Buzz Break: Land Shark

· Jessica Alba will not be prosecuted for pasting a picture of a shark on a billboard, which sent the world a very important message about...something. Good, let's let her have this. She looks so excited!

· Variety ruins the central surprise in Transformers: Revenge of the Fallen, which is that John Turturro appears in a g-string. OMG, spoiler alert!

· Will Frost/Nixon writer Peter Morgan bring Michael Sheen onto the next Bond film as kingpin adversary Blofeld?

· Jack Black allegedly cursed on Letterman last night, but I'm reserving judgment until I hear Sarah Palin's thoughts on the matter.

· True Blood's season premiere was the network's most watched original program since the series finale of The Sopranos. Sounds impressive until you realize, well, what else was gonna do it? John from Cincinnati?

Oh, They're Serious About Indiana Jones 5?

We'd heard rumblings that another Indiana Jones sequel might be in the works, but we dismissed them instinctively; after all, Indiana Jones and the Kingdom of the Crystal Skull took nearly twenty years to get off the ground, and it seemed unlikely that another decade or so of George Lucas script vetoes would lead to anything fruitful. And yet, Shia LaBeouf has seemed to indicate otherwise during his UK press tour for Transformers.
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Is Alec Baldwin His Own Worst Enemy?

Obviously I love Alec Baldwin -- who doesn't? (Don't answer that, Kim Basinger.) Whether he is gifting us with episodes of 30 Rock, reasonable, self-penned HuffPo editorials, or youthful matinee idol pictures found via Google Image Search, Baldwin is a delight and national treasure. However, just about every time he consents to a print interview and spins candidly out of control, I want to sit him down and say, "Alec. I think you're getting in your own way here."

His new interview with Playboy (meant to promote his role in the upcoming Cameron Diaz weepie My Sister's Keeper) is no different.

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Leonardo DiCaprio To Piece Together Evening of Online-Casino Debauchery After Waking Up In Trashed Web Browser

· Leonardo DiCaprio is attached to and producing a feature about "the world of online casinos based in Costa Rica," to be written by Oceans 13/The Girlfriend Experience team of Brian Koppelman and David Levien. Costa Rica, it turns out after a little digging, is to online gaming what the Cayman Islands are to shady offshore banking: virtually unregulated. [Variety]

Also in Ink: Natalie Portman's Plie of Terror; Liz Meriwether stirs the Pot, Kristin Chenoweth + Betty White = Cute Overload.

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Tony Scott Will Solve All of LA's Gang Violence, Pending Paramount Greenlight

Is Tony Scott's remake of The Warriors necessary? Yes, argues the filmmaker: the very shooting of it will solve violent crime in Los Angeles.

Said Scott to MTV:

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Shouldn't They Be Wearing Less Clothes in Clash of the Titans?

Slashfilm has posted the first picture of former Bond girl Gemma Arterton in the upcoming remake of Clash of the Titans, and coupled with the initial photos of an overclothed Sam Worthington taking up Harry Hamlin's sword and shield, I'm starting to get concerned over one thing: This is freakin' Clash of the Titans, so where's all the skin, dudes?

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Buzz Break: H8erade

· Was Aubrey O'Day a diva at the shoot for NOH8, an ad campaign by photographer Adam Bouska that Photoshops every line off your face in exchange for becoming a gay rights ally?

· Megan Fox on Shia LaBeouf's intense preparation for the Transformers sequel: "It was really smart on his part because he was trying to find truth in what was on the page. And if that page isn't good, then it's the actor's job to make it good. So he was doing his job; I was not."

· "If any of you have a project that's titled Everlasting Love With an Adult Stable Male..." said Jennifer Aniston this weekend, in front of people, at a Women in Film gala. Jen, there is a difference between self-parody and becoming a parody of oneself, and you are illustrating it. Courteney Cox, this is happening on your watch!

