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Mel Gibson Officially Unglued, Possibly Ruined in Epic New Hate Tape

If Mel Gibson’s first audiotaped rant to emerge from the bowels of tabloid-breakup hell was not toxic enough for you, have a listen to the eight-minute dance remix that debuted today. Ex-girlfriend Oksana Grigorieva surreptitiously recorded the actor-producer-director in a meltdown to end all meltdowns — which honestly, for much of the tape, sounds like just what you’d expect from a guy who acknowledges having “left my wife because we have no spiritual common ground” , and then shacked up with the kind of person who would leak a tape of him going nuts after things went poorly between them . Anyone would be pissed! And then comes the final minute, and this kind of changes everything.

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You Decide: Did Gerard Butler Grow a Mullet for Machine Gun Preacher?

God bless Gerard Butler’s agent, who is nothing if not relentless. Despite a seeming lack of fans and/or likeability, the burly Scottish actor has what seems like an unending stream of generically titled films playing in a permanent loop. Quick: Tell me the difference between The Bounty Hunter , Law Abiding Citizen , Gamer and The Ugly Truth without resorting to IMD b. While you attempt to suss those out, remember that Butler also has Machine Gun Preacher in the works, too. That film was supposed to be a more serious-minded affair: Based on the true story of Sam Childers, a former drug dealing biker who found God and rescued a bunch of Sudanese children. As Marty McFly would say: Heavy. But then why does the first look of Butler-as-Childers on-set look so… ridiculous. Click ahead to answer the age old question: Is that a mullet or not?

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Megan Fox’s Transformers 3 Pressure Point

Megan Fox may not be saying much about her Transformers 3 departure, but Transformers producer Lorenzo di Bonaventura is. “It’s one of those things that built to a pressure point,” the producer told Coming Soon at this weekend’s Salt junket. “I think she knew and we did, I think we all tried really hard to make it work together, it just wasn’t working.” Fortunately, executing a character name search-and-replace for Rosie Huntington-Whiteley’s new role is not that hard: “I wouldn’t say a tremendous number, but yeah, absolutely there were some [script] changes.” [ Coming Soon ]

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Andy Richter Tweets

Congratulations to Andy Richter for caving to the pressure of the latest social networking trend. Yesterday, Conan’s sidekick logged his first four tweets, which included a photo of himself on the way to ESPN’ s All-Star Legends & Celebrity game. Afterward, the TBS -bound comic messaged: “Had a lot of fun, played well, and in locker room saw the genitals of some of the game’s greats.” [ @richter_andy ]

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Will Joaquin Phoenix Replace Edward Norton in The Avengers?

It simply doesn’t seem possible for anyone to care this much about who plays the seventh lead in a comic book movie that won’t be released for another two years, but leave it to Marvel to make a simple casting decision feel like an event . All that was missing from the “Let’s toss Edward Norton under the bus!” e-mail that Kevin Feige sent out this weekend was an option to read it in 3D and a picture of Scarlett Johansson wearing a skin-tight leather jumpsuit. But there is good news: Once Comic-Con hits in two weeks, all these Avengers stories, rumors and innuendos will be over. But until then: Have you heard the one about Joaquin Phoenix?

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Roman Polanski Free After Swiss Reject Extradition

Roman Polanski is a free man today after the Swiss Justice Ministry officially rejected an extradition request from the United States. The decision ends a nine-and-a-half-month saga which saw Polanski nabbed at an airport, sequestered in jail, moved out to house arrest and finally released when, according to the Swiss, prosecutors failed to provide confidential testimony about the director’s original trial and sentencing. Which of course raises many questions, including the eminently obvious: Why the hell did we even bother?

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Anton Yelchin Cast In New Spider-Man Reboot?

Man, if we could only harness the energy of Marvel movie casting rumors , we wouldn’t need offshore drilling. ONTD is reporting that Peter Parker also-ran Anton Yelchin impressed the Spidey powers-that-be enough that he’s been cast as Peter’s best friend and sometime nemesis Harry Osborne. For the Lincoln-had-a-secretary-named-Kennedy-and-Kennedy-had-a-secretary-named-Lincoln trivia buffs among you, that’s precisely how James Franco got cast as Harry in the original Spider-Man waaaayyyyyyy back in 2002 (Gosh, did we even have movies back then?). ONTD’ s only source on this, though, is IMDB, so take this news with as much salt as your physician will allow. [ ONTD ]

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Despicable Dominates Friday

Well, it seems like it was only poor ‘ol S.T. and me who had no clue what the heck Despicable Me was. Clued-in audiences have responded in a big way to Steve Carell who plays…a guy…who kind of looks like Uncle Fester and he’s got these little yellow…homunculi? slaves? widgets? and then something happens with kids in 3D. I dunno. But everyone else is eating it up! It made more than $22 million yesterday which may lead to a surprisingly huge $55 million-plus weekend. Meanwhile the Most Vapid Love Triangle in Cinematic History pulled their chaste love train into second place as Eclipse added about $11.5 million last night to their coffers. Predators generated about $11 million on its opening night, which may not sound like a lot until you realize that executive producer Robert Rodriguez makes things on the crazy-cheap and the budget for this one was like 78 bucks and some buttons that Rodriguez found in his ashtray. The inimitable Toy Story 3 and the incompetent Last Airbender made up numbers 4 and 5, respectively. Check out the full numbers after the jump.

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Movieline’s Week in Review: Power Failure

Hoooo boy , there are a thousand unprintable analogies to describe the sensations of this week’s scorching heat — but enough about Movieline’s hot moxie and firecracker zeal. For the rest of the entertainment world it was all about the very limitations of power, and particularly the outrageous things that happen when one oversteps them. Flash back with Movieline’s Week in Review, and drop by this weekend as Dixon Gaines picks up that red-hot baton and sprints with it. Off we go!

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Our Commenters of the Week Get to Take a Sniffly Ed O’Neill Out for Custard

Aw, look at that widdow award-snubbed face . Ed O’N eill may be the lovable patriarch on Modern Family , but Emmy voters left the TV veteran cold when it came to declaring nominees for Best Lead Actor in a Comedy Series this year. His co-stars Ty Burrell, Jesse Tyler Ferguson, Eric Stonestreet, Sofia Vergara, and Julie Bowen all picked up mentions, but now you, our beloved Movieline commenters, get to pick up Ed O’N eill. And the tab! We hear he’s a fan of Oreo Fro-Yo, so surprise him with a medium cup, would you? So. Who’s gets to help heal our favorite Bundy?

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