Movies

While the rest of the country stood in line at movie theaters, the box office superhero enjoyed a beautiful Sunday with his own little six-month old webslinger, shopping at Fred Segal and sunning at a park in Beverly Hills. No CGI required.

With Venom, Sandman and the New Goblin nowhere in sight, a villain-free day was had by all.

This "Scarface" pillow will make for a lovely decorative throw on your bed ... and you can tell your bedmate to "say hello to my little friend!"

An eBay seller has crafted this wacky 16x16 water-resistant cushion. "Hey, pelican!"

Bidding starts at $19.99 for the fluffy Pacino headrest. "Lesson number one: Don't estimate the other guy's greed!"

After doing the required press for her new flick "Georgia Rule," the demure vision in white moved on to working on her personal publicity by lunching at paparazzi pit stop the Ivy. If only there were other restaurants in L.A.!

As day turns to night, there's no word on if Posh Lohan will ever surface again.

Tracy will be in court later this month to be fitted for a SCRAM ankle bracelet, which monitors the wearer's booze intake.

In this side by side, Trendy is seen as he was five years ago, with the extent of his flamboyance going no further than blonde highlights and serious lip gloss. In the biopic, Miss Trendy will be seeing wearing one of her now signature outfits, not unlike those glittery pantsuits worn by Liza Minnelli -- or Liberace at the height of his Vegas phase. Sparkle, hon!

Who's more convincing -- Willa as Anna, or Bobby as Bobby? Vote!

The crews had been filming there all week and letters affixed to the side of the old post office read: "Gotham National Bank."

When the fire first broke out, a witness said "We assumed it was part of the movie." Some special efx!

UPDATE: A producer for the film tells TMZ that no actors were in the area at the time. He says that the fire started in an airway duct that is used for a railway underneath the building, the sprinkler system was activated, and the building was evacuated.

TMZ has learned Kelli Lassen, the enraged production peon who angrily told the wife of a TMZ staffer living on the block where a Val Kilmer film was shooting, "You need to move your f**king car because we need to park the toilets for the Val Kilmer movie!" -- has written an apology for her crappy attitude and potty mouth.

In a handwritten mea culpa left on the TMZ staffer's door, Lassen called the incident a "misunderstanding," and labels her profanity-laced tirade a "courtesy warning." Where'd she go to school? The Alec Baldwin Etiquette Academy?!

Ironically, it wasn't even our staffer's wife's car, but Lassen apologized for possibly waking up the resident and for being abrupt. She claims she was "merely trying to eliminate towing," adding, "I sincerely care about the local Echo Park residents." Um, define "care!"

At 8:30 this morning, a movie starring Kilmer, "Columbus Day," was about to film in Echo Park near downtown L.A.

The residents were supposed to move their cars off the street. The wife of a TMZ staffer was at home, taking care of her one-year-old child when she heard banging at the front door. A woman named Kelli Lassen told the staffer's wife, "You need to move your f**king car because we need to park the toilets for the Val Kilmer movie." Nice.

We contacted Lassen, who at first denied saying it, then said she was reacting to a man in a nearby apartment who wouldn't move his car. She said she called that man a "f**king asshole" and then acknowledged she got hot with the staffer's wife.

Lassen apologized for her outburst, but added, "Val Kilmer can't even use the bathroom."

"The Business of Being Born" -- a documentary on which Lake served as executive producer -- explores birthing practices in this country. For her own personal enjoyment, Lake filmed the birth of her second child in 2001, and later decided to include the footage in the film. Now you can enjoy it too.

Dave pulled his coat up over his face while flashing a kooky neck billboard for his new horror film, which he co-wrote, directed and stars in, along with wife Courteney, who has not, to our knowledge, shaved her head.

The film is about a Reagan-obsessed serial killer who has it in for a bunch of hippies. Timing is everything.

In what is surely the understatement of the year, Variety reports that YouTube will soon be taking advertising, but that "[k]ey to the new venture will be making sure that those who upload video actually own the rights to it."

