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· More proof that God hates nerds: After an exhaustive search determined that every other director in Hollywood has mysteriously been turned to dust, Fox names Brett Ratner to ruin take over X3. [H'wood incest alert: Bryan Singer ditched X3 to direct the new Superman movie, to which Ratner was previously attached.] [Variety]
· Doubt, Spamalot win a bunch of Tonys. Somewhere, a midlevel development executive pitches the idea of adapting Spamalot into a movie. [THR]
· Hollywood Out of Ideas, part XXVI: Kurt Russell, Richard Dreyfuss, and Emmy Rossum join cast of Wolfgang Peterson's Poseidon Adventure remake for Warner Brothers. We suppose it's still too soon for a Titanic remake, so this will have to do. [Variety]
· Do they even count the Nielsens in the summer? A new Family Guy helps Fox to tie ABC (Housewives is in reruns) in the key demo. [THR]
· Oscar nominated Hotel Rwanda writer Keir Pearson gets out of genocide-writing jail, will pen the story of an Al-Qaeda-trained CIA informant for Paramount. [Variety]