- HOLLYWOOD ORIGINALITY: They’re going to remake Footloose, but this one will be different because Kevin Bacon‘s character will be played by that kid from High School Musical, which also has dancing and stuff. And maybe John Travolta will show up in drag, just for the f*ck of it. (Variety)
- TRANSFORMED RECORD: Congrats to Michael Bay, because it would seem Transformers is the highest grossing movie of all time that isn’t a sequel, doesn’t take place on a boat, was released on a numerically-symmetrical date, and thematically deals with the clash of man and machine but isn’t The Matrix. Time to break out the bubbly! But better make it Korbel. (Defamer)
- PUBLIC SERVICE ANNOUNCEMENT: This shocking (but funny) video advice aimed at young black men supposedly aired on BET, and makes up in sheer balls what it lacks in subtlety. (The Assimilated Negro, language NSFW)
- HOT TOPIC: Let us all now enjoy “Local News Team Freaks About Emo Culture They Clearly Don’t Understand”, volume 107. (CBS, via Stereogum)
- MEMO TO GITMO: According to Ratatouille star/stand-up comedian Patton Oswalt, our government might want to employ “answering the same movie press junket questions over and over” as a diabolical new method of terrorist torture. (The AV Club)
