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Talkback: Should Friday Night Lights Be a Movie (Again)?

Peter Berg ‘s beloved TV series Friday Night Lights ends this week, capping its rollercoaster five-season run with an Emmy nomination and a fantastic oral history of the show by its creators and stars over at Grantland . But this might not be the end for FNL , if, as reports say, Berg and Co. are trying to get another Friday Night Lights movie off the ground, to pick up where the small-screen storyline left off.

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No Grit: Coen Brothers Shut Out at Directors Guild

Remember all that talk about how True Grit was the new Best Picture front runner because of its muscular box office ($110 million and counting)? Yeah, perhaps not. Joel and Ethan Coen failed to received a nomination from the Directors Guild this morning, meaning True Grit ‘s road to winning Best Picture just hit a major bump in the road. Or it didn’t, since the Coens could still grab a Best Director nomination from the Academy at the end of this month. Otherwise, this list features your usual suspects. Click ahead for the nominees.

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James Cameron Sinks Universal’s Battleship

It seems James Cameron is saving his judge-y haymakers for bigger fish than just Piranha 3D . The King of the World told a German website that no film better embodies Hollywood’s creative bankruptcy than Universal’s two ka-billion dollar adaptation of Battleship . “We have a story crisis. Now they want to make the Battleship game into a film,” said Cameron to Spiegel . “This is pure desperation.” And how! Just wait until he finds out it co-stars Rihanna and Sports Illustrated swimsuit model.

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James Cameron Sinks Universal’s Battleship

It seems James Cameron is saving his judge-y haymakers for bigger fish than just Piranha 3D . The King of the World told a German website that no film better embodies Hollywood’s creative bankruptcy than Universal’s two ka-billion dollar adaptation of Battleship . “We have a story crisis. Now they want to make the Battleship game into a film,” said Cameron to Spiegel . “This is pure desperation.” And how! Just wait until he finds out it co-stars Rihanna and Sports Illustrated swimsuit model.

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Budget-Busting Battleship Adds Brooklyn Decker

Because you can’t have a summer franchise without a supermodel , Peter Berg has added swimsuit-issue favorite Brooklyn Decker to the top-shelf cast of Battleship as the love interest for Taylor Kitsch’s naval officer. For those keeping score at home, the $200 million Universal production now has Decker, Kitsch, Alexander Skarsgard and Rihanna above the line. Money well spent! Meanwhile, who’s next? No seriously, which random person will be next to get cast in this thing? [ Latino Review ]

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EXCLUSIVE: Tom Arnold Boarding Peter Berg’s Battleship

Tom Arnold is best known in the feature film world for supplying the comic relief in True Lies (I’d also recommend his nice-guy act in the Don Roos film Happy Endings ), and though True Lies 2 definitely isn’t on the docket , Arnold may have a chance to fulfill that very necessary action movie archetype once more. Movieline hears that Arnold is the second cast member confirmed for Peter Berg’s board game adaptation Battleship , joining lead Taylor Kitsch . How do we know? The pissed-off actor told us himself!

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