- Peter Jackson and Steven Spielberg are lining up financiers for a three-movie series based on the Tintin comic books. The trilogy will star Viggo Mortensen as Captain Haddock, with a CGI’d Andy Serkis playing Tintin, Snowy, Captain Haddock, and Rastapopoulos the orc.
- Simon Cowell split with his longtime girlfriend Terri Seymour, calling her companionship “like a pathetic imitation of Whitney Houston that none of the voters will remember.”
- High School Musical 3 topped the box office for the second straight week, edging out the far less blatantly pornographic Zack and Mirri Make a Porno.
- Jessica Simpson’s hairstylist was rushed to the hospital after being hit in the face by a paparazzi camera. We’ll have minute-by-minute updates on the patient’s status as soon as we hear back from our 650 reporters stationed in his hospital room.
- NBC fired the two co-executive producers of Heroes yesterday, marking either the biggest staff shakeup or the most bizarre, meta plot twist in the show’s history.
