Ready to be drowned in teenage comedy stereotypes? I hope so because according to Coming Soon, LOL has officially gone into production. Just a month ago we got a taste of what’s to come when we first heard that Twilight’s Ashley Greene joined the cast. Major adolescent draw. Also on board? The teen queen herself, Miley Cyrus. Even with Demi Moore’s name on the roster it’s still quite tempting to dismiss this one off as a formulaic high school drama. The official synopsis doesn’t help, but the new additions to the cast might.

In a world connected by YouTube, iTunes and Facebook, Lola (Cyrus) and her friends navigate the peer pressures of high school romance and friendship while dodging their sometimes overbearing and confused parents. When Lola's mom, Anne (Moore), "accidentally" reads her teenage daughter's racy journal, she realizes just how wide their communication gap has grown. Through hilarious and heartfelt moments between mother and daughter, "LOL" is an authentic coming-of-age story for the way we live now.

Lola's high school inner-circle includes Kyle (Booth) – Lola's BFF, whom she realizes is her love interest; Lola's two best friends Janice (Esco) and Emily (Hinshaw); Max (Sevani) – a nerd that Emily secretly hooks up with; Lola's ex-boyfriend and Kyle's best friend Chad (Finn); Lloyd (Watson) who is part of their crew; and Ashley (Greene) – the sexy girl who has set her sights on Kyle, much to Lola's dismay. Thomas Jane plays Alan, Anne's ex-husband and Lola's father. Jay Hernandez plays James, a dangerously cute, good-natured cop dating Anne who is able to offer a little perspective on her teenage daughter. Austin Nichols plays Mr. Ross, the heartthrob math teacher, who all the girls have a crush on. Marlo Thomas plays Gran, Anne's sophisticated mother whose relaxed demeanor allows her to be the easy-going bystander when it comes to watching Anne raising children of her own. Gina Gershon and Fisher Stevens play Anne's closest friends and confidants and Nora Dunn plays Emily's mom.

Catch all of those added names there? We reported on Thomas’ casting a few weeks back, but Douglas Booth, Adam Sevani, George Finn, Ashley Hinshaw, Lina Esco, Tanz Watson, Thomas Jane, Jay Hernandez, Austin Nichols, Gina Gershon, Fisher Stevens and Nora Dunn are all new to the production. The younger cast members are basically unknowns expect for Sevani who you might recognize from Step Up 2: The Streets and can catch in the upcoming installment, Step Up 3D. I don’t care if it means this movie comes with a corny prom dance routine, I wouldn’t mind seeing Sevani showing off his skills.

The adult ensemble, however, is full of famous faces and quite impressive. Jane is always a pleasure to look at as is Hernandez, and Moore has the pleasure of spending some time with both. Her character’s situation basically sounds like a screen version of her Willis-to-Kutcher swap. I lost a lot of faith in Nichols after The Informers, but the guy still rocks on One Tree Hill, so I can’t hold it against him. As for Gershon, I’m not familiar with much of her on screen work, but did happen to catch her performance in Bye Bye Birdie on Broadway. The show sucked, but she wasn’t half bad. Lastly there’s Stevens and Dunn who are probably the least familiar nowadays, but have delivered some impressive pieces in the past, my favorite of which are Super Mario Brothers (yes, I loved it as a kid and still do) and Three Kings respectively.

Perhaps we shouldn’t be writing this one off just yet. Plus it might be wise to check out the 2008 French version before passing too much judgment on this American remake.

Those of you you weren't at Comic Con for the big Marvel panel-- or who got locked out outside Hall H-- now finally have the chance to see what got the audience screaming louder than anything else. The very brief teaser for The Avengers, featuring voiceover from Samuel L. Jackson and the title treatment, has gone online thanks to the logo's designers here, and you can watch it embedded below.

It's not much, of course, but die hard Marvel fans who have waited years and years to see their heroes come together onscreen can watch this and get that little shiver that says, yes, this really is happening. Don't count on seeing much else for a long while, so enjoy this as much as you can.

Forget just being afraid of getting trapped in an elevator, how about being stuck in an elevator with the devil? Based on the film’s first poster and trailer, M. Night Shyamalan will bank on giving a common concern a demonic twist. How can I be so positive about Devil right after Shyamalan delivered The Last Airbender? Shyamalan isn’t behind the lens of this one. In fact, he didn’t even write the screenplay; it’s just based on his original idea.

