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Justin Timberlake Officially Joins Facebook...The Movie

Andrew Belonsky — Thu, 24 Sep 2009 01:02:20 EDT

Well, the contentious rumors have been confirmed: Justin Timberlake will play founding president Sean Parker in a little film entitled The Social Network, which everyone else just calls "that Facebook movie." Meanwhile, Jesse Eisenberg will play founder Mark Zuckerberg. [AFP]

Casting the Valley: Jason Calacanis's French connection

Nick Douglas — Thu, 20 Jul 2006 16:57:14 EDT

The new tech bubble's totally going to be a movie some day (who owns the rights? Adam Curry?), so we may as well pick the cast ahead of time. Today's casted character is Jason Calacanis, the AOL exec who built Weblogs, Inc. and turned Netscape into a high-profile junk drawer.

Blogger Josh Hallett figured Macaulay Culkin should play Jason:

While a reader preferred "Life Goes On" actor Chris Burke:

But facial recognition site MyHeritage.com nails it — Jason Calacanis is a dead ringer for French singer Alizée. Now that's hot.

Earlier casting: Harrison Ford is Steve Ballmer

Jeremy Zawodny and Chicken Little: separated at birth?

ndouglas — Thu, 23 Mar 2006 10:32:45 EST

Could the father of podcasting (one of so many — it takes a village) and famed Yahoo blogger be related to Kevin Covais, the bookish little American Idol star nicknamed "Chicken Little" (because "Harry Potter" is so 2004)?

At least Covais, who just got booted from the show, can always do the Yahoo cafeteria circuit doing lounge versions of Zawodny posts. "And now, ladies and gentlemen, a swinging ditty called 'My darling SQL.'"

'Chicken Little' Gets Booted Off of 'Idol' [AOL News]
Jeremy Zawodny [Zawodny on Flickr]
Jeremy Zawodny's blog [zawodny.com]

Casting the Valley: Harrison Ford is Steve Ballmer

ndouglas — Fri, 17 Mar 2006 10:13:51 EST

This Casting the Valley selection comes from MyHeritage.

The facial-recognition toy says that Microsoft CEO Steve Ballmer (here talking with Tommy Hilfiger who doesn't matter) looks a lot like ol' Indiana Jones. Hm. Definitely just facial recognition.

Steve Ballmer celebrity matches [MyHeritage, temp link]
Photo: Steve Ballmer and Tommy Hilfiger [AP on Seattle PI]

Goldblum and Alexander are Jim and Craig

ndouglas — Wed, 15 Feb 2006 15:26:30 EST

While we're picking stars to play the Valleywag hotties, check out this photo of Craigslist founder Craig Newmark and hunky CEO Jim Buckmaster:

Craig's compared himself to Jason Alexander before:

But that first photo really brings out the Jeff Goldblum in Jim.

Chuck Norris is Larry Ellison

ndouglas — Wed, 15 Feb 2006 12:27:34 EST

When Hollywood makes its Oracle movie ("All Your Database Are Belong to Us"), I hope the casting director has connections. Because Larry Ellison should be played by no lesser man than Chuck Norris.

Siebel looked the wrong way at Larry Ellison once. ONCE.

Inspired by reading too many Chuck Norris Facts [chucknorrisfacts.com]

Digg: the movie

ndouglas — Thu, 02 Feb 2006 14:26:46 EST

In an industry run by pudgy middle-aged men, it's hard to find celebrity lookalikes — unless you cast Paul Giamatti in every role. So why isn't Hollywood jumping on Digg founder Kevin Rose? When the hell will we get to see Jason Schwartzman play him in "Digg: the movie"? You know, the trailers could be like "A clumsy but good-hearted guy comes to an understanding of existence through his social bookmark site. Costarring Mark Wahlberg."