PROGRAMMING NOTE: I’m coughing up (I won’t tell you from where, don’t worry) pieces of Sourdough Jack and animal-style fries, which means I’ve probably had too much California. For the rest of the day, I’ll be safe and secure in my porn-watching knit tunnel while going back to New York. My ass will be back tomorrow and now on to the crumbs:
Tyra Sanchez’s RiRi’s jank lace lashes get an F-, but her eyebrow situation gets a solid B – (site NSFW) Drunken Stepfather
What happens when Annie Hall takes styling tips from Beetlejuice – Lainey Gossip
A Kiss Begins With Krap: Miley Cyrus Tweets a picture of what some think is her totally fake engagement ring – The Superficial
I don’t know who this Daniel Garofali dude is, but I’ll gladly skip down his cobblestone happy trail – Towleroad
Every picture from the Spring Breakers set looks straight out of TruTV’s Party Heat – Hollywood Tuna
AnnaSophia Robb in the role Trace Cyrus was born in a barn to play! - Just Jared
A who’s who of Valtrex’s most wanted list – The Berry
Cate Blanchett brings Mimi’s recurring nightmare to life by going Photoshop-free on the cover of a magazine – Celebitchy
I hate myself down to a real level for thinking this
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This just in: The makers of the forthcoming CW spin-off series The Carrie Diaries (a prequel to Candace Bushnell’s franchise-launching Sex and the City novel) have found their new Carrie Bradshaw in Soul Surfer/Race to Witch Mountain/Bridge to Terabithia star AnnaSophia Robb. The series “chronicles Carrie’s coming of age in the 1980s when she asks her first questions about love, sex, friendship and family while exploring the worlds of high school and Manhattan.” So it’s basically Gossip Girl with a Carrie Bradshaw who looks nothing like the future Carrie Bradshaw. Oh, fine. Why not? [Deadline]
Fairytales are kind of the new comic books, in that they’re pre-existing, primarily kid-oriented texts ripe for re-imagining as more grown-up fare. And it may not get any darker than in Pan, an action-thriller adaptation of Peter Pan to star Aaron Eckhart, AnnaSophia Robb, and Sean Bean that turns J.M. Barrie’s Neverland fantasy into an even more sinister, present day-set manhunt pic. Island of lost boys, indeed.
Screen Daily (via Collider) reports that filming on Pan will begin in October in Eastern Europe under first time feature director Ben Hibon, who directed the animated sequence in Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows Pt. 1.
In the role reversing re-imagining, Hook (Eckhart) is a tormented ex-police detective — aided by Smee (Bean), “the chief detective and his only ally on the force” — on the trail of a childlike killer. Peter, I presume? Robb is onboard to play Wendy, “the lone survivor who leaves an asylum to help in the hunt.”
The idea is so tantalizingly dark — Peter Pan as a pied piper sort, luring little children to their doom. (“We’re fo-llowing the leader … into his van…”) A riff on the unverified suggestion of pedophilia that plagued Barrie’s personal life? In any case, one to keep an eye out for, especially as the dark re-imaginings start piling up at the multiplex.
⢠Aaron Eckhart, AnnaSophia Robb, and Sean Bean Join Ben Hibon’s Dark PETER PAN Re-Imagining [Screen Daily via Collider]
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