Directors Drew and John Erick Dowdle will be working with Brian Nelson’s script about a group of people trapped in an elevator with the devil among them. Devil’s first poster showing off just a creepily glowing red elevator button was enough to make you think twice before hopping on the lift, but then we got the film’s trailer and now I think I’ll be taking the stairs for a little while. The film’s second poster follows suit, looking just as threatening. It’s simple, but certainly gets the point across. Check it out below courtesy of Empire Online and keep an eye out for Devil when it drops into theaters on September 17th.

Ridley Scott has been planning an adaptation of Joe Haldeman's classic sci-fi novel Forever War at least since October 2008, which is back when Body of Lies came out and disappointed us all so much. The whole project hadn't gone much further than Ridley just talking about it, as he jumped from there directly into making Robin Hood, and so far as we know there's no reason to believe production will start any time soon.

But there is one little bit of new information to pore over. Haldeman himself has revealed via, of all things, his LiveJournal account, that screenwriter David Webb Peoples is handling the latest draft, which apparently in its fourth rewriter. Haldeman mentioned Unforgiven as one of Peoples' solid credits, but sci-fi fans are probably more interested in the fact that he wrote Blade Runner for Scott, and also Twelve Monkeys for Terry Gilliam. The guy's got the kind of credentials that might convince even the most hardcore Forever War fans.

Still, a fourth rewrite is not a great sign, and Scott has plenty else on his plate-- including the Alien prequel-- to keep him ignoring this one for many more years to come. But now that the world at large is aware that Peoples is writing the script, could some fan enthusiasm get the gears cranking on this one a little faster? Probably not, but we'll just pretend we had an impact anyway.

The Forever War, for those of you who aren't hardcore sci-fi nerds, is Haldeman's 1974 novel about a soldier recruited in an ongoing intergalactic battle who then returns home to find time has elapsed more quickly on Earth, and he's aged only a year while the world has moved on 25 years without him. The book won both the Hugo Award and the Nebula Awards, a pretty mean feat, and Scott himself has described it as "The Odyssey by way of Blade Runner." It's precisely the kind of epic and serious story that deserves to be told, particularly by the people who brought you Blade Runner. Sadly, just because it's meant to be doesn't mean it'll ever actually happen.

You may, after this, secretly suspect that Kevin Smith’s Red State is being cast based on the director’s love of television. So far he’s added people from Walker, Texas Ranger and Veronica Mars (on which Smith once guest starred), but maybe that’s not a bad thing. Veronica Mars was a good show and he’s hired one of the more interesting members of the cancelled detective series’ cast. According to The Wrap he’s bringing in former Mars villain Kyle Gallner along with Forbidden Kingdom’s Michael Angarano and better knowns Dermot Mulroney and Steven Root to form Red State’s supporting cast. Melissa Leo is also rumored to be considering a part.

Last week we told you that Michael Parks was on board as the movie’s lead, playing a character loosely based on Reverend Fred Phelps, the real life leader of the infamous, hate-pedaling Westboro Baptist Church. This is the same group that recently staged a protest outside San Diego’s Comic Con, claiming the attendees were practicing idolatry. Wherever they see people having fun, the Westboro Baptist Church is sure to show up and try to ruin it.

It’s an odd cast for an odd concept. Smith has long described this as a horror movie, which I guess makes Phelps the movie’s equivalent of a serial killer. But does he kill people with hatred or actually run around with a knife? Maybe we’ll find out more when production begins on September 22nd.

For a while it looked as though Sam Raimi would lick his wounds after the Spider-Man 4 debacle by moving on to an entirely different kind of hero, directing another movie adaptation of the The Shadow, based on the 1930s radio and pulp novel character. Then we heard back in March that Raimi had taken the project from Sony to Fox and had handed directing duties over to David Slade, who presumably would take on the project once he got done attempting to butch up the Twilight franchise with Eclipse.

