Teenage Wizard Movie has jumped to the $100 million mark in the worldwide box office sales. Which poses a fascinating question: Why did the producers of 500 Days of Summer choose this weekend to open? Surely Potter's box office bonanza comes as no surprise. Did they really think the mopey teens who like 'meaning music' were going to snub Potter for uh, the kid from 3rd Rock? SILLY FOOLS! [ Variety ]

Yes! A new movie named Bad Girls is being described as a cross between Lord of the Flies and Heathers. It's an adaptation of a novel. Bad Girls centers on a wild teenager shipped off to a reform school on a remote Caribbean island. On the island, she and The Others go up against violent drug dealers and killers as they battle their own worst impulses. First step: Kill the Pig! [THR]

Two men have died after a stage being built for Madonna's concert collapsed in Marseilles, France. Worst. Obits. Ever. []

Ed Helms! He does things we enjoy. Hopefully, we'll enjoy his newest movie project Cedar Rapids. Helms will play a sad-sack insurance agent who goes to an industry convention to try to save the jobs of his colleagues. Always the hero, that Helms. [ Variety ]

Kevin Smith has confirmed that Clerks and Chasing Amy will be released on Blu-Ray in November 2009 with a few new surprises. Aw! You guys remember Joey Lawrence Adams? Neither do I. [/Film]

A new painfully good looking young person has been cast in Twilight Eclipse. So, you know, Google images is probably a little strained right now! [ THR ]

Todd Phillips, writer/director of The Hangover, is has been hired by Warner Bros to write a new feature called Staycation. What's it about? We don't know but there's rightful suspicion that it will be a "male-driven-laffer." [ Vairety ]

Fox has tapped portly and lovable John Goodman to star in a new Ben Stiller-produced pilot. [Variety ]

More like solidarity for-never! The Directors union and the Writers union are beefing. Look at this Eff-Off email the head of the DGA sent to the head of SAG. "Of course, these are not normal circumstances "... you've repeatedly, and in my opinion unfraternally, attacked the negotiations and contracts of the DGA and other unions in the press and other public forums. So, in the circumstances, I'm very surprised that you would consider yourself to be in a position to convene an event that requires trust and fraternity to have any chance of success." Good luck on those negotiations, comrades! [ Variety ]

The man behind Slumdog Millionaire won Best Director at the weekend ceremony, which didn't even have Sean Young to drunkenly mix up the proceedings. Instead, it was all class and dignity, as per Boyle's usual, thanking the defunct Warner Independent for offloading his Indian fantasia to Fox Searchlight and intoning humbly to up-and-comers: "If I can get here, so can you. Dream kind, and dream hard." That was little consolation to David Fincher, whose polished and practiced Rimjob Address remained sequestered in his tux for the next to last time; he and fellow nominees Ron Howard and Gus Van Sant will, in all likelihood, watch Boyle pick up a directing Oscar three weeks from now.

In slightly less foregone conclusions, Ari Folman won the Best Foreign-Language Film prize for his animated doc Waltz With Bashir, while Paul Feig (The Office) and Dan Attias (The Wire received the respective awards for TV comedy and drama directing. Jay Roach won the TV movie prize for Recount.

But... sigh. Boyle. Again. Comments and suggestions for enlivening Oscar-night viewing are welcome below; we're stumped for now.

• Danny Boyle nabs DGA feature award [Variety]

In it, she runs down some of her favorite Santa Monica haunts. Ignore, if you can, their too-irreverent-by-half intro, and skip directly to #5. There you'll find tantalizing clues as to what might have gone down that fateful night, the actress's unfamiliarity with a barstool rendering her tolerance against the Schnabel-shushing effects of an open bar virtually negligible. (And God knows those DGA cheapskates would sooner relinquish final cut than part with whatever it costs to adequately feed you!) And while we have no idea which "2 people have saved this user as a favorite," we like to imagine that users Doctor Bombay and Yun are the legendary crazy-lady's secret admirers, Jimmy Woods and Julian Schnabel themselves.

• Sean Young's Santa Monica Favorites [LAT]

THR's Gold Rush blog finally delivers video of the incident, though from the director's perspective; you'll probably have to turn up your speakers to make out Young's now-infamous "Get on with it!" exhortation, but the perturbed honoree's now-poignant "Have another cocktail" retort is clearly documented by the Reporter's camera. Presumably, the clip brings this turbulent chapter in awards show history to an anticlimactic close, at least until some blurry cameraphone footage of Young's subsequent ejection from the event makes its way to YouTube.

• Video Exclusive: Sean Young vs. Julian Schnabel [THR]
• Previously: Julie Chen Shares The Story Of Sean Young's Drunken DGA Awards Meltdown With Millions Of 'Late Show' Viewers [Defamer]

THE INSIDER has confirmed that actress Sean Young voluntarily admitted herself yesterday to a rehabilitation center for treatment related to alcoholism. It is understood that Young has struggled against the disease for many years.

