Mathieu Kassovitz is pissed off. The French auteur, who first made waves in 1995 with La Haine, is supposed to be celebrating the passion project he's been nursing for the past five years. Instead -- the week before Babylon A.D. hits theaters -- he is nursing a grudge. "I'm very unhappy with the film," he says. "I never had a chance to do one scene the way it was written or the way I wanted it to be. The script wasn't respected. Bad producers, bad partners, it was a terrible experience."

The new film version of the classic '60s small screen spy-medy Get Smart gives fresh worth to that shopworn saying, “the more things change, the more they stay the same.” While the original show, created by comedy luminaries Mel Brooks and Buck Henry, was driven largely by keen jesting in the face of taut national paranoia during the Cold War, the new adaptation, written by Matt Ember and Tom J. Astle finds itself, some 40 years later, making fun in the midst of an era of high national anxiety at the hands of global terrorism.

"Get Smart," the resurrected spy spoof from Warners and Village Roadshow, defeated the forces of boxoffice K.A.O.S., emerging as the top gun in the North American marketplace with an estimated $39.2 million this weekend.

Who knew that shtupping Matt Damon and Ben Affleck could be such a career booster?

"Jimmy Kimmel Live!" segment director Wayne McClammy, who helmed and co-wrote the popular short video spoofs "I'm Fucking Matt Damon" and "I'm Fucking Ben Affleck," has sold a spec titled "Le Car" to MGM that he co-wrote with "Kimmel" colleague Will Burke.