Now the project seems to have taken a turn for the utterly unexpected. According to Pajiba and their reliable tipster The Hollywood Cog, none other than Quentin Tarantino has expressed interest in the project, and is "attached" as both director and co-writer. Those of us who follow QT and his whims are rightly skeptical that this project will ever happen, or that it will happen around the same time as the Vega Brothers movie or Kill Bill 3. The Pajiba guys admit this could definitely just be another one of those Tarantino dream projects that will never happen, but he is working with a studio on this, so it's more than him just sitting in his private screening room and saying, "Hey, wouldn't it be awesome if…"

Tarantino obviously has an affection for old pulp novels-- uh, duh-- and pop culture detritus of all sorts, and he really could be the perfect guy to balance the camp and the genuine creepiness of a The Shadow movie. Honestly, though, I'm not going to give too much more thought to it, because there's really no guarantee this will ever happen. Sorry to doubt you, QT, but I'm not believing it until the cameras start rolling. e

Though the film based on the last few years of Joaquin Phoenix’s life is called I’m Still Here, many of us wish that he wasn’t. Actors that go crazy rarely remain on our “People we give a shit about” list and are often mercifully forgotten, which is exactly what happened Phoenix’s antics last year after he quit acting to pursue his rap (what?) career.

The entire ordeal was recorded by friend Casey Affleck-- Katey was witness to some of it-- and the subsequent documentary was recently picked up by Magnolia for a September release. What will be interesting is if we find out this whole thing is one big joke on America’s obsession with troubled celebrities, as exemplified by the ridiculous amount of coverage of Lindsay Lohan getting shoved into prison. What won’t be interesting is if it’s just an hour and a half version of the Gladiator star’s drug-addled Letterman appearance.

Magnolia has released a new poster for the film and while it’s artistic in my favorite way (nice photography with some subtle type), I’ll remain skeptical of this until I know the film’s focus. Scope out the very hairy poster below.

Looking to add a little excitement to your life in mid-September? Those of you near the dreary streets of Manchester and Liverpool, England need look no further. Marvel’s staple in the Avengers
saga, Captain America: The First Avenger, will find its way across the pond for two weeks in the middle of September to film some key scenes in the comic adaptation, according to BBC News. The details of the particular scenes aren't set in stone just yet but we do know there will be a car chase, and as we’ve learned from the Transformers 3 set in Chicago, that can be a pretty exciting thing to watch.

The production is traveling to those parts of England simply because the streets in the Northern Quarter of Machester, lined with tall buildings that can pass for 30 or 100-years-old, resemble that of a 1940’s New York, the era in which Captain America takes place. Sounds like this will be a great move for Manchester and Liverpool as well as being a perfect fit for the film. The area was last used to film scenes for Guy Ritchie’s Sherlock Holmes reboot, which proves is versatility. Captain America hits theaters just two months after Thor next July. I don’t know about you, but I can’t effing wait for either of them, despite my slight misgivings about Chris Evans in the lead.

As if Neil Marshall's upcoming epic Centurion didn’t already look bad ass enough, Lobo artist Simon Bisley put together this busty and rippling comic poster for you to feast your eyes on. Magnolia commissioned the artist to draw this up and he knocked it out of the park, making it even easier for us nerds to imagine Olga Kurylenko with great heaving breasts.

Comic fans don't get your hopes up though: this is merely a poster and not a precursor to a new comic series from Bisley. Sorry to disappoint.

Start your day of right by checking out the image below then hitting up your VOD provider and ordering Centurion, about Roman soldier battling native tribes in northern England in the first century. Seriously, can this film get any more bad ass?

From what we know of Cowboys & Aliens, it hasn’t really seemed like a nude scene kind of movie. The concept sounds ideally suited to being a light PG-13 family film, the kind of movie that ends up on kids lunchboxes, a Jurassic Park for the modern era. But in an interview with the Toronto Sun stars Adam Beach and Olivia Wilde reveal they just finished shooting Olivia sans clothes.

Olivia explains, “Last night, we did a scene where I'm naked in front of a group of couple hundred Apache. Pretty amazing, pretty interesting.” It sounds as though she really was naked though it’s unclear whether her nipples will actually make a showing in the film. Adam Beach, who plays a henchman in the movie and comes off sounding like a huge pervert, says, “We just finished shooting Olivia Wilde naked in front of a bonfire in front of 500 Apache warriors… That was beautiful. You won't get to see what I saw, but you'll get a glimpse.”

So Adam Beach is kind of a creepy dude but “a glimpse” could mean they’ll fit it into the confines of a PG-13 rating. If they shot her in front of a bonfire, it could be that we’ll just get some sort of sexy, naked Olivia Wilde outline. Or maybe Jon Favreau will surprise us and turn in a hard-R Cowboys & Aliens in which Olivia Wilde spends the entire film naked and Harrison Ford takes a page from MacGruber and defeats his enemies by rippin’ throats.

