Don’t let the title fool you, because it is a deceptive one. I’ll clear up the confusion right now, before the cut.

Arrested Development superfans (ADdicts) got themselves into a flurry of “spoiler” cheers when this casting notice went up across the wire:

“THE ARRESTED DEVELOPMENT
FEATURE FILM” SAG
PROD CO: ARRESTED DEVELOPMENT PRODS
SHOOT: 1ST WEEK OF MAY
LOCATION: NYC

SEEKING:

[GOLDSTONE] An appealing Caucasian man in his late 20s to early 30s. Goldstone is a graduate of the Yale School of Drama who is frustrated with his stalled acting career and desperate to get it onto the fast track. He meets life head on with fearless determination. He is an optimist, a problem solver and a go-getter. Goldstone is intelligent and charming, well bred, reliable and good at heart. He is in a long-term relationship and is very committed and faithful. But, he has a dark side - he can be almost ruthless in his ambition to succeed, self-centered and brutally hard on others as well as himself. Willing to pay SAG Low Budget Rates for this role.

People thinking Tobias Funke would finally find an East Coast doppelganger had their hopes dashed when Defamer probed into the notice further:

…we did a little more digging and discovered that the project was set to be directed by unknown Stephen Marro, not Mitch Hurwitz or Ron Howard as previously rumored. And what’s the last credit on Marro’s IMDb resume? A short film entitled (yup) Arrested Development, with Jonathon Schaech as “Goldstone.”

Get it? It’s just and unfortunate coincidence that Stephen Marrow decided to name his indie film after a highly anticipated television adaptation.

The REAL Arrested Development news came off the Oscar’s red carpet…

Yes, there is a Three Stooges movie in production (we covered it HERE), but the current rumor being published on online gossip sites is without merit. Don’t believe what you read, because ______________ is probably not going to be playing Moe and _____________ is probably not going to be playing Curly.

Fillin’ in the blanks…

The gossiping blogs have chosen their focus for the day: Christian Bale remixes and Scarlett Johansson’s new red hair as unveiled at an event in promotion for He’s Just Not That Into You, which basically describes my feelings for that particular movie.

She may be married to Ryan Reynolds, but at least she’s back to being really hot again.

Ah, Dwayne “The Rock” Johnson, you’re kind of charming in a old-days-of-Brendan-Fraiser kind of way.

The above is the Superbowl Ad for Return To Witch Mountain as debuted by MTV, but what’s inside is actually more titillating.

PETA made a ad featuring scantily clad women almost gettin’ busy with veggies and the ad was turned down for being to sexual, so PETA’s all pissed, but no one cares, because PETA sucks.

But, we do have their veggie sexy ad, if you’ll just click “Read More…”

The Arrested Development movie has gone through lots of ups and downs since Jeffery Tambor, the Bleuth patriarch first mentioned that it might happen. Since then, we’re heard similar news from Will Arnett, Jason Bateman and series-creator Mitch Hurwitz who dropped the bombshell that the only cast member resisting an AD movie was Michael Cera.

Cera himself said that there wasn’t even a script and he would at least have to see a script before signing on blindly, possibly because no one told him his Sundance movie, Paper Heart, was going to get lackluster reviews. Maybe because he’s unaware that his “golden boy from Juno” status is going to quickly fade.

Either way, Tambor has come back to the table to assure us that the AD movie is still going to happen…

New York is freezing, and last weekend we got some snow and some big NFL games. So, of course, “Cardinals Suck” could easily be snowffiti’d all over the place.

East Village-centric blog EV Grieve was nice enough to swing by several defaced cars, all strangely between 3rd Ave and Ave B on Manhattan. They devised that this was the work of one snowffiti professional that they dubbed the Penistrator:

Until Sunday night … when we arranged for another 1-2 inches of snow to fall on the area. Given our profiler’s belief that the Penistrator is a football fan, we also arranged for two high-profile NFL games to be played Sunday.

This combination of snow, football and, possibly, large amounts of alcohol, was all the Penistrator needed… as you can see from this wide path of penistruction on 13th Street that stretches from Third Avenue all the way to Avenue B.

Funny that a picture would circulate today featuring a notable NYU student who might be the feared Penistrator…

Joseph Brooks is an Oscar winner for the original song “You Light Up My Life” paired with the movie of the same name. The movie stars Didi Conn as Laurie Robinson, a comedian who dreams of being an actress and has a one-night stand with a director.

Which has now taken on a sickening twist as Brooks has been accused of sexual assault via Craigslist casting calls that ended, sometimes unwillingly, on the casting couch…