Jake Gyllenhaal defends his sexuality in the Telegraph when asked about his comments in Out magazine where he implied he might be bisexual. Jesus, can’t someone play a gay role without getting hounded about their sexuality?

Is Ugly Betty star Vanessa Williams dating Vince Vaughn? Dear God, I hope not. After he stopped smoking he turned into a hot mess–fat, wrinkled, bald, with nasty nose hair. And Vanessa’s a Goddess.

After already gaining 20 pounds and growing a full beard for the role, Ryan Gosling has pulled out of Peter Jackson’s The Lovely Bones a day before the film starts shooting due to “creative differences”. He’s been replaced by Oscar nominee Mark Wahlberg.

The screenwriters who penned the Superman Returns film are not returning for the lowly anticipated sequel. That’s definitely good news for Bryan Singer, the studio, and anyone with any hopes of this film being any good. That first movie was awful.

While promoting The Bourne Ultimatum in Japan hottie Matt Damon said he is open to possibly doing another Bourne film. Aren’t there only three books, though? I’m afraid this could end up not being so great. I loved the first three movies.

Directed by Gavin Hood, X-Men prequel Wolverine is coming to the big screen in May of 2009. Here’s to hoping for many gratuitous Hugh Jackman nude scenes.

Debra Messing will reprise her Emmy-nominated role in her mini-series The Starter Wife. It’s coming back to USA as an actual series–they’ve so far ordered ten episodes.

Carrie Underwood who recently broke up with football star Tony Romo, is now dating Chase Crawford whom you might recognize from the CW’s moderate hit Gossip Girl. I can’t be the only one whose gaydar is pinging.

Things are looking up for NBC’s moderate hit and one of my favorite shows, Medium. They still have not announced if the show is getting picked up or not, for a fourth season, however NBC has ordered six more scripts, which is a good sign.

What in the world has happened to Vince Vaughn? He used to be so damn sexy, and used to have a really hot body. Remember Clay Pigeons? Now he looks like one of the Marlboro Man’s inbred grandchildren.

Tom Hanks and Ron Howard are returning for the prequel to The DaVinci Code, called Angels and Demons. DaVinci earned nearly 800 million dollars worldwide, so I’m sure both are going to see a pretty penny come paycheck time.

In yet another odd comic book movie casting choice, Avi Arad has revealed that Edward Norton will be playing Bruce Banner, better known as The Incredible Hulk in the next installment of the franchise. Hopefully it’s a lot better than that horrible film with Jennifer Connelly and Eric Bana.

Lots of A-Listers, and even more C-Listers turned out for the recent GLAAD Media Awards, including Jennifer Aniston, who for whatever reason received an award, Jake Gyllenhaal, Ben Affleck, Jennifer Hudson, and Patti LaBelle.

Pink tells Jimmy Kimmel she wants to make sure President Bush hears her song Dear Mr. President completely uncensored. And she thinks he may even respond with a song of his own. Through Eminem.

After nearly a decade, thanks to Ted Kennedy, the Hate Crimes Prevention Act–originally introduced in 1999 might finally get passed. With a Democratically controlled congress, and Judy Shepard’s (Matthew Shepard’s mother) support, maybe now we can get federal protection for gay people from vicious hate crimes.

Anika Noni Rose will be voicing the lead role in Disney’s upcoming animated feature The Frog Princess, in what will be historic as the first Disney film to have an African-American princess. Rose reportedly beat Tyra Banks, Alicia Keys, and Jennifer Hudson for the role.

Since Jennifer Aniston and Vince Vaughn are my fave celeb couple right now, I was really disappointed when I found out they had split. Especially after finding out it was because Vince had cheated on her with some average blonde bimbo. Luckily though, Jen paid a visit to the Oprah show last week (the show airs this week) to confirm that the two ARE still together, so I can breathe a sigh of relief. And here I was thinking their relationship was nothing but a publicity stunt to get people to see The Break-Up.

Seems Jen isn’t the only one denying the break up rumors–her friend Courtney Cox Arquette’s husband David confirmed in an interview as well that the pair are still together, and Vince himself is now suing two British tabloids that claimed he cheated on my favorite “Good Girl.”

People magazine reports:

Vince Vaughn is making it clear that he’s still devoted to Jennifer Aniston: He’s threatening to sue several tabloid newspapers that alleged he was seen kissing a “mystery blonde” and had ended his relationship with Aniston.

In a statement released by the London law firm Schillings, Vaughn – described by his attorneys as the “Hollywood actor, also known for being the partner of Jennifer Aniston” – is said to be filing a “legal complaint” against “The Sun and Daily Mirror newspapers … and the New York Post.”

Vaughn complains that papers “published allegations that he was caught kissing a mystery blonde whilst attending a charity event on Sunday (Oct. 8 ) at London’s Old Vic theatre. Mr Vaughn will say that the articles suggested that he was unfaithful to Ms Aniston, with whom he had allegedly ended his relationship only a week before.”

The statement continues, “Ms. Aniston and Mr. Vaughn had not ended their relationship either at the material time or since. … The suggestion that he was having a passionate embrace and kiss, or has ever been unfaithful to Ms. Aniston, are false.”

According to the statement from Vaughn’s attorneys, “The case is expected to go to jury trial in London’s High Court in 2007, if it does not settle earlier.”

Aniston herself said on the episode of The Oprah Winfrey Show airing Oct. 11 that she and Vaughn had not split.

Asked by Winfrey if she and Vaughn had broken up, Aniston answered, “No, no.”

