After news broke that Robert Rodriguez was inexplicably filming Machete Kills, a sequel to 2010’s Machete (itself a spin-off from a Grindhouse pseudo-trailer), the question became: who will show up to star in this thing?  A random cavalcade of stars showed up for the last one (Robert De Niro, Don Johnson, Lindsay Lohan); so far, Machete Kills has nabbed returning stars Danny Trejo, Michelle Rodriguez and Jessica Alba, as well as good decision maker Mel Gibson.  And now, the latest name added to the roster is Amber Heard.

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A sequel to 2005’s Sin City has been rumored and in discussion for so long it’s become a kind of urban legend—the kind of thing that people always talk about (especially director Robert Rodriquez and Sin City creator Frank Miller), but everyone knows would never really happen.  Well, that appears to no longer be the case, as Dimension Films has sent out an official press release declaring that Frank Miller’s Sin City: A Dame To Kill For is officially in pre-production.

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Thanks in part to the success of such shows as HBO’s Game of Thrones and Starz’s Spartacus, it looks like we’ve got another Swords And Sandals television show coming our way—the story of William Wallace.  That’s right, the 13^th century Scottish warrior who fought in the First War of Scottish Independence against King Edward I of England.  Or, as you may know him, the guy Mel Gibson played in Braveheart back when Mel Gibson wasn’t offending every subset of people in the free world.

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The American Cinematheque recently honored Robert Downey Jr. for his contributions to cinema, and got his friends Jamie Foxx, Mel Gibson and Garry Shandling to roast him in a video before the presentation. Starting with Foxx complaining about Downey going for black roles after Tropic Thunder, the piece goes into his drug use and prison stint, and covers the most famous troubled incidents the actor has had. It’s also pretty funny. Check it out.

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Mel Gibson and Joe Eszterhas are both officially “bad boys” for the public lives and the trouble they’ve gotten into on and off screen. Perhaps Gibson is the Chocolate to Eszterhas’s peanut butter as the two are teaming together to tell the story of Judah Maccabee, a Jewish warrior famed in the second century B. C. according to Deadline Hollywood.

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When he’s not busy desperately convincing us all that he’s kind of, well, sort of monstrous, Mel Gibson actually appears to be a fairly nice guy.  No—seriously!

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Jodie Foster steps in front and behind the camera to tackle the controversial subject of mental health in an extremely honest, yet somehow ridiculously humorous story about a man who is unable to cope with life and so he puts up a front, an Australian Beaver front in The Beaver. The concept is odd and the film doesn’t get much more normal, but it’s refreshing to see someone take such a big risk on a topic that is both important and relevant…

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Today in “Jesus, what happened to Martin Riggs, man?” news (to paraphrase Kevin Smith), Mel Gibson turned himself in to police—while his new film, The Beaver, was premiering at SXSW—at the at El Segundo Police Department “as part of his sentence for the misdemeanor battery case resulting from an alleged January 2010 incident with his then-girlfriend, Oksana Grigorieva,” according to Access Hollywood.

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Mel Gibson and his beaver continue to have problems. By beaver we’re referring to his dark comedy that co-stars and is directed by Jodie Foster. The Summit Entertainment production took forever to get an official release date, and now it’s being pushed back. The film was originally scheduled to hit theaters on March 23, but now it’s been delayed until May where it will duke it out with the summer blockbusters!

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