We had a lot of fun with the delightfully terrible bootleg covers found in black market-lite shops across the world. Little did we know that Russia elevates unauthorized film marketing to an art form… a hilariously poor art form. Thanks to Adme.Ru, we’ve come across an entire gallery of some of the worst hand-painted posters for advertising small theater screenings. See Justin Timberlake and Mila Kunis warped into odd-looking, bulbous humanoids, Terrence Malick’s Tree of Life reduced to a vaguely Constructivist motif of an attempted Brad Pitt, and Harry Potter looking more like Voldemort than Voldemort. Behold!

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Editor’s note: Welcome to The Fug Report! Each week our fashion blogger friends Heather Cocks and Jessica Morgan, the sartorial geniuses behind Go Fug Yourself, will feature some of their favorite looks of the week in this space. We hope you enjoy it!

We wish that every week could kick off with a royal wedding — there’s nothing like a monarchical hat parade to wake you up on a Monday, especially if there are also ample pictures of the planet’s new sweetheart Kate Middleton and random wedding guests in truly massive (and deliciously campy) lids. We also got a little Hollywood royalty in the mix, with Sandra Bullock pulling out a questionable pants ensemble to cozy up to pal Ryan Reynolds; some music royalty, as Gaga managed to make a houndstooth outfit paired with opaque houndstooth glasses look… sort of reasonable; sports royalty, in the form of Tom Brady finally shearing his pony tail; publishing royalty, with a hearty fugging of the unauthorized (and we can see why) Lifetime movie about JK Rowling; and summer reality TV royalty, in the form of Julie Chen and her heinous quasi-tennis dress. Oh, and Mila Kunis looked hot, the sun rose in the east and set in the west, etc.

Editor’s note: Welcome to The Fug Report! Every Friday our fashion blogger friends Heather Cocks and Jessica Morgan, the sartorial geniuses behind Go Fug Yourself, will feature some of their favorite looks of the week in this space. We hope you enjoy it!

This week on Go Fug Yourself, we compared Miranda Kerr and Michelle Williams, and because it wasn’t an acting contest, Miranda took it in a walk. We worried about the state of The Hunger Games, given the state of Peeta and Gale on this week’s cover of Entertainment Weekly. We never, however, worry about Mila Kunis, who looked as pretty as ever in Moscow, or Julianne Moore, who is generally awesome regardless of her wardrobe. We began to wonder if maybe, contrary to what we had been led to believe, Jessica Biel was ALSO awesome, as she was game enough to wear this ridiculous fake mustache. And we agreed that this wax figure of Brad Pitt is categorically not awesome, unless by “awesome,” you mean “really creepy.”

1. In case you’re curious as to what happens in Oprah’s second and third final shows, The Hollywood Reporter was part of the 20,000-person, celebrity-filled crowd at yesterday’s four-hour taping, and has a detailed record of the entire thing (which includes Aretha Franklin performing “Amazing Grace”!). The episodes will air on May 23rd and 24th.

2. Danish director Lars von Trier loves saying crazy things to journalists, especially when he’s at Cannes. Lucky for us, Vulture has rounded up the 10 most controversial things he said at the Melancholia press conference, which includes some rambling about being a Nazi and his sympathies for Hitler.

3. The Austin City Limits music festival has announced its 2011 lineup, and it includes headliners Stevie Wonder, Arcade Fire, Coldplay, and Kanye West. [via Pop Candy]

4. The Who’s Pete Townshend will release his long-awaited memoir Who He? — which he has been working on for 15 years now — in the fall of 2012. Regarding a 2003 child pornography incident, which was part of his “background research,” he now says: “I believe I was sexually abused between the age of five and six and a half when in the care of my maternal grandmother who was mentally ill at the time. Some of the things I have seen on the internet have informed my book.” [via NME]

5. So this bodes well: Michelle Williams will play Glinda the Good Witch in Sam Raimi’s Wizard of Oz prequel, Oz, the Great and Powerful. She joins a cast that already includes James Franco (The Wizard), Rachel Weisz (the Wicked Witch of the East), and Mila Kunis (The Wicked Witch of the West). [via Moveline]

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Deadline is reporting that James Franco has closed a deal (in fact, the biggest deal of his career) to play the title role in Sam Raimi’s upcoming prequel, Oz: The Great and Powerful. On one hand this makes a lot of sense: They already know each other. In fact, this will be the fourth time that the pair has worked together, as Raimi directed Franco in three Spider-Man films.

