“The Social Network” hasn’t even been released yet, but as of August 19th, Google founders Sergey Brin and Larry Page are next on Hollywood’s radar – a company called Groundswell Productions has purchased the movie rights to “Googled: The End Of The World As We Know It,” the creation of one-time Frontline narrator Ken Auletta.

Producer John Morris, whenever preparations are finished, will begin to trace the history of Google: through its beginnings in a small California garage to the intrusive search behemoth it is today: all while doing his level best to pass the big G’s torch of idealism to the big screen. Will this documentary end up being good or . . . will it be evil?

Google wants you to get hyped for its movie and YOU MUST OBEY.

If you’re one of those people that look forward to any Alison Krauss release, you are going to love this soundtrack. It is a balanced mixture of old and new songs that, gathered together on one album, make a thoughtful and beautiful collection. Starring Academy Award® winner Robert Duvall, Bill Murray, Academy Award® winner Sissy Spacek and Lucas Black, Get Low is based on the true story of Felix “Bush” Breazeale.

Not having seen the movie yet, which stars Duvall as an old guy who throws himself a funeral party while he’s still alive to enjoy it. I can’t say just how successfully the soundtrack supports the film’s action. It is clear, however, that the director has chosen interesting songs from the era, and not just the usual tunes.

The majority of the soundtrack comes from two contemporary artists; Jerry Douglas, and The SteelDrivers. Jerry Douglas is the modern day master of the dobro. He has played with just about everyone around (from Ray Charles to Dolly Parton to James Taylor to Eric Clapton), with some of his best work on the soundtrack to Oh Brother, Where Art Thou? Here’s hoping the film comes close to the success of that masterpiece, so that there is a concert tour featuring the soundtrack’s musicians. Seeing and hearing Jerry Douglas is always a pleasure… even more so live in concert.

The SteelDrivers are a group of Nashville’s best bluegrass musicians, with their own high-lonesome sound. Their brand of bluegrass is sometimes dark and brooding, and always fully human. Their first, self-titled album came out in 2008 and their follow-up release (titled “Reckless”) arrives on September 14, also on Rounder Records. Returning to the studio with producer Luke Wooten (known for his work with Alison Krauss, Jim Lauderdale and Dierks Bentley), the new album continues to stretch the boundaries of bluegrass.

Get Low Soundtrack Track Listing
1. Lay My Burden Down – Alison Krauss
2. If I Didn’t Care – The Ink Spots
3. Jesus Come For Me – The SteelDrivers
4. Sitting Mule/Drive to Town – Jerry Douglas
5. Drive to Town for Clothes – Jerry Douglas and Stuart Duncan
6. No Haircut – Jerry Douglas
7. Farewell Blues – Paul Whiteman
8. Monkey Bay – Jerry Douglas, Edgar Meyer & Russ Barenberg
9. Whiskey Before Breakfast – The SteelDrivers
10. East Virginia Fast – The SteelDrivers
11. North – Score – Jerry Douglas
12. Bush Shows Maddie Around
13. Angelina Baker – The SteelDrivers
14. The Mystery of Felix
15. I’m Looking Over A Four Leaf Clover – Bix Beiderbecke
16. My Blue Heaven – Gene Austin

All in all, Get Low is wonderful trip down a musical memory lane, with several stops along the way that are full of satisfying songs and stellar musicianship.

According to a RadarOnline 7/29 insider special, Leonardo DiCaprio has pulled out of that Viking movie directed by Mel Gibson, citing concerns that his professional reputation could be affected by working with the “Braveheart” legend. Or, in other words: The 35-year old Angeleno – legend, in the Titanic; co-star, in The Departed; environmental scaremonger, in Laurie David – doesn’t want to be stricken from the invite list to that potential Alec Baldwin mixer.

If true, Leo may not have learned the first rule of business: Money, is money.

Even if it comes from working with a dude that has a massive anger problem.

(h/t ABC News)

William Shatner, the man in the captain’s chair for the most spun-off program in television history, has somehow managed to quiz leftover Beltway bastage Lee Boyd Malvo for an upcoming made-for-TV movie. The 17-year old Muslim massacrist wreaked havoc in 2002 Washington as accomplice to John Allen Muhammad, killing ten people and wounding others, so with that, you wouldn’t expect him to be worth the camera time, right? Wrong!

Apparently, there’s more to the story than was once believed, according to Malvo himself:

What was supposed to happen was that there was supposed to be three to four snipers with silenced weapons, silenced rifles and in this way you could do a lot more damage along the entire Eastern Seaboard then what– in the end there was only Muhammad and myself.

Three to four snipers too many . . . that’s an interesting definition of what was “supposed” to happen, you jackass!

