The Weekly Casting Couch: Sade, Madonna, Kristen Wiig and Katherine Bigelow

Kathryn Bigelow, Kristen Wiig, Madonna and Sade lead this installment of the Hollywood Trade Roundup, a collection of hotties making headlines in The Hollywood Reporter and Daily Variety.

The shortened holiday week kicked off with a bang as sweethearts across the country infused the weekend boxoffice with cash: Valentine’s Day, the romantic comedy with a who’s who cast, topped the frame with $66.9 million, while Percy Jackson & the Olympians: The Lightning Thief — no, not the Johnny Weir ice skating movie — collected $38.8 million, good enough for second place. In third, Benicio del Toro howled with the film’s hefty $36.5 million take. Last week’s topper, the Amanda Seyfried and Channing Tatum starrer Dear John, slid to fifth place, while Avatar jumped back over the film that toppled it, finishing fourth for the extended weekend.

Kathryn Bigelow continues to make headlines as she marches for what we ladies in Hollywood hope will be a historic win at the Oscars. The director of The Hurt Locker — a front-runner to earn James Cameron’s ex-wife an Oscar or two — has been tapped to direct The Miraculous Year, a drama pilot for HBO. The examination of a New York family as seen through the lens of a charismatic, self-destructive Broadway composer, will be Bigelow’s first pilot effort.

The CW Network firmed up its lineup for the 2010-11 TV season with five early renewals: hits The Vampire Diaries — complete with a recurring role for our favorite former L Word nutbag Mia Kirshner — 90210, Gossip Girl, Supernatural and America’s Next Top Model have all been renewed for next fall. Absent from the good news for the newbie network: Freshman revamp Melrose Place.

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