Spielberg Soaked In Madoff-Brand Ponzi Dipping Sauce

· MadoffGate continues to rock Hollywood: the “$US50 billion Ponzi scheme”—pause for smelling salts—that roped Mort Zuckerman, Spielberg’s Wunderkinder Foundation, and God knows who else. Please, please, please let the Olsen Twins’s fortune be intact! [Variety]

· As various actors screen test for the male lead, the first two official casting announcements for Tron 2.0 are Olivia Wilde and Beau Garrett. Garrett plays a “a siren in the virtual world” who starts dating the Mac Guy, but ultimately the two go their separate ways, and the Mac Guy has a brief rebound fling with Kirsten Dunst. [THR]
· James L. Brooks is busily scribbling away his next feature—an ensemble project billed as “the one that will hopefully help you forget about Spanglish,” to which Reese Witherspoon has already committed. [Variety]
· Current-events dramatist extraordinaire Peter Morgan’s directorial debut will come in the third part of his Tony Blair trilogy. No word yet on whether Helen Mirren would be tapped to again channel the juggsy, stag-sparing Queen that won her an Oscar. [Variety]
· Fox has ordered 13 episodes of Glee from Nip/Tuck creator Ryan Murphy, about “a thirtysomething Spanish teacher at an Ohio high school who has the task of taking over the school’s glee club, which has become a haven for outcasts.” We’re not sure what it expects to contribute to the TV-musical genre that Viva Laughlin hasn’t already, but we’re willing to give it a shot. [THR]