Austin Powers 4

• Lisa Bonet has joined the cast of Life on Mars as the main character's girlfriend, Entertainment Weekly reports.
• The Hollywood Reporter writes that Colin Firth is joining the next film version of Oscar Wilde's The Picture of Dorian Gray.
• ComingSoon reports that Mike Myers is writing the fourth Austin Powers movie.
• Billboard has details about the first album from The Verve in more than a decade.
• Law & Order creator Dick Wolf is working on another project about lawyers for NBC, Zap2it reports.
• The action-fantasy film Prince of Persia, starring Jake Gyllenhaal, has been pushed back a year and will now open Memorial Day weekend 2010, Variety writes.
• The Hollywood Reporter has the news that Nicolas Cage and director John Carpenter will team up for prison thriller Scared Straight.
• According to ComingSoon, the script for the dramedy Ivy Chronicles, starring Sarah Jessica Parker, is being written by Aline Brosh McKenna, who wrote the screenplay for The Devil Wears Prada.

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• Vulture wonders which of this summer's superhero movies might suck.
• When MTV Movies Blog caught up with Seth Green recently, he shot down all the rumors of an Austin Powers 4.
• TV Squad has a look at some Saturday Night Live players who made it big.
• Cinematical wonders: Who's more uncomfortable with onscreen nudity, men or women?
• Want to see what Liz Lemon looked like in 1992? Give Me My Remote has the horrifying video.
• Meanwhile, the TV Addict takes a look at Janeane Garofalo and Cherry Jones in the first photo from 24's seventh season.
• Popwatch has a sneak peek at the Tribeca movie I recently told you about, Bart Got A Room.
• Stereogum has heard all of the Evil Urges album, the latest from My Morning Jacket, and they have a lot to say about it.

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• In yet more sequel news, Mike Meyers is developing an Austin Powers 4 according to MTV, and Michael Douglas will reprise his role as money-hungry Gordon Gekko in a sequel to Wall Street, reports the BBC.
• According to Billboard, The Chicago Youth Symphony Orchestra will join My Morning Jacket for part of Jacket's Lollapalooza set in August.
• Fox will air the final two episodes of "Drive" on July 4, aka the day when nobody watches TV, reports Zap2it.
• Shrek and his buddies will promote healthy living in their ads for McDonalds, says Reuters.
• Variety reports a release date for Michael Moore's latest documentary, Sicko: June 29. The doc examines the U.S. health care system.
• Supermodel Veronica Webb will cohost "Tim Gunn's Guide to Style," says the Futon Critic.
• Will Smith's kid Jaden is set to star in Newton's Law, playing "a precocious inventor trapped in a science center during a field trip," Variety reports.
• Spike Feresten — whom I interviewed last year — had his "Talkshow" renewed for another season, says the Hollywood Reporter.

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