· A batch of sixteen new Marilyn Monroe images have turned up, and at least they're a little more innocent than the last Monroe picture to come online. Click though for a closer look and more Buzz Break.
Hawaii Five-0, CBS's big-budget draw this fall season, has will continue shooting after costar Scott Caan sustained a knee injury while performing a stunt on the show. Reports say he tore an ACL, and a CBS exec adds the injury will be written into a future storyline. My concern: Will this hinder the gazelle-like swiftness of the new Hawaii 5-0 theme? [THR]
Continuing to strike while the iron remains surprisingly hot, Betty White has signed a deal with G. P. Putnam's Sons to write two books for the publisher in the next two years. Listen Up!, due in 2011, is about the "life lessons learned during her incredibly varied and long career in Hollywood, with an emphasis on the extraordinary past 15 years of the star's life," while 2012's The Zoo and I will chronicle White's work with the Los Angeles Zoo. Seeing how White's career has been trending, expect her to star in movie versions of both in 2013. [NYT/ArtsBeat]
While the contract demands of potential American Idol judge Jennifer Lopez may have been astronomical, it appears Steven Tyler holds no such delusions of grandeur. According to E!, Tyler has signed his Idol contract to join the judging dais next season. For their part, Fox execs have issued a standard "no comment," meaning there's still time for them to find room for Courtney Love. Start a Facebook campaign, people! [E!]
You might know Kings of Leon as the band that had to cancel a show recently because its bassist got crapped on by a pigeon. Or perhaps you know them from "Use Somebody," a bit of alterna-pop that got incessant radio play last summer. One place you won't know them from, however, is Glee, because Kings of Leon won't sell out, man. Most of the time, anyway.
The following is presented largely without comment because I am too busy sealing my doors, duct-taping my pants and shirt tight at the ends and renouncing public moviegoing forever: "[A] new division of bloodthirsty bedbugs has sacked the AMC Empire 25 multiplex in Times Square. A moviegoer who requested anonymity tells us that 30 minutes into [Sunday] night's screening of Scott Pilgrim vs. the World, she was 'covered in bites.' [... T]he AMC on 125th is fighting a bedbug infestation as well." And this is how I become a DVD reviewer. [Gothamist via HE]
Also among today's gotta-know trade developments: Yet another Bob Marley biopic is in the works... J.J. Abrams brings some unlucky kids out of the closet... Scott Speedman stands in for Channing Tatum... and more.
All we have to go on is pedigree, but pedigree is enough: Sony today announced it will release its Angelina Jolie/Johnny Depp-starring, Florian Henckel von Donnersmarck-directed romantic thriller The Tourist on Dec. 10, throwing a sizable wrench into a frame already stuffed with awards-season hopefuls The Fighter and The Tempest. (And sandwiched squarely between Black Swan, Miral and How Do You Know.) No word yet on if or how the film might influence the fall festival circuit, but we'll find out soon enough. Also added by Sony: Roland Emmerich's Anonymous on March 25, 2011, and a big pushback for Underworld 4 from September 2011 to January 2012. Bad tidings, apologies, etc. [Box Office Mojo]
· The band Yeasayer has put out a new video for "Madder Red," which sees our favorite Veronica Mars heroine Kristen Bell consoling her dying pet, which happens to be a disgusting, pus-spewing, blood-dripping cousin of Krang from Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles. It's almost touching, except I'm seriously nauseous after having watched it. [YouTube]
In a Newsweek Emmy roundtable, Christina Hendricks revealed that her favorite dress from Mad Men is the infamous purple dress with a pink sash from season one, a.k.a. "the Roger dress." Said Hendricks: "I wore it in a scene in a scene with John Slattery in a hotel room, and I'm getting dressed and doing up this scene. I really liked that scene, so it stood out to me." It also happens to be the dress used to outfit the unbearably fabulous Joan Holloway Barbie doll. [ONTD, Project RunGay]
As Machete barrels toward its opening weekend with the same wafting smell of niche that ruined the Scott Pilgrim box office party, it seems a bit premature to start talk of a sequel. Or not. During a press junket for the film -- which apparently teases such future titles as Machete Kills and Machete Kills Again in its end credits -- director Robert Rodriguez all but confirmed that there will be more Machete movies in the future. Because if you can't have another James Bond, why not more Machete instead?
We'll get a first look at a lot of new movies now that the Toronto Film Festival floodgates have opened, but will any of them top this still of Mickey Rourke plaintively staring at a winged Megan Fox from Passion Play? Let's caption it!
Because you can't have a summer franchise without a supermodel, Peter Berg has added swimsuit-issue favorite Brooklyn Decker to the top-shelf cast of Battleship as the love interest for Taylor Kitsch's naval officer. For those keeping score at home, the $200 million Universal production now has Decker, Kitsch, Alexander Skarsgard and Rihanna above the line. Money well spent! Meanwhile, who's next? No seriously, which random person will be next to get cast in this thing? [Latino Review]
· Anna Paquin, Stephen Moyer, and Alexander Skarsgard wear blood -- and nothing else -- on the cover of the new Rolling Stone. The True Blood Sex and Violence Meter, it is broken. Click through for a closer look and more Buzz Break.
Samuel Goldwyn Films and Captured Light have partnered to acquire the documentary GhettoPhysics: Will the Real Pimps and Hos Please Stand Up?, which features "Dr. Cornel West, Ice-T, KRS-One, Too Short, John Perkins and Norman Lear on the interplay between pimps and prostitutes, and how that power dynamic explains wider political and corporate relationships in the U.S. and abroad." Which is what I've been saying all along. It's set for an October release. [THR]
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