1. Nicki Minaj announced via Twitter last night that her second album — Pink Friday: Roman Reloaded — will drop on Valentine’s Day of next year. Given the title, it’s a bit unclear whether the project is a reissue, or will feature new material. [via MTV]

2. Aaron Sorkin is apparently “strongly considering” Sony’s offer to write the Steve Jobs biopic that’s currently in the works. “Right now I’m just in the thinking-about-it stages,” he says. “It’s a really big movie and it’s going to be a great movie no matter who writes it.” [via Slashfilm]

3. Jimmy Fallon has apologized to Michele Bachmann via Twitter after his house band, The Roots, played “Lyin’ Ass Bitch” as her intro music on his show. “I’m honored that @michelebachmann was on our show yesterday and I’m so sorry about the intro mess,” he says. “I really hope she comes back.” [via The Daily Beast]

4. A leaked version of Lady Gaga’s cover of “White Christmas” — which will feature on her forthcoming EP A Very Gaga Holiday — has landed online. Give it a listen here.

5. Here are some rather exciting photos from the set of Ridley Scott’s highly-anticipated sci-fi flick Prometheus, which ties in with the Alien universe. The highly-anticipated blockbuster, which hits theaters this summer, has an ensemble cast that includes Michael Fassbender, Charlize Theron, Idris Elba, Guy Pearce, and Patrick Wilson.

Bonus Buzz: People Sleeping On The Subway Next To Jake Gyllenhaal

This Friday is a day that Anna Paquin, Matt Damon, Mark Ruffalo, and Allison Janney probably thought would never come: the release date of Margaret, writer/director Kenneth Lonergan’s long, long, long awaited follow-up to his 2000 debut film, the Oscar-nominated You Can Count on Me. Shot clear back in 2005 (and capturing Paquin pre-True Blood and Damon at around the time he shot The Departed), the picture has spent the last six years in a perpetual state of post-production, with most parties involved blaming the perfectionist writer/director, who has seemed unable or unwilling to settle on his contractually-guaranteed final cut.

Meanwhile, Fireflies in the Garden, the familial drama starring Ryan Reynolds and Julia Roberts, is finally getting a release as well this fall — three years after its debut at the 2008 Berlin Film Festival. (Its extended delay appears to be the collateral damage of its original production company’s shutdown.) With both of those dawdling dates finally coming into view, we thought we’d take a look at a few other movies that took (or are taking) a bit longer than the standard one-to-two-year gestation period to make it to the big screen (or to your television).

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Even through its nebulous extinction and the onset of bigger and brighter technology, polaroid has remained a compelling format for artists, amateurs, and appreciators alike. Sure, maybe it’s just a hipster faux-stalgia thing, but we think there’s a little more to it. In an age when so many of the photographs we are bombarded with every day are endlessly processed, photoshopped and color-corrected, it feels nice to return to an analog way of seeing the world, and there’s a distinct sense of intimacy in a polaroid that you know hasn’t been messed with too much – even if it may or may not have been expertly staged. There are a million polaroids of celebrities out there, but we’ve combed through and picked the best and weirdest for your viewing pleasure. Click through for 25 of our most favorite polaroids of the rich and the famous, and let us know which ones we’ve missed in the comments!

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Today at Flavorpill, we got some much-needed advice on how to compose the perfect love song from The Axis Of Awesome. We were grateful to the Fug Girls for noticing that Lady Gaga had an outfit change while inside of her Grammys egg. We sent half of our friends NPR Valentines and the other half Jersey Shore Valentines — but thanks to our friend at HuffPo, we avoided making any of these love-themed grammar mistakes. We were surprised to hear that Manhattan is New York City’s most romantic borough and that a third of New Yorkers would prefer to have Rudy Giuliani as part of their wedding ceremony than Mayor Bloomberg, David Dinkins, or Ed Koch. We balanced out this collection of cinema’s most disturbing kisses with this supercut of 30 amazing movie kisses. We loved Taylor Swift’s new song about her relationship with Jake Gyllenhaal — “Brokeheart Mountain.” We discovered that that we wouldn’t have scored well on this marital rating scale from the 1930s that deducts points for crooked hose seams and red nail polish. And finally, we got embarrassingly excited when we remembered that tonight begins the multi-game Jeopardy! duel between the show’s greatest champions and Watson, an IBM supercomputer who is the size of 10 refrigerators and will one day rule us all.

