If the cast and crew of Anchorman: The Legend Continues are trying to keep the film’s incredible and ever-increasing number of cameos by famous actors and celebrities under wraps, they’re doing a horrible job. As the sequel to the classic Will Ferrell comedy is filming in Atlanta, photos and reports of cameo after cameo are popping up on the Internet and it’s only a matter of time before… yep, now I’m in Anchorman 2 also.

But the latest cameo being reported by Access Atlanta is a little more surprising than Tina Fey, Amy Poehler and Sacha Baron Cohen. Namely because this one isn’t a comedy actor. Hell, he’s not even an actor at all. Can you guess who it is? Wrong, it’s not Chet Haze, despite my demands. But that’s pretty close…

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Every Expendables movie has that sweet spot where it’s awesome and not sad and lame, which usually happens a few weeks or months before the cameras roll. If they could just take the movie out of these movies, they’d be set. An idea this fun could only be ruined when you try to execute it. We’ve just entered that stage with Expendables 3, as word has it that Wesley Snipes has joined the cast. Fresh out of prison for tax evasion, Snipes is exactly the kind of person the Expendables would recruit in real life, if only he had a knack for wisecracks and his conviction was a government frame job as retribution for knowing too much.

TwitchFilm and Moviehole both reported the Snipes story, which was apparently based on a Tweet from Sly himself. He’s since deleted the tweet, and no one knows yet what to conclude from that. You never know with Sly, the mix of HGH and those tiny iPhone buttons is a recipe for disaster. One tweet he did leave up, meanwhile, was the one about getting Mel Gibson to direct. …Oh please oh please oh please…

No , I was kiddiing about , but seriously , what about Mel Gibson directing EXPENDABLES 3?Opinions anyone ?Curious…..

— Sylvester Stallone (@TheSlyStallone) April 11, 2013

Mel is a MAGNIFICENT director! Pure passion on every level . we’d be blessed to have him.. A REAL long shot, but LIFE is a long shot -right?

— Sylvester Stallone (@TheSlyStallone) April 15, 2013

No one uses caps lock to punctuate his revelations like Sly Stallone. In any case, at this point, I’m not too interested in Sly’s fantasy camp for aging action stars, but if he gets Mel Gibson to direct Wesley Snipes in it and we get a Some Kind of Monster-style documentary about the making of, I’d pay $100 for a ticket. The combination of The Expendables’ silly name conventions and Wesley Snipes’ penchant for staying in character alone would priceless. I imagine Mel Gibson screaming racial slurs at everyone on set while Snipes refuses to come out of his trailer and communicates only by post-it notes signed “Felt Penn.”

As always, if the title has a question mark that means we’re dealing with an unsubstantiated rumor that is coming from a source that may not know a ding dong diddily darn of what it speaks. This time around, though, the fine folks of Anonymous claim that they have uncovered documents that prove that Emma Watson has signed on to star as Anastasia Steele in the big screen adaptation of the best-selling Twilight fan fiction known as Fifty Shades of Grey.

And where there are whips, there are scars, because it turns out that Constantin Films was indeed hacked, so this may be the happiest day ever for men of all ages.

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All of the pieces seem to be falling into place rather nicely for Marvel’s giant sci-fi space epic, Guardians of the Galaxy, which will of course be tied into the ever-expanding Avengers universe. With Parks and Rec star Chris Pratt signed on to play the lead character, Star-Lord, they’re just trying to fill in the supporting characters, specifically the voices of the CGI Guardians like Rocket Raccoon and Groot, the giant talking tree.

There was a rumor back in January that Marvel Studios had reached out to Adam Sandler for the voice of Rocket and Jim Carrey for Groot, and while those aren’t exactly the most ideal casting decisions, based on both actors’ recent bodies of work, they at least showed that the studio was devoted to adding serious star power to this comic book’s transition to the big screen.

But just like Jason Momoa, who turned down the role of Drax the Destroyer, we can cross Carrey off the list, too. Promoting The Incredible Burt Wonderstone at SXSW (where Vince is currently trying out pickup lines on Twilight actresses) Carrey shot down that January rumor with authority.

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So earlier today, I told you about the rumor going around that Disney-Pixar would release Toy Story 4 in 2015 – that many have since poured cold water on. I didn’t necessarily want to cover it, but sometimes when a rumor is already all over the place (this one was trending on Twitter) and a lot of people seem to be talking about it, I feel compelled to explain what the rumor is and where it came from, even if it sounds a little thin. At least that way, you, FilmDrunk Reader, can make your own decisions about whether it’s bogus or not. The trail for the Toy Story rumor seemed to lead back to a now-deleted article on Terra (here’s the cached version), and to a Colombian radio personality named Jorge Luis Balaguera. Neither of them said where they got their information, only that it was confirmed. Meaning the rest of us all had to speculate based on the accuracy of these sources we didn’t know much about. Prompting me to write:

So how did the Colombians get this news before us? My guess is that they were up all night doing cocaine. HIYO! I kid, I kid. Obvious jokes, am I right? Anyway, take this news with a grain of salt until it’s confirmed by Disney.

Mr. Balaguera must’ve seen the link to my post on Twitter, because later this afternoon, I received an email from a Jorge Luis Balaguera from the same radio station saying:

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