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Weekend Forecast: Cars 2 Takes Box-Office Pole Position

The calm before the Transformers storm is expected to continue this weekend, with a pair of new wide releases opening to less-than-scorching receptions. That doesn’t portend flops, though, or even disappointments. Let’s check the Forecast!

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Weekend Forecast: Cars 2 Takes Box-Office Pole Position

Megan Fox Finds a New Dictator in Sacha Baron Cohen’s Comedy

Following reports that Steven Spielberg demanded Megan Fox be fired from the Transformers franchise for comparing Michael Bay to Hitler , the actress has been cast in Sacha Baron Cohen’s upcoming comedy, fittingly titled The Dictator .

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Megan Fox Finds a New Dictator in Sacha Baron Cohen’s Comedy

Bam Margera Is Angry With Roger Ebert for His Ryan Dunn Tweet, and 5 Other Stories You’ll Be Talking About Today

Also in this Tuesday edition of The Broadsheet: The Ides of March will debut in August… Guillermo del Toro is intrigued by Maleficent … Sylvester Stallone casts his daughter… and more ahead.

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Bam Margera Is Angry With Roger Ebert for His Ryan Dunn Tweet, and 5 Other Stories You’ll Be Talking About Today

VIDEO: John Goodman and Steve Buscemi Stage Unofficial Big Lebowski Reunion for DirecTV

If you spent your Father’s Day watching baseball coverage on TBS — in New York, it was the Boston Red Sox annihilation of the Milwaukee Brewers — the chances are good that you saw the DirecTV claymation commercial for the controversial new service Home Premiere featuring an arguing chicken and egg. And if that commercial made you want to watch The Big Lebowski , it’s with good reason: the chicken and egg are voiced by John Goodman and Steve Buscemi, respectively.

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VIDEO: John Goodman and Steve Buscemi Stage Unofficial Big Lebowski Reunion for DirecTV

Let’s Guess the Plot of the Ouija Board Movie!

About once a year we hear something new about the Ouija movie , which, as far as I can tell, is the first movie based on a “game” where there isn’t a winner. It’s not a game, actually. It’s cardboard. It’s a flattened cereal box with the decoder ring taped to the outside. Since you’re surely intrigued by this inanimate slab’s transformation into a “supernatural action-adventure movie” and the news that Mr. and Mrs. Smith scribe Simon Kinberg was hired to polish it, let’s take a couple of cracks at the plot.

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Let’s Guess the Plot of the Ouija Board Movie!

Watch Alvin Mock Titanic in New Chipmunks: Chip-Wrecked Teaser

If you only prayed to the movie gods for two things last year — no more Chipmunks squeakquels and no more spoofs on that “I’m the King of the World” scene from James Cameron’s Titanic — I have some devastating news. God is smiting you by incorporating both of those things in the upcoming Alvin and the Chipmunks: Chip-Wrecked film. Here’s a taste of the trailers that will be haunting every theater-going experience for you between now and Christmas.

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Watch Alvin Mock Titanic in New Chipmunks: Chip-Wrecked Teaser

Will Alec Baldwin Discontinue His Awesome Twitter Account?

Bad news, friends: the great Alec Baldwin Joins Twitter experiment of 2011 could be over. “I can’t believe I was hacked,” he wrote on the social networking site on Wednesday morning. “Very good possibility that this means good bye [sic] twitter [sic].” Nooooo ! But, wait, is Baldwin serious?

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Will Alec Baldwin Discontinue His Awesome Twitter Account?

John Michael Higgins on Bad Teacher and the State of Female-Centric Comedies

John Michael Higgins is poised to be all over the pop culture landscape for the next six months. The veteran film and television actor co-stars as the principal in Bad Teacher (out June 24) and appears opposite Fran Drescher on the new TV Land series Happily Divorced , which debuts tonight after Hot in Cleveland . Plus, he’s also got a supporting role in Cameron Crowe’s We Bought a Zoo , due out in theaters at Christmas. In short: get used to merrily shouting, “That guy!” when his face appears on television and movie screens throughout the rest of 2011.

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John Michael Higgins on Bad Teacher and the State of Female-Centric Comedies

Let’s Decode the ‘JCM’ in New John Carter Poster

It’s Questionable Poster Day here at Movieline! Hot on the heels of that not-so-good poster for Straw Dogs comes an equally not-so-good poster for John Carter . The 2012 Disney adaptation of the novel by Edgar Rice Burroughs featuring John Carter (a Civil War veteran and not John Carter of E.R. , FYI ) recently dropped the of Mars from its title, but the poster makers apparently weren’t aware of that fact. Kinda. Click through for the first look.

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Let’s Decode the ‘JCM’ in New John Carter Poster

See Sacha Baron Cohen Brandish Starter Pistol on Set of The Dictator

You’ve seen the first official photo of Sacha Baron Cohen as the lead character in his upcoming comedy The Dictator , “a heroic tale about dictator who risked his life to ensure that democracy would never come to the country he so lovingly oppressed.” And now, photos from the New York set have emerged of the actor waving a starter pistol at his fellow cast members as they film a track scene. Take a look after the jump.

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See Sacha Baron Cohen Brandish Starter Pistol on Set of The Dictator