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Louis C.K. is moving on up. The comedian turned TV writer/director/actor recently shot a Woody Allen film, and now he's in talks to join the cast of Academy Award-nominated director David O. Russell's next picture. The movie is untitled, but it's described as "center[ing] on con artist Mel Weinberg who worked with the FBI in a far-reaching corruption case that stretched from Atlantic City to Washington, D.C." C.K., who would be playing an FBI agent, would be joining the already established cast of Jeremy Renner, Christian Bale, Bradley Cooper, and Amy Adams. So that's quite the lineup. Big things are happening for this fellow, I tell you. Very big things. And that's just great. Unless he gets ruined by the success and fame and then it's all terrible. [The Hollywood Reporter]
Uh, oh. The teen in your house is about to get real excited. Or the part-time theater tech who lives in the other room in your apartment. Whoever it is, this will be good news for them: The CW is developing a spinoff to its wildly successful series The Vampire Diaries. Yes, more sexy vampyrs to enthrall the Hallmark store manager in your life. But wait, there's more. The new show will be called The Originals and will focus on Klaus, the sexy British vampire who appeared a couple seasons back and has captured hearts and loins every week since. It'll be about him going back to New Orleans, the city he helped build hundreds of years ago, and getting into various vampire nogoodnikery. So, are people shrieking where you are? Crumpling into heaps of pure PG-13 ecstasy? I suspect someone nearby is — be it Josh the high school junior who loves Christopher Rice books and elaborate coffee drinks, or Barbara, from two cubicles over who smells like Whiskas. Lots of people are excited. [Deadline]