1. Arcade Fire and Spike Jonze worked on a short film accompaniment to The Suburbs: “It’s like a science-fiction B-movie companion piece for the record.” [via Pitchfork]
2. There’s a 3D Justin Bieber biopic in the works that will be directed by Oscar winner Davis Guggenheim, the same man who helmed An Inconvenient Truth. Oh, and it gets better: Bieber will be playing himself. And it comes out on Valentine’s Day, 2011. [via Deadline]
3. Paul McCartney wants Ryan Murphy to use the Beatles’ songs on Glee — so badly, that he sent him a mixtape with some suggested tracks. [via Vulture]
4. Jason Reitman and Charlize Theron are in talks to direct and star in Young Adult, a Diablo Cody film about “a thirtysomething, divorced, young-adult fiction writer in Minneapolis who returns to her hometown to chase the ex-boyfriend, who’s now married with a kid, that got away.” [via THR]
5. Would you spend $200,000 on this 7-year-old’s paintings? [via Gawker]
Today at Flavorpill, we made a correlation between hip-hop and The Muppets and were amazed by how many airlines use bird imagery in their logos. Slate’s roundup of movie scenes featuring women in labor made us reach for the birth control, while in further ladyparts news, we cried laughing over Diablo Cody’s parody of “Hung” for Funny or Die. We were creeped out that this family didn’t realize they were living over a church and relived fonder movies with a list of the thirteen best HBO series of all time. We followed Hugo “Dictator” Chavez on Twitter (think he’ll return the favor?). We streamed Sleigh Bells’ new song “Tell ‘Em” and spent the rest of the day catching up on tunes featured in Treme. The top ten SNL gigglefests sent us straight back to middle school, and we were were charmed by Jenny Holzer’s anecdote that her daughter used to think all electronic signs were made by mom. Finally, we plan to hop, skip, and jump over to our pals at 20×200 to buy this limited edition print by Lawrence Weiner. You might remember his West Village home from a feature in Dwell this year, excerpted after the jump.
As you may know, we’re big fans of Diablo Cody around here. Yes, the language in Juno might feel dated these days, but any adult woman who is part of a group who call themselves “The Fempire” is aces in our book. So when we read Perez Hilton’s exclusive scoop that the Oscar-winning screenwriter recently got remarried and is about to give birth, we were as happy for her as you can be for someone who you don’t actually know. (Remember back in 2007, when she was forced to engage in some very public post-divorce tattoo doctoring? No one deserves that.) We’re still waiting for an official announcement, but until then keep your fingers crossed that she’s forshizz up the spout, and it’s not just a food baby…
1. Jesus (or more specifically “The Last Supper“) is why you’re fat. Or at least that’s what a new study suggests. [via Pat's Papers]
2. So what do you think of “Between the Lines,” the first single off of the first Stone Temple Pilots album in over a decade? (It’s due out May 25.) [via Stereogum]
3. Diablo Cody is busy at work on a “pretty serious and fucked up” new movie about a woman who is stalking her high school sweetheart. [via The Playlist]
4. The second album from the Dead Weather, Jack White and Alison Mosshart‘s side project, will be named Sea of Cowards and is rumored to be dropping on May 7 on Third Man. [via P4K]
5. Wes Craven will begin shooting Scream 4 this spring with Neve Campbell, David Arquette and Courteney Cox Arquette. Because they’re all really old now, they’ll be joined by a younger cast of unknowns. [via Slashfilm]
Today at Flavorpill, we started off the morning with a hit of breathable coffee instead of our usual Saturdays roast. We swooned over The (NSFW) Poetry of Craigslist and cheered that MoMA acquired the @ symbol for its permanent design collection. We ogled a visual timeline of Delta uniforms and realized they ain’t what they used to be. We supported a decision to return Grease to its R-rated roots. We wondered who Stefano Tonchi will bring with him when he abandons one lettered fashion mag (T) for another (W). We were bummed that we missed the Art Handling Olympics this weekend and comforted ourselves with the announcement of a television show from the pranksters at The Onion. We heard that new signage for the New York MTA got nixed in budget cuts and that Diablo Cody wasn’t exactly pleased with the first season of her show United States of Tara. And last but not least, we were equally amused, impressed, and horrified at these cigarette packs as book covers.
September 11, 2001: planes were crashing, hearts were breaking, and Walter Kirn’s most recent novel, Up in the Air, was plummeting in sales. It could have had something to do with the fact that the cover featured men in suits whizzing around and plummeting to the ground like rogue jets. (One of them was even on fire.) Nevertheless, the story of Ryan Bingham, a frequent-flyer-mile-hoarding management consultant who specializes in firing corporate workers seemed doomed for anonymity. Then, in 2005, Thank You For Smoking director Jason Reitman pulled through, locking down George Clooney as leading man in the book’s film adaptation.
1. Honest to blog: Diablo Cody is in talks to adapt the Sweet Valley High books. [via Heat Vision]
2. J.J. Abrams is executive producing a new “comedic medical show” for FOX. [via THR]
3. Jesse Eisenberg and Justin Timberlake will star as Mark Zuckerberg and Sean Parker in David Fincher’s Facebook movie. [via Variety]
4. Three unnamed songs from Flight of the Conchords will appear in an upcoming version of Rock Band. We think… [via NME]
5. After a $12.5 million renovation, you can see two Art Deco murals on the lobby ceiling of the Empire State Building; they’ve been hidden since the ’60s. [via NYT]
Megan Fox may be an it girl, but she’s currently experiencing what every celebrity does eventually: major backlash, and on the brink of her first headlining gig in Jennifer’s Body. Being called “dumb” and “ungracious” by anonymous Transformers crew is probably not what the leading lady, even while channeling a demonic killer cheerleader who eats teenage boys’ flesh, wants to hear. Oscar-winner Diablo Cody is back with a somewhat satiric horror film that looks a lot like Carrie, but with all the awkwardly quasi-hip lingo you loved to hate from Juno.
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