Women are goddesses. Chandeliers are atypical. Come for the enormous plasma balls, stay for Mike Basson's cigars.

A million dollars isn't cool. You know what— oh, whatever, you know the rest. The Avengers continues to dominate the box office, both domestic and international. This weekend, the superhero movie earned $103.2 million here and another $95.4 million overseas. Add that to the money it's already made, and yep, we've crossed the $1 billion line.

Which movies have been illegally downloaded the most? If you said "a bunch of mediocre sci-fi/fantasy blockbusters," well, you're wrong! It's, actually, "a bunch of mediocre sci-fi/fantasy blockbusters and, also, The Hangover."

A show about Chicago's famous Playboy Club debuted last night and it was... not good. Also today: A movie heads to Broadway, Disney gets a whole new land, and Charlie Sheen is a hit.

Remember Avatar, the giant space adventure about how to hair-rape wild animals? Well, hopefully you want more of it, because that's what James Cameron has just agreed to direct, Avatars 2 & 3. Sadly, this means no Cameron-directed Cleopatra.

Is modern pornography not alienating enough for you? Luckily "the world's first 3D pornographic film"—3-D Sex and Zen: Extreme Ecstasy—is coming (nudge, nudge) in May. Also planned: A 3D remake of Caligula, and, of course, an Avatar spoof.

They've put the boning back in the movie. Also today: Some exciting casting news for fans of Canadians and Brits, AMC adds another show to their roster, and some important news about indie movie kids who are cooler than you.

Before his humble blue-hued space opera, poor James Cameron was rattling a tin cup around, dancing for nickels to buy sweet, sweet sangawiches. But now he's rich as a king! The director stands to make nearly half-a-billion bones from Avatar.

Avatar… biggest movie EVER. That 3D stuff sure was impressive! And now the franchise is moving into a new genre, with the fall 2010 release of Hustler's This Ain't Avatar XXX, a sexxxy adaptation of the James Cameron hit. [Slashfilm]

Well, as the failure of "top kill" showed, BP is utterly useless when it comes to cleaning up their oil spill in the Gulf of Mexico. So the feds have called in someone else: Avatar director James Cameron. Wait, what?

Author Kelly Van claims that James Cameron's record-breaking sci-fi epic Avatar is based on her unpublished book Sheila the Warrior: the Damned, an action romance set on the planet of "Tibet." Hmmm. We have the full lawsuit.

Return to The Insane Avatar Copyright Lawsuit Filed Against James Cameron

Dispatched to the Amazon by Hollywood to woo natives and steal their charming stories, James Cameron is torn between following his orders and protecting the rustic simplicity he loves, because it reminds him of a big-budget CGI blockbuster about aliens.

No one buys music anymore. So what to do if you're a pop band trying to make it big? It's simple — whore yourself out to any company that will give you cash. And start flash mobs for Oprah.

[Actor Sam Worthington was so inundated with autograph seekers last night at LAX that he had to enlist a policeman to escort him through the terminal; image via Splash]

This weekend dragons scorched the earth, Alice fell even further down that money-lined rabbit hole, and a '10s comedy about the '80s did some pretty rad business.

James Cameron announced his hatred of Beck for the past three years because Beck called him "the anti-Christ". Last night, Beck responded to Cameron's comments on his show. So two people nobody likes don't like each other? Weird.

In your bulleted Tuesday media column: the TV industry is mean to women, Jeff Goldberg escapes the PLO, Justin Rocket Silverman's new job, and Rupert Murdoch loses hundreds of millions, haha.

On this rainy Friday we bring you news of beautiful, sunshiny Hollywood. A film gets a re-release, Grey's Anatomy's brightest star may be supernova'ing, and another young star gets a notch in her belt. Yay showbiz!

An 8000-person tribe is angling to become a cause célèbre via Avatar. "Appeal to James Cameron. Avatar is fantasy... and real," their ad in Variety implores. The Dongria Kondh's land is being mined and polluted. Luckily, their publicist is shrewd.