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- Now we'll just paint a little happy Spartan over here. THIS...IS...PAINTING!

- Another operative is in place for Mission: Impossible IV (don't call it that). Paula Patton will join Tom Cruise and Jeremy Renner for the reboot-or-whatever-it-is-exactly as a young agent. Now here's an idea so crazy it might just work: Patton's Precious co-star Gabourey Sidibe for the villain!

- Joseph Gordon-Levitt and Scarlett Johansson are expected to star in the Diablo Cody-adapted zom-rom-com Breathers: A Zombie's Lament. Suddenly this video tutorial on how to make ScarJo look like a zombie comes in handy.

A few days ago, we shared a story about Gérard Depardieu calling Juliette Binoche "nothing" in an Austrian magazine article. It was a pretty out of the blue and uncalled for tirade -- and pretty personal to boot. In the interim, everyone's wondered what Binoche thought of his comments -- and Empire Online caught up with the actress and got her take on the whole debacle.

Anyone hoping Binoche would look into the camera and offer up a hearty "F you!" to Depardieu is bound to be disappointed. The actress takes the high road and comes across as quite lovely and even more sympathetic in her brief response. Ever the promoter, she manages to take the opportunity to tie things back to her new film, Certified Copy, while saying she's not sure what prompted the outburst in the first place.

The actress states that it's Depardieu's right not to like her and speculates that maybe something in her provocative new film offended his masculine sensibilities. She says she felt detached from the comments because even though she bore the brunt of his anger, it seems to have more to do with something going on inside of him. In fact, the only even remotely controversial comment she makes is wondering if it was jealousy on the actor's part that she's had too much success. But even that comes across innocently in light of what Depardieu said about her and in the fact that she doesn't point out she has an Oscar while he doesn't.

If Depardieu is smart this will be the last we hear of this story save for a piece on his subsequent apology -- but I can easily envision another scathing response from him far easier than I can him burying the hatchet. Think Depardieu will settle down now or will this inspire a new outburst? Hit the jump for Binoche's video response.

Jack Goes Boating, Philip Seymour Hoffman's directorial debut, is set to open nationwide on September 23rd. In the interim, you can check out an exclusive clip for the film (which drew good reviews on the festival circuit earlier this year) after the jump.

Presented as something of a romantic dramedy, Jack Goes Boating finds Hoffman starring as the title character. He's a lonely limo driver who suffers paralyzing fear when around women, but that starts to change when his best friend's wife (Daphne Rubin-Vega) introduces him to one of her funeral home co-workers (Amy Ryan). Hoffman and Ryan's romance blossoms while Rubin-Vega and onscreen husband John Ortiz watch their own union begin to disintegrate. In the two parallel stories, audiences see both sides of how relationships can play out.

Hoffman, Rubin-Vega, and Ortiz all reprise their roles from the off-Broadway stage play written by Bob Glaudini. It looks to be a sweet and touching film filled with genuinely emotional moments and powered along by Hoffman's almost child-like (in a good way) performance.

Our exclusive clip shows Hoffman and John Ortiz sitting in a diner as Hoffman plans to cook dinner for his new lady friend. Only problem is, he doesn't know how to cook. Ortiz offers up the services of a noted pastry chef who could give Hoffman a recipe, but warns him to be open because it might be something like a casserole. It's definitely not the funniest clip from the movie, but you do get a sense of Hoffman's character and how he relates to the world around him.

Hit the jump to see the clip for yourself then chime in below with your thoughts. I'd go boating with Philip Seymour Hoffman anytime.

When you mention the name Johnny Knoxville, one thing comes to mind: Jackass. The man has made a career out of performing dangerous stunts and juvenile pranks with his friends -- turning it into a multimedia empire in the process. However, one's body can only take so much abuse -- and as Knoxville gets older, I'm sure he's already planning his next move. The old noggin' probably doesn't take the thumps like it used to.

