• Paramount is putting together a new division designed to craft new video games based on both current and classic Paramount films. You know what that means…”I Drink Your Milkshake” for the Wii!!!
• New York’s state Senate and Assembly are expected to soon announce a compromise on the tax credit issue that was left in the lurch when governor Eliot Spitzer resigned to spend more time with his soul-crushing self-hatred. The new deal will favor the Democrat-led Assembly’s plan, which aimed to increase tax credits on below-the-line costs, thus supporting the state’s filmmaking infrastructure over luring flashy out-of-town productions.
• 2008’s total box office is so far 3 percent above 2007’s, but that’s mostly due to that 3D Hannah Montana thing, and 2007 holdovers like Alvin and the Chipmunks––not a single action film has grossed over $100 over the past three months. And that’s not going to change this weekend, although both Variety and The Hollywood Reporter seem confident that 21 will do well, and Stop-Loss will not.
• Director Alexis Spraic, producer James Scurlock, and Bunim-Murray Productions are joining forces on a documentary about the “globalization pioneer” who founded DHL.

BUTTERKNIFE 3: Key Witness

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• Michael Tully guest stars in the latest episode of Butterknife.
• Why dumb blondes are rarely as dumb as they seem, and smart blondes are usually dumber.
• The Maysles family feud continues, as does the fight over Jack Smith.
• Protecting Diablo Cody™.
• Yet more ways to make money off a non-existent milkshake.
• Amy Winehouse plays Judy Garland.
• Humphrey Bogart doesn’t talk like that!
• Previewing Pierrot le Fou.
• If we have to have romance, let it be embodied by Marlene Dietrich.
• Spike Jonze + Kanye West=Miami Vice, but even trashier.
• Oscar nominated animated shorts of yore.
• Benten steps out of the Mumblecore box to release The Free Will.
• Getting CineKinky with Viva.
• Why chefs should never be allowed to make puns about movies.
  Arrested Development movie casting news! Sort of!
• Filth and Wisdom: the early, measured praise; the slightly later, overblown Altman comparisons; the vague “Like a Virgin” reference.
• Assessing Derek Jarman’s priorities
• Chris worries about Doug Liman’s rep, but ultimately defends Jumper. And also defends Martin Lawrence.
• Our Julian Schnabel contest was won by Mr. Ed Howard.
• On FilmCouch: Diary of the Dead, and Build a Ship, Sail to Sadness.
• David Wain gets mushy.
• Scarlett Johansson gets a Bowie assist.
• Magnolia picks up the overlooked hit of Sundance 2006.
• Anna Karina is the Lolita of comics.
• Trailers: Pineapple Express, Indiana Jones and the Whosie Whatsit, Kung Fu Panda, Street Kings, Iron Man, The Forbidden Kingdom
• Blogging Berlin: 1, 2, 3, 4, 5
• Christians love Alvin and the Chipmunks
• Remembering Adrienne Shelly
• Oh–and the writers strike ended. Yay?

• Kristin Thompson weighs in on the “I Drink Your Milkshake” phenomenon. “But great art has always been subject to humorous treatment and tends to come through unscathed. Marcel Duchamp stuck a mustache on a reproduction of the Mona Lisa and put it in a museum, and the act is considered a daring stroke of avant-garde art…The internet has accelerated such of manipulation of artworks and made us more aware of them, but its not new—and it is inevitable.”
• Michael Musto reports from last night’s Film Forum screening of Sidney Lumet’s unlikely “lovely chick bonding” flick, The Group. Arrested Development fans, cover your eyes: according to Musto, Jessica “Lucille” Walters says she was ” desperate to play the Candice Bergen lesbo part.”
• I wasn’t the only one to watch Amy Winehouse on Sunday night and think “didn’t Judy Garland already make this movie?” Via Radar.
• The strike may be over, but UnitedHollywood isn’t. The WGA’s unofficial bloggy club house is warning that comment management will be slow for a while while the site preps a relaunch.

I honestly don’t know what I find more disturbing. The I Drink Your Milkshake Infant Bodysuit:

Or The I Drink Your Milkshake Classic Thong:

Let’s clear our heads by contemplating whether or not P.T. Anderson meant to reference Hippolyte Flandrin, shall we?

• Jurgen Fauth twitters: “Highlight of my day: Paul Thomas Anderson telling me he loves idrinkyourmilkshake.com and Daniel-Day Lewis giving me two thumbs up. Yay!”
• Shane Danielson’s Shine a Light review at indieWIRE focuses mainly on how the Rolling Stones concert doc completely fails at relevancy. But if the film itself represents “a sixtysomething non-Berliner’s idea of cool” complete with “a cameo from guest-star Jack White, to drag the show all the way into 1937!”, as a red carpet spectacle it seems to have been a success.
• When asked at a Berlin press conference to diagnose what’s “wrong” with George W. Bush, Neil Young declined on the grounds that “it would take too long.” Instead, he struggled to come up with something “right about Bush,” and eventually concluded, “Well, he’s a good physical specimen.”
• In a single paragraph on Guy Maddin’s My Winnipeg, David Hudson not only notes that he had “a marvelous time,” he also manages to get Freudian: “Two rivers form ‘the Forks,’ lines directly paralleled with ‘the Lap’ - his mother’s. The pull is inescapable.”