The Cinema News For 2/24/10: Someone Check New Line Cinema's And George Lopez's Weed

Yes, this is the worst idea ever:

When you have been accused for decades of being a cheap caricature and resorting to ethnic humor for easy laughs, does an endorsement from George Lopez help or hurt your cause?

Speedy Gonzales, the hyperactive Warner Brothers rodent who calls himself “the fastest mouse in all Mexico,” is on the fast track for his own feature film. And not only will Mr. Lopez, the comedian and TBS talk-show host, provide the character’s voice, he also gives Speedy his “Latino seal of approval,” according to his wife and producer, Anne Lopez.

I thought the only Cinema news I was going to talk about today was Matt Damon signing on to star in another movie about RFK.

But this news was too good (or too awful) to just past up.