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Let's hope Seth Rogen and Cameron Diaz's on-screen action is better than the off-screen version.

The stars watched a stunt go awry this weekend during shooting of their upcoming crimefighter caper The Green Hornet, as a driver lost control of his car during a chase scene and crashed into the front of the headquarters of the Creative Artists Agency, and only E! News was there.

Rogen, Diaz and costar Edward James Olmos were filming a shootout with an incoming SWAT team in front of the offices of one of Hollywood's premiere talent agencies when the accident occurred.

None of the stars was involved in the scene. The stuntmen who were behind the wheel of the two vehicles walked away unscathed.

The same couldn't be said for the building. A portion of the driveway wall suffered moderate damage, prompting the film crew's construction department to work all day making repairs. A Sony Pictures rep described the incident as "a minor, non-injury accident" and said production was not delayed.

Barring further calamities, the Michel Gondry-directed flick should hit theaters Dec. 17, 2010.

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While Green Hornet works to build buzz, take a gander at some of the other would-be blockbusters coming down the pike.

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Well, that's one way for Megan Fox to get in good with Katherine Heigl. And the guys from Entourage.

During a promotional pit stop on Jimmy Kimmel Live! last night, Seth Rogen let his rejection flag fly…and our morning (and now yours) has been made all the funnier for it.

Remembering his first time on Kimmel's couch, which just so happened to coincide with the talk-show debut of a then-unknown Fox, Rogen recounted how he graciously agreed, at the nervous actress' personal behest, to stay on stage throughout her segment.

When she came out, adhering to proper male guest protocol, Rogen attempted to plant a kiss on Fox (the cheek), which is when all humiliating hell broke loose.

Cue tape!

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They got knocked up together, but these days it's more like they're trying to knock each other out.

Seth Rogen and Judd Apatow appeared on Howard Stern's radio show this morning to talk about masturbation and their new film Funny People, but the pair were soon airing some publicist-unapproved opinions of Knocked Up cohort Katherine Heigl, who memorably revealed to Vanity Fair she found the film "a little sexist" and that it "paints the women as shrews."

Rogen and Apatow started riffing on the uplifting elements of Heigl's vibrating panties in The Ugly Truth, before Rogen dropped this quote, "I gotta say, it's not like we're the only people she said some bats--t crazy things about. That's kind of her bag now."

So after all this she said-he said stuff, who's left holding the bag? Rogen, who's also in a spat with the guys from Entourage, or Heigl, who seems free with her opinions by Hollywood standards?

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Seth Rogen and James Franco have taken the pineapple express to Oscar credibility.

As if expanding the Best Picture nominee pool and potentially nixing the Best Song category wasn't enough to modernize the usually staid Academy of Motion Picture Arts & Sciences, surely its welcoming of cinema's preeminent bong jokesters are.

Rogen and Franco are one of 134 new artists and movie industry executives who have been extended invitations to join the Academy and, in doing so, secure voting rights for all future Oscar ceremonies beginning in 2010.

The smokin' Pineapple Express duo are joined by fellow Judd Apatow repertory players Michael Cera, Paul Rudd and Jane Lynch, along with Casey Affleck, Viola Davis, Anne Hathaway, Emily Blunt, Taraji P. Henson, James McAvoy, Tyler Perry, Danny Boyle, Emile Hirsch, Michelle Williams, Amy Ryan, Slumdog soundtracker A.R. Rahman, Peter Gabriel, Tom Cruise's producing partner-in-crime Paula Wagner, Milk man Dustin Lance Black and Mr. Oscar himself, Hugh Jackman.

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Simon Pegg and Nick Frost have beamed up a big haul for Paul.

According to Variety, comedy heavyweights Seth Rogen, Jason Bateman, Kristen Wiig, Bill Hader and Jane Lynch have joined the frequent double act for their latest big screen partnership.

The Hot Fuzz and Shaun of the Dead duo penned the film, chronicling two sci-fi geeks who take a road trip to Area 51 and end up crossing paths with the titular E.T. (Rogen)

Rounding out today's credibility-heavy castings: Al Pacino, Hoffmans Dustin and Philip Seymour Hoffman and Jon Hamm's real-life leading lady.

