Buzz Break: Fox Schedules the Eminem Show

· Fox has announced that Eminem and Family Guy's Stewie will team up to host the interstitials between next Sunday's animated shows. The accompanying press release features a "quote" from Stewie himself that is just as unfunny and loaded with an already-dated pop culture reference as you might expect.

· "Uh, maybe that designer guy nose-butted Kiefer," attempts a lawyer for Kiefer Sutherland. "Does that work? We got nothin'."

· Though McG approached Christian Bale to play then-lead Marcus Wright in Terminator: Salvation, the actor had the script revised so he could fulfill his lifelong dream of following in the mighty footsteps of Eddie Furlong.

· Is Rashida Jones dating Jon Favreau? No, the other Jon Favreau.

· Megan Fox cracks the High School Musical code: it's all about systemic molestation.

5 Actors Worth Considering as Star Trek's Next Villain

Star Trek didn't need its box-office windfall last weekend to have a sequel on the way. And unless I missed something about the properties of black holes, the only cast member unlikely to return for the next one would be Eric Bana's vengeful Romulan villain, Nero. With a legacy this rich to draw from, how will J.J. Abrams choose to replace him? And more importantly, with whom? A few friendly suggestions follow the jump.

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Moviegoers Warned as Deadly Category-5 Romcom Takes Shape

Pointing to the box-office success of He's Just Not That Into You, a report in this morning's New York Times gathers evidence about an even bigger, more devastating romantic comedy that could make landfall at multiplexes next Valentine's Day. It's title, appropriately enough: Valentine's Day. But it's who's at the eye of the storm that may force evacuations.

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Idol Host Pairs with Celebrity Chef for The Naked Seacrest

· ABC has ordered a show from Ryan Seacrest Productions in which Jamie "The Naked Chef" Oliver travels around the country trying to improve Americans' eating habits. Just like Seacrest does on American Idol, the producer will pop in from time to time to corner an attractive man and demand to know "how he lost the weight." [THR]

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A New Kind of Trek For a New Kind of World

Greetings from the bridge of the Starship Movieline, where your Captain (in the "lhIngan jIH boq QIp" T-shirt, or Klingon for "I'm with stupid"), along with trusty communications officer Stuhura VanAirsdale and engineer Kyle "Bucky" Buchanan are embarking on a mission to boldly tell you how much dinero Paramount beamed out of Earthlings' pockets over the weekend. Set your mouse buttons to stun.
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Friday Box Office: The Trek Begins

Star Trek had a fairly solid Friday figure -- $24 million to add to Thursday's $7 million -- though surely, Paramount would have liked a higher takeoff. Everyone in the industry is expecting good word-of-mouth and long legs for the reboot, but it remains to be seen if those will come in time to lift Trek's opening weekend out of the $60-70 million range. Still, at least that'll be more than double the previous highest weekend for the franchise: $30.7 million for 1996's Star Trek: First Contact.

1. STAR TREK: $24,000,000 (new)

2. X-MEN ORIGINS: WOLVERINE: $8,500,000 ($111,124,000)

3. GHOSTS OF GIRLFRIENDS PAST: $3,135,000 ($22,931,000)

4. OBSESSED: $2,050,000 ($51,697,000)

5. NEXT DAY AIR: $1,425,000 (new)

6. 17 AGAIN: $1,260,000 ($51,022,000)

7. THE SOLOIST: $980,000 ($20,876,000)

8. FIGHTING: $686,000 ($19,129,000)

9. MONSTERS VS. ALIENS: $675,000 ($184,189,000)

10. EARTH: $670,000 ($24,268,000)

Figures courtesy of Box Office Mojo

It's the Transformers: Car-Robot Fight Fight Poster

· Behold the final Transformers: Revenge of the Fallen one-sheet, heavy on giant robot heads and pyramids, and light on 25-cent SAT words like the ones on Miss Fancypants Scarlett Johansson's posters.

· After 12 days, Mia Farrow has ended her low-rated hunger strike to raise awareness about how much more she cares about Darfur than Angelina Jolie does. "I have been instructed by my doctor to stop my fast immediately due to health concerns - including possible seizures," she wrote on her blog, then pledged her first meal would be "a Subway 5-dollar footlong. I know -- right? I've just been craving one since Tuesday."

