Beyonce Lands Movie That's Not A Musical
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Beyonce Knowles (Dreamgirls), Ali Larter (Resident Evil: Extinction, "Heroes") and Idris Elba (American Gangster) will star in Obsessed, a thriller that Screen Gems will put into production this summer, reports Variety. Steve Shill will direct a script by David Loughery. Will Packer produces, and Knowles will be executive producer along with her father, Mathew Knowles. In Obsessed, Elba will play an asset manager who has a knockout wife (Knowles) and thriving career until a temp office worker (Larter) begins stalking him. Source: ...
News Ticker: Joy Division, Beyonce, Lionel Richie, Steve Miller, Juice Crew
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A new “best of” compilation of Joy Division songs will be released on March 25th, the same day the Anton Corbijn-directed Ian Curtis biopic Control comes out on DVD. The collection will feature fourteen of the band’s greatest hits, plus a second disc of Peel Sessions recordings and interviews with Curtis.
Beyonce has signed on to star in the film Obsessed. Knowles will play the wife of an asset manager who is stalked by one of his temp workers, played by Heroes’ Ali Larter.
Lionel Richie and Steve Miller will receive lifetime ...
Buzz News Roundup, 3/7
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Reuters reports that China will tighten its controls over foreign performers after Bjork shouted "Tibet! Tibet!" at a Shanghai concert last weekend.
According to Hollywood Reporter, W. Bruce Cameron's book 8 Simple Rules for Marrying My Daughter, sequel to his previous book-turned-TV series, will be adapted for the big screen.
Variety reports that Seth Rogen has been named ShoWest Comedy Star of the Year.
Junot Diaz's book The Brief Wondrous Life of Oscar Wao has won the National Book Critics Circle Award for fiction, the Associated ...

