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How Well Does Kiefer Sutherland Clean Up After A Strip Club Hangover?

Kiefer Sutherland was sitting outside of a London strip club last Friday morning at 4 A.M. : drunk, sore from being manhandled by bouncers, and exhausted from robot-dancing the night away . In a scenario straight out of a Bizarro World 24 , the actor had only a few hours to sober up before promoting his Sundance bomb Twelve on one of Britain’s most popular talk shows. How did the real-life Jack Bauer fare?

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So How is the Icelandic Volcano Screwing Up Hollywood Today?

How do you say “international clusterf*ck” in Icelandic? That’s easy: Eyjafjallajokull. This language lesson is brought to you by the country’s volcano of the same name, whose ongoing eruption has frozen air travel into, out of and around much of Europe. And today, by extension, the movie business is experiencing a bit of a pinch.

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James Bond Will Return…After New, Indefinite Delay

James Bond producers Michael G. Wilson and Barbara Broccoli had a lot of goodwill and momentum coming out of the 2006 franchise reboot Casino Royale ; since then, however, there’s been nothing but trouble. Roger Michell was originally in negotiations to direct Quantum of Solace , then dropped out (Marc Forster eventually replaced him), while writer Paul Haggis rushed to finish his script before the WGA strike. The resulting film was coolly received. Now, the make-or-break follow-up has run into an even bigger obstacle.

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Buzz Break: C’mon, Vogue

Is Human Centipede 2010’s Most Barfiest Movie?

“You do it.” “No, you do it.” “I really think you should be the one covering it.” There is a game of Hot Potato that we’ve played at Movieline HQ over the past few months, and it has to do with a gross little movie called Human Centipede .

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5 Fake Movies That Should Be Real

Danny Trejo fans, rejoice! All seventeen of you. The long-awaited Machete will finally reach theaters on September 3. For those of you who don’t remember, Machete was Robert Rodriguez’s fake trailer for Grindhouse that the director made into a real movie with real stars (Robert De Niro, Jessica Alba, Lindsay Lohan and Movieline favorite, Steven Segal , all appear alongside Trejo). Anyway, since Hollywood is clearly out of ideas — cough, Mighty Mouse — it seemed like a perfect time to go find some other fake trailers that could be turned into real movies. After the jump, the five that would have the best chance at box office success.

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Friday Box Office: Ass Kicked

And you thought Watchmen was a box office disappointment. Expected to take in upwards of $30 million, the much (much) publicized Kick-Ass could only muster $7.5 million on Friday night, meaning it might not even crack $20 million . Maybe the geeks haven’t inherited the earth. Death at a Funeral didn’t fare much better: the comedy pulled in an estimated $6 million on Friday and could wind up behind Date Night before the weekend is through. The very underwhelming top-five after the jump.

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Party All the Time

The fun never stops at Movieline, where… actually, yeah, it does stop on occasion. Relive the good times in our handy Week in Review, and tune in tomorrow as your captain Christopher Rosen steers you through the weekend. Have a good one!

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Crystal Bowersox Almost Quit Idol

Can you imagine an American Idol season even weaker than the current one? You would have had just that, if it weren’t for your guardian angel Ryan Seacrest. TMZ reports that dreadlocked Idol frontrunner Crystal Bowersox was thisclose to quitting the competition two weeks ago, until Seacrest convinced her to stick in it so that she could buy her mother a house someday. Meanwhile, a blithe Simon Cowell was like, “Eh, do what you want .” [ TMZ ]

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Say Whaaaa? Pervy Fergie, Pervier Seagal, and More of the Week’s Most Absurd Crap

Ding! goes the elevator at Movieline HQ, which can only mean one thing on a Friday afternoon: The Say Whaaaa? Singers have arrived with all their double-barreled disbelief at the week’s most baffling, outlandish, disturbing and/or ridiculous cultural events. And I do mean “events,” as even the Cannes Film Festival got in on the WTF act in recent days. Let’s have a look at the top five:

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