When The DaVinci Code was screened at Cannes, people laughed at a key dramatic scene and hissed and booed at the end. Critics are saying it’s hard to follow and really boring:

Director Ron Howard has blown off bad reviews, saying he hasn’t read them and hopes additonal reviews will be “slightly more upbeat.” He wants “Da Vinci Code” to be a crowd pleaser, and seems nonchalant about the religious controversy over the film’s content. He told people that if the content would upset them, they should just stay away.

Author Dan Brown suggests that Jesus Christ was married to Mary Magdalene and had a child with her. Everyone from the Opus Dei cult to the nation of India is boycotting the film. All the protesting won’t matter once the news gets out about how terrible the film is. No one will want to see it anyway.

I haven’t seen the film yet of course, but I thought the book sucked. The writing was terrible. I don’t remember any of the details because there were so many crammed in there. The action scenes were decent, but they couldn’t save the lousy writing.

My favorite review comes from TimeOut’s London edition:

Here’s the trailer:

DaVinci Code currently has an unprecedented 0% rating on Rotten Tomatoes. That will probably raise slightly as lesser critics are wined and dined by the studio.

A few weeks ago we reported a poorly sourced rumor that Lindsay Lohan was in consideration for a role in an upcoming action movie based on the Japanese anime series “Sailor Moon.” Lohan told MTV that materials for the movie have been sent to her, but she hasn’t heard much about the role apart from reading about it online:

It sounds like a Sailor Moon role is only a remote possibility for Lohan at this point, but if she’s mentioning it in an MTV interview she must be interested.

Meanwhile Lohan insinuates that her breasts are real by stating that she loves them in their natural state:

“Naturally” means before the breast surgery, Lindsay. A more accurate statement would be: “I like my breasts the size and shape they are now.”

Here is Lindsay outside of Butter Nightclub in NY on Monday. She did lay low for a day or two at least.

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Avril Lavigne has a small cameo in an upcoming movie with Richard Gere, “The Flock”:

Lavigne voiced an animated character in the film “Over the Hedge,” and with this latest role it looks like she is making a move onto the big screen.

Lavigne is rumored to be pregnant. In these pictures of her out in Malibu on Saturday with her fiance, Deryck Whibley, you can see a little baby bump if you squint hard enough.

On Monday we reported that it looked like Jessica Alba had a nose job based on HQs of her at two different events last week. She was at the premiere of “An Inconvenient Truth” last night, and her nose still looks different than it did at the ALMA awards, but not dramatically so.

We checked out earlier pictures of Alba, and it seems like the lighting at the ALMA awards was particularly unflattering.

She could be using some alternate method to shrink her nose, as was mentioned in the article we sourced. If she did have work done, it was subtle. At this point we don’t think she had a nose job.

Here is Alba at the ALMA awards, and at premiere of “An Inconvenient Truth” in LA. “An Inconvenient Truth” is a documentary about global warming featuring president Al Gore:

Alba is concerned about the environment and drives a hybrid Prius. You can do your part by walking and riding your bike whenever possible, replacing your lightbulbs with energy star efficient bulbs, and reusing plastic bags. Minor changes do make a difference.

The critics have weighed in on Lindsay Lohan’s new film, “Just My Luck,” and the verdict is that it royally sucks. It only has a 10% rating on Rotten Tomatoes. In comparison Paris Hilton’s horror film, “House of Wax,” is rated a whopping 24%.

Some choice quotes from Rotten Tomatoes:

Sorry, Lindsay, your movie sucks. People also apparently hate you. Lindsay topped a Star magazine poll of the most hateable celebrities, beating Paris Hilton and Kevin Federline by a healthy margin.

Here she is with “Girls Gone Wild” creator Joe Francis, who just celebrated his birthday with a celebrity-attended bash at Six Flags in LA on Thursday. [via] She’s also shown shopping in Beverly Hills on May 10th [via]

Star Trek fans are pretty pissed by the rumor that Ben Affleck, whose career hasn’t quite recovered from Gigli yet, may be in the running to play Captain Kirk in an upcoming Star Trek film directed by MI3’s JJ Abrams. The editorial we read about it said that it’s not such a bad idea.

Affleck needs to get some kind of film role that isn’t complete crap if he’s going to get his career back on track. Two years ago he said he didn’t want to make any more action films, which is probably why he hasn’t made any decent films since. “Jersey Girl” was lukewarm glurge and “Surviving Christmas” was impossible to sit through. He doesn’t have the chops for serious drama, except when he’s typecast like in “Changing Lanes,” and he’s decent in comedy. He really shines in action movies, though, and he should embrace it and take the cash. He seems to enjoy spending it.

Affleck is shown above in a recent picture walking his daughter in a stroller, five month-old Violet. [via]

“Poseidon,” a remake of the 1976 thriller “The Poseidon Adventure,” premiered last night in LA. It features Josh Lucas, Kurt Russell, Jacinda Barret, Richard Dreyfuss, and Emmy Rossum.

It’s getting bad reviews, and from the looks of the trailer, below, it’s a bit too scary for our tastes.

Fergie of the Black Eyed Peas has a cameo in the film. She does not look pregnant in these pictures, but she does look plastic. She’s wearing black so it’s hard to see if she has a tummy buldge, though.

Here are Emmy Rossum, Josh Lucas, Kurt Russell, Mia Maestro, Salma Hayek, Fergie, Jacinda Barrett, Jerry Lewis, Kevin Dillon, Freddy Rodriguez, Emmy Rossum and Pamela Sue Martin at the premiere and after party.

Tom Cruise may be a crazy cult spokesperson, but he didn’t lie to start a war that’s squandering all our nation’s resources, and resulting in soldier and civilian deaths by the thousands.

US Weekly compares Tom’s approval rating with the pResident’s, and notes that Tom’s is slightly higher:

It just goes to show you that acting crazy and hating psychiatric drugs is less damning that ruining the middle east and getting a lot of people killed. Now if only much-deserved impeachment hearings were started, we might get rid of world’s worst pResident of all time.

It seems like low box office numbers could help tone down Cruise’s career. Mission Impossible 3 isn’t doing as well as expected. It’s not exactly tanking, though.

It would certainly be a welcome change if both Bush and Cruise would ride/fly off into the sunset.

People are saying that Nicole Kidman hasn’t seen her kids in ages while crazy Tom Cruise is jetting all over the world, but still manages to go to Conner and Isabella’s sports matches.

Star thinks it has to do with Tom’s controlling nature, but it sounds to us like Nicole Kidman just doesn’t care:

Obviously the source is a friend of Nicole’s and is making excuses for her absence from their lives. We aren’t a fan of Tom, but couldn’t Nicole make more of an effort to see her children?

It came out in January that a former nanny of Nicole and Tom said that Nicole was never around at all.

Tom may be a crazy cult spokesperson, but at least he’s there for his kids.

Here are Tom and Katie in Aberdeen, WA for a sort-of premiere for MI3.

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Halle Berry had to film sex scenes for her upcoming movie with Bruce Willis while he was away, so she just rolled around on the bed and acted like someone was there with her:

Bruce Willis has said some flattering things about Halle, and is probably trying to make up for the fact that he had to skip out on their on-screen lovemaking:

Sure Bruce. Maybe you were so nervous around her that you couldn’t show up. At least he’s talking about Halle, though, and not about politics. He was probably off trying to find Osama while Halle was shooting her solo sex scene.

Here she is yesterday at the “Celebration of Diversity.”

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