Rogen, Hathaway, Jackman, Franco, Rudd Join the Academy
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Seth Rogen and James Franco have taken the pineapple express to Oscar credibility.
As if expanding the Best Picture nominee pool and potentially nixing the Best Song category wasn't enough to modernize the usually staid Academy of Motion Picture Arts & Sciences, surely its welcoming of cinema's preeminent bong jokesters is.
Rogen and Franco are two of 134 new artists and movie industry executives who have been extended invitations to join the Academy and, in doing so, secure voting rights for all future Oscar ceremonies beginning in 2010.
The smokin' Pineapple Express duo are joined by fellow Judd Apatow repertory players Michael Cera, Paul Rudd and Jane Lynch, along with Casey Affleck, Viola Davis, Anne Hathaway, Emily Blunt, Taraji P. Henson, James McAvoy, Tyler Perry, Danny Boyle, Emile Hirsch, Michelle Williams, Amy Ryan, Slumdog soundtracker A.R. Rahman, Peter Gabriel, Tom Cruise's producing partner-in-crime, Paula Wagner, Milk man Dustin Lance Black and Mr. Oscar himself, Hugh Jackman.
Katie Holmes Is Afraid of the Dark
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It was only a matter of time before Katie Holmes got in touch with her Dark side.
She of the rolled jeans and fashionista toddler has signed on to star in Don't Be Afraid of the Dark, a thriller written by Pan's Labyrinth and Hobbit mastermind Guillermo del Toro.
A rep for Mrs. Tom Cruise confirmed the casting to E! News.
The adrenaline-pumping flick is based on a TV movie that aired on ABC back in 1973, which centered on a girl who moves in with her father and his girlfriend, only to realize that they are not the only occupants of the abode.
Holmes will be heading Down Under, to the land of the former Mrs. Cruise, for the project: The film shoots this summer in Melbourne.
In the day's other casting coups, Robert De Niro is talking to Edward Norton (again); James McAvoy, Elizabeth Banks and Laura Linney get blacked out; Dwayne Johnson is a Fast talker; Steve Coogan and Rosario Dawson get mythic and Christopher Walken gets, well, Val Kilmer.
Angelina's Guns Too Fun for U.K. TV
Anarchy in the U.K. is not Wanted.
The Advertising Standards Authority, a London-based watchdog group, is recommending that British broadcasters not air a commercial touting the DVD release of the 2008 Angelina Jolie-starring action flick—not as it is, anyway—because of its glorification of gun violence.
Meanwhile, Wanted made more than $19 million in the U.K. and Ireland during its theatrical run last summer, per BoxOfficeMojo.com.
But the 35-second trailer, which prominently features a bullet-in-slow-motion motif while costars Jolie and James McAvoy proudly wield their firearms, "could be seen to condone violence by glorifying or glamorizing the use of guns," the ASA insists.
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