Robert Downey Jr.

Old hat.

For the second time, People has named Johnny Depp as its Sexiest Man Alive. Last year they picked Hugh Jackman. Depp had won in 2003 too. (See the covers from now and then above.)

Madonna’s ex husband, Guy Ritchie is set to direct the live adaptation of DC comics’ drama, Lobo, about an alien bounty hunter, for Warner Bros.

The character originated in 1983 and has had several different looks. In the film, he is a seven-foot tall, blue-skinned, indestructible anti-hero who drives a spiffed up motorcycle. He lands on our planet in search of four fugitives who are causing chaos.

Production on Lobo begins next year.

Iron Man 2's most epic battle may be happening behind the camera, not on the screen.

Things between the film's female stars, Gwyneth Paltrow and Scarlett Johansson, are getting even more tense as Gwyneth's jealousy of Scarlett is being amplified by the fact that Paltrow is apparently being left off of the movie's promotional tour in favor of the younger actress.

Johansson has supposedly been asked to join Robert Downey Jr. and Mickey Rourke in promoting the film next year, but Paltrow was snubbed.

Iron Man star Robert Downey Jr. is celebrating after reaching the five-year-sober mark.

The former Hollywood bad boy has been awarded his five-year chip at Alcoholics Anonymous.

Congrats!

The Oscar-nominated actor told those attending an AA meeting in Los Angeles that being sober has changed his life.

He said he makes the time to visit different AA meetings to keep people positive, and show them that even though he was strung out on drugs at one time, it's possible to live a sober life.

Terrence Howard is a whiny little bitch.

The Chris Brown supporting dingleberry is still venting about the fact that he was replaced in Iron Man 2 by Don Cheadle.

Dude, it was almost seven months ago. Move on! 

Robert Downey Jr. can do no wrong.

That’s what he proves in The Soloist, a film that would profoundly suffer from his absence.

Based on LA Times reporter Steve Lopez’s articles and subsequent book of the same name, The Soloist is about Lopez’s initial fascination and subsequent friendship with a homeless, schizophrenic Julliard trained cellist, played by Jamie Foxx.

Robert Downey Jr. and Jamie Foxx star in The Soloist, the film adaptation of Los Angeles Times reporter Steve Lopez’s memoir about his friendship with Nathaniel Ayers, a music prodigy who went from studying the cello at Julliard to being homeless and playing for pigeons and buses on the streets of LA.

We are!

Author Bret Easton Ellis has announced he’s working on a sequel to his iconic 80s novel turned cult classic film Less Than Zero. The book, titled Imperial Bedrooms, is expected to be released in May 2010 and Bret says he’d like to see a reunited cast in a second film adaptation.

We spoke with Robert Downey Jr. on Thursday about his new film The Soloist (more on that coming soon) and he told us that Iron Man 2 begins shooting today.

Good luck on your first day back to set, everyone.

Make it awesome!

—Sasha Perl-Raver

Mickey Rourke has signed on for the upcoming Iron Man sequel.

He will play the Russian villain, Whiplash, a foil for Robert Downey Jr.'s Iron Man.

Iron Man 2 is expected in theaters in the summer of 2010.

We’re super excited of the movie, but the prospect of Rourke all shredded, in latex pants and an S & M mask, kinda gives us the willies.

—Sasha Perl-Raver