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Somewhere out there exists a world that we would recognize as very similar to ours. "We" are all there, doing just about the same things we do here -- blogging, loving, drinking, tweeting. In fact if…   Read Story »
The Brontë sisters (Charlotte, Emily, and Anne) were the Olsen sisters (MK, Ashley, and Elizabeth) of their day. Yes? I'm pretty sure I don't have to back that up with any reason for saying it…   Read Story »
FX is developing an hourlong project "loosely based" on Fargo, created by Noah Hawley, with the Coen Brothers executive producing. And it actually sounds like it could be good?! "Oh jeeze!" - Fargo   Read Story »
We all have our dream Broadway musical adaptations of kind of oldish movies, but for some reason the topic very rarely comes up in conversation. Think about it -- the last time you and your friends…   Read Story »
In its relentless attempts to turn any name brand thing that at least 10 children have heard of into a movie franchise, Hollywood, and Warner Bros in particular, has greenlit a movie based on Legos.…   Read Story »
Eddie Murphy is on the cover of this month's Rolling Stone in light of the runaway success of the forward-thinking payment plan in which you can pay 60 dollars to watch Tower Heist in your home…   Read Story »
The Kids Are All Right is being turned into a TV show, but unfortunately it's for HBO, which probably means no laff track or boy-oy-oing sound effects. Oh well. At least half the cast of The Wire and…   Read Story »
Dreamworks has hired the woman who wrote E.T. to write an adaptation of Roald Dahl's The BFG. She better not fuck it up!   Read Story »
Next spring, a musical based on Ghost will open on Broadway. The original cast recording of the song "Hey, I'm A Ghost Now!" is going to be incredible.   Read Story »
While the world waits with baited breath to hear about the latest developments in the Asteroids adaptation, today we learn that the same producer is optioning the rights of another classic arcade…   Read Story »