“True Blood” star Alexander Skarsgard was physically restrained by police at the Coachella Music & Arts festival this past weekend after threatening to beat down an aggressive photographer who insisted on taking shots of him and girlfriend Kate Bosworth (Superman Returns).

Skarsgard, who plays vampire sheriff Eric Northman on the hit HBO series, lost his temper when the paparazzo ignored his requests to stop taking pictures, disrupting the couple’s concert-going experience. Police responded to the brouhaha and managed to calm the 23-year-old actor without further incident.

Two reasons why we still know who Kate Bosworth is.

If I had to stand through three days of mind-numbingly terrible music played by hundreds of Nirvana wannabe garage bands just to get some anal from Kate Bosworth, I’d be pretty short-fused too.

Thandie Newton (2012) joins Hayden Christensen (Star Wars: Attack of the Clones), John Leguizamo (The Happening), and pretty 24-year-old newcomer Jordan Trovillion in director Brad Anderson’s (Session 9) post-apocalyptic chiller The Vanishing on 7th Street.

Check out the trailer:

The film’s synopsis reads:

A mysterious and seemingly global blackout causes countless populations to simply vanish, leaving only their clothes and possessions behind. A small handful of survivors band together in a dimly-lit tavern on 7th Street, struggling to combat the apocalyptic horror. Realizing they may in fact be the last people on earth, the darkness hones in on them alone.

If I survived the apocalypse, I’d shack up at the local bar too. Good to see Anderson is keeping things real.

The Vanishing on 7th Street is currently in post production. Up next for Newton is the viral outbreak thriller Retreat.

Producer Adrian Askarieh and director Todd Lincoln (The Apparition) have announced plans to adapt the “Danger Girl” comic series to the big screen. Introduced in 1998 by artists J. Scott Campbell and Andy Hartnell, Danger Girl follows a group of elite, half-naked, big-breasted secret agents as they engage in death-defying missions to keep the world at peace.

Askarieh tells the LA Times:

First of all, we are taking these characters very seriously; a kind of “Batman Begins” approach, if you will. Also, Todd has a very interesting aesthetic approach to this project, which will actually inform the tone of the storytelling and the movie as a whole.

Without giving too much away, he wants to use the technology similar to that used in “Avatar” to bring Campbell’s characters and world to life and yet, at the same time, have the audience fully recognize and be emotionally invested in the actors playing those characters.

His approach, in both the look and the tone for “Danger Girl,” is what I call the anti-“Charlie’s Angels” and feels more like next-step progression from what I hear Zack Snyder is doing with “Sucker Punch,” visually speaking.

Y’all may not know this, but “Danger Girl” has been a big part of my life. You see, I grew up poor on a bayou in New Orleans. My old man caught catfish for a living. Though he worked hard to provide for us kids, we had to do without some of life’s bare essentials, namely porn.

Finding quality stroke-material is never easy when you’re broke. Unlike most, I couldn’t just log on to the internet and look up bestiality, golden showers, and truly twisted shit like interracial porn. Often times my brother and I would have to split the centerfold from our daddy’s Playboy.

I always got stuck with the bottom part of the model, which probably explains my fascination with female dismemberment. Times were rough. Sometimes, I would only masturbate once a day.

Then, one fateful day, I discovered a sexy “Danger Girl” comic inside the belly of an eight-foot croc I intended to make a belt from and everything changed. I am so looking forward to this flick.

(UPDATE: MILLA JOVOVICH, KATE BECKINSALE, & SOFIA VERGARA ARE RUMORED TO BE STARRING. NO CONFIRMATION YET)

District 9 star Sharlto Copley joins British actor Alex Pettyfer in director DJ Caruso’s sci-fi actioner I Am Number Four. The film is an adaptation of the upcoming HarperCollins young-adult novel of the same name written by James Frey (”A Million Little Pieces”) and Jobie Hughes.

The plot revolves around John Smith (Pettyfer), an alien living incognito as a human high school student in Paradise, Ohio up until he’s discovered by the extraterrestrial enemies that destroyed his home planet. Copley will play Smith’s alien protector.

Dreamworks will release the film on Feb. 18, 2011.

Japanese porn star Sora Aoi headlines director Takao Nakano’s coming-of-age tear-jerker Big Tits Zombie in 3-D. The busty actress (G-cup!) plays a stripper out to save a small town from a zombie invasion.

The film is an adaptation of the popular manga “Kyonyuu Dragon” (aka: “Big Tits Dragon”) by artist Rei Mikamoto.

The synopsis reads:

Rena Jodo (Aoi) is a stripper who just got back from Mexico and she has been offered a gig at a hot spring resort. When she arrives, she finds a deserted country town. There’s hardly anyone in the audience at the strip club and all the other strippers, including Ginko (Risa Kasumi), Maria (Mari Sakurai), Nene (Tamayo) and Dana (Io Aikawa) are all bored stiff.