1. Bon Jovi — who raked in over $200 million on their global Circle Tour — has beaten AC/DC and U2 to score the highest grossing tour of 2010. Lady Gaga came in fourth, taking in a whopping $133.6 million from her Little Monsters. [via NME]

2. Reese Witherspoon is engaged to her boyfriend, CAA agent Jim Toth, whom she has been dating since her split with Jake Gyllenhaal early last year. [via The Wrap]

3. “Viewed from a certain, admittedly uncharitable, angle, Blue Valentine looks like a grim, dirty-realist, festival-circuit version of (and sequel to) Knocked Up… The grainy, washed-out colors of the breakup phase, which contrast with the somewhat brighter palette of the courtship sections, create an illusion of immediacy and rawness that is underlined by the scruffy Keystone State locations.” – A.O. Scott reviews the film in The New York Times

4. A group funded by George Clooney has teamed up with Google and the United Nations on a project “that will collect real-time satellite imagery and combine it with field analysis” on the borders of the Sudan. [via AP]

5. The United States Postal Service has announced plans to release five Pixar character stamps as part of its 2011 commemorative stamp program. The stamps — which pay homage to Cars, Ratatouille, Toy Story, Up, and WALL-E — will be available for purchase starting August 19. [via The Sly Oyster]

Bonus link: The World’s Most Arresting Images

1. Facebook can hunt down your face in any photo now, and the company says that you should consider it a privacy enhancement as getting tagged will alert you to “a photo of you on the Internet that you didn’t know about… you can remove the tag, or you… can write the person and say, ‘I’m not that psyched about this photo.’” [via Gawker]

2. In case you have any doubts about whether or not their relationship is real, Jake Gyllenhaal gave Taylor Swift a really expensive guitar for her 21st birthday. The Fender Gretsch that he surprised her with is signed on the pickguard by country music icon Chet Atkins. [via The Sun]

3. “I’ve been at home for almost three days now. My family and friends who brought me home are taking great care of me. I also have a private nurse who visits on a daily basis. I’m hoping to be strong enough to go out and see the upcoming Sam Cooke play at the Music Hall in downtown Detroit before January 2, as well as a performance of Dreamgirls at the FOX before it closes.” – Aretha Franklin is back at home after surgery

4. The tracks in the running for a Best Original Song award nomination at the 2011 Oscars have been announced, including two tracks from Gwyneth Paltrow and three from Burlesque. But is there any chance that Randy Newman won’t win for “We Belong Together” from Toy Story 3? [via Digital Spy]

5. Oprah Winfrey’s latest book club selection — A Tale of Two Cities and Great Expectations by Charles Dickens — which have been issued by Penguin in a single paperback volume for $20, are selling a lot slower than was expected. Some people think it’s because an e-version of both books is available for free download. [via USA Today]

Bonus link: See Jane Austen’s Google Doodle in Honor of Her 235th Birthday

As our friends at Vulture point out, the trailer for Jake Gyllenhaal’s new sci-fi thriller Source Code (the second feature from Moon director Duncan Jones), “plays like Inception, The Matrix, and Déjà Vu all rolled around on the floor and made a baby.” What we can’t decide yet is whether that’s a good thing or not. Gyllenhaal plays a soldier who — thanks to the very threatening sounding “source code” — keeps being transported into the body of a man on a train that’s about to be bombed. The goal is for him to figure out who’s behind the bombing in the eight minutes he has got. But then he goes and falls in love with the guy’s girlfriend (Michelle Monaghan), and obviously, it becomes more about saving her, even though it’s unclear whether that’s even possible. Click through and let us know your thoughts in the comments.

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Today at Flavorpill, we knocked iPhones. We celebrated Woody Allen’s 74th birthday (!) by gazing at a lifetime’s worth of his muses. After reading this recap, we decided that Breaking Dawn must be made into a movie — and we didn’t even like Twilight. We argued over the rise of “snuck” over “sneaked.” We watched Marilyn Monroe get stoned and Jake Gyllenhaal just look stoked in the new Prince of Persia poster. We weren’t surprised to hear that the 18 to 49 demographic really loves Hoarders. Kids and old people never want to throw anything away. We listened to Norah Jones get remixed by the Beasties. We were sorry to hear that David Mamet’s Oleanna will close on Broadway this Sunday. Bill Pullman deserves better. And finally, we were left speechless upon viewing Draft Dick Cheney 2012. (“No other Republican leader has the stature or experience of Dick Cheney. He alone can lead the Republican coalition to victory in 2012!”) Apocalyptic insanity!

The trailer for Disney’s upcoming action flick Prince of Persia, which is based on the videogame franchise of the same name, leaked online today after running on British TV. Seeing the ever-vulnerable Jake Gyllenhaal in the role of action hero is a little strange — especially when he’s going up against a villain like Ben Kingsley. The guy could eat Donnie Darko for lunch.

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Over the weekend I finally saw Donnie Darko — you know, the 2001 cult favorite where Jake Gyllenhaal plays a troubled teen who talks to a giant rabbit named Frank about the impending apocalypse. (If you haven’t seen it, it’s good, but suffice it to say, leaves you in a strange mood. The fact that it was released a few months after 9/11 couldn’t have helped the abysmal box office numbers.) Maggie Gyllenhaal is in the flick too as his sis Elizabeth Darko which got me thinking about the best films featuring actor siblings. After the jump, my top 8, which is admittedly a little heavy on the Cusacks; add your own faves in the comments. Read More »