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No SXSW
Shooting in LA so doesnt look like ill make it to SXSW. If ur going, have fun in Austin for me & hit up a Sonic AND a Braums 🙂
— oliviamunn (@oliviamunn) March 2, 2012
Olivia Munn – Peta Billboard 2012
Olivia Munn unveils a new naked Anti-Fur billboard on January 12, 2012 in Los Angeles, California.
Thanx to @Jorge_Z for his contributions.
Aaron Sorkin’s HBO drama titled ‘Newsroom’
LOS ANGELES — HBO’s new cable news drama by Oscar-winning scribe Aaron Sorkin will be called “Newsroom,” TV Newser reported Monday.
The series will follow the antics of the “News Night” staff at a fictional cable news network called UBS.
Actor Jeff Daniels will star in the show as news anchor Will McCallister, while English actress Emily Mortimer will serve as his executive producer.
“Law & Order” veteran Sam Waterston will appear as the network’s president Charlie Skinner.
“Together they set out on a patriotic and quixotic mission to do the news well in the face of corporate and commercial obstacles and their own personal entanglements,” according to a description from HBO.
Actresses Alison Pill, Olivia Munn and “Slumdog Millionaire” star Dev Patel will also appear on the show as newsroom staff.
No premiere date has yet been announced.
Myriad to handle foreign on Broken Lizard’s ‘Freeloaders’
Myriad Pictures has acquired rights outside North America to the Broken Lizard comedy “Freeloaders,” which has been on the shelf more than a year.
“Freeloaders” is directed by Dan Rosen and starring Jane Seymour, Dave Foley, Olivia Munn and Clifton Collins, Jr. Myriad is selling the finished film, which hasn’t been released in the U.S., at the American Film Market.
Script, written by Rosen and Dave Gibbs, follows a group of slackers living for free in a rock star’s mansion and discover their cherished lifestyle is threatened when the musician decides to sell his pad.
Project’s produced for Broken Lizard by long-time Lizard collaborator and producer Richard Perello and Julia Dray, under the five-member filmmaking comedy group’s shingle. “Freeloaders” was brought to Broken Lizard in the early stages of development.
“When we read the script for Freeloaders, we jumped at the chance to help shepherd the filmmakers through,” said Jay Chandrasekhar of Broken Lizard. “Having been to some pretty wild parties in our lives we knew this would make a very funny movie.”
Thomas Gardner, Gregory P. Cimino II and Adam Duritz (of the band Counting Crows) are also producing. Matthew Pritzker is executive producing with his production company, Turbo Streak Entertainment.
Contact Dave McNary at dave.mcnary@variety.com
http://www.variety.com/article/VR1118045552