 Run Silent, Run
Cheap!
Posted on Apr.1, 2009 5:50 AM by Garry Owen
Filed under: Comedy, Screenplay, First script, Submarines
Vancouver --
Actor Seann William Scott (Bullet Proof Monk, Dukes of
Hazzard) was not
injured during the shooting for Rigged For Dive! Quick to throw
cold water to the circulating report was the star's
representative. "This story is completely false. Seann has not
been injured in any way and no version of the story ever
occurred," the rep said as quoted by Entertainment Weekly.
Earlier, news
surfaced that the actor who plays a computer nerd has been hurt while
filming in Vancouver for the Columbia Pictures submarine comic
adventure.
National Ledger's columnist Mike Walker said that a gush of wind
suddenly blew in Scott's
direction and a loose metal panel caught him on the
head. Scott was knocked down and the camera stopped rolling.
"...It shot
across the location so fast no one even managed to shout a warning
at Scott, who was just opening his mouth to emote when...
WHAM!...the panel smashed into the back of his head,"
Walker wrote.
 EMTs
were called but the actor allegedly insisted that he was fine
although "looking like he'd had crashed dived in shallow waters -
began moving feebly, disoriented, but able to speak." The
director, Paul Hunter, reportedly shut down the filming and
ordered the crew to come back the next day where Scott was spotted
with a "lump" on his head.
Shooting has begun this month, with Jack Black pointing on date
23. In May, the shooting will be brought to the Pacific coast of
Costa Rica. The
movie is scheduled for November 20 U.S. release.
The script for Rigged For Dive!
was one of the ten finalists for the 2007
First Draft International
competition, which attracted more than 2,000 entries.
Rigged
For Dive! was originally created by website manager Neal Stevens as a core piece of his
Submarine Almanac series of books. After a reading by
fellow author Michael DiMercurio, Stevens was urged to expand on
the story and eventually developed a screenplay. The premise is
similar to Tropic Thunder and Down Periscope; a group of submarine
gamers purchase a salvage US sub in Venezuela. Similarly minded
enthusiasts from the Internet flock to the port where the sub is
moored and complete a partial restoration
of the sub, taking it to sea and getting caught up between the US
Navy and coke drug lords.
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The Hollywood Slant
Caption Contest 75
Posted on Mar. 31th, 2009 11:37
AM by Nash Millington
Filed under: Bruce Willis, Emma Heming, Celebs
 Welcome,
fans of celeb news and gossip, to The Hollywood Slant Caption
Contest, our Wednesday feature in its 75th week. How does the
Caption Contest
work?
Think of a
caption for the
celebrity pic,
click e-mail, and go to work. This week's subjects?
Bruce Willis, 54,
& new hot wife
Emma Heming, 30.
What could
they be talking about ...?
Photo Credit:
Reuters/Hollywood Reporter
T.I. Sentenced to 366 Days in
the Slammer
Posted on Mar 31th, 2009 9:48 AM
by Hilton Bell
Filed under: rap, T.I.
Rapper T.I. was
sentenced to one year and one day in a Georgia prison as part of
his plea deal with prosecutors over a 2007 felony weapons charge.
The
Grammy-winning hip-hop star was accompanied by his family, manager
and longtime partner Tameka Cottle (a.k.a. Tiny Cottle) at the
morning hearing.
Under the terms
of a deal brokered last March, T.I. pleaded guilty to a federal
weapons charge and agreed to complete 1,000 hours of community
service prior to his sentencing and pay a $100,000 fine in
exchange for a relatively light sentence.
He must do
another 500 hours of community service after getting sprung.
The 28-year-old
T.I. (real name is Clifford Harris Jr.), is required to turn
himself to prison within the next 60 days, but is not expected do
so before May 19.
Northern Georgia
District Judge Charles Pannell Jr., who praised the artist for
exceeding the expectations required from his plea deal,
acknowledged that T.I. had commitments that prevented him from
being jailed before the May date.