Update: Olivia hopped on Twitter to explain the scene in more detail. She says, "don't want to disappoint, but my "nude" scene in Cowboys & Aliens is very PG13. I was in a bikini but we'll make it look as naked as we can. it's all about what you don't see (wink face emoticon)" It sounds like her lascivious costar Adam Beach was simply overreacting.

10 years ago the notion of a comedy in which Robert De Niro and Ben Stiller squared off seemed pretty original, and the end result, Meet the Parents, was actually very funny. The second go-round Meet the Fockers was exactly as uninspired and awful as the first one was a surprising success, and now it's time for a third trip to the well with Little Fockers. The first teaser poster has emerged over at Empire Online, and it's basically saying "Hey, remember how funny it is to watch these guys fight! Get ready to do it again!"

Yeah, sorry, but I'm not buying it this time. Not only did director Jay Roach's newest film Dinner for Schmucks earn tepid reviews at best, but there is seriously nothing left in the saga of Gaylord Focker and his overbearing father-in-law that I'm interested in seeing. Little Fockers comes out December, and no, there's nothing you can do about it.

As Warner Bros. has done with Harry Potter, the final chapter of The Twilight Saga is being broken up into two parts. So The Twilight Saga: Breaking Dawn – Part 1 will arrive in theaters on November 18, 2011 and now we know when you can expect to see the rest of it.

Summit Entertainment has just announced that you’ll have a year to wait after you see Part 1’s “to be continued.” The Twilight Saga: Breaking Dawn – Part 2 will open November 16, 2012. That may seem like a long wait, but at least it’s shorter than the year and a half wait between Eclipse and Breaking Dawn – Part 1.

By setting a November 16, 2012 release date Breaking Dawn – Part 2 may find itself up against, of all things, a Pixar movie. Right now Disney has carved out that date as their target for the release of Monsters, Inc. 2. It galls me to say this, because in a perfect world people should obviously choose a Pixar movie over mopey angsty vampires, but Monsters, Inc. 2 may want to move. November 16th now belongs to Twilight.

Watching Paul Rudd up on screen it may feel like he just appeared in the entertainment industry a few years ago, but the 41-year-old actor has been entertaining for a long time… just not always on a larger scale. Have you seen the excellent Adam Sandler movie The Wedding Singer? That was Paul Rudd back in 1992.

Forward writer Gabrielle Birkner had her Bat Mitzvah in 1992 and her parents hired a DJ to keep the whole thing running smoothly. He showed up, did his thing, and they recorded it. Now Birkner has posted her Bat Mitzvah video, because we all know that DJ as movie star Paul Rudd. Watch the tape:



Sure Rudd looks dorky and ridiculous, but seen through a modern lens, we all did back then. The thing that’s really interesting to me, and that should get the ladies out there swooning, is that Rudd seems to be really good at his job. He’s soft spoken and age appropriate with the kids. When little Gabrielle Birkner finds herself on the verge of an embarrassing moment attempting to blow out candles that won’t blow out, he smoothly steps in to ease the tension and take the focus off her. Birkner admits in her story that she took an immediate liking to him as a kid and describes her big day this way:

Rudd, donning a yellow tuxedo jacket, a ruffled shirt, shorts and Doc Martens, ably and energetically led us through all of the bat mitzvah staples: Candle-lighting, Coke & Pepsi, Toasts, limbo, “Hands Up,” Challah-cutting and “YMCA.” And as the “Today” show-themed bat mitzvah party came to a close, he invited my friends onto the dance floor to sing a moving rendition of “That’s What Friends Are For.”

Paul Rudd in 1992, as he does now, just seems like a genuinely good dude. If this acting thing doesn’t work out, he has a real future as a party DJ.

Sure Inception seemed original and for the most part it was. But Chris Nolan wasn’t the first person to think of a movie about invading people’s dreams. It’s been done before, just never in quite the way he imagined it. Well except for that time the Beagle Boys did it.

The Beagle Boys were the default nemeses of Scrooge McDuck, the wealthy uncle of Donald Duck, who for a time had his own adventure-themed cartoon series called Duck Tales. He also had and still has his own comic book, and in it a few decades ago the Beagle Boys hatched a plot to steal his money by… invading his dreams and stealing his secrets.

