Elizabeth Banks, Zooey Deschanel, Emily Mortimer and Rashida Jones will star with Paul Rudd in My Idiot Brother.

Director Jesse Peretz is steering the project, which will see Rudd play a man who must deal with his overbearing mother as she invades the lives of his three sisters.

Banks, Deschanel and Mortimer are playing the siblings, while Parks And Recreations‘s Jones is the girlfriend of Deschanel’s bisexual character.

Filming on My Idiot Brother will start next month in New York. according to The Hollywood Reporter. [SOURCE]

Coty Inc., beauty company, has announced that the Company will sign Zooey Deschanel, Solange Knowles and Alejandra Ramos Munoz to team with Kate Moss, Georgia May Jagger and Coco Rochas as the aspirational ambassadors of Rimmel London, the British cosmetics brand.

“Zooey, Solange and Alejandra each bring a distinct look and personality to Rimmel London, expanding the brand’s visibility and strengthening Coty’s global colour platform,” said Coty CEO, Bernd Beetz. [SOURCE]

Syfy’s late 2007 mini-series is coming to Blu-ray Disc, with RHI Entertainment’s high-def release of Tin Man – 2-Disc Collector’s Edition. FIND OUT MORE INFORMATION HERE.

Tour Dates:
5/28 Santa Cruz, CA @ Rio Theatre
5/29 Oakland, CA @ Fox Theatre
5/30 Bend, OR @ Le Schwab Amphitheatre*
5/31 George, WA @ Sasquatch! Music Festival
6/4 Milwaukee, WI @ Verge Music Festival 2010
6/5 Minneapolis, MN @ First Avenue
6/6 Royal Oak, MI @ Royal Oak Theatre
6/7 Chicago, IL @ Millennium Park – Downtown Sound Series
6/9 Toronto, ON @ Sound Academy (Venue Change)
6/10 Cleveland, OH @ House of Blues
6/11 Manchester, TN @ Bonnaroo Music & Arts Festival
7/1 Boston, MA @ House of Blues
7/2 Philadelphia, PA @ Great Plaza at Penn’s Landing
7/3 Oxford, ME @ Nateva Music Festival
7/4 New York, NY @ The Beach at Governors Island
7/6 New York, NY @ Terminal 5
7/7 Washington, DC @ 9:30 Club
7/9 Atlanta, GA Atlanta @ Botanical Gardens
7/10 Birmingham, AL @ Sloss Furnaces
7/11 Louisville, KY @ TBD
7/18 Los Angeles, CA @ Hollywood Bowl**
08/29 St. Louis, MO @ LouFest

* w/ BAND OF HORSES & DAWES
** w/ The Swell Season & Bird and the Bee

Zooey Deschanel could be argued as a geek icon of the moment– she’s the accessible, quirky movie star with a good fashion sense and decent taste in acting roles, and she’s married to Death Cab for Cutie’s Ben Gibbard, who is pretty much the definition of geeky guy made good. But before there was the likes of Deschanel and Olivia Munn for nerds to go nuts over, there was Ada Lovelace, a 19th-century English mathematician whom some have called the world’s first computer programmer. [READ THE REST HERE]

The Kinks, to me, were a second-tier rock outfit. That’s not a slight against the band. Several of their hits, from “Lola,” “All Day and All of the Night” and “Tired of Waiting for You” to “You Really Got Me,” became part of pop culture’s conscience. They just never attained the same level of popularity and mainstream success as legendary first-tier rockers The Beatles, Led Zeppelin, the Rolling Stones or The Who.

Geoff Edgers would disagree. The Boston Globe reporter views The Kinks as one of the greatest rock and roll bands of all time. And with his 40th birthday fast approaching — the milestone of the mid-life crisis — Edgers sets a personal and professional goal. He’s going to reunite the four original members of the band, including feuding brothers Ray and Dave Davies, who haven’t spoken in years.
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[SOURCE - EW.COM] She & Him, currently the hottest game in co-ed indie-pop pronouns, will release their second album, Volume II, this March 23.

In the meantime, they’ve released a preview single, the typically jaunty/melancholy folk ditty “In the Sun”; stream it below:

Doll-faced actress Zooey Deschanel and gifted singer-songwriter (and part-time Monster of Folk) M. Ward will also be taking time out from their respective commitments for a brief tour in March and April, including a stop at Coachella. The dates so far:

03/15 Los Angeles, CA – Largo
03/25 Los Angeles, CA – El Rey Theater
03/27 Savannah, GA – Savannah Music Festival
03/29 New York, NY – Bowery Ballroom
03/30 New York, NY – Bowery Ballroom
04/15 Pomona, CA – The Glass House
04/16 Indio, CA – Coachella Festival