· On this week's episode of Top Chef Masters, the contestants are forced to cook, Dharma Initiative-style, for the showrunners of Lost. You guys don't even know how excited my mom is about this.

· "Could John Carter Of Mars Turn Out To Be The Twilight Of Sci-Fi Flicks?" asks MTV. Hmm...no?

Mel Gibson and Girlfriend Make Beautiful, Unlistenable Music Together

As part of his weird, "You need to get to know this woman fast before she has my baby" publicity rollout, Mel Gibson and girlfriend Oksana Grigorieva have "dropped" their new single, "Say My Name," at People.com. "It is naked, intimate, raw emotion, little more than piano and voice as if it is a cry from the soul," explains Grigorieva of the song, cowritten by Gibson. Oh yes, we did say "cowritten by Gibson."
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Celebs to Continue Slumming for Surprise CBS Hit

· CBS ordered another three episodes of I Get That a Lot, its surprise hit show in which Heidi Klum, Jessica Simpson and other celebrities fool regular folks by pretending to be average wage-slaves just like them. The new round of stars has yet to be announced, though expect Bret Michaels and his beaten face to warrant strong consideration as a suitably abused DMV clerk-for-a-day. [THR]

VH1 goes OCD, Roy Rogers returns and a new indie superpower emerges as Hollywood Ink continues after the jump.

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Never Underestimate a Baby in Blublockers

As the gloomiest of Junes hangs over La-La Land, just keeping remind yourself that the sun'll come out tomorrow. Unless you're Eddie Murphy's career. Soak in a ray of box office grosses after the jump.

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Friday Box Office: Still Hungover

Maybe some guys can handle Vegas after all. The Hangover extended its stay Friday at the box office's penthouse suite, easily knocking out The Taking of Pelham 123 on a mediocre opening day. As expected, Up remains strong -- much to the detriment of Eddie Murphy's new Imagine That, which barely trumped last year's Meet Dave (by $100,000) as the worst opening day of the star's career. Might be time to bust the old Detroit Lions jacket out of wardrobe, call Brett Ratner and get Axel Foley back on the streets; this slide is getting excruciating to watch.

THE HANGOVER: $10,435,000 ($82,409,000)

UP: $8,850,000 ($165,514,000)

THE TAKING OF PELHAM 123: $8,250,000 (new)

NIGHT AT THE MUSEUM: BATTLE OF THE SMITHSONIAN: $2,975,000 ($136,822,000)

LAND OF THE LOST: $2,916,000 ($28,743,000)

IMAGINE THAT: $1,825,000 (new)

STAR TREK: $1,575,000 ($228,003,000)

TERMINATOR SALVATION: $1,385,000 ($110,521,000)

DRAG ME TO HELL: $1,375,000 ($32,657,000)

ANGELS & DEMONS: $1,200,000 ($120,300,000)

Smile Big!

A super-busy week at Movieline HQ resulted in some unexpected Seacrest flashbacks, some wholly expected Lambert flash-forwards, a delicious new fauxteur and a slight bit of gender confusion. And that was just the beginning -- reflect with us after the jump.

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The Last Word: All YouTube Edition

A special treat for the end of the week: Just YouTube videos, all shapes and sizes, after the jump!
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Our Commenters of the Week Win a Date With Spork!

Congratulations to all our best commenters this week, as you've won a date with the dashing Chris Pine/Zachary Quinto amalgam Captain Spork (the LAX ticket and bus to Silver Lake, though, will have to come out of your own pocket).

So who are our winners?

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John Carter of Mars Gets Kitschy

Friday Night Lights star Taylor Kitsch has long complained about the amount of roles he's had that require him to take off his shirt, but it looks like the 28-year-old has finally embraced his niche. THR is reporting that Kitsch will be blasting off to John Carter of Mars, the Disney adaptation of Edgar Rice Burroughs' book series to be directed by Andrew Stanton (Wall-E). And who will be his similarly scantily-clad love interest?
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