Our hearts are with the troubled actress, who'll spend the next long weeks battling her 40-proof demons, and their imprudent suggestions that she fill in for an absent orchestra swell with drunken outbursts whenever awards show speeches threaten to run too long. We'll leave her to her healing, including the composition of a fearless and searching moral inventory that will most likely include the entry, "And I really should never have called Marion Cotillard a 'pute sans talent avec une vilaine bouche comme celle d'une grenouille.' That was just petty."

• Sean Young Enters Rehab [TheInsiderOnline]

as a faithful reader of your blog, I just wanted to tell you about the AWESOME drama at the DGA Awards Saturday night at the Century City Hotel. Things were pretty calm for the dinner, but once the award portion of the evening began, has-been actress Sean Young started to get rowdy. She started talking loudly through out the show...at times screaming in French at the stage when that French actress from La Vie en Rose [Ed. Note - That'd be Marion Cotillard] took the stage..at other times breaking into song. She yelled at a video clip of George Clooney from Michael Clayton and then would start nuzzling the neck of her date (who seemed oblivious) but it was when Julian Schnabel took the stage toward the end of the evening that she really went kook...yelling at him to "get on with it" and to "move it on" (The DGA Awards are unique, they let all of the film nominees say something about their films and thank their crews before naming the winner at the end of the night). Julian yelled back at her to "Have another drink, Honey" and started to leave the stage before the crowd yelled at him to stay. He continued to talk and Sean stood up and mad a big production of putting on her white fur coat, walking around in a circle and then taking her seat again. Finally a security guard came over and grabbed her arm and yanked her through the tables to the side door and tossed her out. Still can't figure out who her date was (he looked like a lawyer type..an ohhhh he's going to get it at work come Monday).

Oh yes, there's other thing that we just remembered that gives this tale even a bit more creedence. Sean Young told Entertainment Weekly back in September about her unsuccessful attempts to crash Vanity Fair's annual Oscar party back in 2006. We find that to be very Interesting Spice.

UPDATE: Looks like Var's Kris Tapley may have been the first one to break this story. Check out his recap, posted earlier this afternoon at 12:02pm.

· Notes of cautious optimism™ have been struck by polled showrunners, though at least one quoted admits that writers may not know if the deal's new media provisions will prove fair until the buggering is already in progress: "'I can't look at that and go, "I'm being fucked"' or "That's good," " he said. 'I don't know what the landscape is going to be a year from now or five years from now. To me, the issue I always thought was the unknown. Maybe they could screw us royally, but we won't know that until it happens.'" [Variety]
· Variety analyzes the deal: "All in all, the master contract agreement...provides substantial gains in new media that will put more coin in the pockets of film and TV helmers." For a slightly different take from those whose livelihoods are at stake, here's United Hollywood's "first glance" at the deal summary. [Variety].
· We're sure that wherever he is, Orson Welles is thrilled that his name graces the title of a Zac Efron project. [THR]
· The networks, desperate for anything they can slap onto their strike-crippled schedules, are going batshit insane for celebrity circus shows! NBC's "closing a deal" for international hit Celebrity Circus, ABC wants to revive Circus of the Stars, and CBS and Fox are fighting to the death to win the rights to A Baldwin Brother To Be Named Rides An Elephant In Circles While Andy Dick Dangles From A Trapeze Above Him. [Variety]

UPDATE: After the jump:

The hightlights of the deal, according to the DGA's press release:

* Increases both wages and residual bases for each year of the contract.

* Establishes DGA jurisdiction over programs produced for distribution on the Internet.

* Establishes new residuals formula for paid Internet downloads (electronic sell-through) that essentially doubles the rate currently paid by employers.

* Establishes residual rates for ad-supported streaming and use of clips on the Internet.

Meanwhile, United Hollywood is cautiously optimistic about what they see in the deal summary: "As good as that sounds — and it sounds really, really good — we can't really evaluate what kind of teeth it has until we know what the structures and provisions they have in place actually are. Information we can only get from the more detailed document. In short, we gotta get a look at all the fine print."