The following image appeared floating around the social bookmarking world today:

I Spit On Your Grave hopes to be the most controversial movie of the year, and since it’s based on the already controversial 1979 cult horror movie Day of the Woman, it might seem they’re off to a good start. Like the original, it’s a rape and revenge movie. A girl gets raped, the movie festishizes it, and then she gets revenge. Pretty shocking back in 1979 but in the current environment of torture porn saturation it’s almost its own genre. I’m pretty sure that says nothing good about us as a culture.

We have five new images from the film which, like the premise, might have been sort of shocking twenty years ago. Now they’re familiar, reminiscent of the stuff we’ve seen Eli Roth and every other recent horror filmmaker doing. Presumably I Spit On Your Grave will do what they do, only with even more nudity… though that’s only hinted at in the new photos.

As Will pointed out earlier this morning writing about the upcoming Warner Bros. project Alien Zoo, movies that combine live-action and CGI animation haven't been doing so well lately. Mostly that's to be blamed on Marmaduke, but don't try and tell me people are totally psyched about Yogi Bear and The Smurfs.

It's mystifying when people keep trying to improve on an animation style that peaked with Who Framed Roger Rabbit? over 20 years ago, but it's even stranger when they do it at the expense of something generally great. Thus we find ourselves with the news in Deadline Hollywood that Twilight producers Marty Bowen and Wyck Godfrey have picked up the rights to Babar, the familiar French elephant who has been a stable of children's literature for nearly 80 years. The plan is to make a series of family films with the character, and yes, they will combine live-action and CGI.

Babar has been brought to films int he past, of course, and it's unclear if Bowen and Godfrey are planning something small-scale and explicitly kids-only like the previous films, or something bigger and further reaching like, uh, Marmaduke. The power of nostalgia aside I don't see much appeal for adult audiences in a Babar movie, so as long as they keep the animation relatively inoffensive and the tone appropriate for kids, the movie might slip under the outrage radar rather than infuriate many, many generations of children who want to see what they love go untouched.

The horror scene these days hasn’t exactly been booming with hits, but one thing’s for sure; Guillermo del Toro sure does know how to scare the shit out of someone, if not from the director’s chair then from the producer’s. His own films The Devil’s Backbone and Pan’s Labyrinth will unsettle you in ways no American horror will, and The Orphanage, which he produced, leaves not one human fear unexplored. He’s a master, and that he’s the creative force behind Don’t Be Afraid of the Dark should have all you horror fiends chomping at the bit for this one to hit theaters.

Directed by del Toro protege Troy Nixey, Dark looks every bit as terrifying as other del Toro pieces. Creaky old house? Check. Tiny little creatures? Check. Little kids getting abducted by god knows what? Check. Dark screams del Toro and already looks to be a glorious inaugural feature outing for Nixey.

The trailer, which proves that Myspace still may have some use after all, doesn’t give much away but with certainly chill you to the bone if you’re not careful. The film stars Guy Pearce as the father of a girl who discovers creatures in his new home, with Katie Holmes as the father's girlfriend.

Did anyone read the title of this article and immediately think of Planet 51 and how horribly unentertaining it was? I sure did. Variety has it that Warner Bros is diving into production of Alien Zoo, a live-action/CGI hybrid “high-concept family comedy” that supposedly combines Jurassic Park and aliens. Not the film Aliens, just aliens. I can already feel the audience yawning.

The one name of note on board in the early stages is producer Bob Shaye, who has in fact given us a few classics in his long and illustrious career including the original Nightmare on Elm Street and the LOTR franchise, which he funded through New Line. However, his recent bid at the Nightmare series hinted that the executive producer might have lost his touch.

In the recent frenzy of live-action/CGI hybrids, it makes sense that a studio like WB would want to get in on the action, despite the utter failure of Marmaduke (I know, there’s not much CG, but god it sucked) and the piss poor showings by the Smurfs and Yogi Bear trailers. Somehow those examples weren’t deterrent enough to keep the entertainment giant away from that style and we’re going to get stuck with more movies that will never be as magical as the live-action/animation classic Who Framed Roger Rabbit?

As always, counting a movie out early is one way to get in trouble down the road, so we can’t be 100% sure that this movie will definitely suck. But the way things are sounding now sure points to that being a pretty logical assumption.

