David Archuleta's Wikipedia War, and 7 Other Stories You'll Be Talking About Today

It's a busy day in The Broadsheet, including news of Johnny Depp's possible date with Kathryn Bigelow... rare good news for film criticism... a recent Oscar-winner faces a remake... Emily Blunt and Rachel Weisz will be siblings for Lynn Shelton... and more...

· This isn't Watergate or even news by any reasonable standard, but there is something both amusing and, well, totally riveting about the drama surrounding American Idol runner-up David Archuleta's Wikipedia page: "On the 'most edited pages' list for Wikipedia articles, his article sits at #91--very high for an artist who's been on the scene for two years, especially as Michael Jackson is #115, Barack Obama is #110, and Lady Gaga falls outside the top 5,000." Aaron Sorkin's screenplay about the kerfuffle coming in 3... 2... [Urlesque via The Awl]

· Kathryn Bigelow's Triple Frontier (a.k.a. Sleeping Dogs) must be in some kind of trouble. At least that's the conclusion one tends to draw when Johnny Depp is added to casting speculation that began the day before with Tom Hanks -- and folks attached to the production pretend to be sworn to secrecy when asked point blank what's happening with development. Sigh. Hollywood. [Deadline]

· Congrats to Todd McCarthy, the erstwhile Variety critic and current NY Film Festival associate programmer who has joined up with the rapidly growing Hollywood Reporter. Or "rapidly growing" inasmuch as they must rip stories about their own hires from other news outlets. [NYT]

· Warner Bros. is close to a deal that would see last year's Foreign Language Oscar-winner The Secret in Their Eyes remade in English by writer-director Billy Ray. [LAT]

· Humpday director Lynn Shelton has reportedly roped Emily Blunt and Rachel Weisz into her new film, a semi-improvised, untitled, low-budget effort shooting later this month in Seattle. The actresses will play sisters; that's about all anybody knows for now. [Deadline]

· Guess the tweeter (or not!): "Just lost my film virginity with my first onscreen sex scene...thank god for the sock! Filming Never Back Down 2 has given me many firsts." [Twitter]

· Rock guitarist Slash is getting into the horror flick business as a producer. Seriously! First up: Nothing to Fear, "a horror/thriller that follows a young family as it tries to reinvent itself by moving to a small town in rural Kansas. The family is tormented by an ancient demon with an insatiable blood lust." Seriously? [Deadline]

· Wait til next year, Don DeLillo: Peruvian author Mario Vargas Llosa has won the 2010 Nobel Prize in Literature. [AP]