For months, Bill Murray had been in talks to portray the blueblood father of Rudd’s character, but no deal closed. In recent weeks Murray’s interest in the project waned and he fell out of touch.
With Murray unresponsive and production scheduled to start in less than two weeks, Brooks reached out to Nicholson.
Brooks, who also penned the screenplay, is producing alongside Paula Weinstein (“Blood Diamond”), Laurence Mark (“Dreamgirls”) and Gracie Films prexy Julie Ansell.
Story involves a love triangle, with Rudd playing a white-collar executive vying for Witherspoon’s affections, and Wilson portraying a professional baseball pitcher who is also a love interest.
Two of Nicholson’s three Oscars have come via Brooks films: 1983’s “Terms of Endearment” and 1997’s “As Good as It Gets.”
At the beginning of Tuesday night’s “I’m a Celebrity … Get Me Out of Here!,” host Damien Fahey announced that Heidi Montag and Spencer Pratt would be sitting out the episode, after media reports surfaced that the pair known as Speidi had quit the show (although rumors emerged just hours later that they were trying to get back on the show).
Speidi can be seen on the show, during taped segments in which contestants hang out in a basin of water and bugs known as the “trauma tank,” but the pair decided not to participate in the challenge that was eventually won by the guys’ team, thanks to former “American Idol” contestant Sanjaya Malakar.
The pair were later seen talking with fellow contestant Stephen Baldwin, sharing religious views. (Spencer told him that Heidi said God will answer his prayers — as evidenced by the time that he prayed to hang out with Miley Cyrus and it actually happened!)
The duo had to compete against each other to win food for their team. Their challenge? To find as many star cut-outs as possible in the snake- and rat-filled chamber. “I’m about to go on a competition against my wife, and I’m going to beat her, even though she is my wife,” Spencer said. Heidi, knowing her husband so well, added that he’d throw her off a cliff to win.
Pratt managed to wrangle up two stars while Heidi only got one, making him the winner of a meal for his team. “I, of course, won because what I do, I win at,” he said. “Not even Spencer Pratt knows what he’s going to do — where I think I might quit, I might end up staying and winning the whole thing.”
Calling the trial his “goodbye trial,” he announced to the group that “he’s too rich and too famous” to stay in the jungle, before getting into an argument with Janice Dickinson about religion and getting baptized by Stephen Baldwin in the nearby river. “I feel like I just took a 10-year bath,” he said afterward.
ZAC EFRON TO BRING HIS ‘ENTOURAGE’ TO HBO
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An onlooker says he and the Entourage film crew arrived around 9AM before the store opened to shoot the scene. None of the regular guys were in the scene with Zac. One Niketown employee said, “He was filming a scene and talking on his cell phone. None of the other Entourage
Season six of Entourage is slated to premiere on HBO July 12th. Other anticipated celebrity guest stars appearing as themselves in season six include Lil Wayne, Tom Brady, LeBron James, and Aaron Sorkin.
WILL JAMES CAMERON BE KING OF THE GAMING WORLD?
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The E3 Expo is happening in Los Angeles this week and director James “I don’t go back” Cameron was on hand to talk about the new video game based on his AVATAR film.
IGN scored an exclusive interview with the man after his presentation. He talked at length about the development process of the game with Ubisoft as well as a little bit about the film due out in theaters this December.
Conan O’Brien NBC’s Tonight Show Premiere
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Despite some shaky reviews, Conan O’Brien’s return to late night was pretty fabulous. When it comes to television, what matters most are the ratings and Conan rocked them. So haters…STFU!
Last night’s ratings for the “Tonight Show” for a Monday episode were the HIGHEST they have been in four years.
According to official figures, Conan posted a number 82% higher than the “Tonight” second quarter average and 173% above his February “Late Night” finale. In other words, he freakin’ rocked the hizouse.
So what did YOU think of Conan’s first Tonight Show appearance?
Click after the jump to watch a part of Conan O’Brien’s first show.
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WILL SEQUEL BE ‘HEATHERS: THE NEXT GENERATION’?
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How very”…encouraging. After months of speculation, Winona Ryder said in an interview appearing in the July issue of Empire that a sequel to the 1988 cult film is in the works. “I swear to God,” she said. “But for some reason Dan [Waters, writer] and Michael [Lehmann, director] don’t want to talk about it.” Maybe you shouldn’t be talking about it then, lady! Oh, but she went on. “There is a story, and Christian [Slater] has agreed to come back as a kind of Obi-Wan character.”
