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Gonna let de-elevator bring us down?

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You know the economy is bad when even crappy music is going under.
    
This week, Muzak Holdings LLC, the people behind all the generic instrumentals played in elevators, supermarkets and waiting rooms, filed for Chapter 11 bankruptcy protection. The company claims its total debt is up over $100 million with assets of only $50,000. With that in mind, it's safe to say that the maker of elevator music is going down. (Ba dump pssht.)
   
jewel_j-mc-400ds306.jpgFor those of you who are fans of ABC's "Dancing with the Stars," we got your new cast. 
   
In no particular order: singer Jewel, Steve-O of "Jackass," Apple higher-up Steve Wozniak, Olympic gold medalist Shawn Johnson, ex-Mrs. Charlie Sheen Denise Richards, hip-hop disaster Lil' Kim, ex-GoGo (singer not dancer) Belinda Carlisle, and comedian David Alan Grier. 
   
I'm sorry to those of you who love the show, but watching this crew dance is about as interesting as watching them do ... well ... anything else.
oh-omizzie.jpgOK "Grey's Anatomy" fans, you knew this day was coming.
     
After a turmoil packed year on the set of the show, Katherine Heigl's Izzie as well as T.R. Knight's George will be leaving the hit hospital drama.
     
According to US Weekly, the two have been very vocal about their unhappiness on the show and Heigl's spat with show writers over not getting what she considered better material has been public knowledge since last year's Emmy nominations. 
   
No word yet on when or how the characters will be written out.

Columbia Pictures is in negotiations with Adam Sandler for the next Happy Madison film.

According to Variety, the film is a "high concept piece about five high school friends who reunite after thirty years." The film will roundup the usual suspects when it comes to Happy Madison films including Kevin James, Chris Rock, David Spade and Rob Schneider.

Disney is at it again.   
       
tz-tower-of-terror-400-3.jpgThe House of Mouse is becoming known for turning its famed rides into films such as the "The Country Bears," "The Haunted Mansion" and of course, the successful "Pirates of the Caribbean" franchise.

Now it seems they'll try again with "Tower of Terror," a thrill ride that brings guests up 13 stories in an "elevator" and drops them over and over again. The story revolves around a group of strangers transported to another world when the elevator they were riding at the Hollywood Tower Hotel was struck by lightning in the 1940s.
     
Lastly, Hollywood studios are battling over the rights to "Pride and Prejudice and Zombies." Yep, it's exactly what you think it is. 
   
Seth Grahame-Smith, the author of the mash-up of Jane Austen's novel and the undead believes the pairing was inevitable. "It quickly became obvious that Jane [Austen] had laid down the blueprint for a zombie novel," he told England's Times Online. "Why else in the original should a regiment arrive on Lizzie Bennet's doorstep when they should have been off fighting Napoleon? It was to protect the family from an invasion of brain-eaters, obviously." 

Grahame-Smith says that the script is about 85 percent of the original Jane Austen text. Only difference is that Bennet and her sisters are now zombie hunters, "trained since childhood in the deadly arts of Chinese kung fu."
 
We'll be keeping an eye on this one.

And here's a little treat...

 
 

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