t's not a great time to be Tom Cruise. The former biggest star in Hollywood was recently dumped from a starring role in Columbia Pictures' spy thriller "Edwin A. Salt" in favour of Angelina Jolie. According to Page Six Cruise is currently floundering in Hollywood, having recently thrown a temper tantrum during a meeting with studio executives after they rejected the idea of filming a Mission Impossible 4. He's also seen the release of his completed $100 million drama Valkyrie delayed 3 times in the last six months. Apparently embracing scientology and denouncing psychiatry is bad for your career. Who knew?

20 years ago Willem DaFoe played Jesus Christ. Today he's signed up to star in Lars Von Trier's Antichrist. That's quite a leap for the actor to make, even if he's not assuming the title role. No, this will be a horror film about a couple who retreat to a cabin in the woods to recover from the death of their infant son. DaFoe will play the ex-father and presumably Satan will play his deceased son. Regardless, with Von Trier at the helm and working in the horror genre for the first time since his brilliant TV series The Kingdom this is sure to be a twisted and disturbing ride….provided that Von Trier completes the project of course. He's already delayed production once due to a nervous breakdown and tends to do that sort of thing regularly. Hopefully he can finish the movie, because that twisted genius always seems capable of producing a masterpiece.

Robert Downey Jr. has been doing a second round of publicity this summer, touring around for interviews promoting Tropic Thunder and has some harsh words to say about The Dark Knight. According to Iron Man "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? Fuck DC comics. That’s all I have to say and that’s where I’m really coming from." Sounds like comic book hero jealousy to me.