Take-Two Interactive Software Inc said on Friday that “Pirates of the Caribbean” director Gore Verbinski will make a movie version of “BioShock,” its hit video game about an underwater utopia gone disastrously wrong - according to Reuters.

The movie will be made by Universal Pictures, a unit of NBC Universal owned by General Electric Co, and John Logan, the screenwriter behind “Gladiator” and “Sweeney Todd: The Demon Barber of Fleet Street,” was in talks to pen the script, Take-Two said.

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 David Chase, creator of the acclaimed TV mob drama “The Sopranos,” has signed a deal with Paramount Pictures to write, produce and direct his first feature film, the studio said on Thursday, so says Reuters.Adhering to the kind of mystery surrounding some of Chase’s past work, the studio offered no details of the project except to describe it as “an original drama,” and a spokesman said the film was not an adaptation of “The Sopranos.”Chase, 52, has a long-standing relationship with Paramount Studios chairman Brad Grey, who was his producing partner on “The Sopranos” and occasionally played himself on the series.

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…we have gotten a confirmation for a Cinema Society screening of Pixar’s WALL*E !!!!!  

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I will be in Vegas on Saturday night to see her highness CHER on her opening weekend tenure at the Caesars Palace.  I’m so excited - especially after reading the rave in today’s L.A. Times.  Oh lordy … read it for yourself.

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 Academy Award and Tony winner WHOOPI GOLDBERG will be the host of this year’s Tony Awards to be telecast on June 15th. 

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The Hollywood Reporter says Johnny Knoxville and Parker Posey are attached to star in John Waters’ Christmas film “Fruitcake.”The plot is officially under wraps but is said to center on the title character, a boy named after his favorite dessert. He runs away from home during the holidays after he and his parents are caught shoplifting meat, then meets up with a runaway girl raised by two gay men and searching for her birth mother.

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A portrait of Hollywood star Heath Ledger painted weeks before his death has won an Australian art award.

The painting features a bare-chested Ledger staring from the canvas as two images of the actor whisper into his ears.

On Thursday, it was awarded a secondary prize by the Art Gallery of New South Wales in its annual national portrait competition. Sydney artist Del Kathryn Barton won first prize with her self-portrait.

“Heath” by Vincent Fantauzzo was the popular choice among the 32,000 who saw the exhibition.

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Warner Brothers Studios is closing its two indie studios Warner Independent and Picturehouse.  The latter was responsible for LA VIE EN ROSE and Guillermo Del Toro’s PAN’S LABYRINTH. 

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According to AP news, Charlotte Rae, who played boarding-school supervisor Edna Garrett on the early-’80s sitcom “The Facts of Life,” says she has a cameo appearance in Adam Sandler’s new comedy, “You Don’t Mess with the Zohan.”

“We make love together,” the veteran character actress told AP Television on Tuesday night at a “TV Moms” event held at the Academy of Television Arts & Sciences.

In the movie, which opens June 6, Sandler plays an Israeli commando who goes undercover as a hair stylist with a penchant for promiscuity.

“On a table from one to 10, I rate him, ‘Not bad,’” Rae said, with a laugh.

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