Be Afraid, Turkeys...Be Very Afraid

Lady GaGa’s gotten herself a Thanksgiving TV special, and if I was a turkey, I’d duck and cover (because I’d have a good memory and remember that meat dress).

The entertainer’s 90-minute A Very GaGa Thanksgiving will air on Nov. 24 and feature eight performances as well as an interview with Katie Couric taped at New York’s Sacred Heart Catholic School, which was attended by the singer way back when she went by a different name.

And just to get in the spirit of the season (more?), Mother Monster will perform some of her current hits, as well as classic Christmas tunes.

Of course, she will also update folks on her recently launched Born This Way Foundation, so keep your ears peeled for that good stuff.

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Take It All

Ryan Seacrest wants to own Hollywood, and he just might.

The golden man is diving head first into the movie-producing pool, and he’s going big because he so doesn’t wanna go home.

To that end, Seacrest is co-producing a rom-com with none other than Reese Witherspoon, who knows a thing or two about the genre. The project in question? An untitled story written by writer Krista Vernoff (TV’s Grey’s Anatomy).

Good starting pedigree, Ry.

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Mira Quien Es

I should do this entirely in Spanish, but half of ya would, Cómo?

Jennifer Lopez is reportedly thisclose to inking a deal to star in her first movie franchise as Carmen Sandiego, the heroine of the Where In the World World Is Carmen Sandiego? cartoon and game show.

Alright, so she may not star as the popular and elusive character, she definitely would have a hand in developing and overseeing the project.

This could be an exciting and stylish and globe-trotting, not to mention lucrative, gig for La Lopez, if handled properly.

I am cautiously excited.

Photo: VanityFair.com.

Girl Will Be an Action Woman Soon

Noomi Rapace, thestar of the Swedish version of The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo, is ready for her next role.

The actress, who’s playing the female lead in next month’s Sherlock Holmes: Game of Shadows, is teaming up once again with her Dragon Tattoo director Niels Arden Oplev for the thrilling actioner Dead Man Down, which is to co-star Colin Farrell.

She will play a seductress bent on revenge against an underworld crime boss.

Production is set to begin early next year.

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Down on Her Luck

Naomi Watts is going to suffer in her next movie.

The Oscar-nominated actress will co-star opposite Matt Dillon in Laurie (Sherrybaby) Collyer’s Sunlight Jr., as a convenience store clerk who finds out she’s pregnant...and then loses her job.

Dillon will play her paraplegic husband.

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Going Indie

Much was done about a meeting Twilight Saga star Taylor Lautner took with director Gus Van Sant and screenwriter Dustin Lance Black recently (were they – gasp! – trying to pick him up? were they giving him advice on – double-gasp! – coming out?), but it seems the entire thing was about work.

So down, boys.

Lautner is set to produce and star in Van Sant’s still-untitled new indie based on a New Yorker article the actor himself optioned.

What...a shrewd move on Lautner’s part. He needs to prove he can act, not just emote like a hot wolf, and Van Sant sure has a knack for getting the best out of young Hollywood.

Consider my curiosity engaged.

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Plenty to Do, I Think

Joss Whedon was in the news this week, and for the sort of reason his fans heart him so: He’s gone and done something awesome.

The Avengers director has helmed an oh-so-Whedon-esque adaptation of Shakespeare’s Much Ado About Nothing, starring some of his favorite actors/collaborators, including Alexis Denisof (TV’s Buffy the Vampire Slayer, Angel), Amy Acker (Angel), and Sean Maher (TV’s Firefly, Serenity) – in secret, right after wrapping production on his summer 2012 blockbuster, instead of going on vacation with his wife (don’t worry...she egged him on).

Toldja he was awesome.

I probably shoulda started this one with a Geekasm Alert, huh.

Photo: EW.com.

Update: OK, if I was Whedon’s wife I’d be thinking som’in’ was up.

The guy is not happy with idle hands, so he’s throwing himself into work again, this time on a so-called supernatural romance titled In Your Eyes.

The story reportedly will follow two seemingly polar opposites who are connected in ways neither could have predicted. Whedon wrote the script, but he will only oversee the project as executive producer while Brin Hill (Ball Don’t Lie) will call the shots.

In Your Eyes, much like Much Ado About Nothing, will be produced through the filmmaker’s new Bellwether shingle, which specializes in micro-budget indies.

Photo: EW.com.

Putting the Pieces Together

Anne Hathaway wants more control, and to that end, the Oscar-nominated actress is turning producer.

Oh yeah, babes....

Hathaway is set to produce and star in a psychological thriller titled Puzzler, but up first, though, she will be playing Fantine in Tom Hooper’s Les Misérables opposite Hugh Jackman and Russell Crowe.

Not mention, Catwoman....

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