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•  Gasp! Miley Cyrus tells Teen Vogue she's just not that into Robert Pattinson and she doesn't think her fans are either. The Disney star is getting more and more negative in her old age, also making some not-so-nice comments about Las Vegas that's sure to have the tourism board in a huff.

•  Viggo Mortensen may be stepping out of the acting saddle, but he has a history of saying such things.

•  Toby Keith has some beef with Ethan Hawke and Kris Kristopherson. It's all very country.

•  Mickey Rourke and Bai Ling are not an item, but, if you need a little romance, Big Love's Ginnifer Goodwin has a new man.

•  Seth Rogen thinks bulimia jokes are funny. We don't.

•  Dear Jennifer Aniston: We're glad you looked great at the David Lynch Foundation event, but we're more interested in hearing how the Paul McCartney and Ringo Starr reunion went. Love, Rise 'n' Shine

If it weren't for Jay-Z, you might mistaken Beyoncé for Jennifer Lopez in today's Big Picture gallery!

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Chances are, Seth Rogen will be supergood on The Simpsons.

The funnyman-of-the-hour has penned an episode of the Fox sitcom, in which he will provide the featured guest voice, E! News confirmed Friday.

"He wrote an episode we'll be reading soon, where Comic-Book Guy creates a superhero comic which then gets made into a feature film," said series creator Matt Groening. "Homer plays the lead and, to slim down, Seth Rogen will play his personal trainer."

Which probably means no munchies for Rogen's character...but we're sure the Pineapple Express star and Superbad coscribe has plenty more to offer, even when smoke isn't getting in his googly, animated eyes.

Next up for Rogen in the flesh is the comedy Observe and Report, in which he plays a mall cop (Look out, Kevin James!) who takes on the real police in a misguided—but surely funny—turf war.

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Seth Rogen is now too skinny to play that chubby funnyguy Seth Rogen in a movie. "I'm sellin' out, guys," a slimmer Seth tells E! News at this week's Zack and Miri Make a Porno press day.

"It's for The Green Hornet," he says of his upcoming flick. "The only reason. There's no other reason. I think it serves the movie."

To play the legendary costumed crimefighter, there's no quickie detox or reality-show competition for Seth. "It's the lamest answer ever," he confesses. "I eat well and I exercise."

Easy, then. No burgers, plus a brutal trainer. "I go there real early in the morning," Seth says. "He tells me what to do, and I go home and go to sleep, and it's like it never even happened."

So how many pounds? You can tell us, man. "I don't weigh myself."

But as soon as Green Hornet wraps, expect the big old Seth we know and love. "I think it will take three hours," he says.

The Green Hornet begins shooting in May.

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Seth Rogen's kidding around with cancer (and no, we're not kidding).

The Superbad star is going where no funnyman has gone before, signing on for a supporting role in I'm With Cancer, about one man's battle to beat the dread disease.

Hahahahaha...

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The summer box office continued to cook yesterday, with The Dark Knight express well on its way to blow by E.T., and Pineapple Express off to an unexpectedly fast start.

Having passed Spider-Man for seventh on the list of all-time grossers on Tuesday, the Batman movie took in an estimated $5 million Wednesday, Exhibitor Relations said, bringing its overall domestic total to about $410 million.

By the end of the weekend, the box-office tracking firm said, The Dark Knight "should be up to at least No. 4" on the all-time list, meaning it would have passed E.T., currently in fourth with $435 million, and positioned itself to take down Shrek 2, currently in third with $441 million.

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The chemistry between Pineapple Express buds Seth Rogen and James Franco goes way back to their man-crushing days on Freaks and Geeks.

"I read in an interview that when he met me, it was the first time he could think about having sex with a guy," Franco told E! News at the movie's premiere Thursday night.

"And I felt the same, except he was underage. So I had to wait a couple years. There's nothing sexier than someone with a sense of humor."

We'd have to agree with the man there-though a six pack doesn't hurt.

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