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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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Glee Does Madonna: Rating the Three Last Covers

Over the weekend, three of Glee ‘s Madonna covers were released in their entirety, leaving Movieline editor Christopher Rosen in a pile of gleegasms . The full setlist has hit YouTube now, and we’re picking right up where he left off. The only problem? These songs feel less like a ray of light and more like chapters in a grating bedtime story.

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Kick-Ass Officially Wins Box-Office

After narrowly trailing How to Train Your Dragon is yesterday’s weekend box-office estimates, actuals reveal that Kick-Ass did in fact beat the month-old family flick by a margin of $19.8 million to $19.6 million. Are you any less underwhelmed ? I didn’t think so. [ The Wrap ]

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Sacha Baron Cohen’s Secret Life

How do you know you’ve made it as a comic actor? Your name is attached to the long, long -in-development remake of The Secret Life of Walter Mitty . Sacha Baron Cohen is the new comedian granted temporary custody of the project, which would find him playing a daydreamer with some very exciting fantasies. Here’s another fantasy: that this movie will ever be made. [ Pajiba ]

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Glee Does Madonna: Rating the Leaked Songs

Are you tired of Glee yet? Well, too bad! The Fox series continues to permeate the cultural zeitgeist and it doesn’t show any signs of stopping. And if you believe the hype, the all-Madonna episode airing Tuesday is going to be the biggest television event ever . Including the Fox-sanctioned Jane Lynch video for “Vogue,” four of the ten songs from the episode have leaked onto the Internet in the last couple of days. And, not surprisingly, they’re pure Glee specials: overly earnest, overly produced and — somehow — pretty great. How do they rate? Click ahead to listen and find out.

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Now Showing: The Best Valentine to Film Noir You’ll See All Day

Film-noir aficionados have been raving these past few days about a YouTube video called The Endless Night: A Valentine to Film Noir , made by Serena Bramble, a 20-year-old psychology student from Santa Rosa. Noir historian Eddie Muller found Bramble’s video on YouTube and brought it to the big screen this past January at his Noir City festival in San Francisco. Muller showed it again this week in Los Angeles as part of Lust & Larceny: Film Noir 12th Annual Festival at the Egyptian. And now, because it’s likely the coolest way to spend the next six minutes of your Friday, Movieline offers it to you.

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Ke$ha: Comic M@$termind?

Pop singer Ke$ha is the guest-performer on Saturday Night Live this week with host Ryan Phillippe, and after last week’s satisfactory comic performance from Justin Bieber, Ke$ha has formulated some sketch ideas of her own. “One idea was someone recently told me I smell like shrimp in a diaper,” Ke$ha told MTV. “So I thought I could do a perfume skit about me with my eau de perfume being a shrimp in a diaper. It’s very sensual.” We have the next &ucille B@ll on our hands. [ MTV ]

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Kirsten Dunst to Work for Lars von Trier

Don’t call it a comeback, but suddenly we’re talking about Kirsten Dunst again. Though she was left hanging by the Spider-Man franchise and hasn’t done that much since besides sing for McG , Deadline reports that the actress will play the female lead in Lars von Trier’s next film, Melancholia . Go easy on her, Lars. She’s been through enough lately. [ Deadline ]

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EXCLUSIVE: How Vincent Gallo Staged a Coup on the Set of His Next Film

In 2008, mercurial actor Vincent Gallo signed on to star in The Funeral Director , an independent film written and directed by Pete Red Sky. Now, in 2010, Gallo is touting his own Promises Written in Water , the first film he’s written and directed since The Brown Bunny . There’s just one thing: they’re the same movie. How did this happen?

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On This Day: An Apatowian Star is Born

Happy April 15, dear reader! Time to join Movieline on another breezy expedition through the historical arcana and milestones that helped shaped the pop culture you know and love today. We’ve got a Hollywood-changing tragedy to commemorate and some celebrated young stars to wish happy birthdays, so let’s get to it. Your taxes can wait!

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