Slow News Day: The Award for Best Girlfriend Goes to Detective Robot

ITEM: The MTV Movie Awards have snagged Sarah Silverman to host the June 3rd event, which will surely give Stomp the Yard the Best Booty-Shakin' Award it so richly deserves. Meanwhile, the ceremony has jumped on the viral video scene (who hasn't?) by letting viewers contribute their own short comedy films for the Best Movie Spoof category.

ITEM: Rainn Wilson will star in The Girlfriend Experience, based on his own idea about a lovelorn nerd who hires a hooker to play his girlfriend, an idea hundreds of respectable comedy writers have surely thought up and rejected. Nevertheless, there's some very small hope in the fact that Ivan Reitman is producing the film, and screenwriters Mark and Brian Gunn created the moderately amusing boy band spoof 2gether and were deemed worthy enough to write the upcoming juvey comedy Juvenile for Steve Carell (as well as the less promising Mighty Mouse revamp). In case you were wondering, they're cousins of James "Mrs. Jenna Fischer" Gunn.

ITEM: Broken Lizard's Paul Soter recently branched off to make Watching the Detectives, a noirish anti-rom-com starring Cillian Murphy and Lucy Liu, and also featuring Jason Sudeikis, Human Giant's Paul Scheer, and Josh "the only good part of Year of the Dog not named Reilly" Pais. The movie premieres next week at the Tribeca Film Festival, and ComingSoon.net grabbed an interview and a trio of awkwardly funny clips.

ITEM: Seth Green and his Stoopid Monkey pals have managed to coerce Lucasfilm into letting them to a half-hour Star Wars special, which will still feature an array of short, hit-and-miss clips, only all under the umbrella of the sci-fi universe. They've even got George Lucas on board to drop some nasal voiceover action, as well as the less surprising Mark Hamill, who already works on Metalocalypse and has always been quick to mock himself. Plus you've got some Conan O'Brien, Robert Smigel, Seth Macfarlane, Malcolm McDowell, and even Hulk Hogan. Robot Chicken: Star Wars airs June 17.

Super Two-pers Run Green Light?

According to MTV, the Broken Lizard troupe may start filming the anticipated sequel to their cult 2001 hit Super Troopers next summer. Previously, the comedy group was waffling back and forth on whether or not to go forward with the follow-up, even asking their online fans to gauge their interest level.

The story being bandied about by the Lizards since August has been that the new film will be set in 1976, and the team will play the fathers of original characters Farva, Thorny, Rabbit, Mac, and Foster, with "bigger moustaches and hot rods." But in this new interview, Steve Lemme says that's just one of the options they're looking at, and may in fact do a traditional sequel "picking up where the last one left off."

No word on whether this will push back the seemingly doomed BL project The Greek Road, which would feature the members playing both gods and mortals in ancient Greece.

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