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Our Commenters of the Week Win a Chivalrous Headbutt from Kiefer Sutherland!

If there's a lesson our commenters know all too well, it's that nobody gets in the way of Kiefer Sutherland at a bar (especially when he's drunkenly expressing regret to Brooke Shields about the fate of Lipstick Jungle). As a reward for posting the five best comments of the week, we entrust out wittiest readers with an actor willing to commit midemeanor assault on their misplaced behalf. Use him wisely -- now, on to the best comments:
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Shocker: Everyone Will Love Up

Break up Pixar! Disney's in-house dynasty is preparing for its upcoming trip to Cannes, where it will officially unveil its latest subject of rhapsody, Up, next week as the festival's opening night selection. Meanwhile, the press is getting its own head start on doling out the superlatives.
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Bruno Campaign Determined to Make Anal Bleaching Its 'Thing'

Oh hey, look, here's a new Bruno video with a joke about bleaching one's backdoor that just so happens to come on the same day as an article about Sacha Baron Cohen undergoing that same procedure. Congratulations on winning the blogosphere, Universal -- you've officially made "anal bleaching" the new "Kazakhstan." The new video is the first of presumably many to be released on Myspace, which seems appropriate as only foreigners use that now. Here's the clip:
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Thursday Night Trek Screenings Draw $7 Million

Last night's early Star Trek screenings point to a wholly unprecedented windfall for the franchise, earning an estimated $7 million in five hours' worth of showings nationwide. Some box-office watchers are modulating their weekend predictions slightly upward, with one forecasting that with a good Friday showing, Trek's "number for the opening 4 days could start with an 8." Way to go out on a limb, I guess -- but why stop there?
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Enough, Already with the Trilogies

Recently, I was reading a story about Robert Rodriguez's eternally in-development sequel to Sin City when I was reminded of something: despite the fact that it's taken him forever to even mount a first sequel, he's already planning for the third installment.

It was then that I had a thought. Nay, a rant. Here, then, is an open letter to all the genre filmmakers of the world:

Enough, already with the trilogies.

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Buzz Break: Gerard Butler, Controlled By Joystick

· Slashfilm's got the poster for the upcoming Gamer, directed by Crank 2 lunatics Neveldine/Taylor.

· In order to play gay in Bruno, it's alleged that Sacha Baron Cohen tried to bleach all his body hair "so it would look invisible." This method comes as news to hirsute blonds.

· Brooke Shields has told friends that she did fall, a little bit, when Jack McCullough pushed past her to get to the bar (leading to the Kiefer headbutt heard round the world), but she's blaming it on her six-inch high heels.

· Tilda Swinton is claiming that her time in Hollywood working as an "industrial spy" is up.

· 69, dudes!

Lovable, Epithet-Named Dog Complicates Proposed Peter Jackson Project

With The Lovely Bones rattling around in the can and set for a December release, director Peter Jackson can now start plotting his next steps. His motion-captured self will produce the Spielberg-directed The Adventures of Tintin: Secret of the Unicorn (as far as subtitles go, falling somewhere between "and the Kingdom of the Crystal Skull" and "Reign of Buttercup Sprinkles" in its sheer, glitter-encrusted stupidity). As for his next directing project, the Sydney Morning Herald notes he's intent on taking on a remake of The Dam Busters, the 1955 World War II epic about the bombing of Germany's Ruhr dams by a Royal Air Force squadron. They report the director wishes to remain slavishly loyal to the true story of Wing Commander Guy Gibson, right down to the name of his loyal black Lab: Nigger.
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Ryan Reynolds Thrilled to Share New Movie with Assistant Sausage Factory

The Proposal is about a Canadian corporate publishing tigress (Sandra Bullock) who faces deportation back to her homeland, and thus arranges a sham marriage to her assistant (Ryan Reynolds) in order to obtain a green card. Since the film offers a rare celebration of the emasculated underlings of the call-rolling ranks, Disney thought it would be cute to invite those very types to a screening attended by Reynolds himself.

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