Jonotrek sends along word that our own Miranda Otto has joined Lucy Liu and Frances O’Connor in the new ABC show ‘Cashmere Mafia’: Four ambitious and sexy women, who’ve been best friends since business school, try to balance their glamorous and demanding careers with their complex personal lives in the city that never sleeps. They’ve created their own “boys club” to protect each other and discuss their ups and downs as they try to have it all. What good is it to break the glass ceiling without girlfriends to share in your success? “Cashmere Mafia” will premiere after “Dancing with the Stars” and “The Bachelor” conclude their fall seasons.
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From The Hollywood Reporter: A week after DreamWorks picked up Peter Jackson’s “Lovely Bones,” Steven Spielberg and Jackson are teaming up again, this time to bring Spielberg’s long-gestating pet project “Tintin” to the big screen. Sources said Monday that Jackson and Spielberg would each direct installments of the franchise, which is based on a series of Belgian comic books called “The Adventures of Tintin” by Herge. It is unclear whether other filmmakers would be involved, and no script has been written. The movies would be made using motion-capture technology. In the comics, Tintin is a young Belgian reporter and world traveler who is aided in his adventures by his faithful dog Snowy. He later was joined by such colorful characters as Captain Haddock, Professor Cuthbert Calculus and bumbling detectives Thomson and Thompson. The books, hugely popular in Europe, have been translated into 50 languages, with more than 200 million sold. [More]
Orlando Bloom is slated to be a guest on ‘The Tonight Show with Jay Leno’. He is there to promote a small film called ‘Pirates of the Caribbean: At World’s End’, gee…I hope he gets the word out…this film needs it! ‘The Tonight Show’ airs on NBC at 11:35PM EST. Watch this space for the clip!
djdeathskiss writes: This year I was fortunate enough to be selected as a staff member for the Tolkien Track at this years DragonCon, held every Labor Day weekend in Atlanta, Georgia. I am very, VERY happy to announce our first ‘LOTR’ guest – Sean Astin! He will be joining the always popular Tolkien scholar Anne Petty and performances by Emerald Rose. [More]
MrCere here with a response to a lot of e-mail regarding a scuttle going on about ‘The Hobbit’ movie. Our friends at AICN.com have been running some rumors about possible directors for the film such as Peter Weir, Stephen Summers and Michael Bay. Even AICN says to take this untested source with a grain of salt and that just isn’t credible enough in my opinion. My journalism background informs me that I need two independent sources for a credible story if they are going to go unnamed. That rule gets stretched and bent wildly on the internet but there just isn’t enough here for us to run with the story. However, ‘thank you’ to all the folks who care enough to send in news and tips, your help is highly valued, even if we can’t reply or the tip doesn’t make it. As always contact the news team via e-mail at Spymaster@TheOneRing.net. (And remember, it’s an all volunteer staff!)
Dominic Monaghan is slated to be a guest tonight on ‘The Tonight Show with Jay Leno’, he is there to promote the third season finale of his hit TV show ‘Lost’. ‘The Tonight Show’ airs on NBC at 11:35PM EST. Watch this space for the video soon!