From selling paper to doing battle with Nazis.

The Hollywood Reporter states that The Office star B.J. Novak in in talks to porttray one of the soldiers in Inglorious Basterds, Quentin Tarantino's movie about a band of Jewish resisters in Vichy-era France.

Novak is expected to play PFC Utivich, a soldier of slight build who hails from New York.

Previously on the big screen, Novak has had bit parts in Reign Over Me and Knocked Up.

Johnny Depp is at the center of two intriguing movie rumors these days.

First, he's supposedly being considered as the next Batman villain. Reports have connected him to The Riddler in the eventual follow-up to The Dark Knight.

Now, Entertainment Weekly is leaking word that Depp may portray the Mad Hatter in Tim Burton's upcoming take on the fairy tale, Alice in Wonderland.

A 3-D movie of that classic slated for release in 2010. It will star Mia Wasikowska in the title role.

The source said the film will be live action until Alice jumps down the rabbit hole and meets the odd tea party host. The question is whether Depp himself will don a Hatter outfit, or lend his voice to the computer-generated version.

There's been no comment yet from Disney or Depp on the rumor. But allow us to say: sounds awesome!

Charlize Theron turns 33 today.

The Oscar-winning actress most recently starred in Will Smith's summer blockbuster, Hancock. It received mixed reviews.

There's nothing mixed about how men feel about this actress, however. She's absolutely stunning.

Keep doing whatever you're doing, Charlize Theron. It's working.

Iron Man is still making money.

Tropic Thunder comes out next week.

He's signed up for a new Sherlock Holmes movie.

Needless to say, Robert Downey Jr. is a busy man, as he explains in the latest issue of Rolling Stone.

On his crazy schedule since Iron Man: “Right now, my BlackBerry is literally overloading and crashing, and the phone is never not ringing. It’s crazy. Like a Super Bowl. Like a landslide. Like nothing I’ve ever experienced.”

On moving forward in his life: “I’m such a work in progress at the moment, it’s crazy, and life wants me on edge, I swear to you. But as long as I don’t forget the past, I’m cool. One must always be mindful, just like you might forget that old girlfriend who tried to slit your throat, but she’s really still hot. If you remember the stitches more than you remember the pussy, you’re going to be just fine.”

Simply based on the star power of Pineapple Express - everything Seth Rogen touches these days turned to comedic gold - there's little doubt this movie will fare well at the box office.

But does that mean it's actually funny? Here's a collection of what many film critics have to say...

- It is uneven, overly long, makes utterly no sense -- but still manages to work as stoner escapism with a lot of pretty explosions... -- Jam! Movies

- Pineapple Express presents viewers with an oxymoronic experience: the action stoner film... -- Dallas Morning News

- How much you enjoy Pineapple Express may depend on what associations (or substances) you bring into the theater with you. As an action comedy, it's just a bad trip... -- Baltimore Sun

- James Franco's Saul Silver can step into the pantheon of iconic movie stoners joining Sean Penn's Jeff Spicoli and Jeff Bridges's Dude... -- Reeling Reviews

At Comic-Con last week, Mark Wahlberg was asked if the role of Max Payne - for the movie Max Payne, based on the video game Mark Wahlberg - was a difficult character to get into.

He laughed off the notion.

“After doing The Lovely Bones, where you know also dealing with loss and a horrific act of violence, but then being able to do something about it was so nice. I remember The Happening had just came out and I walked into the editing room with it, the looping stage with John and he showed me some shit and I was just fuc---ing screaming with excitement.

I was so happy that my career was saved. My life, my credibility, my ability to walk down the street was in a hood again. I was just like yeah. I really was. I was fuc---ing screaming at the top of my lungs for like five fuc---ing minutes. But this is the kind of thing that I want to go and see.

I don't want to be told what I can and can't do, I want to try something different, I want to be able to play a lawyer, play a doctor but I feel most comfortable when I'm in a world like this.”

Look for Mark Wahlberg as Max Payne on October 17.

Here's our latest photo from the anticipated vampire flick, Twilight.

The popular book franchise has earned comparisons to Harry Potter, but is focused on an older demographic.

In this scene, main character Edward (Robert Pattinson) and Bella (Kristen Stewart) have an intimate chat:

For the record, it's unclear if a third Hellboy movie will ever be made.

But if it is, director Guillermo del Toro has said, it "would be facing your destiny, if such a thing exists, and making the ultimate decision."

Sounds like a third movie would be the end of Hellboy, doesn't it? One important individual has a prolem with this, however: Hellboy creator, comic book writer Mike Mignola.

“The problem is, what del Toro’s talked about to me is that ‘Hellboy III’ would be the end of Hellboy,” Mignola said. “And here’s where we have the big conflict. My version of Hellboy in the comics is a finite story, but it’s going to take me 15 years to get to the ending. If [del Toro] makes ‘Hellboy III’ and it’s the death of Hellboy, I’m left doing the comic going, ‘But I’m not done yet.’

Mignola added:

"My Hellboy is going to die, but I want to be the one who does that. And if del Toro does my ending, there won’t be a lot of surprise when I get to the end of the comic."

For now, the issue is moot. But we'll let you know if and when a third Hellboy movie is planned.

Despite the luke warm reviews for Indiana Jones and the Kingdom of the Crystal Skull, director George Lucas doesn't sound afraid to make another installment of this beloved franchise.

He does wanna clear up rumors that the next film would center on Shia LaBeouf's character of Mutt Williams, though.

"Indiana Jones is Indiana Jones," Lucas told MTV. "Harrison Ford IS Indiana Jones. If it was Mutt Williams it would be Mutt Williams and the Search for Elvis or something."

As for plot of another Indiana Jones movie, Lucas said finding a subject was crucual to getting the project off the ground.

"We are looking for something for him to go after. They are very hard to find. It's like archaeology. It takes a huge amount of research to come up with something like that."

Look for Eli Roth to appear in Inglorious Bastards.

The director of Hostel will portray a baseball bat-swinging Nazi hunter in Quentin Tarantino's next movie, which starts production this fall in Europe.

Brad Pitt is all but confirmed to play Aldo Raine, leader of a rogue band of Jewish-American soldiers who wreak havoc on the bad guys in Nazi-occupied France. Roth's character's name is Sgt. Donnie Donowitz.