We wonder if there are any sort of statistics concerning these celebrity voting ads. It seems like multiple times a year, a whole bunch of celebrities are standing against a solid-color background and being as “real” as they can, trying their damnedest to get us to care about [voting/cancer/AIDS/WGA Strike/Global Warming/Energy Conservation/_Blank_ Aid/Whatever].

We’re of the opinion that celebrity PSAs don’t really work. We’re also of the opinion that if you aren’t aware about deadlines of when to register to vote in your state, you might not care enough to check it out. And if you don’t care enough to do the paperwork to vote, you know what? Maybe you shouldn’t. Maybe you should leave voting to the people who know who/why/how their voting and have made an attempt to understand the issues.

Sure, every non-felon American citizen can vote, but every non-felon American citizen can do a lot of things, and most of us are idiots that watch Two and A Half Men.

So don’t vote, or do, but watch this video so our advertisers can flash things at you for an extra four minutes.

When we first saw Riddick in Pitch Black, a sci-fi/horror flick that can’t be described as anything else but a B-movie, even when you’re watching it, we thought Riddick was pretty cool. Hell, we’ll go that extra step and say that we found Vin Diesel pretty cool.

Riddick was a cowboy, a dangerous convict that happened to be put in a horrible situation with aliens that only came out when it was dark. The coolest moment of the film, and the coolest Riddick character moment involved how these things saw and the blind spot that exists right in front of their oddly-shaped heads.

We were totally into it.

Then, Vin Diesel became Vin Diesel thanks to the Fast and The Furious (that trailer coming up in a matter of minutes), and Riddick was brought back with Dame Judy Dench in The Chronicles of Riddick, the first in a rumored “Riddick Trilogy.” Chronicles didn’t have the draw that Pitch Black did, and suffered a bit from Vin Diesel overload, but spawned a successful video game and an upcoming game sequel.

Now, Diesel is speaking to MTV and promising that there are two other Riddick films on the way:

“David Twowy right now is writing the scripts. The only question is whether we take a page from the ‘Lord of the Rings’ guys and try to shoot the two chapters at the same time. There are two more in mind… “Everyone knows I love the Riddick character and I’m always working on it,” Diesel asserted. “It just takes five years to make another one because David Twohy and I are so precious about it.”

So where will Riddick go next? After taking the throne of the Necromonger King at the end of the last chapter, is there any doubt?

“Sooner or later we all end up in the Underverse,” he said of where we can expect the next chapter to take place, adding in a Riddick-like voice, “Sooner or later.”

The Chronicles of Riddick all but bombed, with a rumored budget of $105 mil only bringing in $57 domestically. The film saw some success overseas where it pulled in an additional $58 milllion, lifting the gross over the budget by almost $11 million dollars.

But, we doubt that “the only question” is if the flicks will be shot back-to-back. It’s much more likely that Vin Diesel is using his press-profile as of late to push two more Vin Diesel vehicles.

Too long the world has been spared the cinematic genius of Vin Diesel. Not only is the man a pillar of method acting, poise and delivery, but he’s quite the auteur when it comes to franchises oh-so-close to his heart. His sweeping cinematography recalls Freddie Francis and his directorial habits find parallel only in the late Stanley Kubrick.

He understands directing like we understand sarcasm: IN AND OUT!

We’re guessing that his treatment for a Riddick movie featuring a Planet of the Apes-like twist at the end (“You blewed up the Earth!” was Riddick’s key line) didn’t make it through the suits, because Coming Soon reports Vin Diesel’s directorial effort will be a 20 minute Fast and the Furious prequel:

Vin Diesel, who stars in next Friday’s Babylon A.D., told ComingSoon.net today that he is directing a 20-minute prequel to Fast and Furious, the fourth installment in the Universal Pictures franchise.

Diesel will star in the prequel along with Michelle Rodriguez reprising her role as Letty and Sung Kang returning as Han. Diesel didn’t say how the prequel would premiere; it could be on a DVD, online, TV, etc.

The fourth movie is a sequel to the first installment, and though Diesel didn’t elaborate, we assume this 20-minute prequel will tie-in some of the events from the second and third movies. Rodriguez appeared in the first movie, Sung Kang in the third, and Diesel in the first with a brief cameo in the third.

God, we wish we could have been on the other end of that phone call.

Vin Diesel: “I don’t know how it’s comin’ out man, DVD, internet, television, it’s all up for grabs!”

Us: “Sir, I’m not going to ask again, is this for DELIVERY or PICK-UP?”

Vin Diesel: “What?”

Us: “Just fucking with you. But, seriously, what was with The Pacifier?”

Oh, Lord, the true life exploits of Andy Dick.

The comedian Andy Dick was arrested early this morning in Murrieta on suspicion of drug possession and misdemeanor sexual battery, authorities said.

Dick, 42, was arrested shortly before 2 a.m. in the parking lot near the Buffalo Wild Wings at 40484 Murrieta Hot Springs Road.
He was being held this morning at the Southwest Detention Center with a bail amount set at $5,000.

Rumor on the gossip circuit is that police we called because a man was peeing in public. They arrived to find Dick drunk in a car where he groped a teenage girl and pulled her top down. When searched, Dick had a Xanex and no prescription.

Brilliant.

You might remember that we had a friend who worked on the pilot for The Beast, Partick Swayze’s newest TV show. That news happened to coincide with news that Swayze had pancreatic cancer, throwing the project into limbo as everyone waited to see what happened with his condition.

Good news on that front: A&E has picked up The Beast for 13 episodes that will start filming this summer, once again in Chicago. The show has a tentative premiere set for early 2009.

Beast centers on an unorthodox but effective FBI veteran (Swayze) who trains a new partner (Travis Fimmel, formally Tarzan) in his hard-edged, psychologically clever style while being pursued by a secret Internal Affairs team.

Patrick released a statement (Read More…), but neglected to mention his health, forcing THR reporters to clear him with his doctors: Swayze is healthy enough to make The Beast for A&E!

Diablo Cody may be parking in his spot, but Kelsey Grammer is no longer hospitalized after his mild heart attack:

Kelsey Grammer was released Wednesday from a Hawaiian hospital where he was recovering from a mild heart attack.

The 53-year-old Frasier star is “resting comfortably at his Hawaiian residence,” his rep says, and “wishes to thank those who phoned, emailed, or wrote expressions of concern to him.”

Here’s hoping that he catches a flight to key Diablo’s car.

Make the jump to see the funniest video of Kelsey Grammer we could find in the ten minutes of our lives we’ll never get back.

Our reactions to the NSFW clip (after the cut) of Brittany Snow from the upcoming flick On The Doll:

Hey, isn’t that the John Tucker Must Die girl?

What is she doing with those dice? Why is there a naked dude on the bed? Is this going to be kinky?

What?!?! No! No! AWWWWW!

What the hell is this movie?!?!