It turns out that Knoxville might have a future ahead of him as a documentarian. Boot-makers Palladium have been creating a series of viral videos where people don a pair of their boots, grab a camcorder, and explore the urban landscape while talking to the locals. Knoxville is the latest person to meet the challenge, and his film Detroit Lives is scheduled to go up at the Palladium site today. In the meantime, we've got a trailer that doesn't feature a single scene of someone performing an excretory function -- which may be a first for Knoxville.

Detroit, once the fourth largest city in the country, now looks like an urban wasteland. With the decline of the American auto industry, the city has fallen on hard times. But, as Knoxville soon learns, not everyone's giving up on the city. Young artists, entrepreneurs, and dreamers are toughing it out -- hoping to revitalize this once proud city and restore it to the glory days of its past. No small task, given how desolate and decayed some places featured in the video look.

Hit the jump to check out the trailer for Detroit Lives and be sure to keep an eye on the Palladium website for the full length version's debut. Can you take Knoxville seriously outside of Jackass or is he dead to you when he's not getting hit in the groin?

In the annals of hip-hop history, I don't think the lovable duo of Kid N' Play will probably ever get the musical respect of some of your more 'serious' rap artists out there. But they did do one thing right; they made House Party, and their induction into the hall of fame for Scenes (Songs) We Love, has been long overdue. But today we fix that, so let's all go back to 1990 for Kid Vs. Play, and some good natured (but quality) rap battling.

In the teen comedy, the duo starred as high school buddies (in roles originally written for DJ Jazzy Jeff & The Fresh Prince, aka Will Smith) who scheme and plot their way into having the party of the year while taking advantage of some parental absences. The usual obstacles from every teen movie find their way into the story, but thanks to performances from comedy heavyweights like Robin Harris (who passed away from a heart attack only nine days after the film's release), John Witherspoon, and Martin Lawrence, the movie is still funny 20 years later (20 years!? I think I may need to lie down).

You may have already missed this because I don't think we've covered it yet (we all know Cinematical is your only source for everything, c'mon!), but Diablo Cody -- while she awaited the could-happen-in-five-minutes-from-now birth of her child (she just recently spit out a baby boy - congrats!)-- has decided to put together a little web series in which she interviews other Hollywood personalities in the most luxuriously exotic location known to man: the back of a trailer.

Titled Red Band Trailer, Cody has shoveled out four episodes so far, interviewing folks like Adam Brody, Chelsea Handler, Jason Bateman and, in her latest episode, Megan Fox. Each episode runs somewhere in the vicinity of 11 minutes, and they have this sort of vintage, happy-go-lucky game show-ish vibe that occasionally pokes through with some snark. Sorry fellas, but the Megan Fox episode is pretty tame. After talking briefly about traveling to Los Angeles with her mother at 17 and staying at this weird apartment complex that houses all child stars for some reason (seriously, they're called the Oakwood Apartments and they totally housed Frankie Munez, Shia LaBeouf and crazy Hilary Duff hot tub parties), Fox and Cody spend several minutes talking about the way she's been portrayed in the press; how her words are usually taken way out of context by some "journalist" looking for a sound bite.

The best part is not when they play Price is Right with make-out toothpaste and a Jennifer's Body DVD, but when Cody lays it all out on the table and tells Fox that she thinks she's "a very eccentric, strange, weird woman", and that the press can't comprehend the fact that this beautiful girl can also have this absurd sense of self, or as Cody puts it: "I just think you're Crispin Glover-like weird."

Watch the slightly NSFW (beware of F-bombs) video after the jump and let us know what you think. Is Megan Fox really that weird, or is it mostly for show?

It's truly tragic that not enough people turned out to theaters to make the first Ghost Shark film a hit, which is precisely why Ghost Shark 2: Urban Jaws is going straight-to-video. It doesn't deserve that fate, though. It deserves to be seen on the silver screen. You just cannot properly capture the majesty of an ethereal great white shark on a television. To confine it to the small screen is an insult to the memory of the hundreds upon hundreds of souls who have been delivered unto the afterlife in his incorporeal jaws.

