– 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]
Born in Chile, raised in Canada, now living in Brooklyn, NY, Rodrigo Perez is the founder and editor-in-chief of The Playlist, which he launched in 2007. He has worked in entertainment journalism since 2000, including at MTV, and has written for SPIN, IndieWire, Pitchfork, Complex, Magnet, MuchMusic, and various music, film, and entertainment publications over the past two decades.
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