Hugh Jackman says the script for the Wolverine prequel is finally finished.

Nip/Tuck creator and director of Running With Scissors Ryan Murphy is adapting and directing a film called “Eat, Pray, Love” that Julia Roberts will star in.

NBC better get their asses back to the drawing board because their Fall sitcoms are crashing and burning. Hmm..could explain why they just fired 700 employees.

A new Sandra Bullock comedy is being developed called All About Steve where she plays a brilliant crossword puzzler that stalks a TV news camera man.

Talledega Nights star Sacha Baron Cohen is set to star alongside Johnny Depp in the screen adaptation of Sweeney Todd.

The season finale of Flavor of Love gave VH1 its highest ratings in the history of the network. It’s a sad day when VH1’s programming kicks MTV’s ass.

CBS’ crime show Criminal Minds takes down ABC drama “Lost” for the first time.

Jennifer Aniston’s eyeing to star in a new dramedy written by the screenwriter of Hollywoodland.

American Idol season one contestant RJ Helton just recently came out of the closet. I kind of knew he was gay back when he was on American Idol, but I was also in love with him so I thought maybe it was just wishful thinking. Now I know my gaydar really is the shit. He was my fave before I heard Kelly Clarkson sing “Respect.”

The teaser poster for Saw III has been released.

Here’s a tiny version of it:

The Hollywood Reporter has updated its article on “Wolverine” and has deleted all mention of a 2007 release for the Hugh Jackman film.

The Meryl Streep, Anne Hathaway movie “The Devil Wears Prada” is getting rave reviews.

I’ve always loved Anne Hathaway–especially in “Princess Diaries” and “Brokeback Mountain“. Can’t wait to see the film.

X-Men spinoff film ‘Wolverine‘ is set for release in 2007. It’s the first film to be produced under Hugh Jackman’s new production company Seed Productions, and it’ll be penned by David Benioff (25th Hour, Troy, Stay).

I hope they mean late 2007 and not the summer, because according to IMDB, the movie is still in development–not even in pre-production, and currently there’s no director. I guess that’s not too big of a problem–Brett Ratner didn’t come onto X-Men 3 until the very end and we all know how that worked out. (Please note the sarcasm).

Kate Bosworth’s teaming up with Orlando Bloom in the Tim Blake Nelson directed film “Seasons of Dust“. I’ve never really cared for either actor (even in “Elizabethtown” where Orlando was good, he got upstaged by Kirsten Dunst), but Kate seems like the kind of actress that could be good given the right role, and I’m anxious to see what she’s done with Lois Lane in Superman Returns.

Judging from the story, this movie seems like something completely different and challenging for both actors, so maybe it’ll be good. Not too sure about Nelson’s directing talents as the only movie I’ve seen that he’s directed is ‘O‘. That one was pretty good.

Star Jones Reynolds finally leaves “The View.” It was about time–I was really getting tired of hearing about Payless, Al, and her weight loss through “diet and exercise”. Although, I was really hoping she’d stay on long enough at least for Rosie to sit on her Wicked Witch of the West face a few times. Damn.

Oh well, at least Rosie can bite off Elizabeth Hasselbeck’s head–I’m getting really sick of her uninformed pointless conservative diatribes. Seriously, sweetheart–you got this job because you were on Survivor. And you didn’t even fucking win. Shove your head into a wood chipper.

Everyone’s favorite director except mine M. Night Shyamalan’s new flick “Lady In The Water” looks like yet another dud. I always say, artists get screwed when they get big heads because they stop striving to do their best work. He has to be the most full of himself director I’ve ever seen in my life, and it shows in his crappy films (sans ‘Sixth Sense‘).

Who knows, maybe Bryce Dallas Howard can save this movie like her and Joaquin Phoenix did with his last one, “The Village“. Apparently Jeffrey Wright’s in the film too…and he’s seriously an acting God. But seeing as how he doesn’t appear in the trailer, he probably has some crappy bit part that doesn’t showcase his incredible skills, and yet another fantastic actor goes underrated and underused. Great job Hollywood. Rent “Angels In America“.

It hits theaters on July 21.

Here’s the trailer:

“Cars,” the latest animated feature from newly merged Walt Disney Co. and Pixar Animation Studios, zoomed past “The Break-Up,” starring real-life celebrity couple Jennifer Aniston and Vince Vaughn, to finish first in North American theaters this weekend.

“Cars,” the cinematic tale of a talking hot rod named Lightning McQueen, brought in $62.8 million during its opening weekend, box office tracking firm Exhibitor Relations Co. Inc. said on Sunday.

“The Break-Up,” a surprise hit romantic comedy that actor Vaughn helped write, slipped into the No. 2 spot with $20.5 million in its second weekend.

The Friday-to-Sunday gross for “Cars” was the third-biggest opening for a film from Disney-Pixar, which has had a string of hits that have wheeled in more than $3.2 billion worldwide.

“Cars,” featuring the voices of Owen Wilson, Paul Newman, Helen Hunt and racing icon Richard Petty, is the seventh film from the team and its first collaboration since Disney acquired Pixar in January for $7.4 billion.

Chuck Viane, Disney’s president of distribution, expects the film to cross the $100 million mark sometime next weekend.

“I think we’re going to have legs,” he said. Viane added that international distribution has been delayed until the completion of the World Cup soccer championship on July 9.

The G-rated feature, in which up-and-coming race car Lightning McQueen learns valuable life lessons during a forced pit stop in a sleepy town, is directed by John Lasseter, whose “Toy Story 2” opened at $57.4 million.

The “Cars” opening weekend lagged the $70.5 million posted by “The Incredibles,” which chronicled the adventures of a superhero family, and the $70.3 million take from the fish tale “Finding Nemo” — the highest-grossing Disney-Pixar film ever, having reeled in more than $865 million worldwide.

“X-Men: The Last Stand,” the fantasy film starring Hugh Jackman and Halle Berry, came in at No. 3 with $15.6 million and has so far brought in $201.7 million — making it the first film of the year to break the $200 million mark.

News Corp.’s 20th Century Fox released “The Omen” on the date 6-6-06 and set a record for the most money collected by a movie with a Tuesday debut.

The horror remake is about a boy named Damien Thorn, who is a spawn of the devil and branded with the number 666 — which Christianity refers to as the mark of the devil. The movie scared up opening weekend receipts of $15.5 million.

DreamWorks Animation SKG Inc.’s “Over the Hedge” fell from third place to fifth.

The animal cartoon, which brought in $10.3 million over the weekend and $130.3 million since its debut, edged out “The Da Vinci Code.” That thriller had the second-biggest worldwide box office debut and has brought in $642 million globally, according to a spokesman for Sony Corp., whose Columbia Pictures unit distributed the film.

On the independent front, director Robert Altman’s “A Prairie Home Companion,” brought in $4.7 million from 760 theaters to land for a seventh place weekend finish.

Actor Hugh Jackman has stolen fellow Australian Russell Crowe lead role in Baz Luhrmann’s new film epic, after the Gladiator star was reportedly dumped by the director.

The X-Men star wowed the Moulin Rouge! film-maker and he will now play Nicole Kidman’s lover, instead of Crowe, in a movie set around the Japanese bombing of Darwin, Australia, in 1942.

Luhrmann tells Hollywood reporter: “He just continues to astound in terms of his range, whether it’s Boy From Oz or Wolverine. “He’s always been a leading man, but he is moving toward being an iconic leading man, which is perfect for the story we’re doing.”