Stoner comedy Pineapple Express had a chunky opening day on Wednesday, raking in $12.2 million and easily putting itself on track to knock The Dark Knight off its No. 1 perch this weekend. It's got the advantage of a five-day opening to steal Knight's place at the top, but on current tracking form, it appears the Seth Rogen-James Franco-marijuana combo could even beat Christopher Nolan's Bat-team from Friday to Sunday. Big upset in the works there. Other openers this weekend include girls'-club Sisterhood Of The Traveling Pants 2, another midweek debutante that's looking robust enough to shunt the already weary and struggling Mummy 3 down the charts. More at Variety

Pitt's A Bastard

It's official: Brad Pitt has enlisted with General Tarantino for Inglorious Bastards. The male half of Brangelina, whose deal gives him a whopping 20 percent of Bastards' first-dollar gross, will star in QT's World War II drama as a Tennessee hillbilly who recruits a squad of eight Jewish-American soldiers for some serious Nazi ass-kicking. Also in Tarantino's crosshairs are Nastassja Kinski, who he wants for the role of a German screen siren, B.J. Novak and David Krumholtz as two of Pitt's underlings and Brit comedy-actor Simon Pegg, who's being lined up as the token comedy Brit. (Actually, we made that up although that does seem to be the Spaced-man's function in Hollywood blockbusters...) Pitt's character, Lt. Aldo Raine, has been described by those in the know as a gobby renegade in the vein of Samuel L. Jackson's Pulp Fiction ham Jules Winnfield, with Tarantino's long-time producer claiming that the chemistry between filmmaker and star promises to be explosive: "They're going to push each other and really help make something special." More at Variety

New Bond Theme Tune

Er, no, not really. But we love this spoof effort by Brit comedian Joe Cornish, as he riffs on how bloody difficult it must be to construct a theme song around the new adventure's brain-muddling title Quantum Of Solace (and it remains to be seen whether 007 lottery winners Jack White and Alicia Keys even bother trying squeeze it into their winning version, 'Another Way To Die'). Sample lyrics from Cornish's tune? "He's got a gun and great big mantis/He's got jug ears and tiny trunks...The Thingy Of Whatsit... I forgot what it's called..."

Lethal Weapon 5???

According to TrackingB.com, Mel Gibson and Danny Glover might not be too old for this shit after all... (Moviegoers, on the other hand, might anticipate a fifth Weapon outing with as much enthusiasm as getting hairs in strange places, hearing loss and other fun side effects of growing old. Let sleeping mutts lie, etc.)

Casting Call: Portman, Hall, Firth

* Natalie Portman's name is being touted for a remake of Italian horror maestro Dario Argento's supernatural frightfest Suspiria (about an American ballet dancer who uncovers her German academy's terrifying occult past), with Pineapple Express director David Gordon Green at the helm. We kid you not...

* Rebecca Hall (currently impressing in Woody Allen's Vicky Cristina Barcelona) and Colin Firth will star in Oliver Parker's new big-screen adaptation Dorian Gray. The duo will join Prince Caspian, aka Ben Barnes, who's been cast as the creepy, ageless dandy who keeps a wacky portrait in his attic. Also on board are Ben Chaplin and film debutant Max Irons, aka Jeremy Irons' son, while Parker takes the rein having helmed two previous Oscar Wilde adaptations -- 1999's An Ideal Husband and 2002's The Importance Of Being Earnest...