Anyone ever wonder what Robin Hood would be like if he didn’t wear green tights and kicked ass? I think we may be about to find out.

The story of the bandit who steals from the rich and gives to the poor gets a makeover in Robin Hood, which reunites Gladiator star Russell Crowe and director Ridley Scott. This is either going to be EPIC, or completely terrible. At least it looks like they don’t have him on too many appetite suppressants to make him look like a wimp for it.

“He doesn’t have the old Robin Hood tights,” says producer Brian Grazer. “He’s got armor. He’s very medieval. He looks, if anything, more like he did in Gladiator than anything we’re used to seeing with Robin Hood.”

“Oddly, it’s a metaphor for today,” Grazer says. “He’s trying to create equality in a world where there are a lot of injustices. He’s a crusader for the people, trying to reclaim some of the ill-gotten gains of the wealthy. That’s a universal theme.”

Not that the film will linger on the contemporary. “We just shot a scene where Maid Marion fires a flaming bow and arrow into the night sky. It’s just a cool story.”

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Well…on one hand you can understand it, but on the other it makes you sick.

“Slumdog Millionaire” star Rubina Ali is back in the news – but not for her acting skills.

The 9-year-old’s father, who lives in a Mumbai slum along with his star daughter, offered to sell Ali for nearly $300,000 to undercover reporters from Britain’s News of the World, the paper says.

Her father says that he has to do what is best for her and his family. According to him their family received nothing from her role in the immensely popular film Slumdog Millionaire. The family still lives in the Mumbai slum and the money isn’t flowing like you would have thought. They are definitely still trying to find better deals for insurance online, of course they can’t afford that even according to the father.

Despite the stardom, Ali’s father reportedly said the family “got nothing out of this film,” although director Danny Boyle has set up apartments for Ali and fellow “Slumdog” child star Azharuddin Mohammed Ismail and their families, which will be available soon.

Boyle has also set up a trust fund for Ali for her education.

“I have to consider what’s best for me, my family and Rubina’s future,” cash-strapped dad Rafiq Qureshi told the journalists, who posed as a wealthy Middle Eastern family.

Qureshi allegedly upped his asking adoption price for his apple-cheeked little girl during the negotiations because of Ali’s star status.

“The child is special now,” Qureshi’s brother said, per the paper. “This is an Oscar child!”

Just sad really.

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Madonna was tossed to the ground Saturday when her horse was startled by photographers while riding on a Hamptons estate. Good old paparazzi. Always ready to get the shot.

Publicist, Liz Rosenberg said that the accident occurred when the horse she was riding was surprised by paparazzi, who jumped out of the bushes to photograph the pop singer Saturday. What an idiot.

This is the second time Madonna has been thrown from a horse in the last 4 years. It appears that she may need to ride around on top of outdoor cushions if morons like this photographer are going to be hiding in bushes to spook her animals.

Madonna suffered minor injuries and bruises from the incident. Madonna broke three ribs, a hand and a collarbone in 2005 after slipping from the saddle during her 47th birthday celebration, however.

The fall happened at her England estate while riding a polo horse she was not acquainted with alongside an assistant. She called it “the most painful experience of my life.”

No word on what happens to the paparazzi douchebag that caused the accident.

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Yes it is getting ridiculous. It appears that Americans are a bit too financially strapped to get to the theaters as spring rolls around to actually go to real movies. Instead the tweeners and action lovers are going for an escape and taking the top slot every week. Fast and Furious was the last movie that is more of an escape than a thoughtful movie to win. Fast and Furious destroyed 17 Again at the box office for its first weekend, but 17 Again won its opener just the same.

17 Again made its money for one simple reason: Zac Efron. The current teenage heart stopper that brings the girls in droves. After paying for their fat burner they spend the rest of their money on going to see his movies to swoon.

17 Again, a high school time-warp comedy, which costars Matthew Perry and Leslie Mann, earned $24.1 million, according to studio estimates from the box office tracking firm Nielsen EDI.

Yeah…you thought the same thing I did when you saw the commercial for this movie. “Oh great another one of THESE movies. Matthew Perry sure has fallen.”

