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News for you Kevin Carr: The market for getting fat to win an Oscar is saturated. Time to shut the flab up.

FSR is picking up on “Mad Men” into its second season with the launch of our new “Control Freaks” segment.

I don’t know why, but apparently Aaron Sorkin has the jones to write a Facebook movie. Although information about the film itself is not available we can assume that Sorkin will be writing about the story of Mark Zuckerberg, a ridiculous billionaire who’s a year younger than I am.

We had a chance recently to see the film and meet British comedian Steve Coogan at the AMC Theater near Navy Pier in Chicago to talk about Dana Marschz and comedy, in general.

The Rocker starring Rainn Wilson opened in theaters Wednesday. We decided this warranted a list, but instead of just hashing out a list about 10 movies about rockers that rocked, we wanted to give you ten rockers who rocked in movies that may or may not have even been about rocking.

Danny Huston, Shawn Roberts, and Bojana Novakovic have joined the cast alongside Gibson, Robert De Niro, and Wayne Duvall.

There’s a lot to like about Vicky Cristina Barcelona, and none of it has to do with Scarlett and Penelope making out (which is a brief moment).

James Franco, seen recently turning stoner humor into gold in Pineapple Express, will next be seen as Sean Penn’s gay lover in the upcoming film Milk. Or perhaps we should say he’ll be playing Penn’s very well-endowed gay lover.

EJO is what us “Battlestar” nerds call Edward James Olmos. Deal with it.

Josh Radde takes offense at Kevin Carr’s cheese references, love of Cylon-leadership and empty rhetoric. Why are we still talking about politics on a film website? Your guess is as good as mine.

If you heard a rumor that went something like this: “the cast of 40 Year-Old Virgin will be the new Ghostbusters” and thought is was too good to be true? Well, it is.

If a List of 10 Rap Artists that crossed over into film with varying degrees of success doesn’t seem timely, it should, because a movie about hardcore rappers came out just last Friday: Step Brothers.

MTV, in their infinite wisdom, has decided to remake Rocky Horror. Why? I don’t know.

Viral marketing of old served as just a clever ploy to start marketing a film, but few people really took notice. The Dark Knight marketing got people involved. Granted, the people that got involved were probably those who were going to see the movie opening weekend anyway, but MY GOD was it fun.

Film critic David Denby’s review didn’t completely denounce The Dark Knight, but it didn’t exactly praise it either. That said, why are fans calling for his head on a platter?

This is kind of an obscure little tid-bit about a potential Hollywood big-budget, straight-to-DVD sequel (it’s most likely just the latter though).

What if the studios had stepped in and mandated that certain projects be 3D. FSR wondered aloud and we came up with 10 films that could’ve, nay, should’ve been made in vivid 3D.

“Lost” star Matthew Fox has been contacted to play the lead character in the new Warner Bros. comic book adaptation Billy Smoke.

Take a trip to Wizard World in Chicago, where FSR’s Josh Radde was among a few other press people who got to sit down and talk with some of the masters behind Batman: Gotham Knight.

If you missed our conversation from yesterday, that trailer description went over your head. But what we’re talking about is corporations making movies. Not just being sponsors, no, we’re talking about big wigs writing, directing, and producing movies.

While we’re waiting for our two-hour Chevy commercial that is Transformers 2, let’s play our favorite Hollywood game—the “What if” game! Let’s ask ourselves “If corporations could make movies, what would be their plots?”

As I watched Mike Myers embarrass himself in The Love Guru, I thought to myself “What was he thinking?” Granted, this was probably an ego project and Myers didn’t necessarily have me and my comedic sensibilities in mind when he wanted to get this flick made. But it brings up a valid question.

Mark Wahlberg, who is certainly not your premier thespian (despite being an Oscar nominee), called Max Payne his most complex character to date. Coming from a guy who’s played a science teacher, astronaut, hit man, cop, cop, cop, and a long-donged porn star, that is saying something.

Our Josh Radde, like all of you, is excited for this week’s release of The Incredible Hulk. He is, however, curious as to why we aren’t talking more about M. Night Shyamalan’s THe Happening.

Ben Stiller and Reese Witherspoon have been tapped to star in the film, which will be Crowe’s 7th film as director. Columbia was the winner of the Crowe project, outbidding other studios for the rights to distribute the film.

On top of news that the production started filming last week, we also got our first look at a teaser poster, and learned that Jesse Bradford (Swimfan; Bring It On) will play one of Bush’s college friends and frat buddies.

Right away, we’re told that Grayskull is “Lord of the Rings meets The Matrix and a little Batman Begins thrown in for good measure.” That’s a bold comparison.

The Promotion director Steve Conrad chats with our Josh Radde about making movies in the Windy City, the morality of supermarkets and an upcoming project that involves Brad Pitt playing Brad Pitt.

And if that sounds disgusting, well, it just might be.

he future of Indiana Jones adventures is unknown. Many have speculated (and George Lucas has said aloud) that we may see some adventures with Mutt. But what if they decided to recast Indiana Jones? Who could take over the fedora?