Thursday, April 3

• Bald-chested McConaughey to star in Magnum P.I. flick?

  Rarely does it make news when an actor is merely offered a role, but when said role is for the lead in a big screen adaptation of an iconic TV series, ears perk up. Yesterday EW.com reported that America's favorite bongo-playing apparel-phobe Matthew McConaughey has been approached to play Magnum P.I., the laid-back private investigator who spent much of the '80s solving crimes while cruising around Hawaii in his red Ferrari.

  EW calls it "perfect casting" to have the Fool's Gold star assume the role first made famous by Tom Selleck, but we beg to differ. Is McConaughey even capable of growing chest hair? Because a bald-chested Magnum is an absolute deal breaker. I'll picket the premiere if that happens.

  Source: EW

  
  

  Posted 04/03/2008 by Thomas

  Matthew McConaughey | Tom Selleck

Wednesday, January 23

• Breaking: Matthew McConaughey Photographed in Shirt

  This week People magazine captured Matthew McConaughey in a shirt -- barely. Fool's Gold director Andrew Tennant apparently was much less successful:

  

  
  
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  Fool's Gold Trailer

  True love takes a dive - Releasing Feb. 8, 2008

  Posted 01/23/2008 by Dack

  Matthew McConaughey | Fool's Gold

Wednesday, September 19

• McConaughey to be a busy man

  Matthew McConaughey will be taking a break from his busy schedule of displaying his buff man-chest while exercising on the beach to join the cast of a couple of upcoming films.

  McConaughey will be starring opposite Jennifer Garner in The Ghosts of Girlfriends Past, a Christmas Carol-inspired romantic comedy in which a womanizer is visited by apparitions of girlfriends past, present, and future at his younger brother's wedding. It will be directed by Mark Waters (Mean Girls, Just Like Heaven).

  He also will be filling in for Owen Wilson in Tropic Thunder, the Ben Stiller comedy that Wilson had to drop out of due to his recent high-profile hospitalization and suicide attempt.

  Source: Variety.

  
  

  Posted 09/19/2007 by Heather

  Matthew McConaughey | The Ghosts of Girlfriends Past

Tuesday, May 1

• I blame Penelope Cruz

  The long legal battle to decide who holds the ultimate responsibility for Sahara's monumental suckage is apparently nearing its end, reports Variety.

  The film, based on Clive Cussler's bestselling novel, is considered one of the biggest financial debacles in Hollywood history. Sahara's losses to date amount to over $78 million, according to standard shady Hollywood accounting methods. 

  Producers had reportedly envisioned Sahara as part of an "Indiana Jones-style action franchise," a perfectly reasonable expectation for a movie starring box office behemoths Matthew McConaughey, Penelope Cruz and Steve Zahn.

  
  

  Posted 05/01/2007 by Thomas

  Matthew McConaughey | Penelope Cruz | Sahara