But alas, Ghost Shark 2 is not fated for the big screen. Actually, it's not fated for anything but you're computer screen. It's just a trailer; two minutes and thirty-one seconds of empty promises of a salty old seadog cursing the titular beast's unholy existence whilst he tries to hunt it down. Again.

Update: My apologies to the fine men and women behind Ghost Shark 2. I see so many of these concept trailers where the movie is the trailer, I just assumed that was the case with GS2. Not so. Andrew Todd and Johnny Hall are indeed making this a feature film and you can read more about the production here.

One of the great things about the Internet has always been all the free stuff you can find on it -- and I don't mean pirating. Sites like Hulu and Slashcontrol and countless others have been offering films and television programs for free through their websites. That's started to change recently. First Hulu announced the debut of a premium pay service for users who want access to the vast majority of the site's content, and now comes news that Google's looking to get into the online movie streaming business, which will utilize YouTube. Are the days of free Internet content nearing an end?

The Financial Times says that Google has approached major studios about launching a global pay per view movie service by the end of 2010. If this comes to fruition, analysts speculate that YouTube will become one of the major players in the online video streaming marketplace.

According to sources, Google is using their clout as the most well-known search engine and YouTube's reputation to pitch the service. They feel this will attract lots of visitors to the venture, which translates to money for them and Hollywood. Talks have been ongoing for quite some time, but apparently it's ramped up recently. If Google jumps into the streaming movie business and gets Google TV up and running, they'll theoretically be able to give places like Netflix and iTunes a run for their money. The one potential snag here is pricing. While no price has been set, the rumored amount is five bucks per movie. Seems steep to me, given everything else out there.

I'm all for competition since it should help consumers, so Google's welcome to join the party. Would you pay to stream movies through YouTube? Would you pay $5 a movie? Share your thoughts below.

More than half the votes in last week's Trailer Park poll went to expected winner Black Swan (with 57%). There is definitely a lot of interest in Darren Aronofsky's latest, far more than any of the other nine films. I am a bit surprised to see the Joaquin Phoenix documentary I'm Still Here garnering so few votes and coming in seventh place (4.1%), though I am glad to see people were into second-place winner, Machete Maidens Unleashed! (10.8%).

This weekend saw the release of The Last Exorcism so it makes sense that we saw a lot of creepy trailers for horror films this week, many of them on Horror Squad rather than here at Cinematical. By coincidence only, I think, are the timely debuts of trailers for the non-horror film 127 Hours, which at least has a gruesome element to it, and the documentary Inside Job, which features a blurb calling it a scarier movie than anything Wes Craven and John Carpenter have ever made. Both of these films were my top two favorites of the week.

Another commonality among this crop of trailers is many of them are screening at the Toronto International Film Festival next month. These include those first two titles, as well as Adam Wingard's An Awful Way to Die, Guillem Morales' Julia's Eyes and Stephen Frears' Tamara Drewe. Meanwhile, this week's big star is Danny Glover, who appears in two new trailers -- Age of the Dragons and Legendary.

See this week's trailer rankings and vote for your favorite after the jump.

Back in May, our own Peter Hall posted a Cinematical Late Night update mentioning Vivid Entertainment's plans to make porntastic spoof movies featuring popular superheroes. It makes sense -- porn might be one of the only things the average comic geek loves almost as much as his books.

The company has announced a new line of hardcore films under their Vivid Superhero banner. Porn parodies in the works include X-rated versions of The Green Hornet, Spider-Man, Superman, and Wonder Woman. Filming on Superman is already under way according to site Reelcomix.com.

Vivid's already got one film in the can -- Batman XXX: A Porn Parody, which takes the campy 60's television series and makes it ... well, porn. If you ever wanted to see Batman use the adult toys on his utility belt, then this is your lucky day!