The movie going audience didn’t want to see “Wedding Crashers II” set on the Google campus. Last night’s box office shows that “The Internship” with Vince Vaughn and Owen Wilson is a huge misfire. The poorly reviewed comedy finished second, taking in $6.5 million. The two big stars weren’t a draw. Neither was the premise of two older guys working at Google.

Even though the movie was shot on the Google campus, people weren’t as interested as you might have thought. And there was the topical news hook of government internet spying this week. Still, it didn’t work. Maybe they shouldn’t have cut Eric Schmidt’s cameo.

The big news is that the #1 movie last night was a horror thriller from Universal called “The Purge.” It is not about vomiting or extreme dieting.

The director, James DeMonaco, has only one other movie credit and some TV credits. Ethan Hawke and Lena Heady star. “The Purge” caused an urge and took in over $16.7 million last night. And get this: it only cost between $3 and $5 million to make! Among the producers is our old pal Jason Blum, who also makes the “Paranormal Activity” films. He knows how to make these very low budget, high grossing phenoms. “The Purge” has also made well over $2 million in the United Kingdom.

Falling to sixth place last night was “After Earth.” But heading toward the $200 mil mark domestically is the fun and well made “Star Trek: Into Darkness.”

“After Earth” is quickly losing its orbit. The Will Smith movie, directed by M. Night Shyamalan, was a dud upon release last Friday. But yesterday– Thursday– the box office bottom dropped out. “After Earth” took a sudden dip to fifth place, rapidly losing steam on “date night” as movie goers finally rejected it completely. “After Earth” actually lost ground to Fox’s animated “Epic,” which picked up 25% more ticket goers from Wednesday and jumped into third place. “After Earth” is likely to drop substantially tonight, with figures this weekend that should just about kill it domestically. So far “After Earth”– which carries a price tag of $150 million approximately– has $36 million in the till. Its only foreign release so far is South Korea. Stay tuned for the final numbers on Sunday and what they mean…

The great Mel Brooks told me last night at his AFI tribute that he still has lots of plans for stage shows. Brooks said first of all that “Blazing Saddles” may yet make it to Broadway.

It’s not quite a linear movie like “The Producers” or “Young Frankenstein,” so it’s taking a bit longer to figure out. But my guess is we’ll see “Blazing Saddles” by 2015 at the latest, and probably earlier.

And Mel is hoping to bring “Young Frankenstein” to the West End in London. He’s in talks now. I loved “Young Frankenstein” as a musical. It got mixed reviews in New York — mostly because everyone wanted “The Producers” part two.

Brooks is very busy, very funny and still on top of his game. Also, his son Max wrote the book upon which “World War Z” is based. Really, Mel should be making a parody of “‘WWZ” after the blockbuster runs its course this summer. Cloris Leachman as a zombie leader? Absolutely!

Sources tell me that Paris Jackson may stay in the hospital a bit longer than the required 72 hours. It sounds now like she will be there for at least a couple of weeks, I am told, maybe longer. She’s not crazy and she’s not suicidal. But she does need help and therapy and a plan for moving forward.

There are a lot of crazy things being written right now about Paris. Don’t believe most of it. For one thing, Debbie Rowe and Katherine Jackson are on the same page when it comes to the kids. I’ve heard this consistently from everyone. Katherine had already agreed to let Paris stay with Debbie this summer. Debbie, sources say, has been trying to work on Paris’s various issues.

It is true that TJ Jackson, the kids’ co-guardian, no  longer lives near the Calabasas house. He is about 80 miles away and is not seen at the house on a regular basis. That doesn’t mean there will be a change in guardianship of Prince, Paris and  Blanket. He is still very much on top of things.

Next Sunday, June 15th, there will be a Jackson family wedding at the Havenhurst house in Encino. TJ’s brother, Taj, son of Tito, will get married. Everyone in the family is invited. Who will show up? We’ll have to read X17online, where Randy Jackson has some kind of deal for photos. It’s unlikely Paris will be there, but who knows> A week is a long time. And Tito’s kids have been very close to Paris and Prince.

Meantime, there is talk that Paris was going to change schools at the end of this term anyway. I will let you know more about this soon.

Jimmy Kimmel as Oscar host? An emphatic “no” has come from a top Academy insider who really looked horrified when I mentioned the name recently. There was a strong case being made for Kimmel based on a lot of things– his show on ABC by March 2nd, 2014 will be under siege from Jimmy Fallon’s move to the Tonight show at 11:35pm.

ABC really wants Kimmel for the Oscars, I am told. And he’s turned into a friend of many younger Hollywood types. If Kimmel were to host the show, he could just go across the street and do his own show, live, extending Oscar night. It does make sense. But unless something really changes, the chances of Kimmel hosting the next Academy Awards is nil.

Of course, you never know. The Academy gets a new president this summer when Hawk Koch’s term is up. The new guy or gal will have ideas of their own. And then returning show producers Neil Meron and Craig Zadan will have input. But Seth MacFarlane has already said no to a return. Billy Crystal is done. Neil Patrick Harris could score a hat trick by hosting the Tonys, Emmys and Oscars, but I doubt it. Hugh Jackman is always a possibility.

And you know: whoever does it will be panned the next day for minute reasons. No one leaves the Oscar host job unscathed.

Mel Gibson came under some fire last night at the Mel Brooks tribute, still the butt of jokes after his career ending moves with the police, anti-Semitism, racism, drinking, philandering, accusations of violence against his baby mama, and so on. And of course “The Beaver.”

But now I’m told that Gibson will appear in “The Expendables 3,” the third installment of Sylvester Stallone’s shoot em up series that also features his former Planet Hollywood buddies and partners Bruce Willis and Arnold Schwarzenegger. There’s no confirmation, but the source seemed serious.

Also featured in “E3” are Jackie Chan and Milla Jovovich.

Gibson, sources say, will play “the villain” in the new movie. He’s lucky to be included in a film with other stars at this point. After all his scandals and “The Beaver” he can’t open a film. He made a movie two years ago that was released to video on demand. Basically, there’s very little demand to pay for  Mel Gibson in a movie theater.

Stallone had Tweeted back on April 13th that Gibson was not interested in directing “Ex 3.” But I guess he changed his mind about appearing in the film which also features Nicolas Cage.