It may or may not be your idea of great cinema, but when deciding whether or not to see “College” this weekend, the new comedy starring Drake Bell, Andrew Caldwell, and Kevin Covais, well, there’s one thing you really should know, Covais laughed.

“I strip down to my underwear in the movie,” he said, tongue planted firmly in check. “Seriously, they should put that on the poster. See me stripped down to my tightie whities – how can people not go?”

(Note: Covais’s nickname on “American Idol” was Chicken Little. We’ve taken this paragraph off to allow you to make your own obvious pun.) Read more…

- Little known director Max Makowski reportedly signed on to helm “Voltron.” (Latino Review)

- “May Payne” trailer hits net. Mark Wahlberg’s assertion that Payne is the most complex character he’s ever played drowned out by copious explosions. (Yahoo)

- “House of Sand and Fog” director Vadim Perelman in heavy talks to helm “Poltergeist,” sources say. (Bloody-Disgusting)

- “You Won’t Believe How It Ends” promises final poster for “Saw V.” My bet is it’ll end up being terrible. How’s that for a guess? (Slashfilm)

“Twilight” author Stephenie Meyer knows how to craft a story on the pages of a book, and now we’ll see her extend that vision into yet another realm…the music video. Singer/songwriter Andrew McMahon of Jack’s Mannequin has enlisted Meyer to create and direct the video for the band’s upcoming single, “The Resolution.” Read more about it here, and then check out the video clip below to hear McMahon giving us some hints about what we’ll see.

It’s really no surprise that David Duchovny is in rehab for sex addiction, as People reported Thursday. Just look at his filmography: The clues are everywhere, including in the titles. His most recent projects include the second “X-Files” movie (”X” as in “X-rated”) and Showtime’s “Californication” (’nuff said), but even in years past his TV and film work often hinted that something just wasn’t right with the guy.

Way back in 1990, when no one outside the English departments at Princeton and Yale knew who he was, Duchovny starred in a movie called “Julia Has Two Lovers.” He played a creepy dude who called women he selected randomly from the phone book and pleasured himself during the conversations. On a related note, in the “X-Files” TV series, Fox Mulder had very little actual sex, but it is widely known that the character had a major porn addiction. In at least one episode he gets turned on watching a tape of a Bigfoot sighting.
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Mariah Carey gets a lot of grief over being a bad actress — “Glitter,” anyone? — but she was believable enough to fool her “husband.”

Lance Reddick — who’s known for his work on “The Wire” and “Lost” and will be a FBI agent on J.J. Abrams’ upcoming television show “Fringe”– was cast late in the game for the upcoming movie “Tennessee” (”Honestly, they were going to go with a bigger name,” Reddick said, “but they lost that someone”). So by the time he was signed up as Carey’s character’s husband Frank, “I had less than a week before we started shooting,” Reddick said. Read more…

As the fireworks figuratively and literally went off at the conclusion of Senator Barack Obama’s acceptance speech at Invesco Field in Denver last night, a few observers were reminded of another powerful political speech some 13 years earlier — that of President Andrew Shepherd.

Shepherd of course ran in a hotly contested re-election campaign against Senator Bob Rumson when the whole Sydney Ellen Wade controversy was raging. Confused? Don’t be. The rousing speech by Shepherd came not on a convention dais but a Hollywood soundstage. The film was “The American President” and the words were delivered passionately by Michael Douglas (and written by acclaimed screenwriter Aaron Sorkin).
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FROM SPLASH PAGE: With the upcoming “Red Sonja” film starring Rose McGowan hitting theaters next year, is it too early to start talking about a possible sequel? Not if you’re Splash Page!

Catching up with director Douglas Aarniokoski, we asked if there were any preliminary thoughts on any follow-ups or other films from the Red Sonja universe of characters, and while Aarniokoski obviously wouldn’t (or quite possibly, couldn’t) elaborate, he did drop some clues. “I mean, if we start to talk about that, I start to give away the third act,” he said. “Yes, let’s just say yes. It’s definitely got franchise written all over it.” Read More…

Run faster, jump higher, shoot more, shoot less. There’s a lot of ways to become a better basketball player. Sam Rockwell now knows ‘em all, the “Choke” actor laughed, revealing to MTV News his plans on starring in an upcoming sports movie.

“I’m researching a basketball movie. I play a basketball coach,” he said. “It’s a dramatic film about an alcoholic basketball coach and this girl’s high school basketball team.” The still untitled film will be directed by “Grace is Gone” helmer James Strouse, Rockwell further confessed.

Sports movies take many sizes and shapes, of course, and have as many tonal variances as the Bible’s got Psalms. So this baseketball movie – is it inspirational? Comic? True to real life? Something else? Read more…

There’s a distinct possibility that author Chuck Palahniuk and director David Fincher are seriously messing with us when it comes to a “Fight Club” musical, which the auteur himself first alluded to in an interview with MTV News this past January.

On the one hand, Palahniuk keeps talking about it with us, most recently during an interview for the latest movie to be adapted from one of his novels, “Choke.” On the other hand, it’s absolutely, positively ridiculous. Or, as “Fight Club” co-star Jared Leto remarked when we asked about it in April, “I think that’s the funniest thing I’ve ever heard in my life.”

“It seems bizarre but then ‘West Side Story’ probably seemed bizarre at the time it was made,” Palahniuk countered. Read more…

- George Clooney in talks for “Juno” director Jason Reitman’s “Up in the Air.” (Variety)

- “Twilight” star Ashley Greene joins cast of horror flick “Summer.” (THR)

- Sleeper hit “Strangers” gets sequel-ized with star Liv Tyler expected to return. (Variety)

- Danny Boyle’s “Slumdog Millionaire” lands with a distributor thanks to Fox Searchlight. (Fox Searchlight)