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• Whether you watch Entourage or not, you've probably heard that the show's premise is loosely based on Mark Wahlberg's own experiences as he stepped into the movie business. Now he's finally getting into the action. Mixed in with his upcoming work with The Fighter and The Brazilian Job, Ace Showbiz reports that Wahlberg has filmed a scene with Jeremy Piven for the show where they go at it. There's no word on who Wahlberg will play.
  
• Louise Linton, who played a Skin Care Consultant in Lions for Lambs, and Katie in The Echo, is now going sporty. Variety reports that the actress has signed on for a role in the indie comedy The Wiffler: The Ted Whitfield Story. She'll play a woman called Shannon Storm in the film, which focuses on the MLB strike in 1994, that let the nation turn its eyes to wiffle ball.
• Finally, Alex Pettyfer, who you might remember as Alex Rider in Stormbreaker, is getting ready to be Tormented. Variety reports that the actor will topline the horror film, which centers on "a bullied teen who comes back from the dead to take his revenge." And people think they just have to fear karma... He'll be joined by the likes of April Pearson, Larissa Wilson, Mary Nighy, and Dimitri Leonidas.

Johnny Depp Moves to Remote Deserted Island!

See, this is exactly why shooting two back-to-back Pirates of the Caribbean films was a bad idea. After purchasing an island in the Bahamas back in 2004, Johnny Depp is looking to move his family there full time. While the actor says he'll continue to spend time in France and the U.S., he'd like to make this island their "home base" because it's so peaceful there. I wonder if he'll have them all up in some bizarre tree-house, feeding off the earth and constantly on the look-out for enemy pirate ships? You think I'm joking? The guy has spent so much time dressed up as Captain Jack, it wouldn't surprise me in the least if he were to become a real pirate. I just feel bad for the kids -- perhaps they can borrow a few volleyballs from Tom Hanks and make some new friends. "Wilson!"

Baby Suri Given the Silent Treatment!

It's been two months since Katie Holmes has given birth to baby Suri and, still, no one has seen the child. Not their friends. Not the press. Not Mel Gibson. No one! So, why are they hiding her? Where is she? How is she? And here's my favorite -- does she even exist? As the celebrity gossip community tries desperately to understand why Tom Cruise and his wife would not want to subject their newborn baby to hundreds of slobbering paparazzi, the latest news is that, well, this whole thing has to do with Scientology. See, in Scientology terms, a negative experience (paparazzi chasing you) combined with noise (paparazzi screaming at you) can result in an "engram." Yeah, and supposedly an "engram" is not a good thing. God help me if this poor child is being kept in some sound-proof bubble because its father is a paranoid mess and its mother is brainwashed. Where's Dr. Phil?!

Stormbreaker Star Quits School!

Though the film hasn't hit theaters yet, 16-year-old Alex Pettyfer dropped out of school, confident his film Stormbreaker will make him a household name. In the pic, the actor stars as a teenage spy who, apparently, saves the world or something. Speaking at the Stormbreaker premiere in London, Pettyfer says, "When you have already experienced going out and working in the real world, and you come back to school, you just see it as a playground and you don't want to be there any more." Way to be a role model Alex! School sucks! I'll make sure and remember this quote for when the kid shows up on VHI's "Child Actors Who Quit School Because They're Morons" series in about five to ten years from now. However, first we'll need him to complete Hollywood's "graduate studies" program. Rumor has it he's majoring in coke addiction, with a minor in big box office bombs. (And no, I'm not talking about you Lindsay Lohan. You didn't hear me say 'fake bombs', did you?)

We haven't talked much here about Stormbreaker, a movie based on a series of British books about Alex Rider (played in the movie by newbie Alex Pettyfer), a teenage superspy. As the story begins, Alex's uncle (Who I'd pictured as older, stern, and a bit mysterious -- a bit like James Mason, if you will. Turns out that he's Ewan McGregor, a casting decision that makes him a lot cooler than the uncle I'd imagined ...), a banker, dies in a car accident. It's eventually revealed that the uncle was in fact a spy for MI6, and for some reason it's decided that Alex needs to take over his mission.

Anyway, the buzz about this project has been surprisingly loud in certain circles of the internet, and now that the full trailer is finally out, it's unlikely that the anticipation will cool. I have no idea if Stormbreaker is going to be any good, but I'm really surprised by the trailer -- instead of the stupid, Cute Child Spy! movie I'd imagined, it looks just as dark and nasty as the best moments of the Bond series that so obviously influenced the film. After all, it's not often that you see a teenage protagonist being both threatened with violence and wielding an automatic weapon as part of his job. If any of you have been looking forward to this one, check out the trailer and let us know what you think.

Stormbreaker comes out Friday in the UK, and on August 18 in the US.

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