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Sylvester Stallone and Arnold Schwarzenegger Hit The Tomb, Tina Fey’s Admission: Biz Break

Also in today’s Biz Break: Tim Heidecker’s polarizing Comedy finds a buyer, Matthew Lillard’s Fat Kid heads to Cannes, an Italian festival war turns even uglier, and more… The Tomb opens for Stallone, Schwarzenegger and Co. Shooting is underway on the prison-break action thriller pairing two of the ’80s most iconic stars with Jim Caviezel, Curtis “50 Cent” Jackson, Amy Ryan, Vincent D’Onofrio and more. Mikael Hafstrom directs for Summit Entertainment. Focus’ Admission , with Tina Fey and Paul Rudd, Gets Shooting Paul Weitz will direct the film based on Jean Hanff Korelitz’s 2009 novel of the same name, featuring Fey as a Princeton University admission officer who is caught off-guard while visiting an experimental high school whose co-founder (Rudd) attended college with her. Life-changing revelations ensue; Michael Sheen, Gloria Robin, Wallace Shawn and Lily Tomlin co-star. The Comedy Goes to Tribeca Film Tribeca Film has announced its acquisition of director Rick Alverson’s controversial character study , which premiered at the 2012 Sundance Film Festival. The film centers on a Williamsburg hipster (Tim Heidecker) who is indifferent to the fact he’s an heir and whiles away his on “games of mock sincerity and irreverence.” Eric Wareheim, Gregg Turkington (a.k.a. Neil Hamburger), and LCD Soundsystem frontman James Murphy co-star. Tribeca Film plans a select theatrical release day and date with on-demand platforms where it will be available in 40+ million homes through a variety of video-on-demand offerings, as well as iTunes, Amazon Watch Instantly, VUDU, Xbox and Samsung Media Hub. Fat Kid Heads to Cannes Matthew Lillard’s SXSW Audience Award-winning directorial debut Fat Kid Rules the World will go to Cannes with Outsider Pictures, which has acquired the international sales rights. Adapted from K. L. Going’s young adult novel, the film centers around Troy Billings — age 17, overweight and suicidal. Just as he’s about to jump in front of a bus, he’s saved by Marcus, a charming high school dropout / street musician. Around the ‘net… IFC Films to Save the Date Michael Mohan’s ensemble romantic comedy, featuring Lizzy Kaplan, Martin Starr, Mark Webber, Alison Brie and Geoffrey Arend, has scored distribution through IFC Films. “Michael Mohan has made an emotionally moving and often very funny film about commitment, skillfully transplanting Jeffrey Brown’s graphic novels,” said IFC president Jonathan Sehring. Deadline reports . Italian culture minister blasts Rome Film Festival The festival’s controversial decision to shift dates to November — thus directly competing with the 30 year old Turin Film Festival and the 53-year-old Festival dei Popoli in Florence. The move is “against the overall interests of Italian cinema,” according to culture czar Lorenzo Ornaghi. THR reports.

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‘The Town’ Snatches Friday Box Office

The heist thriller kicks off the weekend with over $8 million. By Mawuse Ziegbe Slaine, Ben Affleck, Jeremy Renner and Owen Burke in “The Town” Photo: Warner Bros. The Box-Office Top Five #1 “The Town” ($8.4 million) #2 “Easy A” ($6.8 million) #3 “Devil” ($4.9 million) #4 “Resident Evil: Afterlife” ($3 million) #5 “Alpha and Omega” ($2.3 million) Ben Affleck’s bank-robbing thriller “The Town” grabbed the box-office crown Friday night. The film, which takes audiences to the smash-and-grab underworld of director and star Affleck’s hometown of Boston and features Blake Lively, Jon Hamm, Jeremy Renner and Rebecca Hall, topped the end-of-the-work-week box office with an estimated $8.4 million. In second place is the high-school teen comedy “Easy A,” which features young stars Emma Stone, Amanda Bynes and Penn Badgley , who joins his “Gossip Girl” castmember and off-screen love interest, Lively, in the box-office top five. The flick, about a teen girl who stumbles upon a lucrative hustle faking sex with wannabe schoolyard Lotharios, rang up $6.8 million in ticket sales during its debut Friday on screens. The mind-bending thriller “Devil,” which features the creative touch of filmmaker M. Night Shyamalan , opened in third place. Featuring actors such as Geoffrey Arend and Bokeem Woodbine grappling with an elevator ride that may literally be from hell, the horror pic pulled in an estimated $4.9 million. After owning last week’s box office, the zombie-ridden action flick “Resident Evil: Afterlife,” dropped to fourth place. Milla Jovovich’s latest clash with the undead claimed $3 million at the Friday box office, nudging the total cume of sci-fi franchise’s hit to nearly $37 million. Rounding out the top five is the kid-friendly adventure “Alpha and Omega,” which features voice-over contributions from stars like Christina Ricci, Danny Glover and the late screen legend Dennis Hopper . The animated flick, which revolves around two wolves (voiced by Justin Long and Hayden Panettiere) with very different personalities journeying back toward their natural habitat, film opened with $2.3 million. Check out everything we’ve got “The Town,” “Easy A” and “Devil” For breaking news, celebrity columns, humor and more — updated around the clock — visit MTVMoviesBlog.com.

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‘Mad Men’ Star & Hubby: Jack White & Wife 2.0

Filed under: Paparazzi Photo , We’re Just Sayin’ Here’s “Mad Men” star Christina Hendricks and her new husband Geoffrey Arend at their wedding in NYC this weekend (top) — and White Stripes front man Jack White and his wife of four years, model Karen Elson, in NYC earlier this year (bottom).Both … Permalink

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Lo Bosworth: The Hills is Just a Grind

Lo Bosworth and Lauren Conrad are like best friends for life.

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Christina Hendricks and Geoffrey Arend: Married!

It’s always fun to report on celebrity weddings. Today’s installment?

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Christina Hendricks Marries in New York

The Mad Men star exchanged platinum Tacori wedding bands with actor Geoffrey Arend

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