Setting aside our feelings about whether or not there should even be another installment in the Hangover franchise — as our own Jason Bailey already pointed out, The Hangover Part II was “the closest thing to a shot-for-shot remake since Van Sant’s Psycho” — we can’t help but blanch over the news that Bradley Cooper, Zach Galifianakis, and Ed Helms are asking for $15 million a pop to reprise their roles in the third film. Bear in mind that’s $10 million more than the entire budget for the original movie.

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Today at Flavorpill, we watched a hilarious clip of Miss Piggy, Kermit the Frog, Michael Stipe, and Martin Short playing “Password” on Late Night with Jimmy Fallon. We were shocked to learn that Marc Jacobs’ entire spring 2012 collection was stolen from a train leaving Paris for London. We were not-so-subtly reminded why spoilers are bad thanks to these propaganda posters. We wished that more authors would make like Ann Patchett and open up their own bookstores. We were amazed by how this stylish apartment looks, even though it’s furnished completely in cardboard. We found this “walkable roller coaster” in Germany kind of baffling. We found it pretty amusing that our friends over at BuzzFeed organized a protest against People Magazine’s selection of Bradley Cooper as the 2011 Sexiest Man of the Year (and we completely agree with them that Ryan Gosling would have been a better choice). We were super excited to hear that Kristen Schaal is going to be in a few episodes of 30 Rock this season. And finally, after years of waiting, we got to see what Beyoncé’s wedding dress looked like. Thanks to a super-sized train, it did not disappoint.

Last night the Stella gang (aka David Wain, Michael Showalter, and Michael Ian Black) celebrated the 10 year anniversary of Wet Hot American Summer by hosting an event at the Music Hall of Williamsburg. Vulture has a nice recap of the evening’s highlights, which included taped bits by Paul Rudd and Amy Poehler, audition footage for Bradley Cooper and Naomi Watts (who was not cast!), and in-person appearances by a few of the cult classic’s most beloved characters, including frumpy Camp Firewood director Beth (Janeane Garofalo), who is currently busy at work on “a line of clothing for the imminent Rapture,” and legendary Catskills comedian Alan Shemper (Showalter), a man who went to camp so long ago that Jesus Christ was his counselor. Click through to watch Shemper’s all-to-brief routine, and if you’re craving for more WHAS action, head over to Entertainment Weekly where Wain, Showalter, and Joe Lo Truglio all reflect back on their experiences making the film a decade later.

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1. Starting this fall, all of the superhero titles in the DC Comics stable will reboot with issue No. 1, and some major characters will have new origin stories. The overhaul begins with the first issue of “Justice League” No. 1 in September, which will reunite the classic lineup of Superman, Batman, Wonder Woman, the Flash, Aquaman, and Green Lantern. [via Jacket Copy]

2. Some interesting news in light of this post from yesterday: a musical adaptation of Rocky could be coming to Broadway in the spring of 2013. The project — which involves Sylvester Stallone and the Tony Award-winning songwriting team behind Ragtime — will makes its debut in Germany next fall. [via ArtsBeat]

3. In case you’re curious, Smashing Pumpkins have unveiled a tentative tracklisting for Oceania, the end result of the band’s ongoing “Teargarden By Kaleidyscope” project, which is set for formal release later this year. Check it out here.

4. Bradley Cooper will join Ryan Gosling in the cast of the multi-generational crime drama The Place Beyond the Pines; the film reunites Gosling (who will be playing a bank robber to Cooper’s cop) with his Blue Valentine writer-director, Derek Cianfrance. [via Vulture]

5. In case you haven’t heard it yet, here’s Beyonce’s second official single off of 4, a much slower jam that’s called “Best Thing I Never Had.” The album comes out on June 28 via Columbia Records.

Bonus link: This is the world’s deepest-living animal.

1. MTV has given the go-ahead on two Jersey Shore spin-offs: one show will follow Snooki and JWOWW “when the vacation is over,” while the other will track Pauly D’s “music career.” [via NYT]

2. Ben Affleck is in talks to play Tom Buchanan in Baz Luhrman’s 3-D film adaptation of The Great Gatsby, a part that was originally rumored to be going to Bradley Cooper. This sounds like a better fit to us. [via Deadline]

3. Finally we have news about Arnold Schwarzenegger’s first post-political office live-action role! He’s currently in negotiations to play a border town sheriff in Jee-Woon Kim’s thriller The Last Stand — which is so much more exciting than that crime-fighter cartoon, The Governator. [via Vulture]

