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Director Matthew Mishory and producer-financier Bradford L. Schlei have acquired rights to the L.A.-set punk novel “What We Do Is Secret” by Thorn Kief Hillsberry.

Mishory, director of “Mosolov’s Suitcase” and “Fioretta,” will direct the film adaptation, which will enter development immediately, and produce with Schlei through their Rubber Ring Films. Schlei’s credits include “Swingers,” “Spun” and “Some Folks Call It a Slingblade.” Author and screenwriter Tony O’Neill will adapt the book.

The film adaptation will have a different title than the book, since there was already a 2007 film named “What We Do Is Secret,” which starred Shane West as Darby Crash of the Germs.

The tragic story of acclaimed punk band the Germs, whose lead singer Crash overdosed and died in 1980, also provides inspiration for this new project, which has the working title “Under the Big Black Sun” (not to be confused with the X...

Danny Masterson’s wife Bijou Phillips has filed for divorce. The split comes less than two weeks after the That ‘70s Show star, 47, was sentenced to 30 years in prison for raping two women at his home in Los Angeles between 2001 and 2003.

Phillips named “irreconcilable differences” as the reason for the split, according to the filing, which took place on Sept. 18 in Santa Barbara Superior Court.

Who is Danny Masterson’s wife? Bijou Phillips, Paris Hilton, and Casey Johnson | J. Vespa/WireImage for Us Weekly Magazine

Phillips, 43, is an actor and model. Like her husband – whose relatives include actors Christopher Masterson and Alanna Masterson – she comes from a well-known Hollywood family. Her parents are John Phillips of The Mamas and The Papas and model and actor Genevieve Waite. Her half-siblings include actor Mackenzie Phillips and singer Chynna Phillips of Wilson Phillips.

Phillips began modeling as a young teen and released her debut album,...

Exclusive: Film, television, branded content and digital media company Bow and Arrow Entertainment has launched in Los Angeles under principals Matthew Perniciaro (What We Do Is Secret, Fanboys, A Band Called Death) and Michael Sherman. The new shingle has an internal financing arm and aims to back three to four film and media projects annually, in addition to acquiring and developing material. Bow and Arrow is poised to fund features in a $1M-$10M range and will be run by Perniciaro, Sherman, and creative executive Laura Stoltz. Stoltz follows Perniciaro to Bow and Arrow from production and management co. Haven Entertainment, […]...

Since our first edition was so popular, AfterElton.com now brings you Part 2 of “Hot Men of Fall TV”, where we take a look at a whole new crop of sexy actors from the upcoming fall season. This bunch is particularly “gay-friendly”, featuring as it does several actors who in many cases made their names portraying gay characters.

It bears mentioning again, however, that the network’s upcoming programs are sadly lacking when it comes to representing actors of color. In a television climate that’s seeing such great strides in the depiction of Glbt characters, we can only hope network executives won’t lose sight of the fact that boosting the number of racial minorities on the small screen remains an important goal.

Michael Arden, The Good Wife (CBS)

Before turning to TV and movies, openly gay actor Michael Arden was a successful Broadway star with a string of well-received performances under his belt.

Welcome to The Television Balcony, where I'll be bringing you the obscure or overlooked big-screen exploits of small-screen stars. We're opening the Balcony with a screening of What We Do Is Secret, an independent film starring Shane West (currently featured on The CW's Nikita) as the charismatic lead in the real-life story of a legendary punk rock band.

On paper, What We Do Is Secret (2007) is like my own special version of hell: a biopic about a genre of music I can't stand fronted by an actor whose work I hardly know. In reality, however, it's one of the best obscure films I've seen in a long while, centered around one of the best individual performances I've ever seen.

Given anyone that I've taken an interest in on the small screen, I'm more interested in the small movie they did years ago than the big blockbuster. This time, it's Shane West's fault.

Welcome to The Television Balcony, where I'll be bringing you the obscure or overlooked big-screen exploits of small-screen stars. We're opening the Balcony with a screening of What We Do Is Secret, an independent film starring Shane West (currently featured on The CW's Nikita) as the charismatic lead in the real-life story of a legendary punk rock band.

On paper, What We Do Is Secret (2007) is like my own special version of hell: a biopic about a genre of music I can't stand fronted by an actor whose work I hardly know. In reality, however, it's one of the best obscure films I've seen in a long while, centered around one of the best individual performances I've ever seen.

Given anyone that I've taken an interest in on the small screen, I'm more interested in the small movie they did years ago than the big blockbuster. This time, it's Shane West's fault.

In honor of the film's North American premiere, and its poster of course, the talented folks at Studio No.1 take a moment to discuss process, politics and posters. - It's unlikely I'd find someone who'd argue with me when I say that a memorable movie poster is a rare thing. With that in mind Ioncinema.com brings you the first in our new Poster Spotlight series; The Art of the Movie Poster. Each column will showcase a poster that made us pause, and an interview with its creator(s).Our first eye-catcher is the gritty and stylish North American poster for the seemingly gritty and stylish film, The Baader Meinhof Complex; courtesy of Studio No.1. An adaptation of Stefan Aust's book of the same name, the film focuses on the rising of the Raf (Red Army Faction), a violent terrorist group formed in the late 60's/early 70's in West Germany,...

