You can now add Paula Abdul to the list of people Sacha Baron Cohen tricked into giving interviews for the Brüno movie, right behind Ron Paul and Ben Affleck (or in front of them if the list is alphabetical).

A source tells us Sacha Baron Cohen, playing a wildly gay Austrian TV reporter in “Bruno,” conducted a wacky interview with the “American Idol” judge. “Paula was totally fooled. She bought into his character and to this day isn’t aware she was fooled,” the insider said. [NYPost]

Wow, you mean he talked a drug-addled narcissist into doing an interview, and she didn’t even know he was making fun of her?  Amazing.  I mean, If you can fool Paula Abdul you can fool anyone.  She’s got a mind like two sea lions playing volleyball.

In this new clip from JJ Abrams’ Star Trek (OMG OMG only one more week before it’s out!), young Captain Kirk Chris Pine runs from a big monster who creature designer Steve Daly describes as “looking, literally like an ass.” (Io9 has some pictures of the concept art).  It looks basically like a cross between an anus and predator’s mouth.  We don’t get to see how Kirk gets away, but ten bucks says he throws something down its throat and it chokes.  I’ve always found the only way to please a monster butthole is to jam something big and hard in it. But then, that’s my solution to everything. (*hip thrusts*)

IESB recently interviewed comic book artist Todd McFarlane at the Star Trek premiere in Tempe, and long story short, he told them he’s working on getting another film adaptation of his comic book Spawn made.

“Right now I literally have five offers on the table, everything from the big studios… to more where I’m leaning, which is more of a smaller budget – just keep it down, keep it dark, keep it grungy – I mean, I’ve got two teenage daughters, and I’m trying to come up with an idea that would get them and their dates to go to it. And it’s not a comic book movie, it’s just a scary movie, a creepy movie.  …Think The Departed, but with something moving in the shadows.

…The problem is, if I go big, they’re only gonna let me produce it. If I go smaller they’ll let me write and direct it.  Which is what I’m leaning towards, which is why I’m trying to get it small enough.”

Say what you will about the 1997 Spawn movie, directed by a guy who later went on to direct Garfield’s Fun Fest, I hope they bring back John Leguizamo as the scary clown guy.  The only thing scarier than clowns is John Leguizamo chewing scenery.   [IESB has video of the McFarlane interview, Leguizamo clip below]
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All it takes is one look at an ugly annoying hipster wearing neon Ray Bans to know that the 80s are, like, totally hip again.  Which makes it not all that surprising that Robert Zemeckis is talking about another Who Framed Roger Rabbit.

When MTV News caught up with director Robert Zemeckis recently, he dropped a news bomb that had our eyes popping cartoon-style out of our sockets. “I’ll tell you what is buzzing around in my head now that we have the ability—the digital tools, performance capture—I’m starting to think about ‘Roger Rabbit,’” he told us.

Hmm, the original combined super-stylized cartoons with live action, and performance-capture turns live action into creepy mannequins.  So basically, his idea is to make this one nothing like the original at all?  Hard to say.  But between Roger Rabbit 2 and the inevitable Running Man remake, I finally feel confident unleashing my sweet dance moves again.  Good thing I saved all these jean shorts with lace coming out the bottom.

As you can see in this incredible clip, Willow predicted the Swine Flu outbreak (and some might argue the later stages of Val Kilmer’s career) more than 20 years ago.  Look, all I’m saying is that if a few babies had to die in order to make Willow references timely again, so be it.

[a thousand thanks to Burnsy for the tip]
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