According to Mariah Carey’s fansite, the delovely diva paid a visit to TRL yesterday to announce the big, big news that Tennessee will be appearing at the Tribeca Film Festival this spring. Oh, and to launch her new video, “Touch My Body”. Show Adam’s co-star some love and vote for it. And it’s got Jack McBrayer! The Apple staff sure loves them some Jack McBrayer. The Mariah Daily Journal has a downloadable video of the announcement, posted at midnight today.

We were getting a little impatient there, but this is pretty cool. No schedule or official roster of films has been announced as of yet, but the website does currently offer a mailing list and, for American Express cardholders, various ticket packages composed of presently unannounced films. This year, the festival will run from April 23rd to May 4th and tickets for individual shows will go on sale April 12th for AmEx cardholders, the 18th for downtown residents and the 19th for everybody else. As always, updates to follow.

Update:
If past years are any guide, we can expect the official lineup to be released around the middle of March.

Just a quick update on one of Adam’s other projects, Lipstick Jungle received an order from the network for another six scripts. Still no word on whether additional episodes will be filmed (or the status of Adam’s character), but it is doing reasonably well with its target demographic of women 18-34 and women 18-49, so we’re cautiously optimistic that our man Adam may be on our TV screens on a regular basis in the very near future.

Just popping in with a quick post to direct our readers’ attention to the lengthy MovieWeb interview with Adam unearthed by commenter Jeane, in which our boy discusses his current projects and his newfound love of cribbage.

The Mariah fan brigade once again alerts us to news of Adam’s upcoming star turn, Tennessee. The New York-based Elephant Eye Films has just added the film to its sales roster and produced a spiffy new poster that unfortunately jettisons the pretty blueish-green scheme that complemented the Apple’s coloring so well, but soothes our disappointment with a big fat shot of our boy smack dab in the middle of a Peck-Carey sandwich. Will the announcement of a “Winter 2008″ release date soon follow? Fingers crossed.

Thanks to Mariah Carey’s Site for the image.

Update (December 16, 2007):
Commenter Marcin directed us to a larger version of the poster, so we switched the original out. Thanks for the artwork. We’ll also note that the consensus on the Mariah sites appears to be that this is probably not the final poster and is just another placeholder.

We’re heading into the home stretch for Mad Money (46 long days away!), so let’s take a spin through all the latest Adam Rothenberg developments.

The eighteenth season of the apparently unkillable Famous Original entry in the Law & Order franchise will benefit from a very special appearance by our Adam, along with Lara Flynn Boyle and new series regulars Jeremy Sisto and Linus Roache. L&O’s making a comeback to Wednesday nights on NBC starting on January 2nd, so Episode #7, “Submission,” should appear sometime in March, but we’ll keep our readers updated when we get a definite airdate.

A little clip of the Boyle character is featured in the series preview on NBC’s website, which, coupled with the episode title, should give the spoiler-inclined a fair chance at figuring out the basic premise.

More updates after the jump.

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While we at the Apple have been busy catching up on our gardening, the devoted Mariah Carey fanbase has been hard at work tracking the progress of the Adam Rothenberg vehicle, Tennessee, which also happens to feature Mariah’s return to the silver screen. Consequently, we are indebted to the Mariah Daily Journal for news of the launch of the film’s official website. Pretty bare bones for now, basically just what was over at the production company’s original page, but we’ll keep an eye out for announcements.

In other, much less timely Tennesse news, Page Six recently reported “THAT Mariah Carey just finished filming ‘Tennessee,’ her follow-up to the execrable ‘Glitter,’ and co-wrote a song with Willie Nelson for the soundtrack. Word from the set is she’s ‘really, really good’ in it - ‘It might be the cinema equivalent to the Red Sox winning the World Series,’ we’re told… ” We had no idea that Mariah had traded Babe Ruth to the Yankees, jinxing her career to several decades of disappointment, but we’re nonetheless pleased to see that the positive buzz continues to circulate around the project.

That’s it for now, but the Apple staff are in negotiations for a few items that will be rolled out in the coming months as we get closer to one or the other of Adam’s projects hitting the theaters, so check back in with us later. As always, thanks for stopping by.

The Apple is back for another roundup of items and updates from the world of Adam Rothenberg. Enjoy.

In the first part of a two-part Entertainment Tonight interview with Adam’s Mad Money co-star Katie Holmes, we picked up the confirmation that there will be “on-screen passion” between the two in the flick and also nabbed the brooding production still used above. Nice.

Many thanks to Myma over at katieholmes.com for the video.

Mad Money was expected to wrap production on June 8th, which would have been Friday. Still no official site or release date, but a fairly awful poster for Mad Money has popped up (we stole our copy from Katie-Holmes.org) that I’m personally hoping is some kind of draft placeholder thing.

 

We can also give a big thanks to Katie-Holmes.org for the May 11th production still above, which was also featured in the May 28th Life & Style as part of a little Katie-related piece which noted that an insider claims that she and Adam have “great rapport.”

The Mariah Carey fansites have been tracking the development of Tennessee pretty closely and recently reported rumors that the film might debut at a film festival this fall to be followed by a general release in 2008. Or something. Nobody really knows at this point is what we’re saying, although David Cronenberg (director Aaron Woodley’s uncle) has seen a rough cut and given a big thumbs up to Carey’s performance. Sadly, no word on what DC thought of our man Adam.

Why the semi-obscure Prince lyric and pretty, blue movie poster up above?

Well, the big news done broke:

Our Adam has been added to the cast of curvaceous pop superstar Mariah Carey’s latest cinematic offering, Tennessee.

The producer of this road movie is young firebrand Lee Daniels, the force behind the critically acclaimed indy films Monster’s Ball and The Woodsman. Sounds to us like a strong bet to be more gold than glitter.

Oh, it’s on y’all; it is most definitely on.

Tennessee

Two brothers. Three paths. One destination.

Carter (Adam Rothenberg) and his younger brother Ellis (Ethan Peck) embark on a journey from New Mexico to Tennessee to find their estranged father — a trip which might hold Ellis’s life in the balance. Along the way they meet Krystal (Mariah Carey), an aspiring singer who flees her controlling husband (Lance Reddick) to join them on their journey.

Cast: Mariah Carey, Ethan Peck, Adam Rothenberg, Lance Reddick, Bill Sage
Director: Aaron Woodley
Producer: Lee Daniels
Writer: Russell Schaumberg

For more information:
     official page at Lee Daniels Entertainment
     imdb entry
     Wikipedia entry