Wanted

If fringe had a season it would have to be Summer. I can't think of a better time for me to rock this trend with shorts, skirts, jeans, you name it. Take for instance this Twelfth St. by Cynthia Vincent Flat Fringe Sandal ($204). The short, sleek fringe is the ideal mix of hippie-chic and city glam but I'm not willing to pay that much for such a statement piece.

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All of the new DVD releases hit stores (and Netflix) on Tuesdays. So each week in What to Netflix: New DVD Tuesday, I sort through the best of the batch and tell you what to add to your queue. In addition to my picks below, you can also bring home the comedy Step Brothers today.

X-Files: I Want to Believe
Rejoice, X-Files fans: The most recent addition to the beloved sci-fi saga has arrived on DVD. The movie didn't receive stellar reviews but I don't think that will matter to those who are looking forward to seeing Dana Scully (Gillian Anderson) and Fox Mulder (David Duchovny) get back on a case together. This mystery involves a missing FBI agent and a psychic priest (played by Billy Connolly). Amanda Peet also appears in the movie as a young agent.

Special features include audio commentary by show creators/movie collaborators Chris Carter and Frank Spotnitz, a special makeup effects featurette, deleted scenes, and a gag reel.

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Guillermo del Toro's Hellboy II: The Golden Army won the weekend box office with an estimated $35.9 million, not only handily beating the current competition, but also surpassing the first Hellboy's opening weekend earnings ($23.2 million). Yippee! I'm happy for that ragtag group of superheroes.

On the other end of the spectrum was Meet Dave, which Variety described as "one of the worst opening grosses ever for an Eddie Murphy pic." The details are even more painful. Consider this: It cost $60 million to make Meet Dave and it only earned an estimated $5.3 million over the weekend. That's not a pretty picture.

Hancock remained a draw (fun aside: at the movie theater over the weekend, a group of young boys sped past me while one yelled, "Hurry up! I don't want to miss a single second of Hancock!"), coming in second place, followed by the 3-D action flick Journey to the Center of the Earth. Pixar's Wall-E came in at No. 4 followed by Wanted to round out the top five.

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• Venus Williams defeated sister Serena to win her fifth Wimbledon singles crown on Saturday, while Sunday Rafael Nadal beat Roger Federer for the men's singles title. — AP
• Hancock took the top spot at the box office this weekend raking in $107.3 million, making it Will Smith's eighth consecutive film to open at number one. Wall-E took second place, followed by Wanted. — BuzzSugar
• The Bachelor's Andrew Firestone married Ivana Bozilovic in Los Olivos, California on Saturday. — Us Weekly
• Brad Pitt and Angelina Jolie's twins will be honorary citizens of Nice, the city's mayor announced Friday. — AP
• As expected, Alex Rodriguez's wife, Cynthia, filed for divorce this morning citing emotional abandonment and asking for child support and primary custody of their two daughters. — TMZ
• The Osbournes are coming back to TV to host a variety show on Fox, set in Los Angeles and aiming to premiere around Christmas. — Variety

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A surprise to no one (but still a delight to me, since I find this Will Smith movie to be pretty fun), Hancock won the crown at the box office over the Fourth of July holiday weekend. According to Variety, the movie "is the eighth Smith film in a row to open at No. 1 domestically, as well as his fifth — and most successful — Fourth of July outing." It is also Smith's second-biggest opening after the record-breaking opening of I Am Legend in December. Over the long holiday weekend (5.5 days), Hancock raked in approximately $107.3 million.

So, in case anyone doubted it before, Will Smith = box office gold.

Elsewhere in the top five box office hits, Wall-E stepped into second place over the weekend, followed by Wanted and then Get Smart. Kung Fu Panda rounded out the group in fifth place. Kit Kittredge came in at No. 8, performing less well than studios had hoped.

Within the indie market, The Wackness did exceptionally well in its per-location average, and the Dr. Hunter S. Thompson documentary, Gonzo, also "enjoyed a solid debut."

Next weekend will bring us yet another movie deemed "male-skewing" by Variety: Hellboy II: The Golden Army (though I not-so-secretly cannot wait to see it!). Overall (with the exception of Wall-E), it looks like next weekend's top five at the box office will be pretty "male-skewing" (Hellboy II, Hancock, Wanted and Get Smart, with The Incredible Hulk still not too far behind).

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• The director of the New Village Academy, the soon-to-open LA school funded by Will Smith, has denied that the institution will be influenced by Scientology despite the fact that it will teach using methods devised by the religion's founder, L. Ron Hubbard. — AP
• A friend of Raffaello Follieri, Anne Hathaway's jailed ex-boyfriend, believes that the actress testified to the FBI in exchange for the Feds holding off on arresting him until she was out of the country promoting Get Smart. — NY Daily News
• Pixar's Wall-E took the top spot at the weekend box office, followed by Wanted in second and Get Smart in third. — BuzzSugar
• Spain triumphed over Germany on Sunday night to win the Euro Cup for the first time in 44 years. — CitizenSugar
• Kazakh supermodel Ruslana Korshunova died on Saturday in an apparent suicide after falling from her ninth-story apartment in Manhattan. — AP
• Weekend wedding wrapup: Tennis star Chris Evert wed golf legend Greg Norman on Saturday in the Bahamas; former American Idol winner Ruben Studdard married Surata Zuri McCants near Birmingham, AL, on Saturday; actress Joy Bryant tied the knot on Saturday with stuntman David Pope in Amagansett, NY; former SNL funny man Chris Kattan married model Sunshine Tutt in Yosemite Valley, CA, on Saturday.

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The cutest robot to hit the screen in a long time, Wall-E, proved irresistible to audiences over the weekend, earning the top spot at the box office with an estimated $62.5 million. According to Variety, this is the third best opening for a Pixar film after The Incredibles ($70.5 million) and Finding Nemo ($70.2 million).

The Angelina Jolie-James McAvoy action flick Wanted nabbed the No. 2 spot with a respectable $51 million, and Get Smart stayed strong in the third spot earning $20 million over the weekend.

While most had adorable robots on the brain this weekend, some were still looking for some big panda fun and kept Kung Fu Panda going strong at No. 4, beating The Incredible Hulk which landed in the fifth spot.

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