This just got good. When I first heard rumors of a “new Heathers,” I imagined a pointless remake along the lines of Footloose or the recently announced Girls Just Want To Have Fun. But a sequel? I love Heathers more than I love BBQ Corn Nuts, but how exactly might a Heathers sequel work? If J.D. has become an Obi-Wan type, will Shannen Doherty play a droid who manages a vintage shop specializing in late-’80s fashion hats? Will the teen queens abandon croquet for Wii Croquet?
Geez, I can’t keep track of these two attention ho bags…either you’re in or you’re out. Which is it? Who knows really if Heidi Montag and Spencer Pratt will be in the jungle for long, but whatever the case may be, we’ll have this lovely little video to remember this experience ten years from now. Although, we are sure as heck hoping that we won’t remember who these two are in ten years.
So Spencer Pratt debuted his new song last week called “I’m a Celebrity…Get Me Out of Here” and now, well a video was debuted today. And, of course, his “wife” Heidi made a cameo. Despite the song being THE theme song for their reality show casting, the video primarily focuses on them. And why wouldn’t it?
According to a source, both Spencer and Heidi reportedly walked out of the filming location of the show, Costa Rican jungle, twice. What do you think of Spencer’s video?
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Mariah Carey Blames 9/11 For Glitter Flop
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Mariah Carey Blames September 11th For Glitter Flop.—-The Frisky
Rihanna Has Incriminating Photos Of Chris Brown. Will She Leak Them?—–Bossip
Molly Ringwald Is About To Pop.—–Celebrity Baby Blog
Angelina Jolie Gets A New Tattoo.—–Huffington Post
Leighton Meester Reveals A Bit Of Her Behind At Awards Show.—–Egotastic
What Kate Gosselin Looked Like Before The Plus 8—–Popeater
Mel B. Is Still Scary.—–Celebridiot
What Happened To Tara Reid?—–Yeeeah
Billy Bob’s Daughter Is In Deep Doo Doo.—–IDLYITW
Mel Gibson Has Some Issues.—–Wizbangpop
For those of you who may have forgotten about Mariah Carey’s “Glitter” flop, watch the trailer of Glitter for an unfortunate reminder.
Mariah Carey Glitter Trailer Video
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E3 hasn’t even officially started yet, but some of Hollywood’s biggest names turned up at pre-show news conferences Monday to show off the video game industry’s newest technologies and titles:
- Paul McCartney and Ringo Starr, the two surviving Beatles, took the stage briefly at Microsoft’s news conference in the morning to (very) briefly tout MTV’s new version of its Rock Band music game that focuses entirely on the iconic band. The L.A. Times tech blog has a full report on their appearance.
- Later on at the event it was Steven Spielberg’s turn to surprise the crowd. But the A-list director wasn’t there to talk about any games in which he’s involved. He dropped by to plug Project Natal, Microsoft’s new peripheral for the Xbox 360 that lets players control games by moving in front of a camera and using their voice. “I felt like this was as significant as the transformation from square-shaped movie screens to CinemaScope and then Imax,” he said of his first glimpse at the technology. Get all the details on Project Natal and the rest of Microsoft’s plans to expand the Xbox 360’s audience without losing its hard-core fans in the story from today’s Times.
- James Cameron played a more traditional role at publisher Ubisoft’s news conference, where he talked about the upcoming video game based on his movie “Avatar.” It will be the first video game produced in stereoscopic 3-D, mimicking the technology used in the film (though only a tiny percentage of people have TVs that support 3-D images). “When entertainment succeeds in today’s market, it does it by combining games, films, books, toys … where you can visit the world and characters in different ways,” Cameron said, according to video game news site Gamasutra.
There were also a few new games unveiled based on Hollywood properties. Ubisoft announced that it would be making a game based on Spielberg and Peter Jackson’s upcoming film adaptation of “Tintin.” And Warner Bros. confirmed longstanding rumors that it will apply the Lego video game formula that has proved so successful with Star Wars, Indiana Jones and Batman to Harry Potter. Lego Harry Potter: Years 1-4 comes out next year and will be produced by Traveller’s Tales, the game development studio Warner bought in 2007 for about $200 million.
DAVID ARCHULETA’S AGENDA INCLUDES ANOTHER ALBUM
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It looks like David Archuleta’s booked himself a pretty frantic summer schedule. Along with his tour (which will also feature Demi Lovato), he’s working on his next album — along with a special treat for his fans. (CLICK ON THE MEDIA BAR TO HEAR (DAVID ARCHULETA)
