We’ve been avoiding this story like the plague, but since it rose to the top of Digg’s main page yesterday, we’ve been getting a lot of e-mails about it.

(Also things we ignored from tipsters yesterday: in case you weren’t paying attention, that Star Trek picture was not from the new JJ Trek.)

Anyway, you know that Uwe Boll petition to get him to stop making movies? The one you guys should have signed already and can still sign here?

Stride gum has now decided to back the petition. If one million signatories can be mobilized by the time Boll’s newest, Postal, comes out on May 23rd, everyone who signed the petition will get a downloadable coupon for a free pack of gum.

We’re already on the petition, joining the ranks of the other 262,772 potential free gum winners who now must motivate 737, 227 other people to sign a petition in 14 days, lest we go gum-less.

If you haven’t, join the undersigned.

Willa Ford starred in an ultra-C-List, absolutely budget-less, got most of their press form a Variety article, bio pic of Anna Nicole Smith. How she roped a group of what appears to be soft-core porn producers with (once again, we’re guessing) a Lifetime movie reject crew is a mystery to us, but after the films announcement and a few TMZ-in-poor-taste behind the scenes looks, the film dropped off the radar.

Now, the flick has leaked on the internet in torrent fashion, though it appears that the film was not ripped from a DVD. Who knows why the movie showed up this way, instead of at least a bare-bones DVD release.

Is it really that bad? Yes.

And we have a 7-minute video full of clips about just how bad it is, after the jump.

As if eating New Line alive wasn’t enough to feed the beast, Warner Brothers has announced today that they will also be shuttering up Picturehouse and Warner Independent Pictures.

What’s worse is the official statement seems to blame the folding on New Line’s addition, subtly hinting that the New Line banner will be taking over the production budgets and schedules of both Picturehouse and WIP.

Get the statement and more inside.

Ryan Seacrest apparently fills in for Larry King from time to time. We wouldn’t know, we haven’t watched Larry King in a long time. The last time we thought we were watching Larry King, it was actually the original Universal Mummy movie. The black and white one.

Regardless, with Seacrest’s occasional forays behind the desk of King seem to be all he needs to kick up some rumor dust about his candidacy to replace Larry around the end of this year.

Details after the jump.

Good news for fans of the cinema of Frank Miller. Lionsgate has decided to move Miller’s solo directorial debut The Spirit from its original January 16th release date to December 25th 2008.

This means bigger audiences fro The Spirit, at least from being open on national Jews Go To The Movies Day. Not to mention that the farther a film gets away from the late February dumping ground reserved for parody films and cheap date movies, the better.

Hopefully you weren’t planning to make a full re-creation of The Dark Knight with action figures, because you may have trouble finding a tiny re-creation of The Joker.

/Film reports that the Joker action figure from the upcoming first series of The Dark Knight toy line has flown off of the shelves of toy retailers who didn’t expect this rather grim souvenir to sell as well as it did.

Hey, have you guys heard about this movie called Iron Man? We’re hearing it might be the greatest thing ever. Really, ever. It didn’t lose ground to the other media property that was supposed to clear our economic stimulus checks (GTA IV), hell, it even got women into the theater for a summer action flick and boosted Marvel’s stock.

Is there nothing Iron Man can’t do?

Can it…gulp…jump-start award season?

That and some praise from Jon Favreau inside.

Ever since Oprah started talking about The Sex And The City Movie last week, our friend Emily (who gave her honest reactions to the SATC trailer) has been occasionally piping up with “Mayyy Thirrrrrtieth!” in Oprah rising excitement voice during normal SATC conversations.

But we haven’t talked about the big rumor going around, that the Movie will involve the death of Carrie’s series-long love Mr. Big.

You’d be surprised how much steam this rumor has gained in the past few weeks. Enough steam that someone finally approached director Michael Patrick King, asking nicely if he was planning to kill off Chris Noth’s Big man.

Look at that poster: does something strike you as odd?

