July 27th, 2010

Here’s hoping Rihanna doesn’t sink Battleship.

The 22-year-old pop-R&B star has signed on to make her feature-film debut in the action flick, which, as it sounds, is inspired by the classic Hasbro board game, her rep confirms to E! News.

While the songstress’ soundtrack credits on IMDb are many, she’s yet to appear as anyone but herself on TV, let alone the big screen.

But at least Rihanna’s got a seaworthy cast and crew behind her, including Friday Night Lights hunk Taylor Kitsch and True Blood hottie Alexander Skarsgård as brothers who end up leading the fight for their planet’s survival against an otherworldly force.

Hancock helmer Peter Berg is attached to direct with an eye on a May 25, 2012, release date.

Calling all couture cops—it’s YOU Write ‘Em Up time!

The Perp: Nicole Kidman, at a screening of Salt in Sherman Oaks with hubby Keith Urban

It was a low-key date night for the Aussie couple in L.A., but maybe Nic should’ve opted for jeans and a tee if she wanted to go cazh instead of this dowdy muumuu and cardigan. She looks one set of bifocals away from the Sunny Hills retirement home.

What do you think of the actress’s getup? Write your most clever caption below and we’ll post our fave here and on our Facebook page.

Paris Hilton swears she wasn’t heiling Hitler.

But a photo snapped of the starlet aboard a yacht in Saint-Tropez might suggest otherwise: Wearing a military-style hat, Paris appears to be mimicking a moustache with one hand while saluting in the air with the other.

Not true, says her rep: She was just dancing.

“Paris was dancing and having fun with her arm up in the air as she always dances…and was scratching her face when a photo was taken,” her rep tells E! News. “The hat is not even a military style. It’s a captain’s hat from a club.”

Other sources say the proof is in the picture itself…

“If she was making a joke, people would be looking at her,” a source says of the snapshot with the supposed Hitler pose, where two men are glancing away.

The source tells E! News that Paris and her party posse knew the paps were there the whole time.

“One of the guys with her even flipped off the paparazzi,” says our source, “Clearly if she knew they were there, she wouldn’t do something so offensive to be caught on camera.”

This isn’t the first time she’s been photographed in comprising positions during her Eurotrip. She was snapped sunbathing topless in Sardinia and flashing her nether regions in a Saint-Tropez club, after rebuffing reports that she was caught with marijuana.

Paris is off to Ibiza today, but a source close to her tells E! News she’s “extremely upset” about the situation. “Half of her family is Jewish, her friends and her fans…she would never intentionally do something like that.”

Wonder whether Paris will be too sad to party in Ibiza tonight?

They say behind every great man is a great woman. Angelina Jolie tells a different story.

“Brad is the word that makes it possible,” said the Salt star during a Tokyo press conference when asked how she’s able to balance both a career and raise a family of six kids.

“He’s just a wonderful father,” she adds.

Well, if this didn’t put the breakup rumors to rest, maybe comments like those above will.

And if not, there’s always Twitter…

Forget Seaside Heights. Never mind Miami.

Snooki and JWoww think their merry band of GTLers should shoot a season of Jersey Shore in—ready for this?—Utah and Kansas.

“I want to go to Kansas and change everyone into guidos,” JWoww recently told us. “Could you imagine?

We sorta can…

When Snooki suggested Utah, JWoww cracked, “Can you imagine JWoow and Snooki invading Utah like on cows and horses? She’d try to give a horse a poof!”

Well, more than a poof.

“I’d probably jump the horse because there’d be nobody to have sex with,” Snooki joked. (Yes, she was joking!)

Sammi said she wasn’t too keen on relocating again like they did for season two, which premieres on Thursday. “I want to be in Jersey,” she said. “I’m a Jersey girl.”

Vinny, on the other hand, doesn’t have a specific place in mind to show off his fist-pumping skills. “Give me tan girls in bikinis and I’m happy,” he said. “But anywhere we go we’ll make a Jersey Shore party out of it.”

Or as Ronnie boasted, “We bring Jersey to the party.”

TMZ has learned that on the day Oksana Grigorieva recorded Mel Gibson’s infamous rant, the two had engaged in a special ceremony that included their daughter’s placenta … and a tree. Hours before Mel lost his cool on the phone on February 18, he and Oksana were in the backyard of his Malibu mansion … watching as a gardener planted a Santa Lucia fir tree in honor of their daughter Lucia.

But that’s not all that went in the ground that day — sources close to Oksana tell us the couple also buried the placenta from the birth of their then 3-month-old daughter Lucia … a tradition in some parts of Australia … where Mel grew up.

We’re told Mel did this placenta ceremony for all of his children.

The source also says during the ceremony the gardener made an innocent comment and Oksana smiled at him. We’re told that’s what set Mel off.

As we first reported, Mel then accused Oksana of having an affair with the gardener … and that’s when all hell broke loose.

Beverly Hills, 90210 alum Luke Perry and Jason Priestley will be collaborating once again on the z-list Hallmark Movie Channel original western Goodnight For Justice!

Ooh! Doesn’t that just sound so John Wayne that you want to hurl?!

The flick, produced and starring Perry, will be directed by Priestley and will center around a cowboy looking to avenge the death of his family!

Yeah…

Unless our beloved Shannen Doherty rolls into that mess, guns a’ slinging, we’re gonna skip it! But it’s nice to see that they’ll be working alongside each other once again – at least in some capacity!

Thoughts??

Ugh! We’d love to get our hands on these documents! Something tells us there is something juicy hidden within.

Jon and Kate Gosselin lawyers have finally drafted up a custody agreement that satisfies both sides morally and more importantly, financially.

The renegotiated custody agreement is being kept under heavy wraps, which we assume means there is some big $$$ being thrown around.

If we had to guess, most of it is probably being thrown at Jon to keep his fugly mug from attacking Kate in the media and making a bigger ass out of himself, if that is even possible!

But it’s all about the children, right?

“Everyone blows sunshine up everyone else’s ass,” she said. “I hate receiving compliments; I hate being told I’m talented or people think I’m going to be a movie star. I always feel that it’s forced and fake.”

- Megan Fox, to Allure on Hollywood

Law enforcement sources tell TMZ Mel Gibson met with L.A. County Sheriff’s detectives Sunday for his official interview in connection with his criminal complaint that Oksana Grigorieva tried to extort him. We’re told the meeting was lengthy and that Mel and his lawyer submitted “physical evidence” — including emails and texts — to make a case that Oksana extorted him.

Our law enforcement sources also tell us … Mel did not discuss Oksana’s criminal complaint against him. We’re told that was one of the ground rules set by Mel’s lawyer.

Gibson does not have to discuss Oksana’s claims based on his Fifth Amendment rights against self-incrimination.