Celeb News: George Still Hates George, Paris is Shy, Iron Man Disses Batman, and Corey Feldman

These aren’t exactly Earth shattering celebrity movie news, but I found them kind of fun, but just not fun enough to devote an entire post to each one. So, I’ve clumped them together into a single Celeb News posting. We’ll start with George Clooney, who is gearing up another movie about the Evils of the Bush Administration (no let me rephrase that, the Eeeeeeeeeeeeeeeevils of the Bush Administration) with “The Challenge”.

Says Variety on the project:

The multi-tasking thesp has bought the rights to Jonathan Mahler’s legal thriller “The Challenge,” about the long campaign waged by U.S. Navy lawyer Charles Swift and Georgetown law professor Neal Katyal to ensure a fair trial for Salim Hamdan, the bodyguard and driver of Osama bin Laden.

Project will be developed through Clooney and Grant Heslov’s Smoke House shingle. Deal is believed to be in the low-seven-figure range.

As with any Smoke House project, “The Challenge” remains a potential directing, writing and starring vehicle for Clooney.

That’s right, George, fight the power! Cause, you know, if not for you, there would be no one in Hollywood to stand up to Evil George Bush and his cronies. Right?

Meanwhile, in a bit of a shocker, publicity whore Paris Hilton is being sued for being … get ready for it, get ready for it … shying away from publicity. Yup, that’s right. According to the BBC, Hilton is being sued by the producers of her movie “National Lampoon’s Pledge This!” for failing to make the publicity rounds to promote the movie.

Worldwide Entertainment Group Inc, the producers of National Lampoon’s Pledge This!, say the heiress-turned-actress owes them $75,000 (£39,459) in damages.

Papers filed at the US District Court in Miami claim Hilton was paid $1m (£526,119) for her “acting services”.

She was also expected to do “reasonable promotion and publicity” for the film.

Hilton received an executive producer credit on Pledge This!, in which she played the president of an exclusive college sorority.

You hear that, kids? That’s the sound of the world about to implode.

Back in actual movie actor land, Robert Downey Jr. is making waves on the Interwebs by dissing Christopher Nolan’s “The Dark Knight” and taking an obviously tongue-in-cheek shot at DC Comics during an interview with Moviehole:

“My whole thing is that that I saw ‘The Dark Knight’. I feel like I’m dumb because I feel like I don’t get how many things that are so smart. It’s like a Ferrari engine of storytelling and script writing and I’m like, ‘That’s not my idea of what I want to see in a movie.’ I loved ‘The Prestige’ but didn’t understand ‘The Dark Knight’. Didn’t get it, still can’t tell you what happened in the movie, what happened to the character and in the end they need him to be a bad guy. I’m like, ‘I get it. This is so high brow and so f–king smart, I clearly need a college education to understand this movie.’ You know what? F-ck DC comics. That’s all I have to say and that’s where I’m really coming from.”

RDJ rocks. That’s all I gotta say about that.

Meanwhile, Corey Feldman is NOT an “Inglorious Bastard”. Probably. Moviehole once again has your inside source from the Lost Boy himself:

As much as the Felddog wishes it were true, he’s got no such offer – yet.

‘’I cannot confirm any such rumor at this time”, The “Lost Boys : The Tribe” actor tells Moviehole. “Although I am a huge fan of QT’s and would love to work with him at some point, I have received no official offer at this point.’’

Okay, but what about Corey Haim? We all know that royally effed up dude is the real talent of the two.

And that is today’s celebrity news round-up. Or as my mom calls it, Stupid People News.