Sex and the City 2 just keeps on wreaking havoc, doesn't it? Now it's prompted a jealous Courteney Cox to resurrect her own bigscreen transfer. "I wish we could do that with Friends," Cox told the LAT. "The thing is, the characters from Sex and the City hopped all over Manhattan. On Friends, we were always stuck in the apartment and that coffeehouse." Then again, Sex 2 wasn't afraid to shake up its surroundings with a relocation to Abu Dhabi. Imagine the potential of ladies shedding their burqas to reveal their very own "Rachel" haircuts to an appreciative Jennifer Aniston! [LAT]
Salma Hayek may have writhed seductively with a snake during her centerpiece performance in From Dusk til Dawn, but since then, she's apparently developed a fear of the reptile that would rival Tyra's infamous dolphinphobia. Still, at least her terror can be put to a good use, as it was when she leaped out of her chair during an Extra interview and started freaking the f**k out all because an innocent lil' snake slithered into her field of vision. By producing this video, on display after the jump, the entirety of making Hayek star opposite Adam Sandler in Grown-Ups was not in vain. (Though this isn't going to get you into Indiana Jones 5, Salma.) [Extra via Vulture]
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It's a great day to be alive in Washington, D.C.! The primary-election aftermath has the political atmosphere abuzz, Nationals rookie Stephen Strasburg just made arguably the best pitching debut in Major League history, and the National Park Service dutifully declined Michael Bay's requests to stage a couple weeks of extravagant Hollywood spectacle in one of the country's most historic, hallowed locations.
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Winning an Oscar means never having to say you're sorry. Unless, of course, you're Kevin Huvane, the CAA partner who has spent the early part of this week deflecting rumors that his client and white-hot Best Actress incumbent Sandra Bullock is in line to reunite with her Proposal peers for her next project.
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Makeup wizard and passive-aggression trailblazer Rick Baker has a bit more to say about the mishandling of The Wolfman, which he "hoped [...] would bring back monster movies." Alas, Universal: "To put out a movie called Wolfman on Valentine's Day weekend against a movie called Valentine's Day? I didn't really understand the logic of that. What do you expect? Release it on Halloween and I'm sure it would have done a lot better." Allllways the second-guesser, this guy. Oh -- and accurate. [LAT]
· Everyone knew that Paul Rudd would need a lady-ensemble for My Idiot Brother sooner than later. But this was pretty fast: Zooey Deschanel, Elizabeth Banks and Emily Mortimer will play the siblings whose lives Rudd's title character crashes and/or contributes much needed perspective to. Most fanboys will probably stop at the part of the synopsis where Deschanel's character is described as bisexual, but hey -- Rashida Jones is in here, too. So much for Amy Adams. Shooting begins next month in New York. [THR]
James Cameron makes a job recommendation, Christopher Mintz-Plasse stays bad, and more Hollywood Ink after the jump.
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· The porn parody maestros at New Sensations are at it again. This time The Golden Girls gets the XXX treatment. Who wants to see Blanche and Dorothy go at it on the lanai? Too soon? [YouTube]
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Did you know that Glee's Amber Riley auditioned for American Idol at age 17? Randy Jackson is just finding out. "Yo, that girl Amber Riley, she I guess, I didn't know this, she didn't make it to us," he told Extra. "She auditioned for Idol and got rejected. She's like the lead singer, the lead star of Glee, and let me tell you something America, this girl is talented and she can really sing." I'm sure Riley auditioned just for the approval of Randy Jackson, so this is probably quite validating. Thanks, dawg. [Extra]
Though this is probably part of a carefully staged master plan that will lead to at least two nervous breakdowns inside of Movieline HQ, we are duty-bound to inform you that Heidi Montag and Spencer Pratt have legally separated. Why is this of cultural significance? Because Us Weekly says it is. Now, who wants to guess what Speidi's next trick will be? A televised marriage renewal ceremony with Extra correspondents Mario Lopez and Terri Seymour as best man and maid of honor, perhaps? [TMZ]
Someone alert Joe Biden! Disney announced a release date today for the big-screen kinda-reboot The Muppets: December 25, 2011. It'll be directed by James Bobin from a script by Jason Segel and Nick Stoller, and though Segel will be in the cast, Charles Grodin definitely won't be. Perhaps they could fill his absence with a role for noted Muppet-phile Lady Gaga? [Coming Soon]
Your Saturday-morning cartoon flashbacks suffered another blow this week as the long-planned Voltron: Defender of the Universe adaptation died in captivity. The animation reboot will instead be sold off to TV for parts -- 26 parts, to be exact, airing next year on Nicktoons. This follows the reassignment of ThunderCats and Mighty Morphin Power Rangers projects from the big to small screens as well. Can't anybody appreciate a sword-wielding robot made out of lion spaceships anymore? Sheesh. [Variety via JoBlo]
These days, it seems that every actor in Hollywood has made the shortlist for a new superhero movie -- and that could be a liability for the onslaught of comic book movies to come, since casting directors are always on the hunt for the hot new up-and-comer, not the guy who got cut before his final Captain America screen test. With that in mind, then, Movieline has assembled a list of eight men who are superhero-ready, yet haven't been named as a close contender for any past roles. (Though if casting directors are willing to think outside the box, we've got more than a few non-white suggestions, too.)
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Uncle Jesse, DMD? In tonight's Glee finale, Emma Pillsbury (Jayma Mays) will reveal that she has been spending her long hours outside of McKinley High with a dreamy dentist -- a dreamy dentist that John Stamos is reportedly in negotiations to play next season. Now, who's ready for an autotuned Beach Boys hit to make the cut for season two's premiere? [EW]
· You decide: is this new still from The Twilight Saga: Eclipse, or the NSFW gay porn parody Twinklight?
· Katy Perry will be hosting the Teen Choice Awards, because you just can't get enough of her, apparently. Me, I'm good!
· Idris Elba is joining the Laura Linney cancer dramedy The Big C.
· Jeff Wells on his sandal aversion: "I remember a scene in Backdraft with Billy Baldwin showed up in flip-flops and I went, 'all right, that's it, he's done....not just in this film but his entire career might be in jeopardy.' That's all it took!"
· "JACK DAWSON is elected king of the underwater humans. DAWSON requests that all humans be returned above water, a request that is denied by KING MANTROCK." Could this be anything but a casting call for Titanic 2?
Word on the street is that Danny Boyle is the front-runner to direct the opening ceremony of London's 2012 Summer Olympics. Such an endeavor would easily be the most ambitious undertaking of the 53-year-old Oscar-winner's career -- but that's not to say he's not qualified. With the help of 2012's weird little mascots Wenlock and Mandeville, let's have a look at five Boyle films that might inform his imminent world-class effort.
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