• The stage musical version of Irving Berlin's White Christmas will come to Broadway this Winter, offering seasonal competition to The Radio City Music Hall Christmas Spectacular. — Variety
• Shopgirl director Anand Tucker will direct Amy Adams in the Dublin-set romantic comedy Leap Year. — ComingSoon
• The Screen Actors Guild will ask its members to authorize a possible strike. — Zap2it
• Another one joins George Clooney in the cast of Jason Reitman's (director of Juno) next project, Up in the Air: Vera Farmiga will play the romantic interest for Clooney's character. — Variety
• Horatio Sanz and Jessica St. Clair have joined the cast of ABC's In the Motherhood. — TV Guide
• Jay-Z and Coldplay will play a few tour dates together next year. — Pitchfork
• Jennifer Westfeldt (Kissing Jessica Stein, Notes From the Underbelly) has joined Grey's Anatomy as a patient for a multiepisode arc. — Entertainment Weekly
• Screenwriter John Michael Hayes, nominated for Academy Awards for the classic Alfred Hitchcock film Rear Window and for Peyton Place, has died at age 89. — AP

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