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'Space Invaders,' the movie?Soon enough, we'll be writing the headline: "Your entire childhood: It's becoming a movie." But if Pac-Man could potentially become a reality series, then who's to say Space Invaders couldn't be developed for the big screen? According to the Hollywood Reporter, producers Lorenzo di Bonaventura and Gigi Pritzker are developing a project based on the game, which was released in 1978 and holds the Guinness World Record as the top video game of all time. How soon the two will be able to ship "Space Invaders" into theaters will depend on how quickly they can find a writer - they're still searching for a scribe who can spin the game into a plot worth watching. A potential problem, THR points out, is the fact that "Space Invaders" doesn't come with any lore that must be adhered to, so while the production team doesn't really have to worry about pleasing gamer fans, they still have to figure out how to create a story around the shooter game. Jerry Springer denies offering Casey cash to be on his showEveryone wants to know what Casey Anthony will do when she's released on July 17, but it won’t be heading to the set of "The Jerry Springer Show." Although a report has claimed that the longtime talk show host offered Casey a cool $1 million to appear on the show along with her parents and brother, Springer’s denying it. “There is absolutely no truth to this story whatsoever,” a rep for the show says in a statement. “‘The Jerry Springer Show’ has not made any monetary offer to Casey Anthony and her family to appear on the program. Nor will we.” Are you a 'Harry Potter' expert? Take the quizDo you know how many times that infamous scar has been affixed? This difficult quiz will test your knowledge of facts and figures from the "Harry Potter" film series. Here's where we separate the Muggles from the witches and wizards. Expecto Patronum! Weeklies cheat sheet: Royals, a wedding and all the babies fit to printCheck out what's on tap in this week's celebrity magazine round-up: More Kardashians, more "Teen Moms" and a very special issue from People magazine. Enjoy the weekend! Soapbox: Thanks Will and Kate, but we've got our own royalty[ Over the Fourth of July weekend, I was a traitor to my home country. It started at the Hollywood Bowl on Saturday night with a huge fireworks display and it ended, ironically, at a British bar in Santa Monica. I drank, stuffed my face with grotesque volumes of barbequed meat products and celebrated my adopted country’s independence from my motherland. I didn’t go as far as to wear my stars and stripes underpants because 1) I don’t own any 2) who wears underpants? and 3) where would the stars go? But I still celebrated Independence Day with the best of them, as I like my adopted country a hell of a lot. One thing that struck me, though, was how much the celebrations actually reminded me of home. Jill Scott drops celibacy, picks up five date ruleAfter going through a break-up, singer and actress Jill Scott opted for celibacy so she could focus on finding the right guy. But the "Golden" singer, whose latest album “The Light of the Sun” hit No. 1 on Billboard after its release in June, reveals in an interview with Us Weekly that she's thrown “the whole celibacy thing...out the window" - but not in the way you might think. “Now the minimum is until the fifth date,” she explains. “I don't have physical intimacy until at least the fifth date. So I can get to know who I'm dealing with and they can get to know me. And with my schedule, five dates can take three or four months! It just gives me a chance to get to know the person.” How do you solve a problem like Ryan on 'SYTYCD'?I'm completely at a loss after Thursday night's episode of "So You Think You Can Dance." Once again this week, Ryan delivered a stunning performance, and once again she and her partner Ricky ended up in the bottom three. I don't agree with the judges that Ricky is the second best male contemporary dancer on the show (that would be Mitchell), but he definitely didn't deserve bottom three status either. Notorious houseguests are back on 'Big Brother'I was all ready to skip "Big Brother" for its 13th season, but like Michael Corleone in "The Godfather Part III," they pulled me back in! The eight houseguests this season included a youth minister with an eye for the ladies, a metalhead who would fit right in with the WWE (and loves Tori Spelling), a model from Texas and a VIP cocktail waitress named Porsche (of course). This is all well and good but... wait, is that Rachel and Brendon at the door? Rachel, of course, is loved or despised by "Big Brother" fans, depending on who you ask. This season just got crazier. Newlyweds duke it out on Twitter, morning showsWe’ll say this for Miranda Lambert and Blake Shelton - they’re not afraid of a little friendly competition. Country music’s prince and princess went head to head on two network morning shows. Lambert sang on ABC’s “Good Morning America Summer Concert Series” and Shelton appeared on NBC’s “Today.” Even while on set, the two were exchanging teasing messages via Twitter about whose appearance would garner more attention. The conversation went from cute, "watch me, not him" tweets to a battle about whether Lambert’s breasts would win out (she says she has six in total, counting her new all-girl trio Pistol Annie): |
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'Idol' winners: Where are they now? http://t.co/xSsJ3nFs 9:05 pm UTC, May 23 2012
Shirley Manson on Garbage http://t.co/F40e1iya 9:05 pm UTC, May 23 2012
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Donna Summer's friends gather for disco queen's funeral http://t.co/cm84Zgvx 5:47 pm UTC, May 23 2012
The trailer for Baz Luhrmann's 'Great Gatsby' has arrived -- watch it here: http://t.co/xLlTUdrN 3:03 pm UTC, May 23 2012
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