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- Two more have joined the cast of My Sister's Keeper: Jason Patric will play the girls' father and Thomas Dekker (formerly Zach on Heroes) will play "the older sister's boyfriend and a fellow cancer survivor," writes Hollywood Reporter.
- Online video service Hulu is now open to the public, USA Today reports.
- ComingSoon has the news that five more actors have joined the cast of the Shopaholic movie, including John Lithgow and Kristin Scott Thomas.
- Since Janet Jackson has the flu, Mariah Carey will appear on this weekend's Saturday Night Live, the Associated Press reports.
- Arrested Development creator Mitch Hurwitz is writing an animated version of the Australian comedy Sit Down, Shut Up for Fox, writes Zap2It.
- According to Billboard, Goldfrapp, Kate Nash and several others have joined the lineup for this year's Coachella festival.
- The Gossip Girl Q&A from the upcoming Paley Festival will be webcast live on March 22, TV Guide reports.
- Billboard reports that India.Arie will star in a Broadway show produced by Whoopi Goldberg.
Buzz News Roundup, 3/5
- Though she seems slightly young for the role, Joan Cusack will be playing the mother to Isla Fisher's character in the Shopaholic movie, Variety writes. John Goodman has been cast as her dad.
- Allison Janney will voice a character in Fox's proposed animated series The Pitts, Zap2it reports.
- Paris Hilton will star as herself on My Name is Earl when the show returns April 3 with a one-hour episode, the Associated Press reports.
- The CBS '70s-set swinger drama Swingtown will premiere in May, writes the Hollywood Reporter.
- Janet Jackson's new album topped this week's charts, Billboard reports.
- According to Variety, Away From Her and Eastern Promises were the big winners at Canada's big award ceremony, the Genies.
Hugh Dancy, Krysten Ritter Sign On for Shopaholic
Hugh Dancy and Krysten Ritter have joined Isla Fisher for Confessions of a Shopaholic, the film adaptation of Sophie Kinsella's bestselling Shopaholic novels. Fisher will play the Shopaholic herself, Becky Bloomwood. The film version focuses on Becky, "a compulsive shopper in Manhattan up to her neck in debt who becomes a financial-advice columnist."
It's Official: Isla Fisher Will Play Becky in Shopaholic!
Well, the many of you who proposed that Isla Fisher would make a good Becky Bloomwood in the Shopaholic movie were spot-on with your casting. This was rumored to be true for some time, but now it's official: Isla Fisher will play Becky in the movie!
Jerry Bruckheimer will produce and P.J.
Shopaholic Makes a Movie
Given the success of Bridget Jones' Diary and any number of other "chick flicks" based on chick lit, I'm surprised it's taken this long to hear news about a movie based on the Sophie Kinsella Shopaholic series. But alas, now the time has come for a film all about Becky Bloomwood and her wacky adventures. ComingSoon reports:
P.J.
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Isla Fisher Lands Two New Movie Roles!
Isla Fisher's career has yet to live up to my expectations. I loved her in Wedding Crashers — who else can hold their own against Vince Vaughn the way she did? — but then Definitely, Maybe and Confessions of a Shopaholic weren't the launch into leading lady status that I'd hoped they'd be.
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