1. Despite some truly horrible reviews from critics (particularly Roger Ebert), the alien invasion thriller Battle: Los Angeles conquered the weekend box office, taking in $36 million for a first place finish. Rounding out the top three were Rango ($23 million) and Red Riding Hood ($14.1 million). [via AV Club]

2. Variety is reporting that Academy Award-nominated actress Jennifer Lawrence (Winter’s Bone) is close to locking down the leading role of Katniss in the upcoming film adaptation of The Hunger Games. Discuss. [via ComingSoon]

3. A Million Little Pieces author James Frey is teaming up with art-gallery owner Larry Gagosian to release his new book, The Final Testament of the Holy Bible, a kind of racy story about the second coming of Christ which takes place in the Bronx projects. [via Vulture]

4. Someone is leaving hipster traps — baited with Pabst Blue Ribbon, American Spirits, a bike chain and neon-pink Wayfarers — in locations around New York City. [via The Daily What]

5. The Strokes premiered five of the 10 songs from their upcoming album Angles (which is due out on March 22nd) live in Las Vegas on Saturday night; the band’s next stop is SXSW. [via NME]

Bonus link: Watch Ferris Bueller’s Day Off Recut As an Indie Coming-of-Age Movie

1. Insanely popular app Angry Birds is being turned into a series, but it’s unclear whether it will air on TV or online, or both. [via THR]

2. Golden Globes host Ricky Gervais gave his first interview since Sunday night’s controversial show to Piers Morgan last night, and made it clear that he’s not sorry for anything that was said. Check out the highlights here.

3. Roger Ebert will be wearing a prosthetic chin when his new PBS show Ebert Presents at the Movies premieres tonight. “It will be used in a medium shot of me working in my office, and will be a pleasant reminder of the person I was for 64 years. Symbolically, it’s as if my illness never happened and, hey, here I still am, on the show with these new kids.” [via THR]

4. Thanks to a recent 2 percent increase in viewers, Jimmy Kimmel Live! is moving to midnight, which is a full five minutes earlier, and means Nightline will cut get short. [via Vulture]

5. Before she was a Jersey Shore star Jenni “JWoww” Farley was an art student at the New York Institute of Technology. And lucky for us, now some of her paintings, drawings and sketches have surfaced in an online portfolio. [via BuzzFeed]

Bonus link: Conan O’Brien recreated as life-size LEGO statue

Today at Flavorpill, we saw the evolution of Daft Punk helmets thanks to this handy infographic. We liked this cool visualization of this year’s domestic box office. We wished that we worked in a research lab back in the ’60s — if only for the outfits! We wanted to spend the night in this bizarre hotel on train tracks in Norway. We drooled over the eye-catching design aesthetics of these home soda machines. We were totally on board of Patton Oswalt’s twisted plan for reviving geek culture by killing it first. We were transfixed by these floating Elvises. We watched a video shot during the Snowpocalypse in Queens that Roger Ebert says should win the Academy Award for best live-action short subject. We discovered another really good reason (you know, other than death) to turn off your iPhone during flight. We got schooled on net neutrality by Lifehacker. And finally, we wanted to DIY our own Tron cat. Do you think she would mind?

1. ArtsBeat is reporting that the opening of Spider-Man: Turn Off the Lights will now be pushed from January 11 until sometime in February. This will allow time for the creators to make several changes, including changing the final number, rewriting the dialogue, adding new music from the composers, U2’s Bono and the Edge.

2. Watch David Letterman’s hilarious tribute to Larry King, who hosted Larry King Live for the last time last night, complete with a Larry blooper reel. [via Gawker.tv]

3. Spike Jonze and Charlie Kaufman are pitching a new movie! According to the LA Times, “While the plot is being kept under tight wraps — it’s a pitch, so a script has yet to be written, and Kaufman movies are famously hard to describe in a few sentences anyway — two people familiar with the project said it has been making the rounds to independent financiers in recent weeks.”

4. Yesterday Anne Hathaway surprised the kids from the PS22 Chorus with the news that they’ll be performing at this year’s Academy Awards ceremony on February 27th. Watch a video of their reaction.

