Ah, Smurfs. They're the little blue people who inadvertently gave children a new way to curse in front of their parents without getting into trouble. "Oh, smurf you!" "Yeah? Well, you're a smurfy smurfhole!" Now comes news from Variety that they're packing up their tiny suitcases and heading for Hollywood to star in a new big screen movie.

This won't be the first time the trousers-only Smurfs have cavorted in a movie. Originally a creation of cartoonist Pierre Culliford, they had their debut on the Belgian silver screen in 1965 with Les Aventures des Schtroumpfs. But it's the 1980s TV series from Hanna-Barbera that most people are probably familiar with today, and will, in all likelihood, be the major source material for the film.

The formula for Louis Leterrier's Incredible Hulk? Take Ang Lee's Hulk and make it incredible.

Not "incredible" as in "unbelievable," mind you. By that definition, Lee's Hulk was incredible indeed, because I couldn't believe that the title character didn't appear for 45 minutes, the action took a back seat to the exploration of family dramas, and the final scene involved Nick Nolte biting a power line and turning into a thunderstorm. (Okay, that last bit is kinda believable.) No, when it applies to the Hulk or his movies, "incredible" should mean explosive! Bombastic! Larger than life! Considering that Leterrier did all of that with the 5-foot-6-inch Jet Li in Unleashed, doing the same with the Hulk must have been like shooting Bi-Beasts in a barrel.

The Incredible Hulk director Louis Leterrier told ComingSoon.net recently that he's eager to do another Marvel comics movie. Everyone wants to see a movie about Wolverine and tons of people are already salivating over the prospect of an Iron Man sequel, but Leterrier said he would try "camping out at the Marvel office to direct anything they want." "Anything"? Marvel has over 5,000 characters at its disposal; if he's thinking about pitching new ideas, he might want to narrow it down.

Leonardo DiCaprio will play Nolan Bushnell in his latest biopic, according to Variety. I know what you're thinking: Isn't there already a biopic about Bushnell? I mean, he's such a household name, you'd think there'd already be a half-dozen movies about him.

Apparently, Brokeback Mountain (Annie Proulx's short story, not the movie; but there really is almost no difference) has been commissioned to be made into an ... opera? I know, I know. It's the last thing I would have expected, too.

So here's the thing -- after barely keeping things under control following last week's news, my excitement over the next Transformers movie, Revenge of the Fallen, is kicking into overdrive. Something in my brain is getting me all worked up over all this stuff that I'm hearing and seeing, and no amount of Bumblebee urinating on John Turturro in my head seems to help. Oh well, I'm just going to embrace it. So maybe I get severely disappointed later on -- big deal! Welcome to my life.