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Autumn Reeser on Entourage, No Ordinary Family and Life During Pilot Season

Autumn Reeser has come a long way from playing the Tracy Flick-like Taylor Townsend on The O.C. The versatile character actress has spent the better part of this summer giving Ari Gold a second ulcer in her recurring part as the foul-mouthed and super-smart Lizzie on Entourage . This fall, she’ll ply her trade at family friendly dramedy in the upcoming ABC pilot No Ordinary Family , a sort of live-action version of The Incredibles . She also does a monthly stage show in Los Angeles and juggles going back to school. And you thought your life was busy.

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Autumn Reeser on Entourage, No Ordinary Family and Life During Pilot Season

James Franco is Twilight’s Newest Fan

Esquire has a new multimedia feature profiling James Franco, and there are two highlights: when he admits to his actor brother Dave that he’s never watched a single thing Dave has appeared in, and when he tells his Esquire interviewer that he’s currently reading Twilight (“for a project,” he clarifies). “It’s crazy how much sexual tension there is,” he says. “It just builds and builds. I mean it never stops. It’s sort of explosive by the end. Crazy. Like they’ll blow up with it. And of course, they don’t. Which is the point too, I guess.” [ Esquire ]

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Help Movieline Caption This Russell Brand/Helen Mirren Bathtub Photo

Helen Mirren was recently featured in our caption contests when she pulled out a Gatling Gun in the upcoming movie Red , but now she’s fumbling around for another semi-automatic weapon on the set of Arthur , and it may be underneath the soap suds surrounding star Russell Brand.

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Help Movieline Caption This Russell Brand/Helen Mirren Bathtub Photo

Enter the Void Trailer: Life in Neon, and Death Too

You’ve seen the epilepsy-inducing credit sequences from Gaspar Noe’s surrealist Enter the Void , but now that IFC has put out a trailer in advance of the film’s September 24 bow stateside, you can get a closer look at the whole hallucinogenic experience. Can you handle a film that simultaneously invokes elements of a first-person shooter, the Tibetan Book of the Dead, and the Rainbow Road stage from Super Mario Kart ?

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Buzz Break: Conan O’Brien, Subservient Shirtless Teen

Whole New Word Developed For Inception Haters

Tired of calling the Inception haters in your life “f***head,” “a**hole,” “dumb sh*t” and the myriad of other boring pejoratives generally used to defend Christopher Nolan’s blockbuster? Now the Urban Dictionary offers a new etymological alternative known as “ineption” — or, “Completely inept at understanding the film, Inception .” Nice — and so much cleaner! What do you think? [ Urban Dictionary via /film ]

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Whole New Word Developed For Inception Haters

Emmy Spotlight: Is Joan Holloway Due for a Win?

Christina Hendricks wielded two important instruments as Joan Holloway during season three of Mad Men : command of her startling B-plot, and a big breakable vase. Will her smashing performance put her in serious contention for an Emmy triumph? Movieline ranks her odds against her five competitors.

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Emmy Spotlight: Is Joan Holloway Due for a Win?

Leaked Katzenberg Pep Talk Has Noah Baumbach Rewriting Madagascar 3

Nikki Finke this afternoon published an internal e-mail that Jeffrey Karzenberg sent around to his DreamWorks Animation staff — an upbeat, not-quite-spellchecked missive enlightening the gang to the boss’s dealings and developments around the studio. Buried among them: Noah Baumbach is 60 pages into a Madagascar 3 rewrite. And good news! It’s “exc!!!”

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Leaked Katzenberg Pep Talk Has Noah Baumbach Rewriting Madagascar 3

Buzz Break: Weezer Would Like to Be Your New Driveshaft

Moscow Fires Shut Down Darkest Hour

Production on the Anton Yelchin/Olivia Thirlby sci-fi thriller The Darkest Hour got held up two weeks after forest fires around Moscow scuttled the film’s exterior location shooting. The film deals with American students battling aliens during a trip to Russia; reps at Summit Entertainment said the delay won’t threaten the film’s remaining schedule or wrap date. Whew. [ THR ]

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