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On VOD: A Killer Inside Your Home

The video-on-demand splash of the week and weekend, just when you’d thought everyone forgot all about noir-novel master Jim Thompson: The remake of The Killer Inside Me is in theaters and on demand starting tomorrow. But Jane Campion, Martin Scorsese, Oliver Stone, Paul Thomas Anderson and a few others might argue their own VOD cases as well…

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Rush Limbaugh Gets Help From the Golf Channel

Finally, newlywed Rush Limbaugh is ready to move forward with his sports career. The Golf Channel has enlisted the conservative commentator to star in the network’s third season of The Haney Project ; he’ll be the “Project” part of the title, as coach Hank Haney spends an entire season improving Limabugh’s golf game. If you recall, Limbaugh’s last foray into the sports world did not end well: he resigned from ESPN in 2003 shortly after he was accused of making racist comments while working as a professional football commentator. [ THR ]

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Walk of Fame Inductees: Oprah, NPH, GOOP Innovator

The new crop of Hollywood Walk of Fame inductees includes Oprah Winfrey, Neil Patrick Harris, Tina Fey, Gwyneth Paltrow, the Muppets, Reese Witherspoon, Penelope Cruz, and Danny DeVito. Of those selected, only one has never won either an Academy Award or Emmy. Can you guess? Yep, it’s good old NPH. Reminds me of that famous adage: “Those who can’t win, host.” [ THR ]

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Buzz Break: George Clooney is Gunning for You

The WGA Wonders: Should IMDb Post Birthdates?

If you’re the type of Internet user who can spend a few hours clicking through the IMD b pages of actors, directors and writers, forever wondering how the particular person has accomplished so much at such a young age — what, it can’t just be me who does this — some bad news: The Writer’s Guild of America West is pressuring the massive film resource to pull all the ages from its site because they create the potential for age discrimination. Where’s the fun in that ?

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Jon Stewart, George Lucas Rematch Set For Next Star Wars Fan Orgy

Nearly six months after their initial, historic Daily Show power summit, Jon Stewart and George Lucas apparently have some unfinished business to attend to. Hence today’s news that the duo will reconvene this summer at Star Wars Celebration V, the annual fan gathering down in Orlando. Relive their first pas de deux after the jump, and dry-clean your Chewbacca outfit in preparation for an hour-long Round Two.

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The Hobbit Now Has Built Sets, But Still No Director

How important is it for The Hobbit to have a director? Apparently, not very! Despite the fact that Guillermo del Toro fled the director’s chair and Peter Jackson doesn’t want the gig, the film has still been auditioning actors in Los Angeles like nothing’s the matter. Now, new pictures have leaked of The Hobbit’s sets, which have already been built in New Zealand.

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Cuaron Planning Insane Opening Shot for Gravity

Were you impressed by Children of Men’s famous one-take “assault on the car” sequence? Apparently, director Alfonso Cuaron is determined to top himself; for his upcoming sci-fi pic Gravity , which is set to star Robert Downey Jr., he’s planning an opening shot that lasts for over 20 minutes. That’s enough to give Michael Bay reverse epilepsy. [ Coming Soon ]

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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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First Image of The Smurfs Shows Smurfs

What is it with USA Today getting all this first glimpses lately? On Tuesday, it was the ridiculous Hugh Jackman robot boxing movie Real Steel and now here comes the equally ridiculous big screen adaptation of The Smurfs . Hey, remember when everyone in Hollywood said audiences wanted originality and not reboots of popular ’80s brand names? Just kidding! After the jump, check out your first look at The Smurfs (shouldn’t this be subtitled “Take Manhattan”?) and find out why all the purists will be flaming message boards with hatred over a change in the Smurf mythology.

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