I don’t give Jessica Alba a lot of credit. I don’t think she’s a good actress, though she could have been a killer Web 2.0 personality. I started to get a wiff of this when she participated in the ibeatyou staring contest:

To further is argument, at some inauguration events this month, Alba decided to take on Bill O’Reilly:

At the same event, Alba was feeling a little bit frisky and decided to ask one reporter what he though Barack Obama’s greatest characteristic is, and when he said he didn’t feel comfortable answering the question because he was a journalist, Alba told him: “be neutral - be Sweden about it.”

TMZ decided that Alba was a ditz for saying this, because she confused Sweden for Switzerland as a neutral country in World War II. Not much later, O’Reilly joined the ditz train. But, somewhat surprisingly, Alba got the last laugh…

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i09 really hit a home run with their newest Chart Porn allowing you to make your own episode of Star Trek: The Original Series with a handy yes/no flow chart. Do you have access to alien ship models? Is it the third season yet? Kirk puts on his boots. It’s all there.

Click the image to check out the full thing.

About a month ago, Disney decided that they weren’t going to help Walden Media finance the third Chronicles of Narnia film, The Voyage of the Dawn Treader because fantasy films have been failing all over the board since Lord Of The Rings ended and Harry Potter got shuffled into the summer. Inkheart is probably going to do in the books as a failure in the latest blow to fantasy cinema.

Add onto that the relatively disappointing numbers for the second Narnia film, Prince Caspian and suddenly a third movie in an ongoing series looks a lot more like marching towards the cliff despite warnings.

On the other hand, Dawn Treader was my favorite Narnia book growing up and seeing it on screen could be pretty damn cool. I just wish that Walden Media found someone else to co-finance Narnia, since Fox has trouble treating projects with respect.

Though I guess they could use some of that Watchmen money…

X-Men Origins: Wolverine is reshooting at the University of British Columbia under the watchful eye of Watchmen money and 20th Century Fox.

We’ve got our first look at the reshoots taking place, thanks to…

Sometimes lots of stuff happens, and though I could put up a series of one line posts (and with my current computer-less situation, that would be an attractive option), or I can bring back The Dregs to sum up some of the big, breaking stories of the week.

While I slowly wear down the battery on my friend’s MacBook, I have opted for the latter. So, check it:

Tin Tin has slightly evolved in public perception. The screenplay, written by Steven Moffat, Edgar Wright and Joe Cornish will be directed by Steven Spielberg and produced by Peter Jackson. It’s called Tin Tin: The Secret Of The Unicorn, and will probably be based on the 11th and 12th books in the series, called Secret Of The Unicorn and Red Rackham’s Treasure. These two books set off a four-book series that conclude with The Seven Crystal Balls and Prisoners of the Sun, probably stories that will be lumped into Peter Jackson’s sequel. Also, Jamie Bell, who was previously Billy Elliot in Billy Elliot will play Tin Tin. You can read what I just wrote, but with another entertaining voice behind it HERE at /Film.

John Singleton was all like: “Hey, I’ll make and A-Team movie,” then he dropped out, because - seriously people - why make an A-Team movie. Then, Tony and Ridley Scott thought: “Hey, maybe we can make a good A-Team movie,” but they set it up at Fox, who branded them with a June 11th 2010 release date and Joe Carnahan (Narc, Smokin’ Aces) to direct, which means A-Team’s crappy concept has been handed over to a crappy studio with a competent director. Now it needs to prove it’s worthy. [THR]

So that long post that we wrote about the Green Hornet maybe being on life support (HERE) may not have been the most accurate thing. Or, maybe it was and the industry buzz had an ulterior motive, like kicking production into gear (nothing starts production like thinking it’s in jeopardy). Now, we’re hearing that it’s still churning at that Adam Sandler and Seth Rogan have apparently made nice on the set of Judd Apatow’s funny people, because Sandler is going to be in The Green Hornet as a superhero cameo. More at HitFix HERE.

Nancy Cartwright, voice of Bart Simpson and avid Scientologist has recorded a robo-call to pimp out one of the church events she will be speaking at. At the risk of pissing someone off; this is a bad call.

Fox owns Bart Simpson (and to a lesser degree, Nancy) and probably isn’t going to put up with this crap.

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Dan LuVisis is a production designer and concept artist who must really want a position on Marc Forster’s World War Z, a film that chronicles the war between man and zombie that ends up killing the majority of the human population. The book, written in the style of an oral history, is by Max Brooks and was optioned, originally, to Brad Pitt’s Plan B production house.

Now, we know Forster is probably going to direct, and it looks awesome if LuVisis has any say.

This particular scene in the book is when the humans try to hold the horde in Yonkers, New York only to discover that all their military technology is good at killing, but not really good at killing stuff that is already dead. The book’s scene is massive and this concept art makes it look like the screen adaptation might do the book justice.

You can see a really hi-def version HERE at i09. Notice that the poster on top of the parking structure is for Quantum Of Solace. That’s some high-brow ass-kissing!