For the morbidly curious among us.

80′s Playboy pop stars Tiffany and Debbie Gibson are making a return to homes across America; this time, they’ll be starring in a low-budget SyFy movie to be released in 2011 – titled “Mega Python vs. Gatoroid.” Tiffany, as a park ranger, will play the part of the movie’s protagonist. Debbie, on the other hand, will star as a hot supervillain with a fondness for big snakes.

They’ll wrestle, slap each other in the face with cake, and eventually catfight for the title of “Best Comeback Aided By A Failed Movie Studio.”

Pass the popcorn!

I wanted to get to the bottom of some of his hateful, anti-Semitic rhetoric. So I set up a fake interview with Mr. Stone. His schedule was wide open for The Snark Factor, mostly because the interview never took place. But if it did, I imagine it would go something like this.

Fingers Malloy- Mr. Stone, thank you for joining me.

Oliver Stone- No problem, unless you are a filthy Jew. If that’s the case you need to go dominate the media somewhere else.

FM- Wow, again with the Jews Mr. Stone? You really believe they run the…

OS- (Interrupts) I want to clear the air on my comments about the Jews running the media. Of course I was exaggerating. Not all Jews run the media. Just one. His name is Sal Schwartz. He drinks a lot of coffee and has a cocaine problem, but he monitors all the media. He looks to screw anyone who says anything bad about Israel. He never sleeps. I want him dead.

FM- You aren’t serious?

OS- One time he ventured outside his Jew bunker. I hit him with my car. He went back and to the left. Back and to the left. Back and to the left. But then he got up, like some sort of Hebrew cyborg. It was the damnedest thing. If you read this Sal, your kosher ass is mine. Feel me?

FM- Yeah, um let’s switch gears and talk about your remarks on Hitler.

OS- I know what you are doing here and I am going to put a stop to it. Yes Hitler was a bad guy, but in the grand scheme of things much worse has come out of Germany than Hitler. Have you heard German electronic techno music? Hitler is so 1938, but that music is killing people right now. And let’s not even discuss Kathy Griffin.

FM- Kathy Griffin?

OS- Yes Kathy Griffin, she’s worse than Hitler. At least Hitler forced those people into the ovens. Kathy Griffin makes me want to stick my head in an oven. And to think, she had to pay Levi Johnston to hang out with HER. What does that tell you about her and the Germans? And I will not even mention Hasselhoff.

FM- You are quite mad sir.

OS- I like orange marmalade.

Whether John Galt is a person or merely a legend is a mystery as the 1957 novel begins. His presence in the film will be equally shadowy, leaving the door open for a major star to step into the sequels should the first film be successful.

After initial reports that Angelina Jolie or Charlize Theron would play heroine Dagny Taggart, and Brad Pitt rumored for the John Galt role, the movie’s relatively low budget and cast of little-known actors have raised eyebrows. Lionsgate had once been involved in larger-budget attempts to film the novel, all of which hit dead ends. Aglialoro was faced with either beginning principal photography by June 15 and financing it himself as an independent, or permanently losing the rights. Shooting began on June 13. Aglialoro and co-producer Harmon Kaslow plan at least two sequels to cover the novel’s three parts.

Paul Johansson replaced Stephen Polk as director just nine days before filming began. Polk, fired perhaps due to his budget and casting demands, has hired a lawyer and may sue the producers.

Johannson played Dan Scott on One Tree Hill and directed several episodes. He won an Emmy for writing and was nominated for directing the TV-movie The Incredible Mrs. Ritchie starring Gena Rowlands and James Caan.

Aglialoro, a novice, teamed with horror film writer Brian Patrick O’Toole to write the Atlas Shrugged screenplay. Aglialoro is the CEO of fitness product manufacturer Cybex.

Behind-the-scenes clips show an opening scene not found in the novel, a CNN-style TV debate with oil magnate Ellis Wyatt saying “because of…backroom deals, we are still addicted to foreign oil.” Fans of the classic novel may cringe at this use of a current political cliché. An Ayn Rand expert hired as script consultant, David Kelley, is a philosopher who has strayed from a strict interpretation of Ayn Rand’s principles in his writings.

Aglialoro says the theme of the film, hammered home again and again, is that “we are entitled to our own lives” and that cannot be yielded to a government. He adds, “We’ve got many lines directly translated from the book to the movie…and there’s plenty of other things we’ve done to have a very creative [film].”

Atlas Shrugged stars Taylor Schilling of NBC’s cancelled hospital drama Mercy, as railroad executive Dagny Taggart. Dagny’s assistant Eddie Willers is played by Kenyan-born actor Edi Gathegi, who plays Laurent in the Twilight films. Grant Bowler (Connor Owens on Ugly Betty) plays steel maker Henry Rearden. Oscar-nominated actor Michael Lerner plays bad guy Wesley Mouch.

