– Jennifer Love Hewitt and her boyfriend Alex Beh will be in Chicago filming the coming-of-age indie flick Warren this spirng. Beh not only wrote the movie, but he’s also producing, directing and costarring in it along with Hewitt. [E!]
– The Beaver, starring Mel Gibson, will have its world premiere in SXSW’s centerpiece slot March 16. [THR]
– Sarah Michelle Gellar has signed on to star in the new CBS pilot Ringer about “a troubled young lass on the run from the mob. She assumes the life of her wealthy twin sister, only to find out that said sibling has a bounty on her head as well.” [ComingSoon]
– Glee’s Cory Monteith has been moonlighting on a film called Sisters and Brothers, which has been filming in Vancouver. The movie also stars Corey’s longtime friend Dustin Milligan. [Province]
– Eva Mendes has signed on to star in the indie project Anxiety. The movie is scheduled to start filming in Vancouver on February 28. [ThePlayList]
– Alvin and the Chipmunks 3 will be shot in Vancouver later this month. This will be the first time the franchise won’t be shot in Los Angeles. [Province]
– One fan was lucky enough to meet Channing Tatum on the set of Ten Year which has been filming in Albuquerque, NM. Taylor Momsen has also recently joined the movie’s cast. [Sindication, EW]
– An independent movie called Bad Blood is currently filming in Massachusetts. [BadBloods]
– James Franco will direct and star in the film version of the book The Night Stalker, about the convinced killer and Satanist Richard Ramírez. [The Daily Blam]
– 50 Cent’s movie Gun, which had its world premiere in Grand Rapids last month, won’t be opening in theaters in the U.S. but it in will open nationally in South Africa this weekend. [MediaUpdate]
– The cast of Chuck got quite a surprise while filming on location in Thousand Oaks, CA yesterday. A large tree fell in the parking lot where many of the cast and crew had parked their cars causing damage to several vehicles. [KTLA]
– Kiefer Sutherland attended Broadway cast photo call for That Championship Season at Sardi’s in NYC last week. [JustJared]
– Justin Bieber was briefly hospitalized after filming another cameo for CSI last week. [MTV]
– Tina Fey will star in Admission about an admissions officer at Princeton who develops a relationship with a student who is not quite Princeton material. [SlashFilm]
– Kyra Sedgwick and Jeffrey Dean Morgan have signed on to star in Ghost House Pictures’ Dibbuk Box, which is set to be released by Lionsgate on October 28. [ComingSoon]
– Truth Be Told, a made-for-television movie is shooting in New Mexico and will continue to do so through Jan. 28. [BizJournals]
– Terry Kiser, who starred in Weekend At Bernie’s, will begin shooting The Doughboy in Wheeling, VA on March 1. [WTOV]
– The Paley Center for Media will present the bi-coastal World Premieres of All-Star Superman in New York on February 14 and Los Angeles on February 17. [TheDailyBlam]
– Jonah Hill confirmed 21 Jump Street will begin filming in New Orleans on April 11. [PerezHilton]
– Even though the Louisiana Film Office has confirmed Piranha 2 will be shot in New Orleans, some residents in Lake Havasu are hoping that producers will have a change of heart and return to their neck of the woods for the sequel. [HavasuNews]
– The movie Once is coming to Broadway, but first it will have a short run in Cambridge, MA. [Variety]
– Twilight’s Xavier Samuel is currently filming A Few Best Men with Olivia Newton-John in Australia. [ThePlayList]
– Spider-Man: Turn Off The Dark has been postponed (again) to March 15. [THR]
– Fox has picked up a new pilot form Veronica Mars creator Rob Thomas! [EW]
– Here’s more about the Showtime pilot Homeland which is shooting in Charlotte, NC. [CharlotteObserver]
– Alex Payne is preparing for his next film, Nebraska, about an alcoholic who drives from Montana to Nebraska with his skeptical twentysomething son in the hopes of cashing a fake Publisher’s Clearing House check. [NY Magazine]
– America Ferrera will be a judge at the Sundance Film Festival which kicks off this week. [DigitalSpy]
– Johnny Depp talks Lone Ranger, Keith Richards, and Pirates 5. [SlashFilm]
– Finally, the talk of last week’s TCAs, which took place at the Langham Hotel in Pasadena, CA, was Fox’s decision to move Fringe to Friday night. A move to Friday is usually the first nail in the coffin for a TV series, though J.J. Abrams denies it. [Collider, Zap2It, Zap2It]
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