Um, ya think?

What's so astonishing about YouTube is what an overpriced sack of liability it really is: For starters, Wall Street types say it only makes $15 million a year in revenue - that's more than a teaspoon less than the $1.65 billion price Google paid for it.

But before we go thumbing our noses at Google CEO Eric Schmidt, we have to admire the sheer chutzpah of his venture's latest tactics. Schmidt, speaking at a conference of nerds and internet geeks, said that a new tool, dubbed "Claim Your Content," would soon be available to irritated content companies like Viacom, currently suing YouTube for a cool billion dollars. As if the 'content' on YouTube were simply lost children who'd gotten separated from their parents while shopping at Sears. Puh-lease.

So, why is Google willing to place such a hefty bet on a crack-fiend of a lawsuit magnet like YouTube? Because, while it seems like bad form to demand that companies 'claim their content' after it's been pirated, Schmidt thinks he can get away with it -- and make billions in the process.

He just might be right. Piracy is a losing battle online, no matter how many kiddie porn-sniffing Labradors the MPAA trains. Sure, Lucky and Flo -- the MPAA anti-piracy pooches -- have sniffed out 1.3 million pirated DVDs in Malaysia and the Philippines, but their noses don't work online. Schmidt knows this. Sumner Redstone knows this.

Google is basically saying, "Your stuff will go online - one way or the other. Why not split the profits with us?"

According to a special report from Glenn Bunting of the Los Angeles Times, the people behind the legally troubled 2005 movie, "Sahara," shelled out more than $350,000 to keep the actors fit, fed and and fabulous -- leaving the film's budget, well, in the dust.

In the report, set to be published tomorrow, Bunting claims he has obtained official documents verifying the outrageous expenditures, which include:

Penelope's hairstylist -- $135,550
Penelope's dialogue coach -- $125,804
Matt's Personal trainer -- $67,977
Matt's Personal Chef -- $48,893

Producer George Lucas dropped the casting nugget on 710 ESPN Radio's "The Big Show With Steve Mason & John Ireland" before signing off, telling the show, "My director [Steven Spielberg] gets very angry if I say anything at all about the movie ... I said we live in the age of the Internet, nothing's gonna be a secret, nothing is a secret, but he [LaBeouf] is in the movie."

Someone should have told Lucas what keeping a secret means!

BREAKING NEWS: Mum(my)'s no longer the word... TMZ has learned that Rachel Weisz is dropping out of the rapidly-rising three-quel of "The Mummy" franchise at Universal Pictures.

The actress won the 2006 Best Supporting Actress Oscar for her work in "The Constant Gardener," but more recently gave birth to another statuesque little guy: Henry Chance, who's now nine-months-old, and has apparently been living the sweet life -- vacationing last month with mom in Brazil.

Meanwhile, our spies tell us Weisz is up to her neck in other offers, with some four different projects coming together imminently, all of which will be juggled around newfound parenthood with "The Fountain" director (and baby-daddy) Darren Aronofsky.

Anna Nicole Smith's last film, "Illegal Aliens," will make its world premiere next month at the Cannes Film Festival -- after it's released on DVD in the U.S. on May 1. Doh!

Initially, the sci-fi "comedy" was scheduled to debut in April, but Anna's untimely death left the release date up in the air.

In the movie, Anna is one of three aliens who "morph into super-hot babes and arrive to protect the earth from the intergalactic forces of evil." The cinematic gem's stellar cast also includes Joanie "Chyna Doll" Laurer and "Dynasty" star John James. For your consideration.

Even though the film is screening "out of competition," it's sure to add to the freakish pandemonium associated with the French film fest. Book your flight now!

Ford has signed on to star in "Anna Nicole," and shooting begins next week. It's about Smith's rise from exotic dancer to reality-show-diet-spokesmodel stardom, from her late teens up until her death in February at age 39. Meanwhile, a thinly-veiled fictionalization of Smith on "Law & Order: Criminal Intent" will feature actress Kristy Swanson as an Anna-alike.