The Germs The Germs are the L.A.-based punk unit founded in 1977 by legendary frontman Darby Crash, guitarist Pat Smear (Nirvana, Foo Fighters), and bassist Lorna Doom. Drummer Don Bolles (named for a murdered newspaperman) joined shortly thereafter. The day before John Lennon's assassination, Crash tragically committed suicide at the age of 22. As a result, the Germs disbanded until 2005, when the film What We Do Is Secret went into production. Movie's lead Shane West joined Smear, Doom, and Bolles to revive the Germs. Collaborations include Belinda Carlisle, Joan Jett, and Jack Nitzsche. "Lexicon Devil," from the 1979 release GI, is melodic mayhem. Currently touring. Buy: iTunes Genre: Punk Rock Artist: The Germs Song: Lexicon Devil Album: GI Tour: Visit Bix Beiderbecke 20th-century jazz great Leon Bismark "Bix" Beiderbecke, was born in Davenport, Iowa, in 1903, the youngest of three and a wonder child. Young Bix was a...

This past weekend I caught part of Steve-o: Demise and Rise on MTV, which documents Steve-o's downward spiral into drug and alcohol addiction and subsequent intervention from the Jackass crew. It was sad to see one of the greatest actors of our time squandering all his skateboarding and rapping talent, but the whole time I kept thinking, "Please Steve-o, keep it together long enough to make Jackass Number Three... or at least another season of Wildboyz". Fortunately he will live to huff nitrous oxide another day, but the truth is, a lot of his best buds have already started to move on without him. Believe it or not, Steve-o's Wildboyz partner Chris Pontius has just landed a pretty sweet gig that could possibly be his ticket to bigger and better things. According to The Hollywood Reporter [1], Pontius will star in Sofia Coppola's next film Somewhere. He will play Sammy,...

Chris Pontius has booked a room in Sofia Coppola's "Somewhere."

The "Jackass" trouper will play Sammy, best friend of the character played by Stephen Dorff, a decadent, bad-boy actor living at the Chateau Marmont in West Hollywood who begins to re-examine his life after a surprise visit from his 11-year-old daughter (Elle Fanning).

Coppola, who wrote, directed and produced "Marie Antoinette" and "Lost in Translation," is doing the same for "Somewhere." Francis Ford Coppola, Fred Roos and Paul Rassam are executive producers on the American Zoetrope/Focus Features production.

Pontius, repped by Gersh and Untitled Entertainment, had roles in "Charlie's Angels: Full Throttle" and "What We Do Is Secret."...

Fango heard from Noah Segan, the busy genre actor who will soon be seen in Marcel Sarmiento and Gadi Harel’s Deadgirl, Ti West’s Cabin Fever 2: Spring Fever and Deon Taylor’s Chain Letter, updating us about Someone’S Knocking At The Door, which he stars in and produced. We also got some new exclusive pics and a festival poster for the Chad Ferrin-directed feature, which we first told you about here; you can see ’em below.

“We are presently about to premiere Someone’S Knocking in competition at Amsterdam’s Imagine festival, where two of Chad’s other films have premiered,” Segan (first photo) tells us. “It is a fantastic relationship to maintain, and Deadgirl will play there as well. We are very shortly going to announce an amazing domestic fest premiere for Someone’S Knocking, at a very well-regarded and hip program here on the West Coast.

Peace Arch Entertainment has announced a release date for the DVD release of the Germs biopic, “What We Do Is Secret”. The disc is due out on November 4, 2008. The movie tells the story of Darby Crash, born Jan Paul Beahm, the band he forms with friends in the late 1970’s La punk scene, and his five-year plan to become famous from it. The Germs first broke onto the California punk scene with their first single, “Forming/Sexboy”, in 1977, and are sometimes credited for being the forbearers of the “hardcore” punk movement of the 1980’s with their loud and fast dissonant sound. Crash, known for forming an almost Manson-like cult around himself of fans, committed suicide [...]...

Canadian home video supplier Peace Arch Home Entertainment has become the first independent to include a digital copy of a film with its DVD.

The honors go to "What We Do in Secret," an art house favorite based on the life of punk legend Darby Crash of the Germs, which arrives in stores Nov. 4.

A week later, Peace Arch will include a digital copy on another release, "Shred," a snowboarding comedy from director David Mitchell that stars "Jackass" regular Dave England.

Shane West, Cam Gigandet and Rachael Leigh Cook are in talks to join Mario Van Peebles’s upcoming action flick “Kerosene Cowboys,” according to The Hollywood Reporter.

Based on a novel by Randy Arrington, the film centers on the dangerous mission carried out by an elite Navy squadron. Gigandet plays a pilot, West stars as his enemy, and Leigh slips into the role of a journalist.

Van Peebles, whose credits include “Baadasssss!,” is directing a script by Adam Prince. Filming for “Cowboys” is expected to begin this October.

