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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.
Buzz News Roundup, 2/6
- Reuters has an appreciation of Beatles spiritual mentor Maharishi Mahesh Yogi, who died overnight.
- Brittany Murphy may be Lindsay Lohan's replacement in the dark comedy Poor Things, writes Hollywood Reporter.
- Billboard has news that Metallica, Pearl Jam, and Kanye West will headline Bonnaroo this year — and not Led Zeppelin, as some sources erroneously reported.
- ComingSoon reports that Josh Brolin may go from playing George W. Bush to playing the new Terminator.
- Debra Messing has nabbed a role in the family dramedy Humboldt Park, Variety reports.
- Zap2It has the news that Casey Affleck is attached to star in a film adaptation of Tom Epperson's period noir drama The Kind One.
- The Selma Blair/Molly Shannon show Kath and Kim has been given a series order by NBC, writes Hollywood Reporter.
- According to ComingSoon, Emilio Estevez's directorial follow-up to Bobby will be a social drama titled The Public, which will be set in a library.
- Late-night host (and new citizen) Craig Ferguson will host the annual White House Correspondents Dinner, Variety reports.
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