In a box-office match-up as hilarious as it was potentially traumatizing, Will Smith went head-to-head with his adorable offspring over the weekend when his film Hancock opened opposite Kit Kittredge: An American Girl, which starred 7-year-old Willow Smith in a supporting role. A few weeks ago, Willow obnoxiously bragged to an interviewer, "He thinks he is going to be beat me, but I think not. I think I am going to beat him" — to which her father, during a Letterman appearance, sagely responded, "Daddy loves you, sweetie, but I gots to stomp you at the box office."

Finally, we've found people who don't like Wall-E: fat people! The Post's Lou Lumenick points out that some reviewers have described the movie's vision of the future of the human race (trapped in a spaceship, obese, stuck in chairs, eating and mindlessly watching TV) as possibly offensive to the average moviegoer (trapped in a theater, obese, stuck in chairs, eating and mindlessly watching Wall-E). Lumenick discovers that body-image-conscious blogs have been worried about Wall-E since at least November, when the blog the F-Word questioned whether the movie was derogatory to the overweight.

As anyone can tell you, Will Smith is in the undisputed champion of the July 4 weekend box office; so powerful is his Independence Day–related appeal that Columbia Pictures apparently felt safe green-lighting a $150 million Smith-toplined dark comedy about an alcoholic superhero on the condition that it would be released July 2, when it will inevitably make millions upon millions of dollars for reasons that no one quite understands. But next Wednesday, Smith's Hancock will face some unlikely competition when America's small women descend on Kit Kittredge: An American Girl Mystery, opening in wide release that day and, coincidentally, starring his 7-year-old daughter, Willow.

Hilariously, Willow is proving to be something of a trash-talker. "He thinks he is going to beat me," she said an interview last week. "But I think not. I think I am going to beat him." Last night on Letterman, Smith responded: "Daddy loves you, sweetie, but I gots to stomp you at the box office." Who will win? We'd probably root for Willow if we didn't think a Kit Kittredge victory might actually tear her family apart.

Why Hollywood Is Such A Homewrecker... [Deadline Hollywood Daily]

Earlier: Hollywood: ‘Wait, There Are Women Who Are Children, Too?’

Forty-nine-year old rapper Ice T is sparring with annoying "Crank That" star Soulja Boy on YouTube. Or, rather, he's sparring with Soulja Boy on YouTube with the help of his 16-year-old son, who actually knows how to operate YouTube. It all started when, on a recent mix tape, Ice T claimed the 17-year-old had "killed hip-hop" and told him to "eat a dick" (he's releasing a new album soon, in case you'd not already guessed). Then, on Friday, Soulja Boy fired back with this eloquent clip, in which he uses Wikipedia to verify that Ice T is "old as fuck" (citation not needed, apparently). On Saturday, Ice T responded (see the clip after the jump) with an apology for the "dick" comment, but reiterated his earlier point that "that 'Superman' shit is wack" (not an invalid argument).

We weren't even going to weigh in on any of this until Kanye West got involved ("Soulja boy is fresh ass hell and is actually the true meaning of what hip hop is sposed to be," he writes on his blog), but as admirers of Ice T's work on Law & Order: Special Victim's Unit, as well as his many hits about the inefficacy of the police, we're a little disappointed that he'd partake in such a lame beef that requires us to acknowledge Soulja Boy's existence for the first time in months.

Needless to say, it didn't take Spike Lee long to respond to Clint Eastwood's request that Lee "shut his face" about the lack of black soldiers in Flags of Our Fathers and Letters From Iwo Jima. (If you had "over the weekend" in the Spike Responds office pool, you're a winner!) "First of all, the man is not my father and we're not on a plantation either," Lee told ABCNews.com. He then called Eastwood an "angry old man," before hilariously claiming the "Obama high road" and refusing further comment. Long live feuds! We're looking forward to Clint's upcoming response of "Shut your pie hole," or "Shut your yap," or maybe "Refrain from speaking."

In other news, though, a commenter on our last post on this beef claims that, in fact, black soldiers do appear in Flags of Our Fathers, possibly rendering this entire argument moot.

Hooray for feuds! (Take that, Doree Shafrir!) Joining Werner Herzog and Abel Ferrara in the ranks of beefing auteurs are Spike Lee and Clint Eastwood. At Cannes a few weeks ago, Lee blasted Eastwood for not including any black actors in his duo of World War II movies, Flags of Our Fathers and Letters From Iwo Jima. "Eastwood made two films about Iwo Jima that ran for more than four hours total and there was not one Negro actor on the screen," Lee said. "If you reporters had any balls you'd ask him why. There's no way I know why he did that — that was his vision, not mine. But I know it was pointed out to him and that he could have changed it. It's not like he didn't know."

