There's plenty of excitement happening in tinseltown this week, and we've got you covered on the details.

BOX OFFICE TOP TEN
1. Tyler Perry's Madea Goes To Jail - $16.5 million ($64.8 million)
2. Jonas Brothers: The 3D Concert Experience - $12.7 million ($12.7 million)
3. Slumdog Millionaire - $12.1 million ($115.1 million)
4. Taken - $9.9 million ($107.8 million)
5. He's Just Not That Into You - $5.8 million ($78.5 million)
6. Paul Blart: Mall Cop - $5.6 million ($128.1 million)
7. Coraline - $5.2 million ($61.1 million)
8. Street Fighter: The Legend of Chun-Li - $4.6 million ($4.6 million)
9. Confessions of a Shopaholic - $4.4 million ($33.6 million)
10. Fired Up - $3.8 million ($10.1 million)


Timing is everything. Tyler Perry's Madea Goes To Jail defied pretty much every expectation on Earth by sticking it out at #1 at the box office over the weekend, earning $16.5 million for a two-week running total of $64.8 million. I'd be making all sorts of Jim Varney comparisons if it weren't for the fact that Mr. Perry prevented the triumvirate Antichrist ascension that was Jonas Brothers: The 3D Concert Experience. It debuted at #2 with $12.7 million.

Slumdog Millionaire hopped up to #3, earning $12.1 million for a total of $115 million, ten times the film's budget. Meanwhile, Taken fell one spot to #4 with $9.9 million for a five-week total of $107.8 million, while He's Just Not That Into You fell one spot to #5 with $5.8 million.

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Remember all that crazy talk about Marvel totally blowing it by lowballing Samuel L. Jackson right out of talks to return as Nick Fury in Iron Man 2? Yeah, well you can forget all that jive. Not only will the Bad Motherf*cker be back for the Iron Man sequel, but according to The Hollywood Reporter, Jackson has signed a deal to play Fury in a nearly-inconceivable NINE future Marvel films.

Let's do some hardcore number crunches: if it's real, this reported deal would include Iron Man 2, Thor, The First Avenger: Captain America and their obligatory sequels, with a distinct a possibility of a S.H.I.E.L.D. movie at some point down the line. Sounds outrageous, but what the hell - I'd rather believe in this than the cloud of doom hovering over Marvel's cheapskate tactics with Jackson's reported departure.

Marvel's current stance on the issue: "The story is speculative and Marvel is not confirming the story."

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Jim Carrey and Jake Gyllenhaal are set to star in a new big screen version of the hit Broadway play Damn Yankees. Gyllenhaal will play Joe Boyd, and Carrey will play the devil (awesome). Lowell Ganz and Babaloo Mandel are set to write the script.

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Arrested Development creator Mitch Hurwitz took part in a panel for the new FOX animated series, Sit Down, Shut Up at WonderCon, and shed some new light on the status of the Arrested Development movie.

"We've had some trouble. Unlike animation, where you can get the Family Guy cast back together, it's been a little challenging scheduling everyone." However, Hurwitz noted, "We're going to make a movie. I haven't written it yet," jokingly adding, "So I'll be accepting pitches."

Hurwitz went on to say, "We're determined to do this. It was a great joy to do a show that took risks, with such a wonderful cast and writers. For us, it's irresistible. When we did the show, one of the things I think that made it work was we didn't hold ourselves up to any standard." He remarked that even when they saw the great reviews, "We kind of ignored those and just did what was funny to us, and remained the underdog in a great way."

The only downside to making a movie out of such an awesome show? "Now suddenly there is a bar to hit. The key to this is once we get as many pieces as we're going to, which it appears we have, we're going to just dive in. We're very excited about it."

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Antonio Banderas has joined the cast of Woody Allen's next movie, along with Naomi Watts and Slumdog Millionaire star Freida Pinto. Shooting will begin in London this summer, and that's all we have to tell you about that - for now.

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Hasbro CEO Brian Goldner recently told MTV that the upcoming movie version of Ouija will be a supernatural thriller and not a kid-friendly flick like Jumanji. Thank God.

"Half of the people that play Ouija as a seance think it's just a game. The other half thinks it's much more serious than that. So that idea, is this real or is this just sort of imagined? Is this something that's done by the participants or is this something that's really from beyond?" When he puts it that way, it's a bit hard to picture why the idea hasn't been used before.

He added, "In Ouija you ask questions and then you get these answers. And sometimes these answers are unintended answers. So be careful what you ask, that's the element of the game that I think is so fun. You sort of use that insight about really playing Ouija as the jumping off point for a story for a movie, and then you link it to something much bigger."

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Michael Petroni (The Queen of the Damned) has been signed to pen a new draft for The Chronicles of Narnia: The Voyage of the Dawn Treader, replacing previous writer Richard LaGravanese. Fox is hoping that Petroni can bring back some of the magic in the franchise after Prince Caspian failed to live up to expectations, resulting in Disney dropping it like a clump of Britney Spears' weave. Look for the film around Christmas 2010.

