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5 Feasible Storylines for the Where’s Waldo Movie

In an age of Battleship movies and Carmen Sandiego features, it’s no surprise that another kid-friendly nostalgia icon, the bespectacled title traveler of Where’s Waldo , is purportedly getting his own movie . MGM bought the rights to Waldo, and that could mean a feature adaptation of the smiley boulevardier’s exploits is in our near future. I don’t know how a man in a striped shirt who gets lost in crowds can sustain an audience’s attention for a full movie, but here are five possible storylines I’d tolerate.

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How Much Longer Will the Academy Tolerate Brett Ratner? [UPDATED]

It’s been a rough week for Brett Ratner, whose big, ostensibly crowd-pleasing ensemble comedy Tower Heist debuted to lukewarm box-office figures and whose promotional endeavors have found him invoking his sexual history and bedroom technique to cringe-inducing effect. Today Ratner apologized for a “joke” he made over the weekend, responding to a viewer during a Tower Heist Q&A that “rehearsal’s for fags.” Wait, what? This is the guy co-producing the forthcoming Academy Awards? [ UPDATE : Now he’s a homophobe and a liar.]

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My Favorite Scene: Tarsem Finds Common Ground Between Man Bites Dog and an Episode of Cops

This week, Movieline’s favorite honey badger of directors , Tarsem ( The Fall, The Cell ), unveils his spin on Greek mythology in Immortals , a fantasy actioner that blends artistic influences as vast and varied as Caravaggio, classics, and Henry Cavill’s abs. So who better to invite to a round of My Favorite Scene than the visionary filmmaker, who managed to pinpoint the uncanny cinematic parallels between the 1992 Belgian mockumentary Man Bites Dog , a Cannes Film Festival awardee, and that one episode from the “brilliant” first season of COPS .

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Wendi McLendon-Covey Lands Starring Role: Is She Still the Unsung Hero of Bridesmaids?

Very happy news on the wire today: Wendi McLendon-Covey, whose hilarious role in Bridesmaids all but vanished in the film’s third act, is set to star in A White Trash Christmas , a Christmas Carol revamp in which a “whiskey-soaked, trashy mother is visited by three ghosts who try to show her a path to a brighter future.” While this character sounds like a retread of her Bridesmaids part, I’m always down for a lady-led Scrooged reboot. ( A Diva’s Christmas Carol , anyone ?) This leads us to a larger question: Is McLendon-Covey the unsung hero of Bridesmaids ? We provide evidence after the jump.

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Weekend Receipts: Puss in Boots Claws its Way Back to First

Listen closely and you can hear the womp wooommp coming out of Universal HQ from miles away — that’s the refrain of the day as Tower Heist underperformed its way into second place behind the incredibly resilient Shrek spinoff Puss in Boots . Faring as well as could be reasonably expected in both films’ shadows, find the latest Harold & Kumar installment. Your Weekend Receipts are here.

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Weekend Receipts: Puss in Boots Claws its Way Back to First

Weekend Receipts: Puss in Boots Claws its Way Back to First

Listen closely and you can hear the womp wooommp coming out of Universal HQ from miles away — that’s the refrain of the day as Tower Heist underperformed its way into second place behind the incredibly resilient Shrek spinoff Puss in Boots . Faring as well as could be reasonably expected in both films’ shadows, find the latest Harold & Kumar installment. Your Weekend Receipts are here.

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Friday Box Office: Tower Heist Barely Paying Off as Puss Holds Fast

One can only imagine what scorchingly candid observations Universal boss Ron Meyer will soon make about his studio’s Tower Heist , which is currently more than 30 percent off the pace originally projected for its opening-weekend grosses. America wasn’t racing to the latest Harold & Kumar film either, choosing instead a family-friendlier 3-D confection that may yet emerge at the top of the box-office charts. Your Friday Box Office is here.

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Michelle Yeoh Met With Standing Ovation at AFI Fest Premiere of The Lady

Friday night at the 2011 AFI Fest, the seats in the historic Grauman’s Chinese Theatre weren’t quite filled to capacity for the gala screening of Luc Besson’s The Lady , which received mildly lukewarm reviews on the festival circuit. But, as it did at its premiere in Toronto, the biopic of Burmese democratic leader Aung San Suu Kyi received a standing ovation at AFI Fest — one clearly directed primarily at star and Oscar hopeful Michelle Yeoh .

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Michelle Yeoh Met With Standing Ovation at AFI Fest Premiere of The Lady

Brett Ratner ‘Banged’ Olivia Munn, and Other Stories You’ll Be Talking About Today

Happy Friday! Also in Today’s edition of The Broadsheet: Darren Aronofsky to team with Lou Reed and Metallica… the hits keep on coming for Hilary Swank… Melissa McCarthy looks ahead… Errol Morris gets sued… and more.

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Brett Ratner ‘Banged’ Olivia Munn, and Other Stories You’ll Be Talking About Today

10 Images That Come to Mind When Looking at Helena Bonham Carter as Miss Havisham

Helena Bonham Carter’s upcoming turn as Miss Havisham in Mike Newell’s adaptation of Dickens’s Great Expectations is going to be a decadent one: In new photos from the film (set to debut in fall 2012), the Oscar nominee is fully made up as the manipulative spinster from the literary classic, and she’s wearing an original design by costumer Beatrix Aruna Pasztor. Though Carter appears younger than other actresses who’ve played Miss Havisham, the photos are just as crazy you’d expect. And sinister. And they call to mind 10 images that I thought I’d long repressed. Here they are — some are less hallucinogenic than others.

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