"Today I would
like to say thank you to some, and apologize to all," said the
rapper, who will serve his time at a penitentiary to be named
later.
T.I. was arrested
on October 13, 2007, just before the BET Hip-Hop Awards after cops
caught him trying to buy unregistered machine guns and silencers.
Couldn't make
time for criminal behavior on a day he wasn't performing,
apparently. Makes Chris Brown's pre-Grammys walloping of Rihanna
seem tame.
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Jeffrey Dean Morgan is a Father!
Posted on Mar 31th, 2009 8:26 AM
by Oleg Masters
Filed under:
Monica Hansen
Four years later!
Former Grey's Anatomy guest star
Jeffrey Dean Morgan recently found out that he has a child with
actress-producer Sherrie Rose, according to Us Weekly.
"Yes, I have a 4-year-old son
with Jeffrey,"
Rose confirmed to Us.
The actor reportedly had no
clue until this celeb gossip report broke today. Kind of a d!ck
move by Sherrie Rose in that case, no? What gives, lady?
A source said the
Watchmen
star learned of the boy a few weeks ago and has since met him:
"He's shocked and surprised, but he wants to be in the child's
life."
Rose is an ex-girlfriend of
Jeffrey Dean Morgan, who is also known, gossip-wise, for his
longtime relationship with his former fiancee, Mary-Louise
Parker.
They began dating in 2006 after
meeting on her hit Showtime series,
Weeds, where he played her late husband, but she called off
their engagement in 2008.
Comments:
Rigged For Dive! is just another of
a long series of April Fool hoaxes
from
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Universal are to remake the John
Carpenter film THE THING. The new movie will
be written by Ron Moore and directed by
commercial helmer Matthijs Van Heijningen.
Variety says that the film is set in a
Norwegian camp and chronicles how the
shape-shifting alien was first discovered
and overcame the inhabitants of that camp.
Kurt Russell starred in...
Jan 29,
2009 - 6:14:45 AM
Concept art for the upcoming Marc
'QUANTUM OF SOLACE' Forster film WORLD WAR Z
has been released onto the Interwebs.
Dan LuVisis is the artist behind said art
for the film which takes place ten years
after the human victory over...
Jan 28,
2009 - 7:05:13 PM
We reported yesterday how Megan Fox may
be being lined up to play Lara Croft in a
new TOMB RAIDER movie. Well, those rumours
have not been confirmed, but today The
Hollywood Reporter has said that there will
be a new TR movie, and it will be a reboot
ala the recent Batman/ Bond movies etc.
The trade says that Warners Bros. and
producer Dan Lin are in early development on
a new flick, which will revamp the character
and her mission and bear very little
resemblance to the original pictures, which
were made by Paramount. It will reimagine
the origins of the character, her love
interest and the main villain, according to
THR.
The original Angelina Jolie starrer in 2001
made $275 million worldwide, while the 2003
follow-up earned a more modest $157 million.
There was no mention as to who will don the
mini-shorts and tight top though.
Jan 28,
2009 - 5:27:57 PM
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Twentieth Century Fox have hired SMOKIN'
ACES writer/ director and Ridley Scott and
brother Tony Scott as executive producer and
producer for the planned big-screen film THE
A-TEAM, based on the original 1980s TV show
of the same name.
Stephen J. Cannell, who created the original
TV series, will also produce the film.
Carnahan will polish the script by Skip
Woods with Brian Bloom.
Variety says that the intention is to start
production by June for a June 11, 2010,
release. It said that the Middle East will
replace Vietnam as the place the four did
their tour of duty, but Carnahan said the
origin story is the jumping-off point.
"You can ... make a film that reflects on
the real world without losing the great
sense of fun and the velocity of action in a
classic summer popcorn film," Carnahan said.
"Tony and I feel that marrying this Scott
Free project with Joe's sensibility will
result in a fast-paced, exciting franchise,
one we hope will be around for years to
come," Ridley Scott said to the trade.
Jan 28,
2009 - 8:19:56 AM
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