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Rights to S. Craig Zahler’s highly sought screenplay, “The Brigands of Rattleborge,” went to producer Brad Fischer earlier today. The script was originally optioned by Warner Bros. but remained unproduced for years, making it onto the 2006 Black List - the industry’s list of the best unproduced screenplays.

“‘Brigands’ is a riveting, emotionally-charged story of vengeance and retribution, and there’s simply nothing like it out there,” said Fischer. “Craig’s script has already garnered a great deal of attention from A-list filmmakers and actors and I’m looking forward to helping bring it to the screen along with my partners at Phoenix Pictures.”

Fischer is currently executive producing Darren Aronofsky’s latest, “Black Swan,” starring Natalie Portman and Mila Kunis.

French men are very well dressed. (Take it from me, someone who lives in Paris and often feels like she’s walking in a living version of Sartorialist heaven.) They also just know things about fashion in the way that American guys just know things about football or Mila Kunis. A new study further proves that dudes in France are style-inclined: they have a lot of clothes. Research conducted by the French Fashion Institute shows that these males, “aged between 15 and 29 spend as much on clothes as women of their age” and that “young French men fussed as much over appearances as women their age yet spent less time and energy picking and choosing clothes.

.” Great, so basically the French manage to be into how they look, but never have fashion freak-outs. Where did we go wrong?

We have to imagine that a man with a huge closet might affect dating dynamics. Have you ever been with a guy who owns a crap load of clothes? Is a male clotheshorse a good or a bad thing?

Mila Kunis arrives in style at the Chrysalis Butterfly Ball, held on Saturday (June 5) at a private Mandeville Canyon estate in Los Angeles. The 26-year-old actress wore a 'Bora' dress in dove grey by RM by Roland Mouret .

Looking polished at the “Wall Street: Money Never Sleeps” photo call at the 63rd Cannes Film Festival, Carey Mulligan styled her RM by Roland Mouret dress with a black belt and Fendi cutout heels.

n "The Book of Eli," now out on DVD, Denzel Washington beautifully inhabits the film's titular hero, a laconic, solitary gunslinger who's also custodian of a mysterious tome, carried in his backpack as he travels a burned-out landscape populated by cannibalistic "hijackers." Gary Oldman makes a great villain, tearing into the part of Carnegie, the corrupt, small-town boss who also wants Eli's book for his personal library.

The film culminates in a battle worthy of Sam Peckinpah. Holed up in a farmhouse on the side of good are Eli, Solara (Mila Kunis) and a hapless old couple. That showdown between the righteous and the very, very wrong-teous is not, however, the end of the movie. There's a twist coming, worthy of O. Henry. It's more than a little satisfying and just about makes up for all the handsome, portentous nonsense that came before.

As one of three honorees at the Chrysalis Butterfly Ball, Brett Ratner choked up as he spoke about Chrysalis, an organization that helps the homeless by restoring their self-sufficiency. Revealing that his father had been homeless, the director of such films as "X-Men: The Last Stand" and "Rush Hour" said that out of embarrassment for his situation, his father kept his distance from the family.

"If Chrysalis existed for my dad, maybe we could have had a life together," Ratner said.

Dana Walden, chairman of 20th Century Fox TV; Rick Hess, head of Creative Artists Agency's Film Finance Group; and actress Rebecca Gayheart-Dane co-chaired the June 5 event, which took place at the private Brentwood estate of Susan Harris and Hayward Kaiser.

Other attendees included Jim Gianopulos, co-chairman of Fox Filmed Entertainment; Donna Langley, co-chairman of Universal Pictures; and actors Eva Mendes, Christina Ricci, Ryan Phillippe, Ben Stiller and Ashley Greene.

Mila Kunis and Randy Jackson emceed; Phyllis Diller and Chris Tucker participated in ceremonies.

Averaging a rotten 47 percent on RottenTomatoes.com, The Book of Eli is well away from the 60 percent needed for freshness. So, the question is, was The Book of Eli underrated? Did it deserve to get a higher score? We know it was entertaining to the masses, but the majority of the critics were less than impressed with Denzel Washington's foray into the postapocalyptic genre. Is it a better film than the critics made it out to be?

Directed by the Hughes brothers, The Book of Eli is a stark portrayal of the world after nuclear war. Lands are barren, the sun cuts through the atmosphere like a razor blade, bleaching the landscape. The entire film has a sepia tone, which gives an even more dismal outlook on life during this time.

Technically, the visuals are stunning. Don Burgess' cinematography is awe-inspiring to look at in my opinion. Say what you will about the film, but it looks marvelous. Much of the artistic look of the film seemed to be overlooked during the onslaught of negative reviews. In terms of visual craftiness, The Book of Eli was definitely underrated.

“Book of Eli” (R): Denzel Washington headlines this post-apocalyptic odyssey about a loner fighting his way across country to protect a sacred book that might hold the key to saving humanity: the last remaining Bible. Gary Oldman and Mila Kunis co-star for filmmaking twins Albert and Allen Hughes (“From Hell”).

Elsewhere on the recent-release front, “Youth in Revolt” (R) returns Michael Cera to his trademark geek-in-lust role, as a bookish guy who falls for a precocious prep school student (Portia Doubleday) while on vacation — and invents an arrogant “supplementary persona,” a bad-boy Frenchman, to help him win her heart. In “When in Rome” (PG-13), an unlucky-in-love New Yorker (Kristen Bell) steals some coins from a legendary fountain of love — and finds herself pursued by several suitors, including a sausage magnate (Danny DeVito), a street magician (Jon Heder), a painter (Will Arnett), a narcissistic model (Dax Shepard) and a reporter (Josh Duhamel) who might just be Mr. Right. And in “Stark Raving Black” (R), Lewis Black takes the stage at Detroit’s historic Fillmore Theatre for a comedy concert featuring his trademark blistering social and political commentary.