5. An anonymous LA street artist has put a new work in response to MOCA director Jeffrey Deitch’s decision to paint over another artist’s mural that he had commissioned: “The wheat-pasted mural depicts the face of Deitch on the body of an Iranian ayatollah holding an extension pole with a paint roller at the end — and it’s set against Italian street artist Blu’s now-controversial anti-war imagery.” [via Culture Monster]

Bonus link: Roger Ebert’s Top 10 Films of 2010

1. Sofia Coppola’s comic drama Somewhere won the top prize Saturday at the Venice Film Festival, but some are saying it’s just because her pal Quentin Tarantino was on the jury. [via BBC]
2. Now that former US Weekly editor Janice Min is the editorial director of The Hollywood Reporter, it’s transforming from a trade paper into a weekly, glossy magazine and trying to appeal to readers outside of just entertainment industry executives. [via NYT]
3. Roger Ebert is producing a new movie review for public television that will debut in January. According to Ebert, “This is the rebirth of a dream.” [via ABC News]
4. Two cast members from The Rocky Horror Picture Show —Meat Loaf and Barry Bostwick — will appear on Glee’s tribute episode on October 26. [via E!]
5. In case you missed the VMAs last night, the biggest moment came when Lady Gaga asked Cher to hold her meat purse and revealed the title of her 2011 album: Born This Way.

Today at Flavorpill, we were thrilled to see that the Sassy Gay Friend meme has hit Tumblr. We learned that sometimes a bomb scare is just a stuffed toy horse. We watched cute little kids reenact the horror that is E!’s Keeping Up With The Kardashians. We met the 7 Don Drapers who came before Don Draper. We enjoyed Roger Ebert’s list of 100 great moments from the movies. We were excited to hear that a print publication is actually launching a book review section instead of shutting one down. We tried to decide which female action hero’s closet we’d most like to raid. We decoded the secret symbolism hidden in these clever logos. We weren’t sure why IKEA would want 100 cats roaming around their store at night. And finally, we watched a baby monkey ride a pig backwards, fall off, and get right back on.

Recently, James Cameron stated that he believes 3D will replace 2D in less than 25 years. Considering that every single film announced recently is set to be released in 3D, he may be right. But many people remained skeptical. One of the most outspoken critics is Roger Ebert, who has said he believes filmmaking should be about “story, not gimmicks.” Francis Ford Coppola has also stated that it’s just another way “to make you pay more money.” (Considering that many 3D films are converted retroactively rather than being shot in the actual format, this appears to be true.) However, there are alternatives. While 3D is simply the illusion of an interactive world, many filmmakers are trying to deliver the real thing.

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The Webby Awards, a ceremony now 14 years strong celebrating the “best of the internet” (which is funny, because no one can quite recall there being an internet before Mark Zuckerburg was born and he’s like 12), just announced its list of winners, in advance of the presentation gala held June 14 in NYC, hosted by BJ Novak. Why list the winners over a month in advance? Because, c’mon, you know you’ve been on the edge of your seat wondering exactly how many Golden Modems Mashable was going to take home.

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We were pretty excited to learn that renowned film critic/national treasure Roger Ebert has posted the screenplay for his abandoned 1978 Sex Pistols film, Who Killed Bambi?, after it spent over 30 years in the vaults. If the movie had been made, Russ Meyer (who collaborated with Ebert on the B-movie classic Beyond the Valley of the Dolls) would have directed, with the recently deceased Malcolm McLaren playing producer. While we’re not sure the film ever should have seen the light of day, we’re happy to finally have a record of this relic of Ebert, McLaren, and the band’s younger, punker days. And since we’re fairly sure you’re not going to go to the trouble of reading the whole weird, rambling thing yourself, we’ve reprinted the movie’s 10 most unsettling quotes for your perusal.

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1. Roger Ebert didn’t like Kick-Ass for moral reasons. Here’s why you should still see it. [via AICN]
2. Stephenie Meyer‘s Twilight books rank among the most frequently requested to be banned from US libraries. [via Guardian]
3. Is Banksy‘s Mr. Brainwash an art-world Borat who was “created to dupe the art world and mock the burgeoning art-factory system”? [via Vulture]
4. The lineup for the 2010 Cannes Film Festival has been announced; among the recognizable films showing out of competition are Oliver Stone‘s Wall Street 2 and Woody Allen‘s You Will Meet a Tall Dark Stranger. [via THR]
5. Salon and McSweeney‘s have a new content partnership; the first piece is Elif Batuman’s “Missed Encounters With the Movies,” an excerpt from the Believer‘s Film Issue. [via Salon]