Davis Guggenheim is a director known for making two of the best documentaries of the past decade. The first was An Inconvenient Truth, a film that brought statistics and the urgency of climate change and global warming into public sphere. The second was Waiting For Superman, which exposed the flaws in America's educational system and the efforts being made to remedy them. And that's not even mentioning It Might Get Loud, a rock and roll doc on the history of the electric guitar from the perspectives of three of the best musicians playing today. Now, that same man is wasting his God-given talent on a Justin Bieber biopic.

E!Online is reporting that the director will helm the film based on the 16-year-old Canadian pop singer's life. The rumor of the project began back in late July and will be a fictionalized account in the vein of Eminem's 8 Mile and 50 Cent's Get Rich or Die Tryin'. Oh, and it will be in 3D.

I honestly can't understand for the life of me why Guggenheim would sign on to do this movie. The man has earned tremendous respect as a documentary filmmaker and he chooses to make this film. All I can say is that I hope they're paying him an egregious amount of money.

Disney has released a hairy new teaser poster for their upcoming animated movie Tangled. It’s based on the story of Rapunzel, which sounds boring, but may be fantastic since it’s co-directed by Byron Howard. Who is he? Howard was the director of Bolt, Disney’s underrated computer animated gem from 2008. Disney’s computer animated division isn’t quite at the level of their brothers next door at Pixar, but in great movies like Bolt and Meet the Robinsons they’ve managed to turn out quality work worth of challenging, at the least, DreamWorks. I have high hopes for Tangled, in spite of the subject matter.

Following the release and subsequent success of Juno, everybody thought that Diablo Cody was the next big thing. The writer was given an Oscar, gained a huge following and was offered more than her fair share of projects. Then Jennifer's Body happened and things didn't look so good for her theatrically. While she was able to create a successful series in The United States of Tara, it appeared that she was no longer a sure thing. So how do you get that back? By getting the old band back together.

Deadline reports that Jason Reitman, who directed Cody's Juno, has signed on to direct Young Adult, with Charlize Theron in the lead role. In the film, Theron will be an author who becomes successful writing under a pseudonym until she realizes that she has become distanced from her work. The film is currently aiming for a November 10 start date and will film in New York.

If you have made it this far in the article, I would like to take this time to commend you. There is a reason why I choose pictures for my articles after I have already written them. If I didn't, it would take me three hours to complete a story about an actress like Charlize Theron. Now that this article has ended, please enjoy staring at the above photo for the rest of eternity.

Nicolas Cage was doing so well. Knowing popped up on Roger Ebert's Top 10 of 2009 list, Werner Herzog's Bad Lieutenant: Port Of Call New Orleans was brilliant and Kick Ass was a comic book adaptation that he was in that didn't suck. Sadly, he had to end the run with The Sorcerer's Apprentice, and whether he is disappointed in himself or there is some other reason, he's bailing on his next project.

Deadline reports that Cage has officially dropped out of Joel Schumacher's Trespass. According to the report, Cage has been on vacation in the Bahamas and will not be back in time to make the film, which begins principle photography in two weeks. Rather than waiting for the star, the studio plans to keep the film on schedule and move forward without him. In the film, Nicole Kidman will play a wife who is taken hostage by a group of thieves and, while Cage was initially going to play Kidman's husband, he later decided that he wanted to play one of the kidnappers instead. Cage previously starred in Schumacher's film 8mm.

Personally, I'm surprised that this doesn't happen to Schumacher more often. The man hasn't had a box office smash since 1997. That movie? Batman and Robin. Perhaps it's time to hang up the director's vest.

It's been a little over a week since the end of Comic Con, and while some of the bigger stuff has been leaked (such as the Pirates of the Caribbean 4 teaser with Johnny Depp and the Thor trailer), there is still plenty of time for the rest of the events to find their way on to the world wide web. This time, however, it's all about Alexandre Aja's Piranha 3D.

Bloody Disgusting has nine minutes of footage that was deemed "too hot for Comic Con" due to the level of violence and nudity and it's pretty easy to see why. While we've been told that some elements of the film will be tongue-in-cheek, that doesn't mean that are going soft with the bloodier stuff. At least one notable name bites the dust in the clip so if you are looking to go into the film fresh, this might be one to avoid.

Check out the video below, which may or may not be around forever.