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According to the Latino Review, Charlie Bartlett star Anton Yelchin is up for the lead role in the upcoming Green Lantern film. Yelchin's bound to become much more of a household name this year, thanks to his roles in the new Star Trek film as well as Terminator Salvation.

The film will be directed by Martin Campbell (Casino Royale).

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Cate Blanchett has officially joined Ridley Scott's Robin Hood, according to Variety. She will star opposite of Russell Crow. You know you care at least a little. Here's the synopsis:

"The film has evolved into a Gladiator version of the Robin Hood legend. Crowe plays Robin of Loxley in an original story that hews close to historical facts of the period. Abandoned as a child, he finds community with the common people of Nottingham. Robin's abandonment and trust issues hamper his ability to fall in love. He meets his match in Marian, a strong, independent woman."

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Our childhood memories are mined and sold back to us once more: The NeverEnding Story is next in line to get the reboot treatment, with a modern spin that will examine the details of the book that were glossed over in the first film. The NeverEnding Story was based on the Michael Ende's novel, which follows a young boy who discovers a parallel world called Fantasia while reading a book. As he follows the journey of Atreyu, he finds himself suddenly a part of the story.

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But wait, there's more! Columbia Pictures wants you to get your ass to Mars and start the reactor once again! Total Recall was a crushing batch of sci-fi mindfuck awesomeness, grossing $261 million when it was released - a massive feat in those arcane pre-internet days. According to The Hollywood Reporter, Neal H. Moritz and Columbia are developing a remake of the project, with the goal of telling the story in a new way (as in: no Arnold - I disapprove already), utilizing all of the modern effects technology available to them.

I'm a raving lunatic for the original film (I can probably rattle off a solid hour's worth of dialogue without pausing), so I'm going into this one with an eyebrow firmly cocked. But I'm there.

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E.T.'s former underage girlfriend Drew Barrymore just directed a movie starring Ellen Page called Whip It!, and evidently had a good time doing it, because according to Entertainment Weekly, Barrymore is on a very short list of directors that Summit Entertainment is talking to about directing the third Twilight movie, Eclipse.

I know, you could give a steaming pothead vampire shit about Twilight. I could too. But this deserves a mention, since Barrymore is just about the worst actress ever to appear on-screen, despite a family Hollywood legacy. Whatever keeps her from in front of the camera works for me.

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Eddie Murphy, whose best performance in the last decade was his turn as James "Thunder" Early in Dreamgirls, will be joining the Richard Pryor biopic called Richard Pryor: Is It Something I Said? Dreamgirls director Bill Condon will write and direct.

According to Entertainment Weekly, Fox Searchlight is interested in picking up the project. So far there's little word on what period of Pryor's life this will focus on, but it's about damned time they honored the man properly.

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Warner Brothers are adapting the DC Comics series Suicide Squad, about a group of incarcerated supervillains who are recruited by the government to accomplish tasks deemed too dangerous even for superheroes. Producers Dan Lin and Stephen Gilchrist will develop the project, with fanboy darling screenwriter Justin Marks to adapt.

The series first debuted in 1959 and was relaunched in 1987, also known then as "Task Force X", and finished its run in 2002. The first Suicide Squad consisted of Rick Flag, his girlfriend Karin Grace, Dr. Hugh Evans, and Jess Bright. Later Squads also featured Gyp, Jeb Stuart, Lawless, Nickels, Ace High, Beast, Blowhard, Rick Flag, Sr., and Shiv.

If all goes as planned, this will be Hollywood's first real leap into a villain-centered film, and that's exciting as hell.

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There have been some mixed reactions to the announcement that Michel Gondry would be directing Seth Rogen's The Green Hornet, and Rogen, who spoke with MTV recently about the news, enthusiastically explained why Gondry is actually the perfect choice for the film, even going so far as to explain how they got him to begin with. He promises that the film "will be a great combination… of both of our styles. It should have the type of conversational tone and comedy that me and Evan have been doing, and some of the action that we have been starting to try to do,  along with the wild, visual imagination and funny awkward sensibility that [Gondry's] been doing."

Rogen also explains that he gave Gondry the script both for input and to convince the studio to meet with him. "They were skeptical of… I wouldn't say his ability to make a giant budget studio movie, but his willingness to make a giant budget studio movie. But he loved the script, he totally got it, which a lot of [potential directors] just didn't."

Gondry loved the Green Hornet script so much, in fact, that he began filming it right away. "To convince the studio to let him do it, he filmed a fight scene on his own," Rogen marveled. "He just hired stunt men and did it by himself! Just to show some of the stuff he could do, some of the weird filming techniques he has and some of the stuff he can pull off. I mean, this is something he did in two days and it was instantly unlike anything you've ever seen before. It was impossible not to hire him once he presented what he could do for it."

We'll probably have to wait for the DVD special features for that little gem, but Rogen sure makes a hell of a case for Gondry's inclusion. "Me and [co-writer] Evan [Goldberg] have always been gigantic fans of [Gondry]," Rogen says. "We just like anyone who thinks outside the box, and there's really nobody who thinks more outside the box then he does; he's really a magician in a lot of ways."