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Jack the Giant Killer Catapulted to 2013

Warner Bros. has shaken up its 2012-13 release slate a bit, with Bryan Singer’s fantasy Jack the Giant Killer getting pushed from this June all the way to next March. Rock of Ages , meanwhile, has moved back two weeks to Jack ‘s original June 15 release date, and Jack has displaced Arthur & Lancelot , which now owns a less-than-encouraging TBD 2013 opening. Should have been you, Gatsby . [ Deadline ]

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Breaking: Michigan is Not Hollywood

“Evidence continues to mount that Michigan’s budding film industry really was no such thing. Would-be moguls scatter as soon as a new governor deep-sixes the nation’s leading incentive program because it amounts to cutting Hollywood checks for money spent here, not capital invested. Now a state-of-the-art studio backed by savvy businessmen with names like Al Taubman and John Rakolta is on track to miss payments to bondholders, often a fraught tripwire on the way to bankruptcy. Not much of an industry, that. Not if you understand the word to imply a modicum of permanent investment — the kind Taubman, Rakolta & Co. assumed with their backing of Raleigh Studios in Pontiac — instead of a traveling minstrel show partly financed by starstruck taxpayers.” But! They’ll always have 30 Minutes or Less . [ The Detroit News ]

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DMX Sentenced To One Year In Jail

Rapper pleaded guilty in Phoenix to probation violation. By Paul Cantor DMX Photo: Larry Busacca/ Getty Images DMX is heading back to jail for a year. On Thursday morning (December 16), the rapper (born Earl Simmons) pleaded guilty in a Phoenix courtroom to a felony probation violation. He was arrested on November 18 for not checking in with his probation officer, failing to submit to drug testing and refusing to undergo treatment. “I did make the effort that I could, and I appreciate any help you can give me,” Simmons told Judge Christine Mulleneaux, according to the Phoenix New Times. Judge Mulleneaux was not wholly sympathetic to X’s pleas for leniency, saying he tested positive for cocaine five times during his probation. She said he likely had an undiagnosed mental condition that he needs to take care of, and until he does so, he’d continue on his path of substance abuse. “Your criminal history goes back to 1988,” she said. “It’s going to continue if you don’t take care of your mental health.” According to The Associated Press, DMX told Phoenix station KSAZ-TV that he had been kicked out of a drug treatment program because he had a drink at a Scottsdale club during a performance. X had been on probation since July, having served four months of a six-month sentence handed down in March for failing a court-mandated drug test and testing positive for cocaine. Following his release in July, he began serving a 90-day sentence for a reckless driving charge in Los Angeles dating all the way back to 2002. In May of 2009, he was released from 90 days in a Phoenix jail on charges of drug possession, fraud and animal cruelty from 2008. Related Artists DMX

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