“Film” on The Daily Caller

Wall Street: Money Never Sleeps star Shia LaBeouf was briefly handcuffed and released in the wee hours of Saturday morning after an alleged bar fight, UsMagazine.com has confirmed. (more)

Is your memory of last night’s Super Bowl nothing but a buffalo wing-filled haze? Perhaps your eardrums were pierced by Fergie’s shriek-filled halftime show? Or maybe you just waited for the post-game Glee episode? (more)

The Hobbit will begin filming March 21, production company 3Foot7 Ltd announced Monday. (more)

“The Roommate,” which topped the box office charts during its opening weekend, is Hollywood’s reminder that possessive, crazy women frighten both males and females. (more)

ROME (AP) — Lawyers for U.S. student Amanda Knox and her ex-boyfriend, who were found guilty of killing Knox’s British roommate in Italy, have formally demanded that U.S. television channel Lifetime scrap a planned film about their trial. (more)

Screen Gems is back in good form with thriller The Roommate, which easily beat Universal/Relativity’s 3D Sanctum at the Friday box office in grossing an estimated $6.4 million from 2,534 screens. (more)

Who’s the fairest of them all? We think we know! Sources tell EW that Kristen Stewart has been offered the part of Snow White in Universal’s Snow White and the Huntsman, to be directed by Rupert Sanders. (more)

LOS ANGELES (AP) — After years of watching Muslims portrayed as terrorists in mainstream TV and movies, an advocacy group hopes to change that image by grooming a crop of aspiring Muslim screenwriters who can bring their stories — and perspective — to Hollywood. (more)

It took more than 80 years for the American Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences to award the Oscar for Best Director to a woman. But despite doing a bang-up job of busting through the glass ceiling in 2010 with “The Hurt Locker,” Kathryn Bigelow wasn’t able to bring the rest of Hollywood’s women with her. (more)

I wasn’t a fan of the Motion Picture Academy’s decision to expand its field of Best Picture nominees to a crowded 10. But maybe the Academy is onto something. This year it has given its membership the opportunity to recognize a range of work that includes small independent films, big-budget blockbusters, thoughtful biographies, an animated film, a comedy (of sorts), and even an old-fashioned Western. (more)

LONDON (AP) — Five-time Oscar-winning composer John Barry, who wrote music for a dozen James Bond films, including “You Only Live Twice” and “Goldfinger” but couldn’t persuade a jury that he composed the suave spy’s theme music, has died. He was 77. (more)

With Steve Carell stepping out of NBC’s The Office, producers have enlisted Will Ferrell to help boost the show’s numbers during the season’s home stretch. (more)

James Cameron has spoken frequently about his intention to turn his mega-hit Avatar into a trilogy. Now, according to the director himself speaking at the PGA Awards on Saturday, those two sequels have release dates. Cameron tells EW, “I am in the process of writing the next two Avatar films now. We are planning to shoot them together and post them together, and we will probably release them not quite back to back, but about a year apart. Christmas ’14 and ’15 is the current plan.” Of course, it’s probably best to take those release dates with a grain of salt, since the first Avatar had several release dates before its December 2009 release. Still, now fans know that they’ll have to wait at least three more years for a return to Pandora. (more)

Nominees for the 83rd annual Academy Awards were announced this morning in Los Angeles.  (more)

BEVERLY HILLS, Calif. (AP) — The British monarchy saga “The King’s Speech” leads the Academy Awards with 12 nominations, including best picture and acting honors for Colin Firth, Helena Bonham Carter and Geoffrey Rush. (more)

So Mean Girls 2 premiered on ABC Family last night, and as Gretchen Wieners might say, it was so not fetch. The flick tells the story of a pretty outsider who transfers to North Shore High, befriends an unpopular artist, and conspires to bring down the Plastics, a group of three snotty, cruel classmates: a devious queen bee, a dumb, promiscuous blonde, and a high-strung brunette. Soon enough, the protagonist gets a makeover and becomes a member of the ruling class herself. It’s only after a major crisis turns the entire school against her that our girl can get back on track and finally rid the school of Plastics once and for all. (more)

Double-take: Once again, Megan Fox looks just like Angelina Jolie in a sexy new ad for Armani. (more)

Back in December, when critics everywhere were lavishing praise upon Natalie Portman’s performance in “Black Swan,” she appeared to have a lock on the best actress Oscar. But then the trailer for “No Strings Attached” was released, and a chill wind blew through Hollywood. Suddenly, pundits everywhere were calling this Ivan Reitman-directed romantic comedy “Natalie Portman’s ‘Norbit’ ” and predicting that Portman’s award season fate would parallel that of Eddie Murphy in 2007, when the “Dreamgirls” star had his award dreams shattered by the trailers for him in drag and in a fat suit. (The double death!) (more)

LOS ANGELES (AP) — An upcoming biography of WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange isn’t even in stores yet, and it’s already been optioned into a feature film. (more)

LOS ANGELES (AP) — As if his portrayals of Borat and Bruno weren’t outrageous enough, Sacha Baron Cohen’s next role will be playing Saddam Hussein. (more)