Joaquin Phoenix surprised everyone at a benefit for Paul Newman’s camps for kids Monday, announcing his plans to quit acting.

“I want to take this opportunity … to give you the exclusive and just talk a little bit about the fact that this will be my last performance as an actor,” the two-time Oscar nominee told Extra at the San Francisco event. “I’m not doing films anymore.”

Yeah. And Amy Winehouse will never touch crack again.

Eddie Murphy says he’s going to retire from the movie business. About time too because he hasn’t been funny in decades. Murphy is appearing in a highly publicized movie called Meet Dave opening July 11. There was talk of a fourth Beverly Hills Cop, but that has been shot down because the script just isn’t right. The script isn’t right because Eddie sucks.

Clint Eastwood wants Spike Lee to shut up after Spike complained to a Cannes Film Festival panel of the lack of black soldiers in Eastwood’s recent World War II movies.

Eastwood rejected the ludicrous complaints and basically said that Lee needs to stop whining to the panel like a spoiled brat. He explained it so Spike can hopefully get it through his head:

“Flags of Our Fathers” and “Letters From Iwo Jima,” both from 2006, explaining that the black troops that did take part in the 1945 battle were assigned to munitions units and had no part in the flag-raising moment that is the focus of “Flags.”

Then he laid the smack down:

“The story is ‘Flags of Our Fathers,’ the famous flag-raising picture, and they didn’t do that. If I go ahead and put an African-American actor in there, people’d go: ‘This guy’s lost his mind.’ I mean, it’s not accurate.” Referring to Lee, he added: “A guy like him should shut his face.”

Eastwood made it clear that it will not compromise the facts in his movies historically. So stop whining and go make a movie Spikey.

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Over at The Brick, we’ve compiled a list of awesome Sci-Fi robots. Some old, some new, all shiny metal friends. Hit the link to check it out.

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“A few weeks from now on a network buried in basic cable…”

Star Wars fans too cheap to rent the entire saga on DVD get ready: Spike TV is bringing all six movies to the small screen in a Vader loving, lightsaber swinging event stemming many hours of your short life in April.

Spike TV said it will air the complete Star Wars Saga starting Friday, April 4 through Sunday, April 6, and Friday, April 11 through Sunday, April 13. It will include the broadcast premiere of Star Wars: Episode III Revenge of the Sith and the basic cable premieres of Star Wars: Episode I The Phantom Menace and Star Wars: Episode II Attack of the Clones.

This will apparently mark the first time all six movies are being presented together on basic cable on the same network. All six are “digitally re-mastered versions of the films, shown uncut and presented in HD where available.” Lots of extra Star Wars material will be thrown in, giving all of you Princess Leia fanatics something to once again dream of.

The good folks behind the Indiana Jones movies have posted at their Web site an official poster for the upcoming Crystal Skull movie. Doesn’t it look old school and sweet?

South Park, is well, South Park. Love it or hate it you can’t help but admire how it has become a part of our pop culture. The good folks at Comedy Central keep milking this cow for all it is worth and now have plans for a new DVD release called South Park’s Imaginationland on March 11.

Now I think it is better to just let the good Comedy Central folk outline the plot:

In this uncensored, never-before-seen director’s cut, the doors of the world’s imagination are thrown wide open and the boys of South Park are transported to a magical realm in their greatest odyssey ever. Stan, Kyle, and Butters find themselves in Imaginationland just as terrorists launch an attack that unleashes all of mankind’s most evil characters imaginable. With the world’s imaginations spinning out of control, the government prepares to nuke Imaginationland to put an end to the chaos. Racing against time to prevent nuclear annihilation, the citizens of Imaginationland realize their only hope of salvation lies with the unlikeliest of heroes: Butters. Ignoring the impending apocalypse, Cartman goes all the way to the Supreme Court to get justice for his case of dry balls.

There – now go make yourself useful and blow a fart or something.

Indiana Jones fans have lots of reasons to enjoy 2008. Not only is there a new trailer for the upcoming Indiana Jones and the Kingdom of the Crystal Skull movie but now we also have new special editions of the first three movies to look forward to on DVD come May 13.

Lucasfilm and Paramount plans to release Indiana Jones and the Raiders of the Lost Ark, Indiana Jones and the Temple of Doom and Indiana Jones and the Last Crusade both as standalone special edition DVDs and also as part of a boxed set. All three have been originally restored and remastered and the discs will include bonus features which “rovide never-before-seen explorations of the making of these classic movies and showcase the characters, action and extraordinary visual effects that have made the movies indelible cinematic treasures.”

Now what would be really cool is if Lucas does a Indiana Jones marathon whereby you can watch all four movies back back. How sweet would that be?

New…Iron…Man…trailer…rocks!…Enough…said.

[via Cinematical]

If you are at all into pop culture you’ve probably seen the classic film Starship Troopers. This first film has become something of a cult classic and is the role Casper Van Dien (Johnny Rico) is probably best know for. Now Dien is back as Rico in Starship Troopers 3: Marauder with hottie sidekick Jolene Blalock. It is heading straight to DVD and, from the trailer above, looks much better than Starship Troopers 2. Would you like to know more?

[via Cinematical]