· Variety wonders if we're all just going through the motions this award season. That's ridiculous—we're totally excited to cheer on our favorite film of the year, TK TK, at Hollywood's most glamorous etc etc... [Variety]

· TintinWatch: Shaun of the Dead/Hot Fuzz cohorts Simon Pegg and Nick Frost have joined Steven Spielberg and Peter Jackson's planned Tintin duology, in which they'll play the mustachioed Thompson Twins. It suggests things are sputtering back to life after Paramount pulled financing following the DreamWorks divorce. [Variety]
· Former WGA East heads Chris Albers and Tom Fontana will receive the Guild's Richard B. Jablow Award, which looks exactly like a tiny, naked Richard B. Jablow in bronze. [Variety]
· Bedtime Stories/Hairspray director Adam Shankman will produce a Bye Bye Birdie remake for Columbia, which seems tailor-made for a certain fruity candy-filled heartthrob. [THR]
· Horton Hears a Who! director Jimmy Hayward has replaced the Crank guys on the Jonah Hex adaptation—a movie so "oh-my-God awful," Josh Brolin just couldn't pass it up! [THR]

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