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Buzz News Roundup, 4/29

BuzzSugar — Wed, 29 Apr 2009 13:30:24 -0700

Chris Noth and the other men of Sex and the City - Evan Handler and David Eigenberg - are officially signed on for the Sex and the City sequel. - E!
Amanda Peet has joined Jack Black in the modern-day Gulliver's Travels movie. - The Hollywood Reporter
Sit Down, Shut Up is the latest show to be moved out of its time slot; it will now air Sundays at 7. - TV.com
Two bits of animation news: Wallace and Gromit creator Aardman Features is at work on two new films, while a children's book series by Ricky Gervais is also coming to the big screen. - Variety
Rick Springfield will guest-star as himself on the upcoming season of Californication. - Entertainment Weekly
Creed is reuniting for an album and tour. - Billboard
NBC has renewed the Celebrity Apprentice for 2010. - Zap2it

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Buzz News Roundup, 1/30

BuzzSugar — Fri, 30 Jan 2009 13:30:33 -0800

ABC has ordered Lauren Graham's comedy pilot, while CBS wants pilots from three dramas. - The Hollywood Reporter
Over a month after Disney passed on The Chronicles of Narnia: Voyage of the Dawn Treader, 20th Century Fox has picked it up. - E! Online
Leonardo DiCaprio's production company will produce a biopic about James Bond creator Ian Fleming. - The Hollywood Reporter
There's a prequel to John Carpenter's 1982 horror-thriller The Thing in the works. - Variety
Emily Blunt and Jason Segel are joining Jack Black in Gulliver's Travels. - ComingSoon
Ellen Barkin will star in a half-hour comedy pilot for HBO. - Variety
Oscar-nominee Viola Davis will join Jamie Foxx and Gerard Butler in the psychological thriller Law Abiding Citizen. - ComingSoon
Channing Tatum has been tapped to star in an adaptation of the David Morrell novel The Brotherhood of the Rose. - Variety
Madonna will crank up her Sticky & Sweet tour again this Summer with about 25 more shows, which will add to the total of what's already the top-grossing tour ever by a female or solo artist. - Billboard

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Jack Black Set For Lead Role in Gulliver's Travels

BuzzSugar — Thu, 06 Nov 2008 15:30:28 -0800

Jack Black has signed on to play the title role in a "contemporary reimagining of the classic Jonathan Swift tale," Gulliver's Travels. Apparently director Rob Letterman has been attached to the project for a while, but Twentieth Century Fox quickly greenlit the project once Black signed on. Variety reminds us of the details:

Story centers on Lemuel Gulliver, a free-spirited travel writer who, on an assignment to the Bermuda Triangle, suddenly finds himself a giant among men when he washes ashore on the hidden island of Lilliput, home to a population of industrious, yet tiny, people.

Though I liked School of Rock and I really liked Kung Fu Panda, I usually prefer my Jack Black in smaller side character doses, like Barry in High Fidelity or his supporting role in Tropic Thunder. I'll be curious to find out what he does with Gulliver.

What do you think of a "contemporary reimagining" of this story, toplined by Jack Black?

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