Big Screen Little Screen

– Showtime update: network gives early second season greenlights to The Tudors and This American Life. Also Tracey Ullman returns to the pay-channel with State of the Union, doing what Tracey Ullman does - and look for David Duchovny this summer in the comedy series Californication. It’s not too late to change the title of that bad boy.

– Alec Baldwin is everywhere you want him to be, including this mob drama, with co-stars Freddie Prinze Jr, Scott Caan, Mira Sorvino and Jerry Ferrara (Entourage’s Turtle) in Brooklyn Rules - trailer.

– Neo-Marie Antoinette, future Blondie - Dunst advocates the weed.

– David Poland of Movie City Cews compiles a Top Ten list of Hollywood’s top-drawing actors, preceded by numbers 52-24 and a 20-ish through 10.

– Danny Boyle and Ewan McGregor get serious about a follow-up to Trainspotting (Film Junk).

– Filmmaker Magazine interviews Freaks and Geeks/Undeclared director Jake Kasdan between takes during shooting for The TV Set, the Duchovny starring feature based on Kasdan’s experiences in network television.

Videos:
– Also bearing the DNA of Freaks and Geeks, the trailer for Superbad, the Judd Apatow produced coming of age comedy featuring Jonah Hill and Arrested Development’s Michael Cera.

– Having just joined the cast, Christina Ricci can’t contain her enthusiasm in this video for The Wachowski Brothers Speed Racer (via Cinema Blend).

– Will Farrell withholding rent from Pearl the landlady (via Goldenfiddle). Rumor had it that the young Pearl in question was a collaboration the offspring of P.T. Anderson and Maya Rudolph, but sources at Cigarettes and Red Vines say no.

– Ricky Gervais and Stephen Merchant and friends turn charity into commerce (via Popwatch).

– In the spirit of Martin Scorsese’s Sesame Streets, and takes on NWA’s Fuck the Police - more Jim Henson revisionism in this Fisher Price adaptation of Spike Lee’s Do the Right Thing.