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Buzz News Roundup, 3/18
- Ellen DeGeneres has signed on to play Mother Nature in an untitled comedy written by Sex and the City writer-executive producer Jenny Bicks. — The Hollywood Reporter
- The Weinstein Co. has acquired the rights for Nowhere Boy, the story of John Lennon's tumultuous childhood.
Buzz News Roundup, 1/12
- Hilary Duff is set to star as a young lawyer in the NBC sitcom Barely Legal. — The Hollywood Reporter
- French actor, director, and producer Claude Berri has died at age 74. — AP
- Kristin Scott Thomas has signed on to play John Lennon's aunt, Mimi Smith, in the movie Nowhere Boy.
John Lennon Biopic is a Go; Now, Who Should Play John?
John Lennon's life looks like it's heading for the big screen. The Hollywood Reporter writes that a biopic called Nowhere Boy is in the works, to be directed by visual artist Sam Taylor-Wood and written by Matt Greenhalgh, who most recently wrote the Ian Curtis biopic Control.
According to the Reporter, the movie will film in Lennon's hometown of Liverpool and focus on his early years:
Greenhalgh's script details the story of Lennon as a lonely teenager growing up as his aunt and the mother who gave him up fight for his love.
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In the United States of Zombieland, zombies outnumber people. A mad-cow tainted burger tipped the population in favor of the drooling, limping, and grunting set, and now zombies roam a crashed-car littered, empty-minimall-blighted zombiescape.
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