Maybe the faces? Specifically how Mulder’s face looks like they took our David Duchovny’s face and replaced it with a version rendered by the PS2?

What the shit is up with that?

In our humble opinion (if only there was plural acronym for IMHO), this poster deserved much more attention. It could have been badass if they didn’t f*ck with Mulder and Scully’s heads, bodies and proportions.

Blood on the ice was cool enough for us.

Iron Man outperformed the conservative estimates this weekend, cracking $100 million dollars, a full $25 million over the highest of our various tracking estimates.

Iron Man – $100,750,000
Made Of Honor - $15,500,000
Baby Mama - $10,332,000

That lead to this YouTube fan video, which we can’t agree with more.

Ok, Ok. We said just a few days ago that we were going to stop covering this because Uwe Boll is horrible filmmaker who is just trying to promote his movie Postal by boxing celebrities. Not only that, but Michael Bay is knee-deep in Transformers 2 pre-production and has all but banned mention of Uwe Boll from his official message boards.

Thing is, Boll says that the boxing match is on for this fall.

Seriously:

We’re going to have to have to stop-loss our ban on the Boll V. Bay internet fued because one of two things are about to happen:

1) MOST LIKELY: Michael Bay will catch wind of this, realize that he is being used to promote Postal (who is going to see Postal 10-fucking-times?) and will attempt to sue Boll for, at least, libel.

2) LESS LIKELY, MORE ENTERTAINING: Boll isn’t blowing smoke up our asses and Michael Bay will confirm that he is going to meet Uwe Boll in the boxing ring this fall.

Either way, that’s good Bad and Ugly.

Ok, ok. We haven’t seen Iron Man. You’d think we’d be the kind of people who would rush out to see the early showings, and we’re not going to deny there were some curious phone calls between friends and staff members last night around 8PM, but most of us were trying to finish up some work before The Office/30 Rock came on.

So, we’re still amongst those who have not yet pledged the price of a movie ticket towards Iron Man’s noble fight.

If Iron Man makes over $70 million, as conservatively suggested, the following things will be proven/justified:

- Iron Man is the best reviewed studio-film of the year.

- Iron Man is the first real “summer movie.”

- Iron Man might be able to crush Speed Racer, leaving open territory between here and Dr. Jones.

- Iron Man’s success will prove that all the GTA fans can play video games and see movies in…gaps!…the same weekend.

-Iron Man 2 will be greenlit for a 2010 release date.

Yes, we’re sure about that last one. Sumner Redstone and Brad Grey (Exec Chairman and CEO, respectively) told Entertainment Tonight that if the movie does as well as expected, Paramount will greenlight a sequel for the same week in 2010.

That would throw it up against Chronicles of Narnia: Voyage of the Dawn Treader.

Jennifer Lopez has been developing something over at TLC for a little bit, and most assumed that we would be seeing a reality show about how “Jenny From The Block” kept it “real” while raising “children” with her husband Marc Anthony.

Even though this seems like a bad idea to us as people who watch television, we let it slide because we don’t find our dial turned to TLC all that often (that acronym stands for The Learning Channel, by the ironic way). Some people seemed really into the idea because celebrities raising twins…well, it seems like the plot to a really stupid chick flick.

But some chick flicks make money.

That was until Lopez’s manager, with one single statement, killed a tremendous amount of buzz about the JLo show in development:

“The recent show Jennifer Lopez plans to produce for TLC is not a reality show. It’s a show that will track the creation, production and eventual launch of a new fragrance. Jennifer will appear in a creative, entrepreneurial capacity and will absolutely not feature her children and family life.”

Sounds riveting, right?

Our following of the Scarlett Johansson album has toned down when it became apparent that everyone was much more interested in the Scarlett pics we put up accompanying each story.

Well, let’s merge the two. Here’s the video for “Falling Down” featuring David Bowie on backup vocals (not in the video).

Either way, it’s a weird song that is going to leave people mixed, so we’ll just let you think what you wanna think while you watch this “day in the life” of Scarlett.