Everyone knew it was coming, and now it's here: A "source" tells THR of a text sent from Oksana Grigorieva to Mel Gibson explaining her recording of conversations that have all but devastated his career: "[Y]ou broke your agreement with me." Agreement? What agreement? How about a secret $15 million agreement?
With casting news becoming more and more like Ferris Bueller's Day Off -- "My best friend's sister's boyfriend's brother's girlfriend heard from this guy who knows this kid who's going with the girl..." -- it's smart to take things like writer Max Brooks saying that Brad Pitt is definitely starring in an adaptation of World War Z with a grain of salt. What are the chances the notoriously picky and flaky megastar makes Z over one of the many other projects on his schedule? As performed previously with Pitt's behind-the-camera, serial-committing counterpart Ridley Scott, Movieline investigates after the jump.
By now you have probably seen multiple photos of Katie Holmes in full Jackie O. garb on the set of the History Channel's Kennedy miniseries but finally, a stealthy photographer has secured the first image of Greg Kinnear as John F. Kennedy. Jump ahead to see how the actor measures up to the King of Camelot.
You've seen the crazy trailer featuring your favorite late-middle-age actors getting their action-film swerve on. You've heard Helen Mirren tease the pleasures and privileges from the set. Now, in advance of its Comic-Con coming-out party, Red has issued two new stills that only help to cement the reliably cartoonish WTF-ery of the entire enterprise. Hint: John Malkovich and his time bomb steal the show. Click through and caption as you will.
You thought how NBC bleached Conan O'Brien out of its history was bad? At least it was thorough! As Michael Bay continues to blow up half of Chicago during the filming of Transformers 3, he's found one thing in the script totally resistant to any number of squids, giant killer robots and even recasting: Megan Fox's name.
According to reports out of Florida, federal prosecutors are urging the judge in Wesley Snipes's tax-evasion case to rope the actor in immediately to begin his three-year sentence. The request follows last week's decision to uphold the sentence after an appeals process of more than two years. If Snipes had just gone when sentenced, he'd probably be paroled by now. Of course, then someone else would have had to play Caz in Brooklyn's Finest, and what kind of justice is that? [TMZ]
Today in Hollywood Ink: A notorious young criminal gets a high-powered biopic... Disney needs help with its Muppets problem... My Idiot Brother tacks on a few more cast members... and Halle Berry really puts that Oscar to use.
· Nobody issues a scold or takes her kids down a notch quite like Betty Draper, and thanks to Vulture, we now have some of her greatest hits digested into one 90-second lightning round. Conspicuously absent: That scene when she named her most recent baby Gene. That was just effed up. Click through for the video. [NYM]
Three months after a radical Muslim website threatened South Park creators Trey Parker and Matt Stone in response to an episode which portrayed the Prophet Mohammed in a bear costume, FBI officials have made an arrest in the case.
Like Detroit doesn't have enough to worry about today. The embattled chief of police just resigned, Tigers third baseman Brandon Inge is out for at least six weeks with a broken hand, and now Josh Lucas can't even shoot a movie in the outskirts without the producers allegedly skipping town -- leaving a $37,000 hotel bill unpaid.
Today's must-read Mel Gibson news comes from neither the salty, screamy audio archives nor the legal front, but rather from an unlikely source who pledges to initiate a reversal of the actor-director's downfall -- at least romantically, which is where this whole Rantgate controversy began in the first place. There's just one condition.
After an extended period of limbo that involved director Andrew Jarecki buying back U.S. distribution rights from The Weinstein Company, the Ryan Gosling/Kirsten Dunst true-crime drama All Good Things appears to have found a new home at Magnolia Pictures. Moreover, according to info buried on one theater's website, the film could make its first appearance as early as next week.
Yes, that's how the 30 Rock actor is describing his new HBO stand-up special, which is actually called Tracy Morgan: Black and Blue. Taped at the Apollo Theatre in September, "the special is going to be all the elements: fire, water, earth, air, the comedy bender, the avatar of comedy experience," Morgan said via press release. "We were hoping for A Blaffair to Rememblack, but we'll settle for Blavatar. [EW]
· If Thor had a hammer...he could show off his impressive fitness. This is what Kenneth Branagh sees when he looks in the mirror. Click through for a bigger look and more Buzz Break.
After he made Titanic, Leonardo DiCaprio had his first choice of roles, and he passed on a good many of them, including Spider-Man and Anakin Skywalker. But what was it like for DiCaprio before that breakthrough success? As he tells Rolling Stone, he had two main competitors for parts, but they're both dead now.
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