Curb Your Enthusiasm is easily one of the best shows on television. The characters are all hilarious and interact beautifully, both with each other and with the film's star, Larry David. Looking at the first picture of Cheryl Hines and Jason Alexander from the live-action Fairly Odd Parents movie, however, you get the sense that they probably should keep in on the small screen.

Cartoon Brew has gotten its hands on a make-up test from behind the scenes and...good lord. What the hell is this? For those unfamiliar with the Nickelodeon show, the two characters are meant to look like this. Instead, Alexander looks like a Oompa Loompa reject and Hines looks like she's just escaped from Candy Land. Perhaps it will look better when they are in full costume and digitally shrunk down, but this isn't promising.

Check out the image below.



Based on the hit Nickelodeon cartoon that has been running since 2001, the film, titled A Fairly Odd Movie: Grow Up, Timmy Turner!, will feature Drake Bell as Timmy, a twenty-something who remains in the fifth grade because, otherwise, his fairy godparents would disappear. The film will also costar Daniella Monet as Tootie and Steven Weber as Hugh J. Magnate and is set to be released some time next year.

It surprised nearly everyone in the industry when Inception, for the third week in a row, topped the box office
with another $27.5 million take. The film will likely surpass the $200 million mark at some point this week and is currently the seventh most successful film of 2010. But despite the movie's great domestic numbers, it wasn't the biggest hit globally until this past weekend. THR is reporting that the Christopher Nolan film has surpassed Toy Story 3 as the number one film at the box office after the Pixar film dropped off 40%.

It should be noted that some markets didn't get the film until this past Friday, but most countries have had the film for at least two weeks. Does this seem kind of backwards to anyone else? Aren't the Europeans supposed to be the ones who only dabble in artistic, existential films while the Americans stay at home scratching their beer bellies and watching monster trucks on Pay-Per-View? Damn stereotypes, you've let me down yet again. I guess that studios will just have to start trusting the domestic audience a bit more. What a shame.

Hollywood’s mad rush to adapt video games into mostly unsuccessful movies continues unabated. It’s only a matter of time until someone gets around to Oregon Trail, isn’t it? If you’re in your late twenties or early thirties, Oregon Trail almost certainly occupied a great deal of your time, whether you liked it or not. Billed as an educational video game, it was the default piece of software
shipped with all the Apple IIe computers being installed in the computer labs of our nation’s schools in the late 80s. Power up one of those creaking, computing
, behemoths and you really only had two choices: Use the word processor or play Oregon Trail. You probably went with The Oregon Trail on your grimy, monochrome monitor.

In theory it was an educational game (which is I suppose why teachers embraced it), unfortunately Oregon Trail never really taught you anything, other than that you should probably forget about carrying supplies and just bring a lot of bullets. The game sent students on a journey across the wilds of America as a group of settlers traveling the Oregon trail. Your goal was to make it all the way to the new settlement, but more often than not all your settlers ended up dead by the side of the road, usually from dysentery. I played it mostly so I could kill off my settlers and then write amusing or mildly offensive messages on their tombstones, hopefully to be discovered by whoever played the game on my station during the next computer lab period. This aspect of the game is, however, strangely absent in the first ever Oregon Trail movie trailer.

While they’ve left out all the witty tombstones they have managed to capture everything else about the game that made it so, well, ubiquitous across the middle school landscape. If someone were dumb enough to turn The Oregon Trail into a movie, here’s what it would have to look like:

At what point are the Arrested Development
movie rumors going to be put to rest? Even the most die-hard fans have lost faith in the project ever coming to fruition and every time one of the cast members or the creator, Mitch Hurwitz, talk about it, it's only the more depressing. Most recently, Hurwitz said in an interview that he has to change a whole bunch of details because of how much the world has changed between now and the end of the series, and that should be enough of a message right there. But that's not stopping him.

Talking at the TCA press tour promoting his new series Running Wilde (which stars AD veterans Will Arnett and David Cross), Vulture brought up the in-development project and Hurwitz boasted that "The only stumbling blocks will be scheduling," and that the script is now half completed. With the careers of Jason Bateman and Michael Cera blowing up, however, he is also fully aware that the filming will have to be quick and will likely condense to less than a month of filming.