The announcement of Werner Herzog's remake of 1992 naked–Harvey Keitel classic Bad Lieutenant definitely qualifies as one of the great WTF? moments in recent film news, especially because Abel Ferrara, director of the original film, seemed as surprised as the rest of us. At Cannes last month, Ferrara offered Herzog and his star, Nicolas Cage, a measured response ("I wish these people die in Hell. I hope they’re all in the same streetcar, and it blows up"), and Vulture is attending tonight's Museum of the Moving Image conversation between Herzog and Jonathan Demme to hear how Herzog responds. Defamer's Stu Van Airsdale got a preview yesterday when he asked Herzog how he felt. Herzog's reaction? "I have no idea who Abel Ferrara is."

I don't feel like doing an homage to Abel Ferrara because I don't know what he did — I've never seen a film by him. I have no idea who he is. Is he Italian? Is he French? Who is he?

Defamer: Oh, come on.

Maybe I could invite him to act in a movie! Except I don't know what he looks like.

Right now, steam is whistling out of Abel Ferrara's ears, Yosemite Sam style.

Defiant Werner Herzog to Defamer: 'Who is Abel Ferrara?' [Defamer]
Bad Lieutenant Remake: Abel Ferrara Says, ‘Don’t Count On It.’ [Spoutblog]

Earlier: Nicolas Cage Is a ‘Bad Lieutenant,’ Too

It's a sad day when a porn star with literary aspirations doesn't get along with his ghostwriter, but that's exactly what is happening between Ron Jeremy, "best-selling author" of The Hardest (Working) Man in Show Business, and Eric Spitznagel, the actual writer of The Hardest (Working) Man in Show Business. In response to Jeremy's gripe at BEA that Spitznagel "got a lot of stuff wrong," Spitznagel fires back with a doozy of an e-mail on Reverse Cowgirl. An excerpt:

'Every page is just sex, sex, sex,' he yelled at me. 'Why does it all have to be about sex?'

'Well, you're a porn star, Ron," I reminded him. 'I'm pretty sure that's what people are expecting.'

'What about my work with PETA?' He suggested. 'Can't we include a chapter about that?'

'Unless you fucked a sheep, I don't think anybody cares.'

Honestly, we think this battle might be a little unfair.

Best Selling Porn Scribe Bites Back [Reverse Cowgirl]
Earlier: Dispatch From BEA: Ron Jeremy, Best-selling Author

Laura Albert, the real writer who published books under the adopted fake persona of drug-addicted teen prostitute JT LeRoy, is outraged today over the upcoming book from Savannah Knoop, the actress she hired to play LeRoy in public appearances. In Girl Boy Girl: How I Became JT LeRoy, Knoop will tell the story of how she wore a wig and sunglasses, pretended to be a boy, and partied with hip celebrities like Courtney Love, Dennis Cooper, and Gus Van Sant — basically all the fun parts of the JT LeRoy story. "I am not in any way connected with this book and it disgusts me. Just because you play a writer doesn't mean you are a writer," Albert tells "Page Six." "[I]t's disgusting they're using celebrity names to sell it. I'm not interested in making a career of JT, I'm an artist," she says, presumably because her own book about the actual fake writing would be way less interesting than Knoop's, about playing dress-up and going to parties with famous people.

LEROY HOAXERS IN FALLING-OUT [NYP]

Related: Who is the Real JT LeRoy? [NYM]

Slate today has the details of a recent shouty blowup between Hollywood superagent Ari Emanuel and NBC wunderkind Ben Silverman, who allegedly skipped two meetings with Emanuel, one with Friday Night Lights producer Peter Berg and another with Marvel Studios' David Maisel a few weeks later. Apparently Emanuel, the real-life inspiration for Entourage's Ari Gold, by chance ran into Silverman in NBC-Universal's executive dining room and "delivered a tongue-lashing, touching on Silverman's lifestyle and its impact on NBC-Universal's business. He didn't whisper."

According to Slate, the two have since "nominally made up," but that doesn't make up for Emanuel's childish, uncalled-for outburst — we've seen Entourage enough times to know that not much would've been accomplished at either of those meetings anyway. Besides, Ben Silverman has better things to do — he has white tigers to fluff! And bikini models to hire for NBC's upcoming Flag Day bacchanal! Plus, his job description also includes something to do with the production of television shows, we think!

Hugging It Out: Ben Silverman's clashes with Ari Emanuel [Slate via Defamer]