Gigandet most recently starred in “Never Back Down.” He will next be seen in Catherine Hardwicke’s anticipated vampire romance “Twilight.”

West, who is known for his role as Dr. Ray Barnett on television’s “ER,” last appeared in “What We Do Is Secret.” He recently completed “The Lodger,” in which he also stars alongside Cook.

Toronto -- Cam Gigandet, Shane West and Rachael Leigh Cook are in negotiations to star in "Kerosene Cowboys," an action thriller that Mario Van Peebles will direct for Svarog-Afterburner Films.

Based on a novel by Randy Arrington, the tale follows the rough-riding and hard-living pilots of an elite Navy attack squadron. Gigandet will star as a hot-shot pilot, West plays his one-time best friend-turned-nemesis, while Cook will play an investigative journalist and Gigandet's love interest.

First-time scribe Adam Prince wrote the screenplay from a story by Dave Riggs and Nickolai Susby, who are producing via Svarog-Afterburner.

The Collective's Shaun Redick and Ray Mansfield packaged the film, and Redick will executive produce. Mansfield is co-producing alongside Afterburner's Sophia Russo. Bob Yari also will executive produce.

The producers are in negotiations with several companies for distribution.

The movie is eyeing shoots in St. Petersburg, Russia, and the Naval Air Station Fallon in Nevada in October.

For punk rock fans - and those who just miss those out-of-control years of punk, graffiti, glam rock and heroin - comes "What We Do Is Secret," an unsatisfying biopic of the Germs, the seminal La punkers led by Darby Crash.

While Crash Od'd like Sid Vicious of the Sex Pistols, this is hardly on par with the more riveting 1986 film "Sid & Nancy." In fact, it's more like "Sid & Sid." Crash seems to have been a closeted homosexual who strangely enough hid this aspect of himself while fearlessly showing his insanity and guts onstage.

The "fake documentary" technique can be a useful way for a biopic to cut to the chase, or it can be a cheat. In What We Do Is Secret—Rodger Grossman's dramatization of the life and death of The Germs frontman Darby Crash—it's a little of both. Grossman tells the full Germs story, from Crash persuading his friend Pat Smear that he had a "five-year plan" for world domination to Crash overdosing on heroin the night before John Lennon was murdered. In case anyone misses the point, Grossman inserts scripted first-person interviews in which his characters tell the audience what The Germs were about. And in case we miss that, Grossman has the characters converse in the most pointed way possible, asking each other questions like "Is this what we wanted?" and making pronouncements like "The Germs are the most unpredictable, the most chaotic, the least-understood band in L.

The following feature-length motion pictures have been reviewed and rated by the Classification and Rating Administration pursuant to the Motion Picture Classification and Rating program. Each of the designated ratings is defined as follows under the Motion Picture Classification and Rating program.

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Film Distributor ReasonRating 1. 100 Million BC

Global Asylum, Inc., The Rated for language. R 2. Amexican Xenon Pictures, Inc. Rated for language and some violence.

PG-13

3. Bait Shop Lionsgate Rated for some language and rude humor.

PG 4 Disaster Movie Lionsgate Rated for crude and sexual content throughout, language, drug references and comic violence.

PG-13

5. Faded Memories Anne-Sophie Films, Llc - [Production Co.] Rated for thematic material, some sexual content, violence and language.

PG-13 6. Good Dick Good Dick, Llc - [Production Co.] Rated for sexual content and language. R 7. Killer View Grindstone Entertainment Group Rated for violent and disturbing content, some sexual material and language.

R 8. Lazarus Project, The Worldwide Spe Acquisitions, Inc. Rated for some violence, disturbing images and thematic material.

PG-13 9. Linewatch

Linewatch Productions Llc - [Production Co.] Rated for violence and language.

R 10. Longshots, The Weinstein Company, Llc, The Rated for some thematic elements, mild language and brief rude humor.

PG 11. Morning Light Walt Disney Studios Motion Picture Rated for language and some rude dialogue.

PG 12. Moscow Zero 37th Street Releasing Rated for language.

R

13. Prince And Me: A Royal Honeymoon, The

First Look Studios Rated for thematic elements and brief mild language.

PG 14. Psycho WardGrindstone Entertainment Group Rated for bloody violence and gore, some language and nudity.

R 15. Reverend, I'm AvailableMaverick Entertainment Group, Inc. Rated for some sexual material.

PG-13 16. Rock OnSummit Distribution, Llc Rated for some thematic elements and mild language.

PG 17. Spirit of the MarathonImage Entertainment, Inc. Rated for some thematic elements and language, and brief incidental smoking.

PG 18. Street RacerGlobal Asylum, Inc., The Rated for language and some sexual references. R 19. What We Do Is SecretPeace Arch Entertainment Rated for drug use, language and brief sexuality. R 20. Zack and Miri Make A PornoWeinstein Company, Llc, The Rated for some some graphic sexuality. Nc-17 Updated Wednesday, July 23, 2008.