Aglialoro expects editing to take six months and aims for a March 2011 release. A potential exists for at least one sequel to be released prior to the 2012 presidential election, which may have a political impact, especially if it increases readership of the novel. In it, Ayn Rand offers a moral defense of laissez faire capitalism and indicts all forms of statism.

At Tea Party rallies today, the phrase “Who is John Galt?” often pops up on signs pointing to the novel’s theme of individual rights vs. government coercion.

Notable kook Oliver Stone apologized July 27th in a public statement for remarks that he made to the Sunday Times of London, in which he claimed memory of the Holocaust – among other things – to be kept as a result of Jewish domination of the media.

The 63-year old director, whose portfolio of lies includes the alphabet-themed JFK and W right up there with recent exercise in Communist apologism South of the Border, was skewered by the American Jewish Committee for his failure to fire all brain cells successfully. This was his half-hearted response:

In trying to make a broader historical point about the range of atrocities the Germans committed against many people, I made a clumsy association about the Holocaust, for which I am sorry and I regret. Jews obviously do not control media or any other industry. The fact that the Holocaust is still a very important, vivid and current matter today is, in fact, a great credit to the very hard work of a broad coalition of people committed to the remembrance of this atrocity — and it was an atrocity.

Must be kind of like how he regrets his defense of Hitler and A-jad, or his statement that Hitler did “far more damage to the Russians.”

Every horrible director (Here’s looking at you, Uwe Boll!) is guilty of the metaphorical “eye rape,” but Roman Polanski may have (once again) taken it literally: In a RadarOnline exclusive, we now know former model Edith Michelle Vogelhut to have told LA authorities that the infamous pedophile raped her in ’74, during a Jack Nicholson house party.

Why, given the other girls, did she not speak up until this past May? The “no one will believe me” credit afforded to accused celebrities doesn’t wash.

But rape allegations, as with those of -ism/-phobias, aren’t things to level lightly: Not even the “Oh, look, John Roberts is retiring” people are classless enough to run with charges they even slightly think faked. Are they?

Instead, we get to see the same old non-stop action formula that this genre of film depends upon, but with a female character. Based on Phillip Noyce’s thriller, Salt stars Angelina Jolie. She’s the hero of the movie that rests entirely on her shoulders.

In the film, Evelyn Salt (Angelina Jolie) is a CIA agent who interrogates a Russian defector named Orlov (Daniel Olbrychski). The man tells her about the Russian government’s plans of “Day X” that could mean the end of U.S. and Russian relations.

Salt undertakes the task she was trained for since childhood. In flashbacks, we see the early days of Salt in the U.S.S.R., where the KGB brainwashed her and others with ideology. Young Salt has a goal: to go to the U.S. and work for the CIA.

That’s some of the back-story that you will need to know for this movie to keep making sense. Unfortunately, there is a lot more where that came from. And it doesn’t really matter what information you remember as the story twists and turns (and careens out of control) over the 90 minutes it takes – there are so many layers of story development that it gets harder and harder to care about any of the characters.

But wherever this movie is going, Angelina Jolie takes us there with as much violence and glamor as possible, proving that it is possible to kick butt while maintaining supermodel looks. She does all her own stunts, and even in skirts and pants, in heels and bare feet, as a blonde and a brunette. Then there are those lips…. You know, the lips that sort of scream at you the whole time: “You are not watching an actual character at all… This is Angelina Jolie!” With her growing list of action figure portrayals, Jolie is almost the entire female action genre all by herself.

Still, there is some degree of fun in watching an over-the-top ridiculous modern day James Bond or Matthew Bourne-like movie. At least Angelina Jolie isn’t just another Bond girl; she is Bond herself.

On the other hand, how lame is it to see that the evil force in Salt is Russia? As if we haven’t already seen that antagonism exhausted during the length of the Cold War. I’m almost scared to think of the number of ignorant moviegoers that might actually believe the theory put forth in this story that the Lee Harvey Oswald that returned from the U.S.S.R. in 1962 was actually a Soviet lookalike.

In fact, the entire treatment of the White House, the President, and the U.S. government structure in this film seemed dated and incredibly bland. Is Hollywood really that out of touch with what’s going on in the world of the C.I.A. that the best they can come up with is something that feels like it comes from a 1980’s TV movie of the week?

Salt is one miraculous rescue after another and in the end, of course, she saves the world from nuclear armageddon. And when the movie ended and I sat there letting my eyes stop rolling, I pondered the sequel that is sure to come. With those lips in 3-D, no doubt.