When they decide to go down to the basement of the club to kill time, Maria finds a “Book of the Dead” near “the Well of the Spirit.” Maria’s reading of the book out loud has somehow revived the dead and zombies start appearing all over the world attacking mankind. It’s Hell in the real world!

Dana and Nene are bitten by the zombies and they turn into living dead who attack Rena and Ginko. The poor big‐bosomed babes have no choice but to fight against Maria who now rules the zombies and tries to establish a kingdom of zombies. Rena and Ginko have to challenge Maria and the hordes of zombies!

Should you want to familiarize yourself with Aoi’s previous work, her porn creds include the must-own Wife Violated in Front of Her Husband, Sora Will Relieve You Greatly, Big Dick PakoPako, Repeated Death: Grand Orgasm, Bodily Fluids Mingling, and  Staggering Facial Ejaculation.

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Lucasfilm is celebrating the 30th anniversary of The Empire Strikes Back with a yearlong charity campaign that includes special screenings of the beloved Star Wars sequel, auctions, and various other themed events.

“The Empire Gives Back” campaign kicks off on May 19 with a digitized screening of The Empire Strikes Back at the Arclight Hollywood theater in Los Angeles. An onstage Q&A session with Harrison Ford (Han “Fucking” Solo!) will follow the showing.

Tickets for the Arclight Hollywood event are on sale now and cost $100 and $175 for premium seating. All proceeds benefit the St. Jude Children’s Research Hospital.

Well, don’t just sit there, geeks. You’ve only got one month to find a date for the screening! I’m just kidding. Your mom will go with you. She loves Harrison Ford!

To keep up on future screenings and events, visit StarWars.com.

Twentieth Century Fox Home Entertainment is sponsoring an interactive Avatar exhibit today at The Grove shopping center in Los Angeles. The event is designed to promote the upcoming DVD and Blu-ray release of the blockbuster film, available on April 22 (Earth Day).

A 60′-X-10′ structure featuring three morphing stations will capture attendee’s images through state-of-the-art facial-recognition technology and transform them into blue, giant Na’vi tribes-people. A video of the transformation is then emailed to users who provide an email address.

The exhibit kicks off today at 2 p.m. All those who don’t have a job, a girlfriend, or a vagina between their legs are encouraged to attend. Personally, I’ll wait for the cutting-edge technology that will transform my life into that of stupidly-rich asshole James Cameron.

Avatar is the highest earning film of all time and sparked the 3-D craze that has given theater owners the gall to raise prices on 3-D showings.

Kirsten Dunst (Spiderman) is set to star in director Lars Von Trier’s (Antichrist) end-of-the-world sci-fi thriller Melancholia. She will go nude for the part and you can peep a glimpse of of that here.

Budgeted at a modest $7 million, Melancholia follows a group of people as they freak the fuck out upon discovering that the earth is on a collision course with another planet.

The film costars Keifer Sutherland, Charlotte Gainsbourg, Udo Kier, Charlotte Rampling, Alexander Skarsgaard, and Stellan Skarsgaard. Dunst replaces Oscar-winning actress Penelope Cruz in the role.

Melancholia will be released in Scandinavia in May. No word yet on when Magnolia Pictures plans to distribute the film in the U.S. and Canada.

Looks like television star Eva Longoria-Parker is getting a little desperate to kick-start her film career. After appearing in string of rom-com flops, the “Desperate Housewives” player is shifting gears to headline writer/director Franc Reyes’ (Illegal Tender) upcoming supernatural thriller The Tenement.

Set in New York, The Tenement follows five potential property buyers who get a raw deal when they attend an open house in a haunted tenement building in the Bronx.

Reyes describes his film as a mix of The Exorcist, The Amityville Horror, and Rosemary’s Baby. Shooting is set to begin next month in New York.

Longoria-Parker’s previous horror creds include The Dead Will Tell and the truly horrific Over Her Dead Body.

Disney has cast 23-year-old French actress Astrid Berges-Frisbey as the mermaid Syrena for their upcoming sequel Pirates of the Caribbean: On Stranger Tides. Frisbey joins Penelope Cruz and Ian McShane as the franchise’s new faces.

Stranger Tides marks Frisbey’s first American production. The actress made her feature film debut in the French pic Un Barrage Contre Le Pacifique (The Sea Wall).

In a casting-sheet leaked last month, it was discovered that Disney would only hire actresses with natural breasts for roles in the film (a jiggle test would be required during auditions). Looks like Frisbey easily fit that bill:

Pirates of the Caribbean: On Stranger Tides finds Captain Jack Sparrow (Johnny Depp) mixing things up with the notorious pirate Blackbeard (McShane) while on a quest to find the Fountain of Youth. The film is directed by Rob Marshall, the man behind such lavish productions as Memoirs of a Geisha, Nine, and the Oscar-winning musical Chicago.

Shooting begins in June.

(Update: See more pics of Astrid here).

(UPDATE: IS MERMAID ANTOINETTE NIKPRELAJ HOTTER THAN ASTRID?)