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Which Celebrity Dressed Up As a Dead Body This Weekend?

And you thought your Contagion Matt Damon costume was elaborate. This past weekend, one celebrity/sometimes actress trumped all of the ghoul-like get-ups you and your uninspired friends will wear in an entire lifetime by jumping into a skinless corpse bodysuit…and employing two extras in surgeon costumes to push her down the red carpet on an autopsy table. Can you guess who is responsible for the most elaborate Halloween costume thus far?

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Are You Watching This World Series?, and 6 Other Stories You’ll Be Talking About Today

Happy Friday! Also in this edition of The Broadsheet: Discover the subject of Drive ‘s celebrated closing theme… Philip K. Dick’s family wants to get paid… The great Channing Tatum/Steven Soderbergh male-stripper movie gets a release date… and more.

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Are You Watching This World Series?, and 6 Other Stories You’ll Be Talking About Today

Expendables 2 Stuntman Killed in Explosion

An unnamed Expendables 2 stunt performer was killed while filming an explosion scene Thursday in Bulgaria. Another stuntman was critically injured in the scene, which was being handled by the second-unit crew while director Simon West and his cast were shooting several hours away. “It is with great regret that we confirm this unfortunate accident,” said a statement from the producers at Nu Image/Millennium Films. “Our hearts go out to the families and those on the production affected by this tragedy. The filmmakers are working closely with the authorities in responding to and investigating this accident.” [ Deadline ]

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Kristen Wiig, Judd Apatow and Co. Offer 9 Things You Didn’t Know About Bridesmaids

For the first time since Bridesmaids premiered this past spring, the comedy’s filmmakers and cast gathered last night in Hollywood for a special Screen Actors Guild Awards screening of their surprise box office smash. Afterward, Judd Apatow (who executive produced the film) moderated a Q&A panel comprised of stars Kristen Wiig, Maya Rudolph, Melissa McCarthy and Wendi McLendon-Covey as well as Annie Mumolo, who co-wrote the screenplay with Wiig. What transpired was an entertaining discussion about the movie “that changed female comedy.” The most exciting revelations follow.

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Talkback: What is the Single Scariest Movie of All Time?

Please hold your ironic responses like Sex and the City 2 and Under the Cherry Moon , because we’ll get to that prompt later this weekend. As we approach another Halloween full of mediocre scares like vampires, ghouls, and Braeburn apples outfitted with razor blades, it’s time we get definitive about the most chilling Halloween treats — les films d’horreur , of course. You can only pick one: What’s the single scariest movie ever?

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Talkback: What is the Single Scariest Movie of All Time?

Rango/Rum Diary Mashup Seems Like Definite Improvement Over Rum Diary

Let’s Hear Your #RejectedPeanutsSpecials!

I think of Charlie Brown as a movie star since some of his best work is in full-length features like Snoopy, Come Home and Race for Your Life, Charlie Brown . Now I can also call him a Twitter phenomenon since he’s subject of the joke meme #RejectedPeanutsSpecials. We love that hashtag so much that we’re contributing a bunch of our own ideas after the jump. The Great Pumpkin has never been scarier.

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About the Time the Twilight Cast Broke Into a Flash Mob Dance Battle on the Set of Breaking Dawn…

Bill Condon rang Movieline today for a special early chat about The Twilight Saga: Breaking Dawn Part One , and while the full interview will post this weekend, we’ve got a snippet to whet your appetite. Between talk of vampire weddings and critical expectations and such, Condon shared a particularly fond memory of the time when, during filming of an epic battle scene from the simultaneously-filmed Breaking Dawn Part Two , the guy from The Fall led his entire cast in an impromptu flash mob dance-off to the sounds of the Eurythmics. Hear the tale after the jump!

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Right-Winger Mostly Succeeds in Complimenting Sean Penn

“Sean Penn is an outstanding director and I’m betting he gets the best performance we’ve seen from Robert De Niro in 15 years. Watching De Niro overact in the tradition of his pal Al Pacino has been more than a little heartbreaking. But Penn was able to direct scenery-chewer Jack Nicholson into one of his best performances in The Pledge , a near-masterpiece everyone should see regardless of your personal feelings about Penn. No doubt, Sean Penn is an asshole, but he’s an asshole capable of telling superb, character-driven stories that stay with you long after the lights come up.” Well, it’s something . [ Big Hollywood ]

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9 Milestones in the Evolution of Antonio Banderas

In this weekend’s Puss in Boots , Antonio Banderas voices the swashbuckling title cat — a peripheral Shrek character who became so popular that he earned his own $130 million DreamWorks prequel. So just how did Antonio Banderas transform himself from Madonna’s sexual prey in Truth or Dare to a sword-wielding predator in both live-action and animated formats?

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