Odds: Untouchable Paris, leaves, Woody Allen's "blackish comedy."

2008-07-30 20:00:01

Taking photos with Paris Hilton, who was at Comic-Con promoting "Repo: The Genetic Opera," two MTV News staffers found they displayed an identical and apparently instinctive reluctance to actually have to touch the heiress. [MTV] Maybe they'd just watched too much footage from the film, which is directed by "Saw II"-"IV"'s Darren Lynn Bousman, and which, like many a movie monster, looked infinitely better when it was half-imagined -- Defamer has a clip, The New York Times gets around to tackling the topic of self-distribution, with John Anderson starting with the upcoming "Bottle Shock" and moving on to smaller fare like "Ballast" and "Last Stop for Paul." Ridley Scott's "Nottingham" was postponed because of leaves, according to the Independent. Leaves... and the possibility of a SAG strike. The Woody Allen/Larry David movie? "Whatever Works," a "blackish comedy." [Big Screen Little Screen] The Guardian follows "Man on Wire"'s Philippe Petit to...

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