Everyone’s got a story about this today and it seems like the quote’s being blown out of proportion.  But at the premiere of Madagascar 2 in London, Ben Stiller had this to say about the possibility of a Zoolander sequel:

“I feel that is the sequel I really would like to do some day because I like the original and I would make sure it was something new and worthy of it first.” [TheSun]

Zoolander is one of the rare movies to which a sequel might actually be a good idea.  The first made a fairly modest $60 million worldwide (on a $30 million budget) and then became sort of a cult hit on DVD.  It’s easily the high point of Stiller’s acting career, and Mugatu is probably my favorite Will Ferrell character.  If the same movie came out today, it’d make $100 mil, easy.  Need proof of its popularity?  Check out the mouth on virtually every greasy dipshit on the internet and tell me they’re not doing Blue Steel.

On second thought, maybe a Zoolander sequel’s not such a good idea.

Well now here’s an f’d up news item: it seems Michel Gondry (Eternal Sunshine, Science of Sleep, Be Kind Rewind) has been in Tokyo making a short film with Steven Seagal’s daughter.  Wha??

“We’re each doing a 30-minute segment,” he said of himself and collaborators Joon-ho Bong and Leos Carax. “It’s all connected with Tokyo. [My segment] is a story about a girl who tries to move into Tokyo with her boyfriend and, she can’t find an apartment or a job. She eventually turns into a chair."

Uh… 

“The actress we cast [Ayako Fujitani] turned out to be Steven Seagal’s daughter,” Gondry exclaimed. “I didn’t know he had a Japanese daughter! I didn’t know she was half-American.”

…I’d love to make a Steven Seagal joke here, or say something about calling up the Eternal Sunshine company people to see if they can erase my memory my unhealthy, 102-minute relationship with On Deadly Ground, or perhaps that this should somehow include Omarosa, but really I just need a drink. [via MTV, and possibly mushrooms]