A spokesman for the Los Angeles County coroner's office said this morning that filmmaker Tony Scott's suicide note does not reveal his motive for killing himself.

Gossip website TMZ claims it has been approached by an unidentified party with an offer to purchase footage of director Tony Scott's suicide leap off the Vincent Thomas Bridge, but turned it down.

Famed Hollywood filmmaker Tony Scott, who leapt to his death off the Vincent Thomas Bridge in Los Angeles yesterday afternoon, had been diagnosed with inoperable brain cancer according to ABC News.

As we draw deeper into the Circus Maximus era, the search for material goes to ever more interesting places; namely this week, rehearsal documentaries, male strip clubs and ghost videos. But we'll always have Housewives.

Movies get directors, and they also get Matthew McConaughey. The Office actors just got rich, and fat people just got validated, in glorious reality show form.

A year after Fox inflated and mercilessly dashed a few hundred Americans' hopes of a big-screen A-Team adaptation, behold the promise of a new start — with surprisingly, almost bafflingly influential connections.

· David O. Russell's next movie, a romantic comedy called Nailed, adds James Marsden, Catherine Keener and Tracy Morgan to an all-star cast that already includes Jake Gyllenhaal and Jessica Biel. As thrilled as we are to see Morgan's movie career graduate to the level of a Russell production, we fear what mayhem…

At most companies, the post of chief information officer is a humdrum administrative job, making sure that the servers running the CEO's BlackBerry don't go down. At Microsoft, add to that this burden: Serving as a part-time shill for the company's products. If anyone could change that, it may be Tony Scott, freshly…

The Reeler provides us a with a perfect opportunity to revive our long-dormant Fauxteur Fashion Minute feature, in which we rather uncharitably spotlight the sartorial shortcomings of Hollywood's hackiest, most style-impaired directors, by confronting Denzel Washington with this photo (at right, depicting Scott with…

· After cutting its prices, Netflix is kicking Blockbuster's ass, and won't stop its assault against competitors until every last brick-and-mortar video rental outlet is burned to the ground. [Variety]
· Hollywood Out of Ideas, Gill-Man Edition: Universal will remake Creature from the Black Lagoon, with Breck "Sure,…