Click the photo above to find out whose scar it is…. …read full story

  
FRIDAY PM: Today was sluggish at the box office, especially for matinees. Sources just gave me early Friday and estimated Labor Day holiday weekend grosses for North America. Numbers will be refined in the AM. Analysis coming:
1. The American (Focus Features) NEW [2,823 Theaters] Opened Wed
Friday $4.1M, Estimated 4-Day Holiday $16M, Estimated Cume $19.1M
2. Machete (Fox) NEW [2,670 Theaters]
Friday $3.6M, Estimated 4-Day Holiday $12.3M)
3. Takers (Screen Gems/Sony) Week 2 [2,206 Theaters]
Friday $3M (-60%), Estimated 4-Day Holiday $14M, Estimated Cume $40M
4. The Last Exorcism (Lionsgate) Week 2 [2,874 Theaters]
Friday $2.4M (-76%), Estimated 4-Day Holiday $10M, Estimated Cume $34.8M
5. Going The Distance (Warner Bros) NEW [3,030 Theaters]
Friday $2.2M, Estimated 4-Day Holiday $9M
6. The Expendables (Lionsgate) Week 4 [3,398 Theaters]
Friday $1.7M, Estimated 4-Day Holiday $8.2M, Estimated Cume $94M
7. Eat Pray Love (Sony) Week 4 [2,663 Theaters]
Friday $1.5M, Estimated 4-Day Holiday $7.5M, Estimated Cume $72M
8. The Other Guys (Sony) Week 5 [2,607 Theaters]
Friday $1.5M, Estimated 4-Day Holiday $7.5M, Estimated Cume $109M

So much in celebrity hair: Cory Monteith sports a mullet, Kelly Osbourne goes for a long look, and Chelsea Handler gets pouty in her hair/makeup chair. Also, check out Rick Fox in fairy wings and see who Eva Longoria is strangling…. …read full story

TELLURIDE: Peter Weir’

Lindsay Lohan leaving a medical building in Beverly Hills (8/30) Lindsay Lohan hit and almost killed a baby last night as she was leaving her apartment in West Hollywood. And Lindsay be Lindsay, she sped away from the scene… …read full story

Sofia Coppola is a genius. Just my opinion. She is responsible for quirky films like Lost In Translation, Marie Antoinette, and The Virgin Suicides. Her new film Somewhere is looking so fantastic and apparently its already getting rave reviews from …read full story

Jessica Alba arriving at LAX airport from Venice (9/2) + Marky Mark’s wife wears a bra [Drunken Stepfather] + Hilary Duff’s husband just took a huge pay cut [Just Jared] + Sasha Grey is topless [TaxiDriverMovie] + Paris Hilton… …read full story

Fox just issued a statement confirming that Kara DioGuardi won’t be returning to American Idol next season. News comes as Jennifer Lopez is finalizing a deal to join the Fox series and amid speculation that Idol might be reverting to the original three-judge format. Also closing in on a deal for the reality series is Aerosmith frontman Steven Tyler. And executive producer Nigel Lythgoe said last weekend he’s still trying to land Elton John. So Randy Jackson will be the only returning panelist  after Simon Cowell, Ellen DeGeneres, and now DioGuardi have gone.
Kara DioGuardi is stepping down from her role as a judge on AMERICAN IDOL. DioGuardi joined AMERICAN IDOL as a judge in the series’

EXCLUSIVE UPDATE 5 PM: Paramount just weighed in with me to say that the injured extra was not involved in the stunt, that her car was not involved in the stunt, that a “freak accident caused her injury”, that she and her car were more than 500 feet from the stunt, that she was struck by a flying metal object whose welding had come apart and not by a steel towing cable, that the stunt from Tuesday had to be repeated Wednesday because of a “timing issue” and not because it had failed, and that “nobody has done movies more safely than Michael Bay”. The studio, however, could not explain why its version of events was so at odds with the local police and media reports. “We feel horrible that anyone was injured and will take all appropriate action,” a Paramount exec told me.
9:30 AM: Safety questions on Michael Bay’s set are being forwarded to me after an actress employed as a movie extra was “critically” injured during a Transformers 3 stunt that went wrong in Northwest Indiana. According to news reports quoting local police, the movie was filming a stunt involving multiple vehicles and drivers and flying cars when a metal object struck Gabriella Cedillo’s personal 2006 Toyota. It went through the windshield and hit the 24-year-old driver who was not a stunt professional or member of the … Read More

Britney Spears has been dating Jason Trawick for over a year now and damn does that dude have a killer bod!