News

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Awards

• Clint Eastwood gets a lifetime Palme d’Or
• Paul Newman honoured by Congress

Film

• Alex Proyas’s Tripods to be a trilogy
• Total Recall to be remade
• More Neverending Story
• Sam Jackson to play Nick Fury in nine films
• Peter Baynham writing Russell Brand’s Arthur remake
• Arnie to appear in Sylvester Stallone movie, also starring Jet Li, Dolph Lundgren and Mickey Rourke
• Will Ferrell and Mark Wahlberg to play the B Team
• Joss Whedon on why WB is struggling with DC’s characters
• Matt Damon to star in adaptation of Philip K Dick’s The Adjustment Bureau

Theatre

• Ye gods. Spiderman: the musical, with music and lyrics by U2

Radio

• Jack Dee, Stephen Fry and Rob Brydon to host I’m Sorry I Haven’t a Clue

British TV

• ITV proposes merger with Channel 4 and Five
• ITV content now available on Virgin on-demand
• Being Human recommissioned for an eight-part second series
• Rab C Nesbitt to return for new series
• Five wants to become home to comedic talent
• Broadcasters don’t want older women
• Demons set to be axed after Philip Glenister quits

US TV

• Swingtown‘s Michael Rady joins Melrose Place
• Derek Luke joins Trauma
• Hex/Lost in Austen‘s Christina Cole to star as schizophrenic surgeon in pilot
• ST:TNG crew reunite for Family Guy
• Zosia Mamet to play Saffie in Ab Fab