• Though Pineapple Express had a better per-screen average and walked away from its first five days with a more than adequate $40 million, it couldn’t block The Dark Knight from nabbing its fourth consecutive weekend box office title. Currently at $441 million, the Batman sequel is expected to overcome Star Wars as the number 2 domestic grosser of all time.
• Entourage star Adrien Grenier is making a documentary about the 14 year-old paparazzo (unnamed in this Hollywood Reporter report) with whom he’s developed a friendship. Alec Baldwin, Whoopi Goldberg, Eva Longoria, and Rosie O’Donnell will make appearances in the film, which is said to “interweave the relationship portrait with philosophical interviews in the style of Richard Linklater’s Waking Life.”
• The drift away from R-rated horror is already starting to pay off for Lionsgate. Thanks to a combination of factors––home video successes like Rambo, theatrical moneymakers like The Forbidden Kingdom, the surge in hotness of TV titles Mad Men and Weeds––their total revenue was up 50% in the first fiscal quarter.

Remember the other day when I insisted that a fat suit has never been funny?

I stand corrected.

Entourage’s recent slide in quality has been well documented, but after seeing the fake trailer for Vincent Chase’s passion project, Medellin, I’m starting to wonder if maybe this season has been *intentionally*, unbelievably over-the-top and divorced from even the show’s previous brand of no-unhappy-endings reality. Maybe HBO is trying to do camp?

I know, I know — Susan Sontag is rolling in her grave– but no one could possibly take this trailer seriously, right? At this point, it’s obvious that they’re mocking Vince, that he’s the brainless celebrity whose ego is so bloated that he walks right into career suicide, thinking he’s making a genius move…right? If so, then the trailer–and the fake website, fake interview (”Me in a fat suit just wasn’t gonna cut it”), and fake quote from a fake blurb-whore–is brilliant, a spot-on indictment of the contemporary star system. But post rim-job shark-jumping, can we really give anything Entourage that much credit?