla Jovovich and Joss Stone lead this installment of the Hollywood Trade Roundup, a collection of hotties making headlines in The Hollywood Reporter and Daily Variety.
The week opened with a Halloween shocker: Paranormal Activity easily toppled Saw VI at the boxoffice, $22 million to $14.8 million. Where the Wild Things Are, last week’s No. 1 film, slid to third place.
Paranormal Activity star Katie Featherston continued her winning ways and signed for representation with talent agency APA.
Jessica Biel will star in and produce the raunchy comedy Fucking Engaged, the story of a couple who make a pact to have sex every day leading up to their wedding in a bid to not turn into their crusty parents. Her co-star has yet to be cast, but would it be wrong of us to want a woman for Biel's spouse?
{C}{C}Mad Men hottie January Jones will star opposite Nicolas Cage in The Hungry Rabbit Jumps, the story of a man who enlists a vigilante group to help him settle the score when a crime is committed on his wife. Rabbit will begin production in December and will be completed before the late-January start date of Betty Draper’s following project, Unknown White Male.
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Get ready to learn this name: Gabourey Sidibe. The young actress, who stars in the upcoming Precious opposite Mariah Carey and Mo’Nique, has joined Showtime’s Laura Linney comedy pilot The C Word, about a suburban wife, mother and teacher who is diagnosed with cancer.
Amy Adams and Zach Galifianakis are in talks to star in Town House, a dramedy based on the Rick Reilly book Missing Links about a group of golfing buddies at a run-down Boston course. The Office star Steve Carell will produce.
Milla Jovovich will star in Faces in the Crowd, the story of a woman who barely survives an attack by a serial killer and wakes up in the hospital with a head injury that leave her “face-blind” — where she is no longer able to recognize faces and must navigate the world in which facial features change each time she loses sign of them.
Tuesday was all about Michael Jackson, as the documentary offering a behind-the-scenes look at his ill-fated tour, This Is It, had its official premiere at L.A. Live. The film raked in more than $2 million from first-day showings alone.
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NBC added a trio of shows to its full-season roster, picking up Thursday comedies Community and Parks and Recreation, starring Amy Poehler, as well as Wednesday medical drama Mercy. NBC’s Monday medical drama Trauma, however, will air its full run episodes, but not be back for more.
Sherri Saum has been cast as business executive-turned-trophy wife Holland Kemble on the CW’s Gossip Girl. The actress, whose credits include HBO’s In Treatment, will have a recurring role on the primetime soap.
In TV ratings, CBS’ The Ghost Whisperer, starring Jennifer Love Hewitt, helped the network win the week with its 8.5 million viewers. The news wasn’t as good for ABC’s Ugly Betty and Fox’s Dollhouse, which was recently put into the attic for November sweeps.
On the film festival circuit, Brotherhood, the story of a secret gay love affair between two members of an anti-gay Nazi group, won the top prize at the Rome International Film Festival. The film, from Denmark, is the directorial debut of former fashion photographer Nicolo Donato.
Turning to the Billboard charts, the soundtrack to next month's Twilight sequel, New Moon, moves up a notch to No. 1 and forces last week's chart-topper, Michael Buble's "Crazy Love" to No. 3. Meanwhile, Joss Stone's lastest effort, "Colour Me Free!" debuts at No. 10 on the Billboard 200 album chart.
Looking to the Halloween weekend at the boxoffice, it’s all about Michael Jackson as This Is It is the only film in wide release for the frame. But the following week offers our first look at some of the buzzed-about Oscar fare as George Clooney’s The Men Who Stare at Goats opens wide, along with Precious in limited release.
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