Literally. It's starting to feel like there is not a story to be written at the moment that in some way doesn't have something to do with the SATC movie. It's like wearing really large, rose colored, tunnel-vision glasses. But is it a last hurrah for print world?

While Carrie et al. are currently cash cows for many magazines, if not the retail industry, over at Folio Dylan Stableford is speculating that they may be the last of the red-hot cover girls. In the show and now the film Bradshaw is all about about print, with nary a cell phone in sight (which brings us to this: A pay phone! Does she also use subway tokens?), however at a party the other night in honor of one of the film's stars Kristin Davis, Stableford says the hosts could barely give away a magazine,

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Sex in the City is pissing off more than Gotham's finest. Jerusalem and Petah Tikva banned outdoor advertising of the film, citing the use of the word "sex" in the title. A representative for Forum Films, the distributor of SATC called the news "a great shock."

We have not asked to advertise nudity, or messages that may be offensive to the general public and the ultra-Orthodox community in particular. Nevertheless, this is the name of the movie. We feel that it is ridiculous to prohibit us from advertising the brand without naming it.

If you ask us, the less advertising the better.

In other SATC-related news, Heavy.com has brilliantly parodied the Fab Four as bodybuilders. Clip after the jump.

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Woody Allen's next film, Vicky Cristina Barcelona, is skipping London for Barcelona. It's also stars Allen muse Scarlett Johansson and two newcomers to the auteur's world: Penelope Cruz and Javier Bardem. And if that wasn't enough... word is that the movie will include a Penelope Cruz-Scarlett Johansson sex scene and a threesome with Javier Bardem.

But despite all that salaciousness, the movie's first controversy is a linguistic one.

Authorities in Barcelona are forbidding The Weinstein Company from distributing the film in Spanish. Barcelonan audiences will have the choice of either watching the film in English with Catalan subtitles, or viewing a version that's been dubbed into Catalan.

Both Cruz and Bardem, of course, are Spanish speakers. Elsewhere in Spain, the movie will be shown in English with Spanish subtitles. It's all due to the Catalan-promoting policies of the regional government:

The regional government recently announced a E7.4m (GBP5.9m) film fund to promote Catalan cinema. It also gave a grant of €15,000 to a soft porn producer for three "erotic films" as they would promote the Catalan language. But despite generous public funding, the 12 Catalan language features produced last year were watched by just 0.8 percent of the region's 24 million cinemagoers.

Vicky Cristina Barcelona's co-producer, Jaume Roures, is a dedicated Catalan nationalist.

When it came time for Fox Searchlight Pictures to promote their new immigration-themed drama Under the Same Moon, they decided on a unique strategy for their trailer...

Promote the movie by making fun of Lou Dobbs.

Now, here's the thing. The Fox News Channel, Fox Searchlight's corporate sibling, has an unabashedly conservative political stance. It's home to a number of pundits that rely on jingoism and masked xenophobism as a matter of course. Meanwhile, Fox Searchlight is promoting a film about a family of illegal immigrants trying to stay afloat in the USA. Needless to say, it's openly sympathetic to their struggles.

It just goes to show: It's not about left-wing or right-wing. It's all about the almighty dollar, people.

Rosemary's Baby was that most rare of beasts: A horror film set on the Upper West Side. It's also a time capsule of New York maternal anxiety c. 1968 filtered through the minds of Ira Levin and Roman Polanski. You know, a classic.

A classic which may very likely be remade by Michael Bay (Transformers, Armageddon, Bad Boys).

Paramount, the owner of the Rosemary's property, is close to completing talks with Bay's Platinum Dunes production company to approve a remake. Platinum Dunes, which is helmed by Bay alongside Andrew Form and Brad Fuller, has been on a horror movie remake kick as of late. The other films they've landed the rights to include:

From the truth is stranger then fiction file: Ridley Scott is in talks to direct a film based on Monopoly. Yes, Monopoly the board game. Universal Pictures has signed a partnership with toy firm Hasbro to produce at least four movies based on the following properties:

Once upon a time, John Grogan was a newspaper columnist at the Philadelphia Inquirer. Then he wrote a book called Marley & Me and became very, very rich. Along the way, Grogan sold the movie rights to Marley.

Now it turns out that in March, Owen Wilson and Jennifer Aniston are slated to start filming Marley & Me. It will be Wilson's first movie post-suicide attempt.

Two quick pieces related to NYC journalist cult books/movies — yeah, we heard you discussing these at Radar parties/Von/Drop Off Service/Lolita. Don't even front.

FishbowlNY has learned that a film deal has been signed to bring the Smurfs to the big screen that will include a massive, Viacom-funded media blitz. IMPS — the Belgian company that holds the copyrights to the beloved characters — has reached an agreement with Nickelodeon Films (Paramount Pictures/Viacom) to develop a computer-animated Smurfs film for worldwide distribution. Jordan Kerner (Charlotte's Web, Inspector Gadget) will be producing. The formal agreement ends years of speculation over a possible resurrection of the beloved children's franchise.

But these new Smurfs will be different. Smurfette is getting a lot of female company. A lot more. At a press conference on Monday, IMPS head Hendrik Coysman explained that the new Smurfs will be gender balanced:

"There have been dramatic changes in socio-cultural values in the past 20 to 25 years [...] One of these is girl empowerment. There will be a greater female presence in the Smurf village, and this will, of course, be a basis for new stories. This will probably turn upside down certain traditional situations within the village.

By that, we assume he means that those damn Smurf jokes are coming to an end.

Despite the fact that The Smurfs cartoon has been off the air for nearly 20 years, the Smurfs are big money: Royalties generated for the brand range from $5 to $12 million annually.

(Image via X-Entertainment)

Freakonomics: The movie? Yes. Shooting begins in January and will wrap up in summer.... The Freakonomics movie will be made up of short documentary segments based on on chapters from the uber-popular book. But the awesome thing is the filmmakers working on the project:

In other words, it's an indie documentary all-star team. More info is available over at Variety & (natch) Freakonomics. But directors Ewing and Grady need your help. C'mon, the Jesus Camp girls need you:

Are you a Freak for Freakonomics? Has the Freakonomics movement changed your life significantly? Do you find yourself running experiments to prove your suspicions about human nature? What did you find? We are documentary filmmakers adapting the book to the big screen and are looking for your stories. If you or anyone you know has been deeply influenced by the book and has a good story to tell please e-mail us at freakonomicsmovie (at) gmail (dot) com.

Documentaries circa 2008? They're interactive.