Today is: Gay Utah finds a new prom queen, Non-Gay Utah hates freedom, Sahara continues to hemorrhage money, Twilight newz!!, and frigging Octomom. The Sundance Film Festival has a new director. John Cooper, a 20-year veteran of the festival who worked in programming, has been moved up to the top sp...

Michael J. Fox is working again. As is Rebecca Romijn. Sean Penn and Melissa Leo make post-Oscar plans, and a great stage vet gets a potentially good role. Begrizzled homo-loving son of a gun Sean Penn will be starring in a film about drugs. It's a Brian Grazer-produced film called Cartel and is a s...

Everyone everywhere is mad about Terminator. Ashlee Simpson continues to plague us, as does The View . More film work for Tracy Morgan! And Julia Roberts too. Terminator Salvation is once again surrounded with controversy and angry people. This time, though, Christian Bale is blessedly uninvolved. N...

It's true there are no new ideas left in Hollywood, and even the old ideas are starting to not look so good. Ah well, we soldier on in spite of (or because of) it anyway. Movie folk continue to mine......

Today in the news of the showbiz world, we have Meryl Streep as Brechtian hero. Steve Carell as fought-over divorce child. Tyler Perry as fool. And Shonda Rhimes as wicked devil creator. Did you wake up this morning feeling like it was your lucky day? Well, it wasn't as baseless and miserably ironic...

Another children's book is ruined, Christopher Nolan plans his next project (yay!), a crazy old rich man gets his day in Hollywood, Mickey Rourke steamrolls on, as does, sigh Sherri Shepherd. Bruce Willis and Tracy Morgan are teeming up as a mismatched duo in the wacky comedy A Couple of Cops. It's ...

· Anne Heche will play the ex-wife of Ray, the anatomically superendowed protagonist of Hung. She replaces Kristin Bauer, last seen being escorted away in a wheelchair, dead-eyed and repeating, "The diameter...the diameter..." [THR] · NBC has picked up a reality series starring Tony Ro...

· Tropic Thunder writer Etan Cohen will pen Universal's adaptation of Hasbro's Candy Land , with Enchanted's Kevin Lima set to direct. This will probably wind up matching Enchanted's tone of grownup-servicing kiddie-nip: A colorful, inner-candy-city drama revolving around down-and-out candy h...

· Universal's remaking The Thing , with Battlestar Galactica EP Ron Moore to write the script and commercials director Matthijs Van Heijningen set to direct. If you've forgotten how amazing John Carpenter's version was, watch this. · HBO ordered a half-hour drama pilot with Ellen Barki...

· After a queerific if largely unfabulous stay in Brooklyn, the next season of MTV's The Real World is heading to Cancun to tackle the overstuffed-hot-tub issues facing today's spring-breaking youth. [THR] · The Motion Picture Sound Editors have nominated Australia, Slumdog Millionaire...