The day that a trailer for an Arrested Development movie pops online will also be the day that I shit my pants for the first time since I was in diapers and I'm sure that many other fans feel exactly the same way. But just like someone who just got dumped by a cheating ex, it's probably best to approach this one with as much pessimism as possible. Otherwise you're just opening yourself up to be burned again.

The news has been out there for a while that frequent Lost director Jack Bender has had his eyed on making features since the series ended. Now Vulture thinks they know what the project will be, claiming that Bender is "a cat's breath away" from becoming the director of Moscow, the new Jack Ryan vehicle that will star Chris Pine as the latest incarnation of the spy hero.

The movie will be kind of a franchise reboot, taking place at an earlier period in Ryan's career than what we saw in The Sum of All Fears/A Clear and Present Danger/Patriot Games/The Hunt for Red October. Pine will play Ryan just as he's getting out of the Marines, going to work for a Russian billionaire but eventually going on the run (of course) because he's been implicated as part of a terrorist plot. Given the huge variety of Lost episodes that Bender directed and how often he was charged with handling action, there's pretty much no reason he won't be up to the task of this one. Last we heard from producer Lorenzo di Bonaventura they were hoping to start filming in late winter or early spring, so if things stay on course, we'll see Bender directing Pine as Jack Ryan before his old boss J.J. Abrams turns him back into Captain Kirk.

Apparently the new way to make your old screenplay idea seem fresh is to rewrite one of the major roles for a woman to play it. It worked for Salt, it's the idea behind Helen Mirren's lead role in The Tempest, and now Sigourney Weaver-- the queen of playing women who act like men-- will be giving the gender-bending another go. According to Deadline she and Bruce Willis are in talks to star in The Cold Light of Day, a thriller already starring Henry Cavill as a young American teenager forced to track down his family while they are vacationing in Spain.

Willis would be playing the father, while Weaver's role is the villain, presumably a kidnapper with some role in the government conspiracy at the heart of things. JCVD director Mabrouk El Mekchri is directing the screenplay by Scott Wiper and John Petro, which recently got a new drat from The Wire writer and Lush Life novelist Richard Price-- the most promising part of this entire story.

The movie sounds way too similar like the upcoming Taylor Lautner vehicle Abduction, about a teenager who goes on the run when he realizes his parents aren't who they say they are. Weaver is in that one too, believe it or not, which has me wondering if she's just keeping tabs on the hot young actors of Hollywood because, well, she can. When it comes time for a Lautner vs. Cavill death match to become the official Next Big Thing, Weaver will be the only one who can truly make the decision.

I've been arguing for months, as names like Carey Mulligan and Natalie Portman came up, that the only person who should play Lisbeth Salander in David Fincher's Girl With The Dragon Tattoo movie is a nobody. How could an actress we were already familiar with be expected to slip into this utterly odd and unique character? Wouldn't we all just know it was Ellen Page underneath the piercings, or Mia Wasikowska in the black lipstick? Why not just find an unknown actress capable of pulling off Lisbeth's smarts and intensity, rather than fake it with someone who's a big enough name to stand up there next to Daniel Craig on the poster?

When Deadline Hollywood reported the latest list of contenders at the end of last week I expected to dismiss them outright, but then they went and shocked me and included the one actress I've ever heard of who could actually play the part. You have never heard of Katie Jarvis unless you saw this year's micro-indie Fish Tank, but if you've seen that movie you know what I'm talking about-- Jarvis is utterly perfect for the role, and not just because she's got the wit and the brawn to pull it off, but precisely because barely anyone has heard of her.

Jarvis is apparently a late addition to the casting derby, and she's still up against Page, Wasikowska, Emily Browning, Sarah Snook, Rooney Mara, Sophie Lowe and Lea Seydoux. Jarvis is also likely at a disadvantage because Fish Tank is her only acting credit, and it's unclear if her performance's strength comes from actual acting talent or simply being exactly like the character in real life. But while Browning and Mara are unknowns who will have roles in major upcoming movies (Sucker Punch and Fincher's own The Social Network, respectively), Jarvis is still utterly under Hollywood's radar. It would be like when the few people who saw Ellen Page in Hard Candy were delighted to see her get cast in Juno and then instantly make the role iconic.

All reports say that Fincher is fairly close to picking an actress, and with the first film set to come out December 21, it's definitely time for things to get started. So, David Fincher, it's not too late for you to make the only good choice. Cast Katie Jarvis and watch a promising young actress become a superstar before your very eyes.