This week’s video clip of the week is a compilation of Julia Roberts‘ best scenes in her Academy Award winning performance in Erin Brockovich.

It’s my favorite movie of hers–she basically makes the movie worth watching. A few people are pissed she didn’t thank the real Erin in her Oscar speech, but you know what people? Get over it.

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Freddie Prinze Jr. and Hustle & Flow star Taryn Manning are starring in a film called Jack and Jill v. the World by writer-director Vanessa Parise (Kiss The Bride).

The movie is a romantic satire of the advertising world concerns a cynical guy who falls for a carefree young girl with a secret.

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Vince Vaughn is ready to stretch his dramatic chops in a new movie by Oscar winning writer and director Paul Haggis (Million Dollar Baby, Crash). Haggis wants to cast Vince in his hot-button political drama Against All Enemies.

The movie chronicles how the Bush administration handled the al-Qaida threat both before and after the Sept. 11 terrorist attacks.

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Lucy Liu and Batman Begins star Cillian Murphy will star in the romantic comedy Watching The Detectives.

“Detectives” centers on a film noir buff (Murphy) whose world is turned upside down when a beautiful, unpredictable femme fatale (Liu) provides far more adventure than he ever experienced — and possibly more than he can handle.

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Sienna Miller and Peter Sarsgaard (well overdue for an Oscar nomination by the way) are in final negotiations to star in The Mysteries of Pittsburgh, based on the novel by Michael Chabon.

Michael Chabon’s debut novel is set in Pittsburgh in the mid-1980s and chronicles the joy, sexual awakening, and heartache of growing up for the story’s central character, Art Bechstein.

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I always knew Ann Coulter was a bitch…but I didn’t know she was a lying, cheating, stealing bitch.

“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.

Writer-director Sean Penn continues to lure a stellar cast “Into the Wild.”

Oscar winners William Hurt and Marcia Gay Harden have signed on to co-star in the film, which will be distributed by Paramount Vantage. Emile Hirsch, Vince Vaughn and Catherine Keener already have boarded the project.

Based on Jon Krakauer’s non-fiction book, the story centers on Christopher McCandless (Hirsch), who graduated from college in 1992, abandoned his possessions and hitchhiked to Alaska to live in the wilderness and return to nature. He died four months later in an abandoned bus at a remote campsite. Hurt and Harden will play McCandless’ parents.

Art Linson, Penn and William M. Pohlad are producing. Pohlad’s River Road Entertainment is financing the project. Pohlad also financed Ang Lee’s “Brokeback Mountain” and Robert Altman’s “A Prairie Home Companion.”

Hurt, whose recent credits include “Syriana” and “A History of Violence,” for which he received a best supporting actor Oscar nomination, next will appear in Robert De Niro’s “The Good Shepherd.” The four-time nominee won a best actor Academy Award for “Kiss of the Spider Woman.”

Harden, whose recent credits include “American Dreamz,” was nominated for an Oscar for her supporting turn in “Mystic River,” in which she co-starred with Penn. She won an Academy Award for best supporting actress for “Pollock.”

Christina Aguilera premiered her new single “Ain’t No Other Man” in a live performance at the MTV Movie Awards two nights ago and from the buzz around it and the pictures–it looks like it was a promising performance. What it has to do with movies–who knows. But who cares?

Jessica Alba hosted the star-studded event with four outfit and hair changes, and among the winners were Jake Gyllenhaal (Best Actor and Best Kiss), Brad Pitt and Angelina Jolie (Best Fight), Steve Carrell (Comedic Performance) and even Jessica herself (Sexiest Performance).

It airs on Thursday, June 8.

Here are some pictures from the event, including Christina Aguilera’s saucy performance.

Click here for more.

Vince Vaughn and Jennifer Aniston took down the mutants in a weekend that was expected to see a second straight box office win for 20th Century Fox’s X-Men: The Last Stand.

Universal Pictures romantic comedy The Break-Up surprised the industry with an impressive $38.1 million from 3,070 theaters in its first weekend. The Vaughn and Aniston-starrer averaged a strong $12,395 per theater and cost about $52 million to make.

Fox’s X-Men: The Last Stand took a huge dive of 66.6% in its second weekend after setting the new Memorial Day weekend record last week. The third installment added $34.4 million and has collected $175.7 million so far domestically.

DreamWorks Animation’s Over the Hedge remained in the third spot and made another $20.6 million in its third weekend for a total of $112.4 million. The animated comedy was able to surpass Sony’s The Da Vinci Code, which had topped it the previous two weekends in North America. “Code” earned $19.3 million and has reached $172.7 million.

Tom Cruise’s Mission: Impossible III and Wolfgang Peterson’s Poseidon each dropped a spot with $4.7 million and $3.4 million, respectively. “M:i:III” has earned $122.7 million after five weeks, while Poseidon is at $51.7 million after four weeks.

Although it expanded to just 77 theaters, Al Gore documentary An Inconvenient Truth was able to enter the Top Ten in ninth with $1.3 million. The film has made $1.9 million in two weeks.

Also in limited release, the French action flick District B13, co-written and produced by Luc Besson, grossed $410,000 in its opening weekend in 151 theaters, a weak average of $2,715 per theater. Lionsgate opened the drama Peaceful Warrior in 10 theaters from which it made $77,000, and documentary The War Tapes was released in just one theater but managed to take in $13,200.

Jennifer Aniston and Vince Vaughn are the cover story on this week’s Entertainment Weekly. You can read the interview with them here.

More photos from the exclusive EW shoot here.