Regardless of the terrible critical reviews Zac Efron is enough of a box office draw to pull in the teenage ladies. Efron has made the box office tingle with the musical Hairspray, which co-starred Efron, opened first at $27.5 million. Last year, Efron’s High School Musical 3: Senior Year bowed with $42 million, and while 17 Again may have fallen short of that mark, it still represents an auspicious maiden voyage for Efron’s post-Disney career.

Coming in second was another Russell Crowe movie with positive reviews that co-starred Ben Affleck. Thriller, State of Play, pulled in $14.1 million. Although its final tally actually came in somewhat higher than anticipated and was an improvement over the $12.9 million opening for Crowe’s last outing, last fall’s Body of Lies. Body of Lies is a GREAT flick by the way if you haven’t seen it. Stars Crowe and Leo DiCaprio and is an anti-terroist action film. Definitely better than this 17 Again rubbish.

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So it only took about a year and a half for Youtube to decide that it was time to try and kill Hulu.com off. Hulu.com is a site that shows TV, movies, and clips of movies (All of which piss people off since they want the movie instead of this moronic video). All are shown with short commercial interruptions (yes even movies, but only 30 second clips usually).

Hulu was there first and is actually partnered with NBC since they own it. This means they get the shows like The Office, Heroes, and 30 Rock to show there, while Youtube will likely not have access to that content. That is until Youtube just decides to put them out of business I would guess.

At the moment Youtube only has old shows and movies much like what Hulu had early on. They still do, but have newer programming as well including the ones mentioned before as well as Family Guy, The Simpsons, and other crap I will never watch.

I assume Youtube will do the same thing with commercial interruptions for whatever company decides to pay the bills. You see basically anything from diet pills comparisons to video game ads. It’s a great way to advertise anyways. People love the ability to watch online when they want to. Not everyone has a DVR, or TiVo yet so it is good for them.

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Wow…that’s quite a haul for an opening. OF course anyone that pays attention to such things knows darn well that most of America is obsessed with action movies. They like to see fast cars, hot women sucking down diet pills, and things blowing up, with a few gun fights thrown in between cheesy one-liners. That’s what this franchise is, and that’s why people go see it. Be a movie snob all you want, but most Americans just aren’t, and another action movie blowing up the box office continues to prove it.

I’m not always a fan of action movies. Kind of need to be in the mood for them. Usually I find them to be nothing more than an escape and no thought being needed. Almost all of them are terribly written, but every once in a while you like to see things go fast and explode.

I know darn well that I have thought to myself on many occasions that people are just too stupid to realize these movies suck, but then I remember that most people are pretty stupid anyways and I forget about it. Like I always see people saying how great a movie like Transformers is. That movie is terrible from the story perspective. It had big robots that fight though so people like it. Did I like it? Not particularly, but I watched it to waste some time. That was it’s purpose. It wasn’t winning any awards unless if was for CGI effects.

There are way more people out there that like these movies than those that consider themselves movie snobs so no one should be surprised. Those of you in the minority know exactly what I’m talking about, but those in that minority that obsess about showing elitism in movie viewing need to learn to let it go. If you are smart enough to realize these movies aren’t going to stimulate your thoughts you should be smart enough to have learned a long time ago that there are a lot more people out there that don’t think that way. They like shiny things.

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Yup…we are ever so close to never going outside again. AT least a lot of people are already there. With Mayspace, Facebook, Twitter, etc. there are people that probably never go outside. Maybe I should take up this fad so I don’t have to worry about getting some sort of hair loss product when my hair falls out…lol

So…some woman decided it would either be funny, or she was serious when she postd this on Demi Moore’s Twitter page:

“Getting a knife, a big one that is sharp. Going to cut my arm down the whole arm so it doesn’t waste time,” said the message sent to Moore by a user of the social networking site.

“Hope you are joking,” wrote back Moore.

“Gbye…gonna kill myself now,” the woman responded.

A San Jose police spokesman said the department had received a number of calls from Twitter users about the suicide threat and sent officers to the 48-year-old woman’s home.

OF course the publicity is great for these celebs.

Moore’s husband, Ashton Kutcher, Twitted his congratulations.

“Wifey reported a suicide attempt based on a…tweet she got and saved someones life. The woman is in the hospital now.”

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