Amber Tamblyn, whose The Grudge 2 opens this weekend — and whom I hope to Q&A later today, hint-hint to her publicist who may be reading — has joined Blackout, an indie thriller about three people trapped in a hospital elevator for almost 24 hours.... Also per the Hollywood Reporter: Randy Quaid is in talks to play the mentor of Gary the Tennis Coach, starring Seann William Scott.... Brit actor Paddy Considine will play a London journalist sniffing around the CIA in The Bourne Ultimatum, now filming in Europe and Africa.
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Who put the overly amorous boss from The 40 Year Old Virgin in charge of a dating service?! Part of the credit goes to Will & Grace's Eric McCormack, one of the executive producers of the Lifetime series Lovespring International (premiering tonight at 11 pm/ET). In this improv comedy, Jane Lynch plays Victoria, the head of an "elite Beverly Hills" dating service... based out of Tarzana, California... whose staffers are as pathetic as its pretend pedigree. At the
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Good news — Nicole Kidman has picked her next project, and it isn't Bewitched 2! Rather, the Oscar winner will star in and produce what the Hollywood Reporter is calling a female version of The Bourne Identity. Meanwhile, fellow Academy darling Tom Hanks has also selected his next big-screen outing: How Starbucks Saved My Life. In it, the producer-headliner will play an ad man who gets canned and winds up slinging lattes for a living (or, as I like to think of it, the recurring nightmare Matt Webb Mitovich has when I'm subbing as news editor). Gus Van Sant is the front-runner to direct, the Hollywood Reporter says.
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Question: In a Saab TV commercial, the background music sounds similar to the music in the chase scene from either The Bourne Identity or The Bourne Supremacy. Can you find out the title of that music and if it's available for purchase? It's very catchy. Thanks.
Answer: That's Paul Oakenfold's "Ready Steady Go," and it is indeed the same song featured in The Bourne Identity, as well as Collateral, some Fox NASCAR promos and a few other places I can't think of at the moment. Mr. Oakenfold has very considerately made the song available for purchase. You'll find it on his 2002 release Bunkka (Maverick).
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John Travolta and Tim Allen are in talks to star in Wild Hogs, a Disney comedy about middle-aged biker wannabes who, while on an open-road folly, butt heads with Hell's Angels.... The scribes behind Chicken Little are now at work on a live-action comedy, The Missing Link, which is pegged as a "monkey spy adventure in the vein of The Bourne Identity." Um, OK.
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