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io9CW’s Powerpuff Finds an Old Narrator and a New Sarah Bellum
There’s even more casting news for the CW live-action reboot Powerpuff. Two more actors will join the series, which follows Blossom (Chloe Bennett, of Agents of SHIELD fame), Bubbles (Dove Cameron), and Buttercup (Yana Perrault) as jaded millennials who are trying to regain parts of their childhood they lost due to crime-fighting. Off doing their own … Continued
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io9Meet Your Live-Action Powerpuff Girls
The live-action Powerpuff Girls show on the CW is a go and the three leads have just been cast. Dove Cameron (Descendants), Chloe Bennet (Agents of SHIELD), and Broadway’s Yana Perrault will play the popular superheroes. In the context of this series, the trio are now adults but remain resentful that they didn’t have a … Continued
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io9The CW Wants to Make a Live-Action Powerpuff Girls With…Powerpuff Women?
What happens when The Powerpuff Girls grow up? Apparently, they completely change mediums. Variety reports that the CW is developing a live-action show based on the popular animated Cartoon Network series. The show would follow Blossom, Bubbles, and Buttercup as twentysomethings who are resentful that they didn’t have proper childhoods because they were always fighting … Continued
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io9MoviesDiablo Cody Hired To Make Barbie Movie Watchable
Realizing perhaps that the bar for films based on toylines had been raised by The Lego Movie, Sony has asked Diablo Cody to take another pass on the script for the live-action Barbie film. This is nothing but good news. Hopefully, like most sensible people, you’re past the insane “Diablo Cody is new queen of … Continued
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Diablo Cody Talks Up Her Zombie Rom-Com
The disappointing performance of Jennifer’s Body isn’t going to keep Diablo Cody away from the horror-comedy genre. She is producing the adaptation of Breathers: A Zombie Lament, S.G. Browne’s zany satire about one zombie’s quest for equality… and romance. We reviewed the novel back in March, and we found it to be equal parts off-kilter … Continued
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Everybody Wants Pieces of Jennifer’s Body
I hate chick lit and get bored with torture porn, but it turns out that putting the two of them together creates the proverbial peanut butter chocolate awesomeness. If you eat Jennifer’s Body like weird candy, it works. Spoilers ahead! Jennifer’s Body is as simple as chocolate-spiked spit and as complicated as you want it … Continued
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The Real Horror Of Jennifer’s Body: Toxic Friends
We talked bloodthirsty boy-eating demons with Jennifer’s Body director Karyn Kusama and learned that the real terror in the story is the co-dependent toxic relationship between two girls. io9: What’s new about this horror film, why did it stand out to you? Karyn Kusama: The humor comes from Diablo’s vision of the world and I … Continued
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The Kissing, Killing And Boy-Eating Clips From Jennifer’s Body
A new stack of Jennifer’s Body clips have been released, including lots of writer Diablo Cody‘s quippy dialogue and a scene with the evil guylinered band boy Adam Brody. Check them out – but be warned, they’re a bit spoilery. Do You Know How Hard It Is To Make It As A Indie Band? Jenny’s … Continued
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Jennifer’s Comic Body Lacks Megan Fox, Makes Up In Comedy
The graphic novel tie-in to upcoming Megan Fox horror movie Jennifer’s Body is released today, and if the movie is anything like this, we’re in for one confused – but enjoyable – movie that zigs when we’re expecting a zag. The graphic novel doesn’t exactly adapt the movie, but instead works around it; we see … Continued
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We Saw 15 Minutes Of Megan Fox’s Slut-Rampage Horror Movie
We watched the first 15 minutes of Jennifer’s Body. If you can get past the Diablo Cody-isms, it’s good, old-fashioned, smart horror, with a good heaping of humor. Let’s just hope the rest of the movie takes itself as lightly. In a nutshell, this movie is exactly what it’s being labeled as, A Diablo Cody … Continued
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Jennifer’s Body Comic Asks: Is Megan Fox A Demon In The Sack?
Jennifer’s Body, the movie about the curvy Megan Fox who just can’t keep her demon fangs off of the boys in her High School, now has its own comic. Meet the first character, and hopefully future victim, from Jennifer’s class. Horror site Shock has posted the first pages from of the Jennifer’s Body comic, illustrated … Continued
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Watch Megan Fox’s Topless Demonic Rampage, In Jennifer’s Body Trailer
Jennifer’s Body, Diablo Cody’s blood-stained high school story about what happens when the pretty popular girl (Megan Fox) starts eating all the boys has released its red-band (maybe nsfw) trailer. If a half-naked demon Fox doesn’t sell tickets, nothing will. UPDATE: Here’s the trailer from Shock Til You Drop. Click to view I’m normally not … Continued
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Megan Fox’s Cheerleading Costume Shows Her Jennifer’s Body Team Spirit
You gotta love a girl who can juggle high school, after-school activities and bloodthirsty revenge upon the classmates who tried to kill her. The first glimpses of Megan Fox’s cheerleader attire from Jennifer’s Body has surfaced. Rah rah! The film, written by Juno writer Diablo Cody, follows one high school kid’s revenge after a couple … Continued
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Megan Fox Shares Details On Becoming An Unholy Cheerleading Maneater
Ready to see a vengeful undead cheerleading Megan Fox with a thirst for teenage boys? Fox’s role in Diablo Cody‘s horror flick Jennifer’s Body teaches you to make sure your human sacrifice to the devil really is a virgin. In an interview with MTV Fox explained how it was she ended up with the taste … Continued
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Mid-Afternoon Of The Living Dead
I wasn’t sure if there was room for any more works in the burgeoning “zombie comedy” genre, but S.G. Browne’s new “zom-rom-com” Breathers: A Zombie Lament turns out to be a pretty worthy addition. Spoilers! With Breathers, Browne stakes out his own radically different take on the zombie mythos, which may annoy purists but opens … Continued
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Slapstick With Sleestaks In New Land Of The Lost
The new big-screen Land Of The Lost movie will be a bizarre treat that actually satisfies fans of the 1970s original. You can take it from no less an authority than Juno scripter Diablo Cody, who visited the set. Her descriptions of the filming, in the current Entertainment Weekly, do sound intriguing (but campy.) And … Continued