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Happy Birthday, Roger Ebert!

Just wanted to say that. It’s the big 6-8 — wish the man well!

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Attractions: The $100 Million Toy?

Welcome back to Movieline Attractions, your regular guide to everything new, noteworthy and/or blindingly nostalgic (again) at the movies. This week, Pixar puts down some playthings, Warners cuts its losses, and the overall summer doldrums aren’t especially improving. Now that I’ve got you so massively engrossed , read on to see what you’ll be skipping as a whole this week — and what kind of money it might make in your absence.

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Conviction Trailer: Could it Be Swank vs. Bening, Round 3?

Last year, we wondered whether Hilary Swank and Annette Bening were fated to have yet another Best Actress rematch at the Oscars… then Swank’s Amelia bombed and Bening’s Mother and Child wasn’t even released in 2009 (instead, it made a negligible ripple earlier this year). Maybe we were just a little premature, since Bening’s got The Kids Are All Right coming very soon and Swank has Conviction (formerly named Betty Anne Waters ). Lets dig into the new Conviction trailer and guess at her odds.

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Emma Roberts Attacked by Rabid RPattz Fans

Hell hath no fury like Robert Pattinson fans scorned. After Emma Roberts harmlessly proclaimed herself to be Team Jacob on The Tonight Show , she was deluged with so many angry Twitter attacks (despite her own backpedaling tweet: “Rob Pattinson is so nice! I was slightly disappointed his skin wasn’t glittering & the song ‘Wild Thing’ didn’t start when he shook my hand”) that she was forced to cancel her own account. Where was this massive grassroots action on Pattinson’s behalf when Remember Me came out? [ E! ]

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Cabin in the Woods to Suffer 2nd Delay?

Will we ever get to see the Joss Whedon-produced, Drew Goddard-directed horror flick The Cabin in the Woods ? A while back, it was bumped all the way to January to undergo a 3D post-conversion, and now it may be lost in the MGM mess and delayed yet again. At this rate, star Chris Hemsworth will probably be seen in Thor before we ever get a taste of this tiny sleeper. Hell, Whedon may have directed him in The Avengers by then. [ THR via The Playlist ]

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Kathy Griffin: My Life on the D-List Reality Check: ‘Kathy with a Z’

If you’re a decent person and enjoy Julie Miller’s Housewives and Hills recaps every week, you’re aware that Movieline’s “reality checks” single out the most staged and sincere moments that this genre has to offer. In the case of Bravo’s Kathy Griffin: My Life on the D-List , those are harder to sort: Griffin has consciously evolved her show from an unstructured free-for-all to something of a pseudo-staged campfest in the style of The Comeback . Both formats work, but the new one needs Movieline to tell it when it’s honest and just phony. Come with us as we pick the realest and fakest moments from Kathy’s sixth season premiere.

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Is Doug Liman Off Musketeers?

With Summit having a 100-mile head start on its own, 3D Three Musketeers , director Doug Liman may step back from Warner’s planned adaptation in favor of All You Need is Kill . Based on novelist Hiroshi Sakurazaka’s sci-fi war thriller, it’s about a soldier forced to relive his death at the hands of an alien species until he finds clues and means to hopefully survive. Skeptics are already calling it a Groundhog Day ripoff, but it’s eerily closer to the Crook Brothers’ 2006 horror indie Salvage , which features a young woman confronting her brutal killer day after day after day. For what it’s worth. I guess we’ll see. [ Deadline ]

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TV Bites: Kevin Spacey Finds His Inner Cult Leader

Your New CNN Host is… Eliot Spitzer

Disgraced New York governor Eliot Spitzer has been a consistent cable news personality recently, but his TV gig may become permanent. He’s reportedly close to signing a deal to star as one half of a Crossfire -style debate show on CNN, acting as a liberal counterpart to an as-yet-unannounced conservative. How long will it take before Jon Stewart appears and kills this too? The faster the better, as Donald Trump will get fussier each passing year that Eliot Spitzer is not on Celebrity Apprentice . [ NY Post ]

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Laurie David Denies Affair with Al Gore

Larry David’s ex-wife has already responded to reports that she had a two-year affair with Al Gore. “The story is completely untrue,” she told the Huffington Post. “It’s a total fabrication. I adore both Al and Tipper. I look at them both as family. And I have happily been in a serious relationship since my divorce.” Regardless of whether or not these reports are true, one thing is for certain: the eighth season of Curb Your Enthusiasm just became a lot more interesting. Can Ricky Gervais do a Tennessee accent? [ HuffPo ]

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