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The first photo of former Bond girl Olga Kurylenko in Michael French's $100 million 3D undersea epic Empires of the Deep, several new shots from The Perks of Being a Wallflower, a shot of Dwayne Johnson on the set of Fast Six, and photos of Gary Oldman and Harrison Ford on the set of Paranoia.

Posters for Kick-Ass 2: Balls to the Wall, Seven Psychopaths, Resident Evil: Retribution, On the Road, The Sessions and The Last Stand.

Sony Pictures has posted an interactive website for Rian Johnson's sci-fi action film "Looper" which allows fans to sign on and create digital Loopers.

"Vin Diesel recently changed his Facebook profile pic to Marvel comics character ‘Vision’, prompting talk that he'll be starring in 'The Avengers' sequel. Diesel quickly changed it back…" (full details)

"He starred as He-Man in the 80's, now Dolph Lundgren says if the casting were up...

Rani Aliahmad and Rob Shalhoub formed Trend Media in June 2009. The pair of entertainment industry professionals launched the production company with the familiar plan "to create high-quality content for new media audiences on a cost-effective basis by leveraging key industry relationships and resources." Trend Media's first and only completed production to date was greenlit in February 2010. It's a workplace comedy that centers on the awkward airport hijinks of a team of Transport Security Administration Agents. It's called Homeland Insecurity. The punny tagline describes the program as, "A comedy series about airport security workers with tons of baggage." Deadline reports CBS just picked it up. Sony TV is slated to produce the TV adaptation, with Josh Greenbaum and Ben McMillan on board to continue writing the series. Homeland Security was shot on a $70,000 budget. Alaiahmad and Shaloub hoped to turn a profit with the show on the web, but only as a backup plan.

This has always been the advantage of pitching an international format -- you have a tape to show with your pitch. There have been a couple of projects that applied that model to original ideas this season, with producers financing the filming of a demo that is taken out to the networks. Jamie Foxx did it with drama Tommy's Little Girl, which landed at NBC, and Rob Shalhoub and Rani Aliahmad did it with Homeland Insecurity, a workplace comedy that just sold to CBS. The project, set in the world of airport security, is based on the web series of the same name produced by Shalhoub and Aliahmad's Trend Media. The two created the project with UTA-repped Josh Greenbaum. Greenbaum and Ben McMillan co-wrote the Web series and are also writing the CBS version. Sony TV is producing the adaptation, with studio-based writers David Guarascio and Moses Port set to supervise and executive produce.