– Ok, we love Lily Allen, but the idea of the brit-tart making her screen acting debut in a spoof of Jane Austen’s “Pride And Prejudice” sounds like a recipe for disaster. Allen will play Lydia Bennett and Stephen Fry will play her father.[BBC]
– Nirvana’s Unplugged in New York, you might of heard of it – it was on MTV once – is finally coming to DVD November 20. The disc will feature the entirely unedited 66-minute concert, including two songs that never aired, but were on the CD (“Polly” and the Meat Puppets’ “Oh Me”) , plus previously unreleased rehearsal and documentary footage. [UME]
– Sigur Rós has moved the release of their DVD movie Heima, from November 6 to November 20. They probably thought, ‘D’oh!,’ when the Nirvana DVD was announced today. [Tripwire]
– Stephen Malkmus, Steve Albini and Jason Molina will appear in the upcoming Silkworm documentary, “Couldn’t You Wait?” [Pitchfork/Trailer]
– No stranger to acting, Hilary Duff will star alongside screen legend Ellen Burnstyn in the interracial teen romance “Greta.” Duff will play a waitress that gasp, falls for a dude that’s not caucasian! This scandalous filth will be directed by the auteur that helmed “Agent Cody Banks.” [Reuters]
File Under Awful Ideas: Lily Allen Makes Acting Debut In Jane Austen Spoof
