Despite shitty reviews, Racist Robots (you heard right) and the world’s worst director (listening, Michael Bay?) Transformers: Revenge of the Fallen took the ‘Prime’ spot. Boo, Hiss!

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Take a look at the rest of this weekend’s Top Ten:

1. Transformers: Revenge of the Fallen (Paramount/Dreamworks) opened with $109 million

2. The Proposal (Buena Vista) - Second Week Tally: $18.5 million

3. The Hangover (Warner Bros) - Fourth Week Tally:  $17 million

4. Up (Buena Vista) - Fifth Week Tally: $13 million

5. My Sister’s Keeper (Warner Bros) opened with $12.4 million

6. Year One (Sony) - Second Week Tally: $6 million

7. The Taking of Pelham 123 (Sony) - Third Week Tally: $5.4 million 

8. Star Trek (Paramount) - Eighth Week Tally: $3.7 million

9. Night at the Museum: Battle of the Smithsonian (Fox) - Sixth Week Tally: $3.6 million

10. Away We Go (Focus) opened in wide release with $1.7 million

Farewell

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The FadetoBlack doesn’t primarily focus on singers, but Michael Jackson transcends that mere description.

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He was the quintessential entertainer and whatever his faults, his talents and impact alone have earned him recognition on this site.

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RIP

Rapper/Actress Eve will guest-star on two upcoming episodes of the new Fox comedy series “Glee.”

According to EW.com, Eve will appear as a no-nonsense girls’ choir director from a rival school; the role was allegedly offered to Eve only after Whitney Houston passed.

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MTV is going into business with Jamie Foxx yet again.

After partnering previously on the thug makeover reality series “From G to Gents,” the network has greenlit a project - set to be exec-produced by Foxx - based on the comic actor’s 90’s hit series “In Living Color.”

For the as-yet-untitled sketch comedy series, Foxx will work with partners Marcus King and Jaime Rucker King, as well as executive producers Fax Bahr and Adam Small.

It’s O-V-E-R!

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A mere two months after the joyous birth of her son Jett Hamilton, Actress/Singer Jill Scott (”The No. 1 Ladies Detective Agency“) has split with fiancee John Roberts.

Scott recently confirmed the breakup to Essence Magazine, saying:

“John and I are no longer together. When you have a baby you’re dealing with a lot of emotions and I don’t know how much of it had to do with us breaking up, but it happens.”

News of Scott’s pregnancy (unexpected due to past fertility problems) and engagement to Roberts, a drummer, was met with excitement by her fans. Roberts was often by her side during the pregnancy and for promotional jaunts for her HBO show.

In the spirit of living her life like it’s ‘golden’, Scott has stayed optimistic:

“We definitely love our son and we are co-parenting and working on being friends. It is what it is. I have a lot of support, so I want for nothing as far as that’s concerned.”

Jill Scott was formerly married to Lyzel Williams, a graphic designer.

What took them so long?

Fox is finally expanding its development ranks to include a (much-needed) Diversity executive and the man tapped for the job is long-time Fox employee Ron Taylor.

Previously a VP of Diversity Development for Fox Entertainment, Taylor’s new title will be VP of Diverse Programming and Content. As part of his new gig, Taylor will now be charged with identifying and developing scripts with diversity themes, or are written by scribes with diverse backgrounds.       

He’ll also advise other Fox scripted projects on how to expand a diversity presence to those comedies and dramas.       

Remarks Fox Programming Exec-VP Matt Cherniss:      

“Ron has been a key partner to our programming team for many years and possesses a unique eye for strong, diverse writing and directing talent. By integrating diversity efforts more directly into our development process, Fox can deliver even more relatable, relevant shows to our viewers.”       

Diversity appointments in this industry are usually busy jobs created solely to placate minority organizations and activists. Let’s hope Ron Taylor will actually be given the space - and power - to make a real difference…

Martin Lawrence is set to produce three television comedy series under his production company Runteldat.

According the Hollywood Reporter, Lawrence’s first series is an animated comedy that has been purchased by Fox; the series will be based on his own experiences growing up in Washington D.C. The second project, a scripted sketch comedy show based on comedian Gary Owen, will be airing on Starz.

