Facebook unhappy with film
LOS ANGELES, Aug. 21 (UPI) -- Facebook executives apparently have decided to ignore a movie critical about the creation of the social networking Web site, The New York Times reported.
The film, "The Social Network," is scheduled to be shown as part of the New York Film Festival next month.
The Times said Facebook founder Mark Zuckerberg and other Facebook insiders are in a tense standoff with the filmmakers, who portray the the creation of Facebook as a serials of betrayals fueled by computer users who have an insatiable desire for "friends," which is what the site calls participants.
Privately, Zuckerberg, a 26-year-old billionaire, says the film is not true, the Times said.
Chris Hughes, a Facebook co-founder who left in 2007 for the Obama campaign, agrees.
"It's crazy because all of a sudden Mark becomes this person who created Facebook to get girls or to gain power," Hughes said. "That's not what was going on. It was a little more boring and quotidian than that."
One of the film's producers, Scott Rudin, said two top Facebook executives "saw the movie a while ago, and they do not like it." Rudin said filmmakers tried to make small changes to ease tensions, but declined to make big changes demanded by Facebook, headquartered in Palo Alto, Calif.
Gibson: For himself, $600K; for child, $6K
LOS ANGELES, Aug. 21 (UPI) -- Actor Mel Gibson has told a Los Angeles court he spends about $600,000 a month, but should pay only $6,000 a month for child support, RadarOnline.com reports.
Gibson is locked in a legal battle with ex-girlfriend Oksana Gregorieva over child support for their 9-month-old daughter, Lucia. The Russian pianist, now in Malibu, wants a state judge to increase that payment.
The report said the "Lethal Weapon" actor may be still hurting from his divorce from his first wife Robyn because there was no prenuptial agreement.
Report: Pratt shops Montag sex tape
LOS ANGELES, Aug. 21 (UPI) -- Spencer Pratt, soon-to-be ex-husband of U.S. reality celebrity Heidi Montag, is purportedly shopping around a sex tape of Montag, TMZ has learned.
Sources tell TMZ the proposed Heidi sex tape would have footage from both before and after she had multiple plastic surgeries.
Montag, star of "The Hills," has threatened to sue Pratt over a tell-all book, but has never mentioned a sex tape, TMZ said.
Pratt told a friend the purported tape "makes Kim Kardashian look like an amateur."
DeVito to accept award for Douglas
LOS ANGELES, Aug. 21 (UPI) -- U.S. actor Danny DeVito will fill in for his friend Michael Douglas at the Zurich Film Festival, The Hollywood Reporter said.
DeVito will accept the festival's Golden Icon Award on Douglas' behalf Oct. 3..
Douglas had agreed to appear himself but had to cancel because he is undergoing treatment for throat cancer, the Reporter said.
DeVito and Douglas have known each other since their student days, and have appeared in several movies together.
