· The Tim Burton-produced, Timur Bekmambetov-directed adaptation of the novel Abraham Lincoln, Vampire Hunter has officially gone to Fox after a fierce, protracted bidding war. A personal touch helped, evidently: "[W]hen the filmmakers came onto the lot, the studio had bloody axes and bloody footprints strewn about, and arranged for a bugle player in a Confederate uniform playing 'Taps' to accompany them to the meeting with studio executives." The aggressive first-dollar gross allowance helped even more. It shoots in March -- in 3-D, natch. [Deadline]
· Movieline's chatty cousin Bonnie Fuller went to the multiplex over the weekend, which could have gone better: "Regal Theatre Union Square in NYC- disaster strikes just after The Social Network goes on screen," she tweeted. "A BULB BLOWS! Movie theater can't FIX!" Ugh. Well, it ends with the guy getting really rich. Spoiler alert? Anyway, how did your screening go? [@bonniefuller]
· Speaking of The Social Network, Jose Antonio Vargas -- one of the few journalists who can claim to know Mark Zuckerberg reasonably well -- was annoyed by its "simplistic take on a complex character masquerading as an important film." Uh-oh. Watch out for trolls, Jose! [Huffington Post]
· Warner Bros. has acquired Daniel Sussman's script Galveston, about "a pair of young lovers on the verge of being separated, a struggle for power among various bureaucracies and a bitter love triangle involving two brothers" in the aftermath of the hurricane that essentially wiped the city out in 1900. [THR]
· Guardian film contributors David Thomson and Steve Rose liveblogged viewing Mulholland Drive, because why not, right? [Guardian]
· If you happen to be in Las Vegas this week and want to publicly mourn the late Tony Curtis, you're in luck. Consider hitting the craps table while you're at it. [AP]
· First film. Then TV. Now music is going 3-D. It's not as mind-blowing as it sounds, trust me, but if James Cameron is excited, then you must be excited. [AP]
· Congrats to Robert Edwards, the pioneering developer of vitro fertilization techniques who won the Nobel Prize in Medicine. More announcements to come this week in high-profile categories including literature -- let's go, Don DeLillo! [NYT]