[Variety]

· Everyone is Hollywood is "on edge" (about as big an understatement as we've ever read—how about "doubled over due to gut-splitting tension"?) as they wonder: Where the hell is this imminent DGA deal with the studios that will either a) contain terms just good enough to lead the way to a new contract with the WGA or b) be so unfavorable to writers that the current labor war will continue until the Earth hurtles into the sun? Relief in the form of an official deal announcement may or may not come by the end of the week. [Variety]
· Moving to cement her typecasting as a cheerleader, indestructible Heroes pom-pom girl Hayden Panettiere is in negotiations to star in an adaptation of the novel I Love You, Beth Cooper as a teenage spirit-squadder. [THR]
· Fulfilling its promise to lighten up on staff during the strike, Warner Brothers lays off about three dozen facilities employees. They are, however "very sorry for the impact this has on our nonstriking work force." [THR]

• DGA Deal To Be Announced Tomorrow? [UnitedHollywood.com]
• DGA talks raise hope for WGA [Variety]

· Having quietly completed two days of negotiations over the weekend, everyone in Hollywood will be watching the DGA and AMPTP for signs that they're about to announce a deal. (Especially members of the WGA, who are praying the directors don't reach an unfavorable agreement that makes their own contract-talk suffering any worse.) [THR]
· The Producers Guild nominates The Diving Bell and the Butterfly, Juno, Michael Clayton, No Country for Old Men, and There Will Be Blood for its feature film award, jilting both of last night's Globes winners, Atonement and Sweeney Todd.[Variety]

"We're trying to do in six months what we usually do in 12," said Patrick Whitesell, a partner with the Endeavor agency, which represents Mr. Sandler and others caught up in the chase. [...]

In one go-round, Paul Greengrass, finished with this August's "Bourne Ultimatum," with Matt Damon, a client of Mr. Whitesell's, has been trying to round up that star to shoot "Imperial Life in the Emerald City" for Universal and Working Title Films. But Mr. Damon is also looking at "The Informant," a conspiracy thriller to be directed by Steven Soderbergh for Warner Brothers.

If Mr. Damon commits to both, and everything falls into place with the studios, that would mean a long delay for "The Fighter," a Paramount boxing film that is being lined up as a possible project for him with the director Darren Aronofsky. For that one, however, Mr. Damon would have to contend with weight fluctuations that would be difficult to control on a tight schedule.

If dwelling upon the heartbreaking possibility that the universally beloved actor's metabolism will become a pawn in the chess match between the unions and the studios isn't enough to move you, consider this: Should Damon's ability to earn become impaired by a lengthy work stoppage, he'll likely have to cease the monthly assistance payments he's been generously giving to childhood friend Ben Affleck, who hasn't worked steadily since 2004. Only the blackest of Hollywood souls can remain unaffected by the thought of a lifelong bond broken by the cruel realities of this business.

• Hollywood Scrambles as Strike Looms [NY Times]

· The Carpetbagger sits down with Academy President Sid Ganis. Among the bombshells: The Academy doesn't have its own Oscar pool, Sid finds out the winners at the same time as the rest of us, and, we strongly suspect, The Carpetbagger spent the night before screaming his lungs out at a Justin Timberlake concert. [The Carpetbagger]
· The Santa Barbara International Film Festival gave its indie cinema American Spirit Award to Man in the Chair, and a Gold Vision Award to Spiral, a long overdue cinematic exploration of the world of telemarketing. [THR]

*Leelee Sobieski was an ingenue prominent in the late 1990s.

· The Irish Film & Television Academy nominate Babel, Casino Royale, The Departed, Little Miss Sunshine, and United 93 for the best international film prize at the Irish Film & TV Awards, while Neil Jordan's Breakfast on Pluto is the frontrunner for their domestic prize. [Variety]
· Canada's Genie nominations were announced today, with Bon Cop, Bad Cop, starring Colm Feore and Patrick Huard as odd couple cops who bond over a common passion for catching the bad guys and a shared love of poutine, leading the way. [CP]
· TV Week's semi-annual critics poll names The Wire the best series on TV, followed by Heroes, The Office, a tied-for-fourth Ugly Betty and Grey's Anatomy, Lost, Friday Night Lights, Dexter, Battlestar Galactica, and (cough) Studio 60 On the Sunset Strip rounding out the top 10. [MercuryNews.com]

"If a person is sitting down to write about a film that just opened — good, bad or indifferent — they have to say something about the director," said director Jeff Bleckner ("Serving in Silence: The Margarethe Cammermeyer Story").

"When they sit down to write about TV films, often they don't even know that anybody directed it. A lot of people don't even think the movie was directed by anybody." [...]

[Director Jane] Anderson recalled that while waiting to learn if she would be given the green light to direct her 2005 feature "The Prize Winner of Defiance, Ohio," the movie executives kept referring to her as a "first time" director.

"Even though it was going to be my fifth film," she said. "They kept saying, 'We don't know if you can direct children' — even though the ... films I did had children in them. I was basically an amateur as far as they were concerned."

We hesitantly admit that we were shamefully ignorant of the fact that these made-for-TV movies were helmed by actual directors, laboring under the misguided impression that credit for these projects was just randomly assigned to unemployed DGA members to keep them eligible for health insurance. But with the Times' stirring, sympathetic coverage of their second-class citizenship, we're sure the exclusive walls of the industry's antiquated caste system will soon come crumbling down, and they'll soon be embraced wholeheartedly by the film professionals who once ignored their work.

• Some directors can't get respect [LAT]