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· For those of you wish Jabba the Hutt would take all his pie-in-the-sky ideas and join local politics, this overhaul of Parks & Recreation’s opening credits will rejuvenate your faith in democracy. Behold: Hutts and Recreation. [YouTube]
Get Funny or Die Trying: 
Pop quiz: What do Elizabeth Banks, Gerard Butler, Kieran Culkin, Hugh Jackman, Johnny Knoxville, Christopher Mintz-Plasse, Chloe Moretz, Liev Schreiber, Sean William Scott, Tony Shalhoub, Emma Stone, Matt Walsh, Patrick Warburton, Naomi Watts and Kate Winslet have in common? If you said, “They all secretly hit and killed a homeless person,” you’re wrong! The correct answer is: “They are all part of the growing cast of Untitled Farrelly Brothers Sketch Comedy project,” a Kentucky Fried Movie-esque group effort spearheaded by the scatalogically bent siblings that already boasts segments directed by Brett Ratner, Bob Odenkirk, Griffin Dunne and even one from Banks herself. Relativity is financing the project, “We all sat down and came up with what we think is a hilarious through-line for the movie,” producer Charles Wessler said. “Given the amount of pot I had smoked, at least I think it is hilarious.” We’ll be the judge of cough that. [Relativity]
Look at dapper Ryan Reynolds and Bradley Cooper at a post-Oscars party. Aren’t they an adorable couple? Wouldn’t they be just great together paired on screen in some sort of buddy comedy with a simmering homoerotic undercurrent, perhaps one in which they get to explore each other’s bodies intimately without having to actually go all the way and have sex? Of course they would. But they won’t — at least not yet. But Ryan and another charming actor will! Details follow.
Red and White Forever: 
Still suffering Olympics withdrawal? Jack and Meg White’s great cross-Canada filmed adventure, The White Stripes Under the Great White Northern Lights, is getting special midnight screenings in 12 cities tonight. Ironically, none of those are Canadian cities (though fret not, Edmontonians and Saskatoon…ites? Your screenings are coming later this week). It promises to be more than your run-of-the-mill concert tour doc, as the band was captured playing in everything from traditional venues to bowling alleys, a boat and a city bus. See if your city made the cut at the link. And if not, it will be available in most cable markets via On-Demand tomorrow, March 12. [whitestripes]
Buzz Break
· Here’s the poster for James Ivory’s The City of Your Final Destination, starring Anthony Hopkins and Laura Linney. No, this one doesn’t involve elaborate, Rube Goldberg-esque deaths. Click for bigger.
· Hugh Jackman has revealed that he will play segregation-enforcing sheriff Jim Clark in Selma, the next film from Lee Daniels.
· Anne Hathaway and Jim Sturgess may soon be locked down to star as the leads in the upcoming romcom One Day from director Lone Scherfig (An Education).
· Who are the top 10 female directors in Hollywood?
· It’s the fantasy of every director who’s had a film sit on Harvey Weinstein’s shelves: Andrew Jarecki has bought back the rights of his long-delayed Ryan Gosling/Kirsten Dunst film All Good Things.
Paramount Goes Micro: 
Hey you! Have a good, gimmicky idea for the next Paranormal Activity? Paramount is about to announce a new specialty division entitled Insurge Pictures, which has plans to make 10 films a year at a micro-budget of $100,000 each. It’ll be headed by Amy Powell, the Paramount Interactive Marketing SVP who shepherded Paranormal to success. LA’s struggling actor contingent may have hit the SAG card motherlode with this one. [Indiewire]
The inevitable box-office futures racket will finally launch next week, with Cantor Fitzgerald making good on the long-awaited promise to let you bet real money on the prospects of Hollywood films. Regulators have approved, and Cantor is counting on a healthy share of players at the Hollywood Stock Exchange (which Cantor owns) to bite at the opportunity to gamble their cash on Avatar, Valentine’s Day and the like. But the real value is for studios: Finally, flop insurance has arrived!
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As hard as this is to believe, we’re just one month away from our first birthday here at the new Movieline. It’s been a whirlwind year of revealing interviews, gonzo festival coverage, zingy cultural criticism and penetrating insights into the power of Taylor Lautner’s abs, and we all sincerely hope you enjoy reading it as much as we enjoy bringing it you every day. But as we graduate into toddlerhood, we’re beginning to feel growing pains: The time has come to expand our family and coverage. We’re looking to fill several positions on the Movieline masthead.
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COCOPALOOZA
After weeks of speculation surrounding Conan O’Brien’s plans to circulate the country on a comedy tour (and no less than two false starts by eager distributor Ticketmaster), the former Tonight Show host officially announced his Legally Prohibited From Being Funny on Television Tour this morning. In a statement provided to TheWrap, O’Brien revealed that NBC’s ironclad exit deal didn’t leave him many options: “It was either a massive 30-city tour or start helping out around the house.”
Peter Bart, Solitary Man : 
Buried in Anne Thompson’s survey of the wreckage at Variety, find this startling revelation about the paper’s former editor-in-chief and all-around Hollywood insider Peter Bart: “Bart […] has lost his phone-answering, email-printing assistant and corporate BlackBerry. He used to type his correspondence, columns and blog entries (which he abandoned after Michael Fleming defected to Deadline.com) on a typewriter and have someone else put them on the computer. Now he files from home.” Typewritten blog entries! What will he think of next? Anyway, Peter, welcome to the club. Let me know if you need help finding your way around that mouse. [TOH]
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