Ok, so it has not gotten that bad, to the point where movie studios are offing the actors, writers, and directors. There is though, a strike looming in Hollywood and the following actors and actress are making sure they get paid in time. Look below to see who is getting their act on. Variety reports:

-Jim Carey is becoming Sober.

- Costner wants to be an Explorer.

-Cameron Diaz is not thinking outside the box.

-Russell Crow and Leonardo DiCaprio are liars.

- Ryan Gosling has some great bones.

Also Sam Rockwell decided to spill the beans on yet to be officially announced film he hopes to be working on with Jennifer Aniston and Peter Saarsgard. Below is the mention he did while being interviewed by Us Weekly of all people. Not posting the whole interview (but I have to name the source, so go Google US Weekly.com)because after the first question, it goes downhill. Maybe he is trying to drum up earlier publicity, or maybe he is just way too excited to be working with Jennifer. I hope the movie comes through for his sake, he is too good of a actor to be giving stupid interviews to the tabloids.

“Sam Rockwell spilled the beans, and told Usmagazine.com that he and Jennifer Aniston will be teaming up as two sides of a love triangle in You Are Here (Peter Saarsgard will be the third), set to begin filming early next year.”

Jennifer also has a few projects in the works. She is set to put back on her producing hat in the recently announced Goree Girls. And maybe her acting hat for that too. She is also still set to play opposite of Meryl Streep as an escaped convict in Wanted and a wife with a secret in The Senator’s Wife.

Whew! Props to all these actors getting roles, keep doing your thing! For us regular poorer folks, try saying ‘go Google’ five times fast.

I usually do not post about the happenings on the gossip sites, but this has caught the attention of a few people. The BET Awards was this past Tuesday Night. If I must say, the award show continues to improve as the years go on. TMZ decided to do their own version of a recap of the show. What’s the uproar? TMZ described Beyonce as a “roboho”, displaying a picture of her in a robot outfit. What TMZ failed to do is mention that the “roboho” lasted all but a mere 30 seconds, as she appeared from the robot wearing a non hoeish outfit. Some claim that TMZ was out of line, especially after what happen with Don Imus a few months ago. I do agree that TMZ did make a very bias recap of the award show, also saying rapper/actress Eve looked like a “streetwalker”. I am not offended as much by what TMZ posted as I am by the racist comments left on the site. None of the comments have been deleted as they should have been. TMZ rarely mentions African Americans on their site, but rather have a daily posting on the happenings of Paris Hilton. Whether this was just a blatant racist review of a the BET Awards, or just the usually way TMZ reports things, I think that it is inappropriate to call any one a hoe especially those who do not deserve to be called one when you have other celebrity women showing their goodies to paps and having sex tapes pop up. That is classy.

P.S.- I guess no one should have been suprised as TMZ posted this as a pre-lude. I guess next they will be pushing for W.E.T. aka White Entertainment Television; even though W.E.T. is already shown of the majority of the channels I flip through …

A small opening weekend coming up, mostly because of the July 4th holiday; a big opening day in the world of summer movies. The big movies of the weekend are Sicko and Disney/Pixar’s Ratatouille. Also opening is Martian Child, Vitus and You Kill Me. Movies that opened Wednesday was Ghost of Cite Soliel and Die Hard 4 aka Live Free or Die Hard. What is with all these older movies coming out back out. Arent they all getting to old for the action movies?

Ratatouille

Nine Minutes of the movie

Live Free or Die Hard

You can watch the first 8 minutes of this movie over at Yahoo!

As this is a hobby, real life sometimes takes precedence over it. So now I am going to try to catch you up with the latest movie releases of the past two weeks.

Here is what opened June 22nd:

The two biggest opening of last weekend was Evan Almighty and A Mighty Heart. Neither impressed box office watchers. I posted the trailer to A Mighty Heart a few weeks ago.

1408
Black Sheep
Broken English.
D.O.A.: Dead or Alive
Lady Chatterley

Movies that are out in theatres this weekend: You know the usually jist, trailers and stuff. I call this a slum weekend, because there is only really one major movie opening. Smart actually. Ok maybe two major movies.

Fantastic Four: Rise of the Silver Surfer
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Nancy Drew

Here are some other limited releases. Not everyone is into The Fanstastic Four. I don’t blame you.

Blood and Tears
DOA: Dead or Alive
Fido
Macbeth
No One
The Trials of Darryl Hunt
USA: Inside the War on Abortion

And for those of you who love the really limited releases, you have to live in NY to see Strike and NY or L.A. to see Eagle vs. Shark. Bummer.

Jennifer Aniston to produce ‘Goree Girls’ for DreamWorks

By Sheigh Crabtree
Special to the Times

June 14, 2007

Jennifer Aniston may need to brush up on her yodeling, banjo and steel guitar now that she’s producing the period country-and-western musical “Goree Girls” for DreamWorks Pictures.

The actress is on board to produce and likely star in the 1940s song-laden comedy about one of the nation’s first all-female country acts, a group whose members were also guests of the Texas penal system.

Aniston will be joined by seven other singin’ and pickin’ actresses cast as part of the Goree All Girl String Band, which is remembered as the Dixie Chicks of its day for the radio performances it put on from a Texas music hall.

Aniston and her producing partner, Kristin Hahn, hired Margaret Nagle (HBO’s “Warm Springs”) to adapt the screenplay from a Texas Monthly article. DreamWorks, Aniston and Hahn have sent the script out in search of a director with no scheduled production start to date.

The group of eight female Texas prisoners performed live every Wednesday evening in the early 1940s to an estimated 7 million Americans tuned into radio station WBAP-AM in Fort Worth.

L.A. Times

Captain fell to the fellas of Ocean’s 13. Pirates of the Caribbean came in second place making only 21 million dollars. As animated films go, Surf’s Up flopped, opening 4th making 17.6million. Shrek the 3rd rounded up the top 5 with 15.3 million.

Yahoo! Movies

THURSDAY JUNE 07, 2007 10:20 PM EDT

By Mary Green

Isaiah Washington Photo by: Frazer Harrison / Getty

The speculation is over: After a controversial season, Isaiah Washington will not be returning to Grey’s Anatomy, his rep and ABC Television Studio have confirmed.

Howard Bragman, Washington’s publicist, says Washington’s option was not renewed, and released this statement from the actor: “I’m mad as hell and I’m not going to take it any more.”

Bragman did not elaborate on the statement, a reference to the 1976 film Network.

The cast was notified Thursday night of the final decision, which, says a source close to the situation, was a long time coming. In the end, the source says, Washington’s behavior made him a liability.

Rumors ran rampant following the season finale – during which Washington’s character, Dr. Preston Burke, broke up with his fiancée, Christina Yang (Sandra Oh), and moved out of their apartment – that Washington would not be returning.

The actor first came under fire last fall after getting into an altercation with Patrick Dempsey, during which he allegedly referred to castmate T.R. Knight with a homophobic slur.

Washington later apologized, checked into rehab, met with gay leaders and recently released a PSA decrying the use of hate speech.

• With reporting by LISA INGRASSIA

PEOPLE

Watch the trailers for the big releases of the weekend. Will Captain Jack prevail for a third week at the box-office? I was suprised that with all the talk about Knocked Up, it did not become the number movie last week.

Ocean’s 13
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Hostel 2

Surf’s Up