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So Leonardo DiCaprio didn’t embody pure opulence enough for you as Jay Gatsby or Calvin Candie? Try Jordan Belfort, an actual guy who made almost $1 million a week working/lawbreaking in finance in the nineties. Because DiCaprio only appears in trailers scored by Kanye West no matter how jarring the juxtaposition may be (recall: Gatsby + “No Church in the Wild”), this one’s set to “Black Skinhead” off Yeezus. A lobster gets thrown at someone. A man gets dangled — or thrown — off a building. A woman has stacks of money taped all over her body. Jonah Hill eats a live squirming thing and is a creep. Matthew McConaughey pounds his chest at what appears to be Windows on the World. Leo has a monkey. It’s from Martin Scorsese, and it’s coming Nov. 15.

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In the many months we’ve been hearing about this grand Arrested Development experiment, one thing that’s popped up is the notion that these single-character-centric episodes (fifteen in all! Fifteen!) would be great to experience either sequentially or, in a big delivery twist, all out of order. Meaning yes, you could treat yourself and watch G.O.B.’s episodes first thing at 12:01 a.m. on May 26. Now creator Mitch Hurwitz has a couple quick updates. The good news: “Done! Just finished the final mix last night. In two weeks Arrested Development will be yours to do with as you please.” The other, not-exactly-bad-and-definitely-useful-as-a-PSA news: “Except for 1 thing! You gotta watch them in order. Turns out I was not successful in creating a form where the setup follows the punch line.” YOU’VE MADE A HUGE MISTAKE, HURWITZ. Just kidding, brother — it’s a new season of Arrested Development! It’s fine! Good to know, though.

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And here, banana-grabbers, is the trailer for Arrested Development’s fourth season. Michael is looking to make a new start somewhere warm. George Michael and Maeby might have taken things to the next level. The Bluths are still in the model home. The Bluth Company might have become the Michael Bluth
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The Academy has invited Smash and Chicago producers Craig Zadan and Neil Meron back to produce the Oscars. “In order to establish continuity with this year’s enormously successful show, we felt it was important to give these consummate professionals the green light now to begin creating another great evening,” reads the Academy’s statement. Though next year will be Seth MacFarlane-less, please recall Zadan and Meron did launch the classic “everyone who complained missed the joke, it was satire” argument in the wake of MacFarlane’s undesirable hosting stint.

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,oscars 2014
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The Oscars are about a great many things — the speeches, the getups, the awards that maintain a semblance of suspense and unpredictability even after the interminable parade of prior awards shows — but the telecast does tend to build toward one big thing:  the award for Best Picture. No longer, sayeth Seth MacFarlane. Now the host/Family Guy creator and Kristin Chenoweth (Broadway’s Wicked, The West Wing, Pushing Daisies) will have a “special show-closing musical performance” to keep you glued to the 85th Academy Awards. Producers Craig Zadan and Neil Meron call it “a ‘can’t miss’ moment” in a statement. Sorry, Argo or Lincoln. You just aren’t musical numbers by Seth MacFarlane and Kristin Chenoweth.

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,oscars 2013
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Talib Kweli is hosting a screening of The Big Lebowski at the IFC Center this Thursday. Why? ‘Cause it’s his favorite film — “There are movies from my childhood like The Goonies and The Princess Bride I could watch over and over. Big Lebowski is like that for me as an adult.” But that’s just a start. Fuse had an extended chat with Kweli about what makes the movie “a perfect storm.” Things we learned: The “OVER THE LINE!!” scene is Kweli’s favorite, but he’s partial to Sam Elliott’s lines and the perpetual verbal abuse of Donny. Kweli identifies with the Dude, and went to school with a lot of dudes like the Dude. The musical dream sequence is up Kweli’s alley, too: “I like big productions, but they’re hard to do without being corny. But if someone gives you the budget, go for it: Pull out all the stops, entertain me. Throw in a Dylan song and do a jig.” Next time, Mos Def’s thoughts on Raising Arizona.

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Sure, J.J. Abrams is directing Star Wars: Episode VII. Know what else he’s working on? The Lance Armsrtrong biopic. And Bradley Cooper, who recently told the BBC he finds Armstrong “fascinating” and would “love to play that character,” has made contact with Abrams and they’ve been talking about the possibility. It’s probably too early, but feel free to start speculating about who might play Oprah.

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,lance armstrong
,casting couch
,j.j. abrams
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“Personalities are very wrong,” wrote Apple co-founder Steve Wozniak after watching the new clip from jOBS, starring The Book of Mormon‘s Josh Gad as Wozniak and Ashton Kutcher as Steve Jobs. In an email to Gizmodo, Woz skewered further: “I never looked like a professional. We were both kids. Our relationship was so different than what was portrayed. I’m embarrassed but if the movie is fun and entertaining, all the better.” Also, “the lofty talk came much further down the line,” but where’s the drama in that?

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Robopocalypse is no longer Steven Spielberg’s next film, presumably because you can’t just follow something like Lincoln with something called Robopocalypse. Spielberg spokesman Marvin Levy says the real reason is that the film is “too important and the script is not ready, and it’s too expensive to produce. It’s back to the drawing board to see what is possible.” Spielberg got on board in 2010 and had a 2014 release targeted; Anne Hathaway and Chris Hemsworth were in talks to star.

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