A Hugh Hefner Biopic Starring Jared Leto Is Happening, Whether You Want It Or Not
Days after news of the Playboy owner's death, we've learned that the Hugh Hefner biopic will star Jared Leto as the famed lothario.
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Brett Ratner Producing The Hugh Hefner Biopic
A decade ago, Brett Ratner was going to direct the Hugh Hefner movie. He's once again developing a film about the Playboy founder, which he'll produce.
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American Playboy Trailer: Amazon's Hugh Hefner Docuseries
Amazon has released a trailer for their new docuseries American Playboy. The 13-episode television show draws from unprecedented access to more than 17,000 hours of footage and 2,600-plus scrapbooks from Hugh Hefner's personal archives. Check out the American Playboy trailer now, embedded after the jump. American Playboy Trailer https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=E4GKFwtSRDI As you can see, American Playboy…
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David Dobkin Directing Hugh Hefner Biopic For Warner Bros.
Playboy founder Hugh Hefner has cropped up in quite a few movies and shows over the decades. Sometimes, he's played by himself, as in Entourage, Curb Your Enthusiasm, and The House Bunny; other times, actors are called upon to play younger versions of him, as in The Playboy Club and Lovelace. But those have all…
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Hugh Hefner Biopic Moves To Warner Bros. With 'Ocean's Eleven' Producer
For years, Imagine Entertainment and Universal worked to make a biopic about Playboy founder Hugh Hefner, with Brett Ratner attached to direct and actors like Robert Downey, Jr. and Hugh Jackman mentioned as possible picks to play the magazine mogul. But the closest Hef has come to creating a starring role on the big screen…
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This Week In Trailers: Hugh Hefner: Playboy, Activist And Rebel, The Wildest Dream: Conquest Of Everest, The Nature Of Existence, Once Upon A Time In Mumbai
Trailers are an under-appreciated art form insofar that many times they’re seen as vehicles for showing footage, explaining films away, or showing their hand about what moviegoers can expect. Foreign, domestic, independent, big budget: I celebrate all levels of trailers and hopefully this column will satisfactorily give you a baseline of what beta wave I’m…
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Diablo Cody Writing The Playboy Movie?
I can see how Brett Ratner and Hugh Hefner would go together like compact mirrors and rolled up banknotes, and Robert Downey Jr. can easily sit at the same table with me only feeling a vague sense of disappointment and not weird awkardness but... Diablo Cody? The Hef himself has this week had a meeting…
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Brett Ratner Directs Hugh Hefner
As you know, Brett Ratner has been developing Playboy, a big screen biography of Hugh Hefner. Announced in 2007, we've heard nothing about this project in a while. This week I came across a new television commercial directed by Ratner, featuring Hefner. Oh yeah, and a dozen Playboy Playmates too. Of course, it's just another…
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Robert Downey Jr. To Play Hugh Hefner In Playboy?
"Grotto!?!" Over the last six months, I've had four unrelated sources tell me off the record that Robert Downey Jr. was a total lock to star in a Hugh Hefner biopic entitled Playboy. Of course, this was before Iron Man's grosses went interstellar. Chicago's Sun Times now reports that the actor is close to signing…
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Brett Ratner In Talks To Direct Remake Of The Incredible Shrinking Man For Universal
"Mayonaise. Nom nom nom." Pssssssst, put your ear up to the monitor. Here that? That's the sound of so many strikes at a bowling alley. Brett Ratner and Eddie Murphy: together at last for a presumably plastic potty-humored family comedy! Ratner is in talks to helm a remake of the 1957 movie The Incredible Shrinking…
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Brett Ratner To Direct Comic Book Adaptation Harbinger
Does big time studio director Brett Ratner lie around the Grotto half-naked with Hugh Hefner and his Bunnies while searching through ancient Valiant comic books for his next franchise? If not, did an assistant bring him a copy of Harbinger and if so, why not a copy of Turok Dinosaur Hunter or X-O Manowar…
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