But with Mila Kunis already on board as the younger version of the Wicked Witch of the West, we can’t help but wonder if this is a weird attempt by Disney to make Oz into a sexy franchise, a la Pirates of the Caribbean. Nothing against those films, but when you’re dealing with a beloved original that’s as ingrained in the collective subconscious as The Wizard of Oz, it seems like straying too far from your source material — unless you’re going to go completely over the top, like The Wiz — is a bad idea. And even that completely tanked, both with critics and at the box office.

Then there’s the issue of Franco’s overexposure. Between a starring role in this fall’s Rise of the Apes (which, funnily enough is a prequel to Planet of the Apes) and his usual cultural antics (gallery shows, short story collections, stints on soap operas, college courses, etc.), we’re wondering if this is the best time for him to tackle the kind of giant blockbuster that could make or break his career. Maybe sticking to smaller, indie projects is playing it safe — especially in the wake of an Academy Award nomination for 127 Hours — but it’s also a way to ensure that he doesn’t suffer an Adrien Brody-style downward spiral. Come on, name the last good film you saw him in. Don’t you imagine that he wishes that he could take back King Kong?

1. Game on, Google: Goldman Sachs and Digital Sky Technologies have invested $500 million into Facebook in a deal that values the social network at $50 billion — which is more than eBay, Yahoo!, and Time Warner. [via Gawker]

2. Little Fockers took the New Year’s weekend box office, raking in over $26 million in ticket sales. In second place was True Grit, which made almost $25 million (and is now the Coen Brothers’ highest grossing film ever), followed by Tron: Legacy 3D, which took in a little over $18 million. [via Deadline]

3. In case you missed it, on New Year’s Eve Lady Gaga tweeted, “THE SONG 2 13 11 THE RECORD 5 23 11,” meaning of course, that her much-discussed third album, Born This Way, finally has a release date: May 23rd. [via Vulture]

4. David Arquette checked himself into rehab over the holiday weekend, and is seeking treatment for alcohol and other issues — but not drugs. [via TMZ]

5. After almost seven years of dating, Mila Kunis and Macaulay Culkin have split up, according to her rep. A source says that it happened a while back, but they decided to keep things quiet while she promoted Black Swan. [via NYP]

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“BLACK SWAN DIVA FEUD!” screams the National Enquirer headline. All right, we’re listening. According to “sources” and “an insider,” Ms. Portman is livid (LIVID!) at her Black Swan co-star. Why? Because Ms. Kunis is getting “Oscar talk” for her supporting work, though the film was supposed to be Portman’s showcase, and she is therefore (direct quote) “totally upset.” Well, as much fun as it must be to write anything that includes the phrase “diva feud,” we’re calling poppycock on this notion; anyone paying even a modicum of attention to the Oscar prognosticators knows that Portman is a shoo-in for a Best Actress nomination, and probably for the big prize itself. If there is bad blood brewing between the off-screen friends, we’ve got a better theory: it’s because of their competing 2011 sex comedies.

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Plenty of film critics and movie pundits have bemoaned the lack of truly great films in 2010, and while that’s not necessarily a notion that’s without validity, it could also be said that there was a surplus of awfully good movies this year. There may not have been many that really knocked us back, that pulled together ace screenplays, smart direction, and brilliant acting into the full package, the way the best movies do. But there was plenty to entertain, to enlighten, to thrill, to arouse; even some of the year’s lesser movies had an element — a good performance here, a memorable scene there — worth recommending. So with that, let’s take a look at some of the best scenes from this year’s movies — not all of them in films that were great (or, in some cases, even particularly good), but all meriting a spot in our 2010 movie scene mixtape.

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After Darren Aronofsky’s massive mainstream success, The Wrestler, we can imagine some of his Pi-era fanboys (not to mention the folks that actually enjoyed The Fountain) worried he’d lost his edge. The trailer for Black Swan, which comes out December 1st, should set their minds at ease. This thriller, set in the competitive world of the New York City Ballet, stars Natalie Portman as a talented but perennially overlooked dancer and Mila Kunis — who, despite her tiresome That ’70s Show character, can actually act — as her possibly imaginary nemesis/Persona-style existential double. Watch the clip, which features a mysterious back wound, a girl-on-girl makeout, a Portman meltdown, and some seriously intense editing, and tell us what you think after the jump.

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A decade after Office Space, writer/director Mike Judge salutes Labor Day with a new workplace comedy about blue-collar incompetence.

Jason Bateman stars as the owner of a flavor-extract factory employing a staff of dunces. While he deals with his passionless marriage and his lust for a sly new hire, a worker’s oddball accident threatens to ruin the company’s future. The farcical plot is anchored by Judge’s keen sense of workaday humor and a gallery of memorable losers, topped by Ben Affleck’s loony, long-haired slacker. Read More »