Lawrence is also shopping around a comedy set in a funeral home.

Nobody is more psyched to see Emmy-winning actor Andre Braugher guest star on the two-hour season premiere of “House,” then the show’s star himself, Hugh Laurie.

Remarked an enthused Laurie shortly after the announcement:

“I have admired him as one of the greatest actors there is.”

Braugher will play a doctor at the psychiatric facility that Dr. Greg House (Laurie) checked himself into at the end of last season. Braugher’s character takes it as his challenge to get inside House’s head.  Series creator David Shore calls the premiere “more like a movie,” and word is the episode will take place almost entirely inside the mental facility.  

The powers that be are pretty excited about Braugher’s presence as well. Says “House” Exec-Producer Katie Jacobs:

“In thinking about who was going to diagnose the greatest diagnostician there is, I thought who would be better than someone with the authority, gravitas and great skill that Andre Braugher possesses?”        

Braugher is also set to star in TNT’s series “Men of a Certain Age,” which premieres in December.

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He Can’t Drive, But He Can Deal

13 year-old actor Bobb’e J. Thompson has signed a talent holding deal with Reveille, which aims to put him in his own sitcom.

Currently starring in currently-playing films Land of the Lost and Imagine That (opposite Eddie Murphy), Bobb’e also has a recurring role on NBC’s “30 Rock” as the son of Tracy Morgan’s character.

In addition to a probably sitcom, Bobb’e is set to host the Cartoon Network series “Bobb’e Says,” which is described as an “America’s Funniest Home Videos” for kids.       

Forest Whitaker will star in the upcoming picture, The Experiment,  a remake of the German pyschological thriller Das Experiment.

Costarring Adrien Brody, Elijah Wood and Cam Gigandet, the film centers on a group of men who take on roles of guards and prisoners as part of a research study and examine how the effects of assigned roles, power and control affect the participants.

Whitaker will play a guard who is corrupted by the sudden power. “Prison Break” creator Paul Scheuring will write and direct.  

Filming starts next month in Iowa.

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Back in March, I told you that Queen Latifah would return to the big screen in a romantic comedy for the first time since 2006. Now Latifah’s romantic lead for the new film - Just Wright - has been announced: None other than fellow rapper-turned-actor Common!

Directed by Sanaa Hamri, the Fox Searchlight production revolves around a sports trainer who finds herself falling in love with a professional basketball player while rehabilitating him from a career-threatening injury.       

Paula Patton (Deja Vu) has also been cast.  Latifah is set to co-produce.   

 Shooting on Just Wright starts in mid-July.

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CR: Prashant Gupta / FX

Baby on the Way!

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Congrats to former ”Girlfriends” actress Golden Brooks and boyfriend D.B. Woodside (”HawthoRNe”); the two are expecting their first child!

38 year-old Brooks, who just finished wrapping the indie flick Polish Bar, began dating Woodside, 39, back in December ‘08 after meeting on the set of My Place in the Horror.

This most recent collaboration between the two is due in September.

The reign of The Hangover is at an end thanks to Sandra Bullock and Ryan Reynolds: The Proposal - and that comedic nude scene within - nabbed the top spot over this Father’s Day Weekend.

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Take a look at the rest of this weekend’s Top Ten:

1. The Proposal (Buena Vista) opened with $34.1 million

2. The Hangover (Warner Bros) - Third Week Tally:  $26.8 million

3. Up (Buena Vista) - Fourth Week Tally: $21.3 million

4. Year One (Sony) opened with $20.2 million

5. The Taking of Pelham 123 (Sony) - Second Week Tally: $11.3 million 

6. Night at the Museum: Battle of the Smithsonian (Fox) - Fifth Week Tally: $7.3 million

7. Star Trek (Paramount) - Seventh Week Tally: $4.7 million

8. Land of the Lost (Universal) - Third Week Tally: $3.9 million 

9. Imagine That (Paramount) - Second Week Tally: $3.1 million

10. Terminator Salvation (Warner Bros) - Fifth Week Tally: $3 million