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Jennifer Lopez showed off her post-baby bod and look (in Reem Acra) as she arrived at the premiere of Shine A Light in New York City. Are you feelin’ Jennifer’s look?

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It’s kinda like pulling a prank on your school Principal. In this case, he is the Principal of Hollywood. Harrison Ford got slimed during the 2008 Nickelodeon’s Kids’ Choice Awards in Westwood, California. Are you excited for Indian Jones and The Kingdom of the Crystal Skull? Discuss!

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This is a perfect lovely dress. Chic actually. The jeans are crisp and tailored. The platforms are perfect for sunny day in the arrivals line at 2008 Nickelodeon Kids’ Choice Awards but why on earth would you put them all together? J.Love you’re in need of a fashion whisper—a.k.a. a stylist!

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Jordin Sparks had a little bit of trouble with her crazy Giuseppe Zanotti hollow wooden platforms at the 2008 Nickelodeon Kids’ Choice Awards in Westwood, California. Are you feelin’ Jordin’s shoes?

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Amber Valletta and her son Auden McGraw showed off their fashionable family style as they arrived at the 2008 Nickelodeon Kids’ Choice Awards in Westwood, California. Never one to shy away from personal style, Mrs. Valetta worked a men’s tux jacket over a simple black dress, accessorizing with multiple gold chains and flats. Auden kept things cool under a black fedora. What do you think of the Valletta-McGraw family look?

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I reported on Oliver Stone’s planned biopic of George W. Bush - starring, yes, Josh Brolin - a while back, but it’s time for another update with fresh casting news. It seems Elizabeth Banks - a vastly underutilized, talented actress - has been cast as Laura Bush. Iwatchstuff.com has an amusing take on the news. Interesting choice.

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Perhaps I’m just more attuned to industry news these days, but it really feels like the entertainment community has lost a lot of great people recently. The latest death is legendary Hollywood screen actor Richard Widmark, who catapulted to fame in 1947 with his terrifying performance in the killer-thriller Kiss of Death. If you’ve seen that film, you’ll probably never forget Widmark tying up an old woman in a wheelchair and pushing her down a flight of stairs. You can read the lengthy New York Times obituary here.

Widmark was a terrific actor. His range was unparalleled. I’ll remember him best as a pathetic wrestling promoter in Jules Dassin’s wrenching Night and the City, and as a morally conflicted small-time thief in Samuel Fuller’s Pickup on South Street.

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Regal Entertainment is following the example of rival movie exhibitor AMC and will open 31 new large-format IMAX auditoriums, some of which will open by November. You can check out the brief story from the New York Times here.

The move by IMAX into mainstream Hollywood territory has done well for expanding the company’s horizon and certainly its public awareness. But the extraordinary cost of converted IMAX theatres (high overhead! haha!) makes the profitability factor curious. While it’s good for moviegoers - many of which are fleeing to their home entertainment systems - to have an enticing new way to experience movies at the multiplex, IMAX isn’t the event it was five years ago. Even visually unremarkable films like The Spiderwick Chronicles are getting IMAX releases to fill major release gaps, which in my opinion lessens the value of the cultural stock IMAX has built by selling itself as an ‘event’ format. This won’t keep me from lining up hours in advance for the IMAX version of The Dark Knight though… 

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The box office continued its mild downturn as the 2008 Eastern weekend was the worst-attended in at least three years. Nonetheless, a few films had strong showings, especially the second weekend of the Dr. Seuss adaptation Horton Hears A Who featuring the voices of Jim Carrey and Steve Carell. The film was down 44% for a $25 million weekend, a rather sizable decline considering the holiday weekend. But it was enough to propel the film to a terrific $86.5 million ten-day gross.

Tyler Perry continued to charm audiences with his latest offering Meet the Browns, a drama starring Angela Bassett and featuring the brief return of Perry’s popular character Madea. The film took off with $20 million, putting it in the runner-up spot. DOA new releases Shutter and Drillbit Taylor filled the next two slots, each taking in around $10 million. 10,000 BC followed in fifth with $8.7 million (for a disappointing $76.1 million cume to date). In one of the few box office ’stories’ floating around, the Jason Statham-starring thriller The Bank Job declined only 19% in its third weekend, after a similarly tiny dip in its second. Though the film opened poorly, good word-of-mouth is keeping it alive. Cume stands at $19.4 million.

Hollywood is hoping that the May blockbusters (Iron Man, The Chronicles of Narnia: Prince Caspian, Speed Racer, Indiana Jones and the Kingdom of the Crystal Skull) will rescue a sluggish box office. Until then, the only real hope is George Clooney’s screwball comedy Leatherheads, unless Superhero Movie can pull off a Scary Movie-style opening.

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Semi-under-the-radar couple Reggie Bush and Kim Kardashian took to the red carpet at Details Magazine’s ‘Mavericks 2008′ party in Beverly Hills. Why the stone faces kids? A little more affection would not kill ya’!