Just when you thought Steve Carell was the only major star featured in NBC's The Office, a bunch of his fellow co-workers are slowly landing gigs on the big screen in what could be Hollywood's next crop of comedic superstars. I already happened upon a few cameos from Office folks in Unaccompanied Minors (stay tuned for our review next week when the pic hits theaters on December 8), and Rainn Wilson (who plays Dwight on the show) is starting to make a bigger name for himself. But, if you want my opinion, it's the lovable John Krasinski (Jim) who is on course to become a major star ... assuming he continues to choose the right roles.

In what could potentially be his biggest role to date, Krasinski has just signed on to star alongside Renée Zellweger and George Clooney in Leatherheads, Clooney's directorial follow-up to Good Night, and Good Luck. Pic takes us back to the early days of football, back when folks frowned upon it, viewing the game as scandalous and evil. Clooney will play a team owner who recruits a straight-laced college phenom (Krasinski) to come play for him, as the sport slowly gains in popularity. However, when the coach falls in love with his star player's fiancee (Zellweger), all hell breaks loose.

While Clooney has starred in a batch of romantic comedies, this will be his first attempt at directing one -- and one production problem has already surfaced. Leatherheads is supposed to begin shooting this spring, yet Krasinski is busy with office duties until March. Folks are currently looking for a way around this, and one such proposal was to have Krasinski's character from The Office killed off when a stapler accidentally flies across the room and smacks him in the forehead. Just kidding. Or am I?

While it's been understood for a while now that Steven Soderbergh and George Clooney were going to break up, the official date is now set: Come August 1, that two-timing Clooney will (in a business sense, of course) move in with Good Night, and Good Luck writing and producing partner Grant Heslov and create a new label, called Smoke House. Clooney's departure will mean the end of new projects from Section 8, the production company that he and Soderbergh started in 2000 "with an eye toward nurturing offbeat and 'message' movies and TV projects." Don't worry about Steve, though -- in fact, his desire to focus more on directing and less on the business side of movie-making was one of the reasons for the shake-up. Despite the change of partner and office space, the move probably isn't that big of a change for Clooney: Smoke House, like Section 8, will be based on the Warner's lot, and the new company has already signed a long-term first-look deal with the studio. Plus, Heslov has been involved in Section 8 almost from the beginning, so this is more of a practical change than a revolution in focus or interest.

Now that we're just minutes away from this year's Academy Awards, I'm absolutely silly with anticipation. Who will win? Who will lose? Who will cry? Who will use their acceptance speech to try and save (insert random third world country here)? What about Jon Stewart? Will he bomb? Will he rock better than, well, Rock? Who will make the first Jack Nicholson joke? Oh, and am I the only one who wonders whether or not Ang Lee and Eric Bana will simply ignore that great big green monster mocking them from the corner? Perhaps they'll discuss a sequel during the commercial break - Jette's little brother would appreciate that.

While we here at Cinematical have done our best to predict the outcome of the Oscars, now it's time to sit back, relax and see who Isaac Mizrahi will decide to fondle on the red carpet. For this special Oscar Sunday edition of Trailer Park, I've decided to count down past Best Pictures, starting with A Beautiful Mind and leading up to this year's crop. By analyzing what's come before, will it be easy to choose the film that fits amongst Oscar's elite?

After checking out the following trailers, while you at home make your final predictions, be sure to stick around for my totally kick-ass red carpet coverage, followed by our live-blog of the actual ceremony. Sure, we're not as intelligent as Ryan Seacrest, but I'm positive we're better looking. Hell yeah, it's Oscar time on this week's Trailer Park...

As you know, the Oscar winners are determined by a highly secret, very scientific process guaranteed to ensure the very best of the nominees in each category will go home with the coveted statue of a naked golden man - and, let's be honest - who doesn't want a naked golden man on their bedside table or mantel? This year, as part of our extensive coverage of the awards show everyone loves to bitch about, we here at Cinematical headquarters are making our own highly scientific Oscar predictions in the top five categories, to assist you in placing bets with your bookies or office betting pools.

A few days ago, James Rocchi gave us his Oscar predictions, based on the Virtual Borgnine (tm), Rocchi's own invention based on the theory that Oscar winners are largely determined by old, rich, white men who have spent their whole lives in show business. Today, straight from the pristine lab located in my kitchen, we bring you Oscar predictions based on the Official Cinematical Pin the Oscar on the Donkey Oscar Prediction Game!

To assist me in the prediction process, I used my five assistants - my four (yup, I said four) younger children, ages 9, 6, 4 and 2, and my husband, Jay (he got to pick Best Picture, so I didn't have to deal with four kids fighting over who got to choose the last winner, but to keep it fair, the kids spun him around no less than 10 times. He's still recovering.) Each assistant was thoroughly blindfolded with an Oscar-worthy purple velveteen blindfold and spun around an appropriate number of times to ensure dizziness and slight nausea, which is pretty much what we feel when watching the Oscars anyhow. For purposes of determining the winner, the nominee that Oscar's head was closest to was judged to be the winner.

Without further ado, the Pin the Oscar on the Donkey Oscar Predictions: