Comedy Central has just named Family Guy creator and talking teddy bear wizard Seth MacFarlane the master of the network's David Hasselhoff Roast, airing August 15. Regular roasters Pamela Anderson, Whitney Cummings, Greg Giraldo, Lisa Lampanelli, and Jeffrey Ross will poke fun at The Hoff, as will Jerry Springer and, for some reason, Hulk Hogan. [LAT]
Did the recent, eerie trailer for David Fincher's Facebook movie The Social Network make you feel bad about spending so much of your life in front of a computer? It's more than a little ironic, since Fincher clearly spends so much time in front of his.
Law & Order performance artist Sharon Stone is set to play the mother of Mary in Sweet Baby Jesus, a quirky retelling of the Nativity Story. Set in the '70s, the film revolves around a pregnant and hippie-ish Mary (Pixie Lott), her husband Joseph (Adrien Brody) and the town of Bethlehem, Maryland. Bette Midler co-stars as the inn keeper. Yes, this is a real project. [Deadline]
George Clooney will receive the Bob Hope Humanitarian Award at the Emmys on Aug. 29 for his work to aide the victims of 9/11, Hurricane Katrina, the Asian Tsunami, the genocide in Darfur and the Haiti earthquake. (What have you done lately?) The Oscar-winner is now halfway to acquiring the rare EGOT. Can a Broadway revival of My Fair Lady -- with Clooney as Henry Higgins, natch -- be far behind? [E!]
The long-planned Winnie Mandela biopic -- imaginatively entitled Winnie -- is currently shooting, and they've apparently gotten to the part of the story where its controversial subject married Nelson Mandela in 1958. The pair would change history (and eventually split in acrimony not long after the latter's 28-year prison ordeal ended), but let's remember the happy times with the help of Jennifer Hudson and Terrence Howard, whose characters are joined in holy matrimony after the jump.
Normally when a Batman casting rumor pops up, it can be discounted almost immediately. As in: No, Cher will most certainly not be playing Catwoman in Christopher Nolan's sequel to The Dark Knight. (Though Mary Louise-Parker would be great -- just sayin'.) But this latest seems suspiciously real, if only because it's not really saying anything.
You wouldn't peg the set of House to be some Caligula-like bacchanal, but a new lawsuit alleges that it was a feeding ground for sex, drugs, homophobic remarks and even knife-throwing. The former crew member bringing the lawsuit forth says he was called derogatory names -- think gay slurs -- and eventually fired because he wouldn't participate in any of the "degenerate conduct." Universal -- the studio that produces House -- had no comment. [TMZ]
Sony gives The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo a date... Katherine Heigl gobbles up another mid-level rom-com... Kenneth Branagh to channel a Hollywood icon. This and more as Hollywood Ink continues after the jump.
· And now for a video that brings us a new spin on the "bromance"-related puns that have come to define our generation, The Brostitute. In this new Funny or Die clip, Tim Roth shows how high a collar must be popped if you plan on making money as a highbrow "brooker." [Funny or Die]
Things may be looking up for the beleaguered Scream 4 today! First, Hayden Panettiere lent her support to a script she'd previously been rumored to hate, and now it appears that Neve Campbell's hairdo for the film -- once assumed to be a radical Selma Blair chop -- may have simply been an optical illusion. Hey, it's a start.
"You have this fairy quality, like you're flitting through trees and stars," Nicole Kidman tells Marion Cotillard in the new issue of Interview, and we'd have to agree. The Inception actress has a lot of deliciously quirky things to talk to Kidman about in their chat, whether it's her fantasies ("I would love to go into an animal's dream--like a lion's or a cat's. I'm sure that's pretty awesome") or the two months she spent touring Europe as a man in 2009. Wait, what?
Call it synergy at work. Olivia Munn -- who appears on the NBC mid-season comedy Perfect Couples -- is set to guest star on the season premiere of NBC's Chuck on Sept. 20. Jezebel's favorite Daily Show correspondent will reportedly play a CIA agent who intimidates Chuck and his sidekick, Morgan. Look out for many gratuitous shots of hair-tossing in slow motion. [EW]
After a few uninspiring and overlit stills left Thor with a reputation as the movie that has the most to prove going into Comic-Con, Marvel has finally released a piece of art for the film that looks pretty freakin' kick-ass. Is there a catch? Well, maybe.
There are two things you can count on with NY Press film critic Armond White: he loves to go against the tide of popular opinion, and he's not afraid to pick a fight. This time, though, has he gone too far?
Two Jersey Shore cast members are going rogue after their united strike for a pay raise. Snooki, a.k.a. Schnickers, a.k.a. America's Schneetheart, a.k.a. a talking McNugget from an '80s McDonald's commercial, has struck a deal to be paid "substantially more money than before" for the next Jersey Shore half-season. Her co-star, Mike "The Situation" Sorrentino, is rumored to receive between $27,500 and $45,000 in his special exclusive deal with MTV. That's a lot of money to work at a t-shirt shop and point at your abdomen. [TMZ]
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