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Miramax: Deal or No Deal?

Following preemptive reports that the Weinsteins (i.e. their backers, including Ron Burkle) won back their studio, all hell broke loose overnight in the Miramax sweepstakes. In a nutshell, Disney has reportedly denied that a Weinstein sale is imminent; if anything, the Weinsteins are closer to securing an exclusive negotiating window with Disney than they are to striking an actual deal. Come on , competitors David Bergstein and the Gores brothers! Let the Weinsteins have their baby! There’s a perfectly good gently used studio in MGM that could desperately use suitors like you ; go harass them, for heaven’s sake. [ Deadline ]

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Hollywood Ink: That Mighty Mouse Reboot You Requested is On the Way

Attractions: Kick-Ass Ready to Do Exactly That to Chris Rock

Welcome back to Movieline Attractions, your regular guide to everything new, noteworthy and pseudo-heroic at the movies. This week, a new comics franchise is born, a British comedy is reborn, and a surfeit of indies stretch the art-house seams. Titans are pretty much done clashing by now; read on to see who’s dueling for No. 1.

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Salt Gives Jolie a Sexist Makeover

How much did the upcoming action thriller Salt change when Angelina Jolie took the part meant for Tom Cruise? “In the original script, there was a huge sequence where Edwin Salt saves his wife, who’s in danger,” director Phillip Noyce told EW . “And what we found was when Evelyn Salt saved her husband in the new script, it seemed to castrate his character a little. So we had to change the nature of that relationship.” Yes, even gorgeous, imaginary action heroines have husbands who are threatened by their success. Thanks, Hollywood! [ EW ]

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REVIEW: Scatological Stars Align For Death at a Funeral

There’s a theory suggesting that people who don’t like scatological humor harbor a fear of death, and it makes sense: Death is the ultimate example of our bodies turning against us, and in life, anything that reminds us how messily human we are — and how little control we have over our bodies — brings us one step closer to the ultimate flush. So in the movies, shouldn’t poo jokes and death go together like chocolate and peanut butter?

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REVIEW: Scatological Stars Align For Death at a Funeral

On This Day: An Apatowian Star is Born

Happy April 15, dear reader! Time to join Movieline on another breezy expedition through the historical arcana and milestones that helped shaped the pop culture you know and love today. We’ve got a Hollywood-changing tragedy to commemorate and some celebrated young stars to wish happy birthdays, so let’s get to it. Your taxes can wait!

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Blond on Blond: Which Golden-Hued Nicolas Cage Coiffure Do You Prefer?

By now everybody’s seen Nicolas’s Cage’s blond ‘do, which he debuted a few weeks ago. “You know, I’m always changing the hair color, and right now I’m doing a movie called Drive Angry and I’m trying to tap into my Celtic roots, so I dyed it blond,” the actor told media gathered at WonderCon. But a new hue took over at this week’s Kick-Ass premiere, and it’s… interesting .

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Blond on Blond: Which Golden-Hued Nicolas Cage Coiffure Do You Prefer?

Mel Gibson, Oksana Grigorieva No Longer Making Beautiful, Unlistenable Music Together

Good grief, Hollywood — enough already with the celebrity bust-ups. Right around the same time today Larry King was croaking “Go ahead, caller” to his divorce attorney, word tumbled over the transom confirming the sad news that Mel Gibson and his Russian vocalist girlfriend Oksana Grigorieva have also called it quits after a year of dating and procreating. But it was fun while it lasted! Or at least it was fun for lovers of faintly adequate pop-music songs with videos over-directed by Oscar-winning anti-Semites. Because these two were the gold standard . Click through and reflect on the good times.

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Mel Gibson, Oksana Grigorieva No Longer Making Beautiful, Unlistenable Music Together

Dancing with the Stars Elimination: Remembering Aiden Turner (Do You?)

Dancing with the Stars gave us a week off from emotionally grueling elimination episodes last night. Well, you might not have endured a dark, spiritual upheaval when Shannen Doherty and Buzz Aldrin were eliminated — but those exits were at least caked with warm sentimentality, Goner Aiden Turner tried for the same effect, but too late: I can only remember one thing I liked about him this season.

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Dancing with the Stars Elimination: Remembering Aiden Turner (Do You?)

23 Questions About Lost Episode 612, ‘Everybody Loves Hugo,’ Answered!

Previously on Lost : Hurley is haunted by an enigmatic string of numbers. Hurley wins the lottery by playing those numbers, earning immense wealth. Hurley is cursed by his alleged good fortune. Hurley crash-lands on a strange island, never losing any weight despite a shortage of food. Hurley discovers Dharma Initiative-supplied foodstuffs, eliminating any petty grumbling about the weight issue. Hurley spends some time in a mental hospital, where he sees people who aren’t really there and is visited by Lt. Daniels from The Wire . Hurley falls in love, then loses that love. Someone strangles a trombone player, producing an awful sound that provides a haunting transition from a tense moment to a commercial break. Please join us as we take our place behind the Mr. Clucks counter, ready to serve out piping hot, extra crispy Answers by the bucketful to hungry, Question-bearing patrons looking to have their appetite sated after last night’s Hugo-centric episode.

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23 Questions About Lost Episode 612, ‘Everybody Loves Hugo,’ Answered!