4. Kristen Bell is returning to TV! She will star opposite of Don Cheadle in House of Lies, a new Showtime workplace comedy based on the book House of Lies: How Management Consultants Steal Your Watch and Tell You the Time. [via Zap2It]

5. This summer’s exhibition on the roof of the Metropolitan Museum of Art sounds a bit tamer than years past. Starting April 26th, steel abstract sculptures by the British artist Anthony Caro will be on display. Museum officials are also teasing next summer’s exhibition by the Argentine artist Tomas Saraceno, which will be “inspired by eco-utopian visions for future sustainable communities.” [via ArtsBeat]

Bonus link: “America In My Book” — Haley Nahman’s map of US stereotypes by region

1. Bradley Cooper’s new film Limitless surprised everyone by topping the weekend box office, taking in $19.2 million. In second place was Rango, which made $15.2 million, followed by Battle: Los Angeles, which took in $14.6 million. The other new films — Matthew McConaughey’s legal thriller The Lincoln Lawyer and Simon Pegg and Nick Frost’s sci-fi comedy Paul — grossed $13.4 million and $13.2 million, respectively. [via THR]

2. Nicki Minaj is reportedly in talks with Simon Cowell about joining former Def Jam head L.A. Reid as a judge on The X Factor. We’d tune in each week just to see what she was wearing. [via Vulture]

3. Variety is reporting that Joseph Gordon-Levitt will play Alberto Falcone, son of former mob boss Carmine Falcone (Tom Wilkinson) in Christopher Nolan’s The Dark Knight Rises.

4. Wyclef Jean claimed to have been shot in the hand on Saturday night while campaigning in Haiti on behalf of a presidential candidate, but now local police are saying he was only cut by glass. [via The Daily Beast]

5. NPR is streaming the new Peter Bjorn & John album, Gimme Some, which doesn’t hit stores until March 29th; from a quick listen, it’s a return to the wildly infectious pop songs of Writer’s Block, minus the whistles.

Bonus link: Sumo Wrestler Completes LA Marathon

From what we can tell, the only differences between The Hangover (which this trailer makes clear was considered a very funny movie) and its sequel are purely cosmetic: Ed Helms’ character is now sporting a Mike Tyson tattoo; Zack Galifianakis is missing most of his lustrous mane; there is a monkey wearing clothes instead of a baby wearing sunglasses; and this time around the action takes place at a wedding in Bangkok as opposed to a bachelor party in Las Vegas. Click through to check it out now, and let us know if you think Todd Phillips is phoning it in with The Hangover Part II in the comments.

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A first look at the new A-Team cast reveals an eclectic mix of actors rivaling the original: Liam Neeson, Bradley Cooper, Sharlto Copley and Quentin “Rampage” Jackson are set to helm Joe Carnahan’s film adaptation. Or in other words, a veteran award winner, an up and coming star, an almost complete novice, and a certifiable lunatic. More on each after the jump.

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Transformers 2 may no longer be the worst movie of the year/decade. All About Steve, a film starring Sandra Bullock and Bradley Cooper, has just received the royal poo-poo from Rotten Tomatoes – a 2 percent critic rating. That’s out of 100. The plot goes something like this: Sandra Bullock is a weird crossword-puzzlin’ babe who falls in love with Bradley Cooper, a goon cameraman who is just not that into her.

Somewhere along the way, this ended up as “easily one of the worst movies of the year (if not the decade), there is not one redeeming quality to All About Steve, an offensive film morally, socially, and to the institution of comedy.” Film critic Peter Sobczynski bleakly sums up the Rotten Tomatoes onslaught nicely: “Let me put it this way — this is easily the single worst film that Sandra Bullock has been involved with and bear in mind, I have seen Speed 2.” To put this all into perspective, we’ve whipped up a handy dandy Shame-O-Meter after the jump. Read More »

Today at Flavorpill, we loved this comparison of Google to SkyNet. We wished we’d come up with the $50,000 web page idea. We enjoyed watching these movies in four frames. We decided that we have to see this doc about construction workers going green. We giggled over the idea of a “slow video game movement.” Isn’t that what stoners have been doing forever? We almost threw up over the news that Facebook is worth $10 billion. We found it funny that Jon & Kate debuted to record ratings.  (It must be the reverse mullet.) We considered pooling our money to buy Cameron Frye’s house. We were surprised to learn that TV might save indie film. We encountered www.explosionsandboobs.com. We learned how to whisper. We hopped Between Two Ferns with Zach Galifianakis and Bradley Cooper. And finally, we were really, really disappointed in Pete Yorn. Any dream about Scarlett Johansson shouldn’t involve recording an album.