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Tom Hanks is developing another show at HBO. Damon and Affleck team up and head to Boston like it's the Good Will Hunting days. Coldaply. Justin Timberlake. Captain America. And the return of a Butt Head.



- Matt Damon and Ben Affleck are gonna party like it's 1997. The two friends and Oscar winners will team up in the near future for a movie about the reputed former godfather of the Irish Mob. As Matt Damon said in an interview with GQ: "We're doing a Whitey Bulger movie." Damon will star as the notorious gangster while Affleck will direct. Affleck is currently filming his next picture, the Iran hostage crisis film Argo, and will most likely direct the film after completing that project. Terence Winter, of The Sopranos and Boardwalk Empire, will pen the screenplay.

- Tom Hanks is developing another show at HBO, but this time the project is not a war epic or a series detailing the space race, instead the setting shifts to another American institution: college. The half-hour comedy, titled Players, will follow the lives of college athletes and is in development from Hanks and long-time producing partner and Playtone co-founder Gary Goetzman.

- The quality hit from the summer and arguably marvels best "second" wave production Captain America: The First Avenger gets the Blu-Ray and DVD treatment this week. Extra features include how to get a six pack and the short documentary on Steve Rogers titled: "From Frail to Feared."

- Coldplay drops their fifth album, Mylo Xyloto, this week. Lead singer Chris Martin explains to MTV the details: "It's definitely a schizophrenic album ... it keeps changing sounds. That's why we called it such a strange thing, Mylo Xyloto. Because we felt like so many people have already made up their minds about us, both good and bad, that we can sort of start again from scratch and try and reflect all the music we listen to and we love." Some people will scream.

- Speaking of MTV... Beavis and Butt Head makes a glorious return to television this week on Thursday night. This time around the duo will be riffing on the likes of the Jersey Shore and 16 and Pregnant. Beavis and Butt-head Do America is classic. Cornholio.

- In Time races into theaters, the latest film from Gattaca director Andrew Niccol. The film stars Justin Timberlake, along with the slick cast of Cillian Murphy, Vincent Kartheiser, Olivia Wilde, Johnny Galecki and Matt Bomer, as a man who is accused of murder and has to go on the run. The catch in this one? It's a retro-future when the aging gene has been switched off and people stop aging at 25 years old. Time is money, literally. JT starts running when he inherits a fortune of time from a dead upper-class man over a century old prior to his death. The premise might sound a bit out there, but trust the director on this one. Gattaca is one of the most underrated films of the 90's.

- Some crazy stuff happened on Boardwalk Empire last night.

Justin Timberlake Is A "Bad Teacher"

Justin Timberlake has scored the lead male role in the comedy "Bad Teacher" at Sony Pictures.

According to Variety: Justin Timberlake will star opposite his former real-life love, Cameron Diaz, in Columbia Pictures romantic comedy "Bad Teacher."

Cameron Diaz plays a foul-mouthed, conniving middle school teacher whose sugar daddy cuts her off so she romantically pursues a substitute teacher (Timberlake) who is the heir to a watch fortune.

The teacher, however, is already in a relationship with a colleague (Lucy Punch) and soon the claws are out. Jason Segel, John Michael Higgins, Molly Shannon and Eric Stonestreet also star.

Timberlake and Diaz dated for years but broke it off in 2007. Timberlake beat out the likes of John Krasinski, Joel McHale, Timothy Olyphant, Guy Pearce, Adam Scott and Cheyenne Jackson for the role.

Lee Eisenberg and Gene Stupnitsky penned the script, Jimmy Miller is producing and Jake Kasdan is directing.

This project has all the elements to be a hilarious film. Lee Eisenberg and Gene Stupnitsky are two of the funniest writers on television with the work they do on “The Office,” and along with the new Ghostbusters film, they clearly are making their move to features.

Jake Kasdan has proved he is a solid comedy director, having helmed a bunch of episodes of “Freaks and Geeks” back in the day and also more recently with “Walk Hard: The Dewey Cox Story.”

Also, the supporting cast is fantastic. Jason Segel, John Michael Higgins, Molly Shannon and Eric Stonestreet are all very funny. Anyone who watched “Modern Family” knows how funny Stonestreet can be, and I don’t think anything needs to be said about how great Segel is.

I also don’t think there will be any problems between Timberlake and Diaz like Vincent Chase and Mandy Moore had on season 2 of “Entourage.” Timberlake is a classy dude, and Diaz is a big star that wouldn’t let any past issues get in the way.

Timberlake also will star in "The Open Road," due out this summer, about the estranged son of a baseball legend on a road trip with his dad. The film features Oscar nominee Jeff Bridges ("Crazy Heart") and Ted Danson. He will also appear in David Fincher's "The Social Network," about the start-up of Facebook, on October 15.

Shooting kicks off later this month in Los Angeles.