Buzz News Roundup, 4/18
- According to ComingSoon, IFC has picked up Madonna's directorial movie venture, Filth and Wisdom, and will give it a theatrical run.
- Scrubs and 30 Rock will swap timeslots starting next week, The Futon Critic reports.
- Keyboardist Danny Federici of Bruce Springsteen's E Street Band has died at the age of 58, Billboard reports.
- Howie Mandel will star in a new unscripted sitcom for NBC, TV Guide reports.
- Variety reports that Jennifer Garner and her producing partner Juliana Janes now have a first-look deal with Warner Bros. for their production company Vandalia Films.
- The AP has news about the Houdini musical coming to Broadway in the Spring of 2010.
- Zap2it writes that HBO has documentaries lined up for Monday nights this summer, including Sundance hit The Black List and films about Roman Polanski and high school debate teams.
- Ridley Scott will direct Casey Affleck in the period noir drama The Kind One, writes Variety.
- Halle Berry will star in and produce the psychological thriller Frankie and Alice, ComingSoon reports.
