The Dilemma

The Green Hornet

Seth Rogen gets minted as an action star as protagonist Britt Reid and his alter ego in The Green Hornet. The unexpected death of his father propels the publishing heir to fight crime, and with his sidekick Kato (Jay Chou), the masks come on and the Black Beauty gets revved up. Cameron Diaz also costars as love interest Lenore Case, while Christoph Waltz nails the role of the villain once again. The DVD extras include a gag reel, commentary from director Michel Gondry, and featurettes on the movie's script and the Black Beauty.

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The Dilemma

Vince Vaughn stars as Ronny, a man caught in the middle when he catches his best friend's (Kevin James) wife cheating on him. Thus, the dilemma is whether to tell his friend about his spouse's infidelity or keep it to himself. Winona Ryder costars as the cheating wife, Channing Tatum plays her conquest, and Jennifer Connelly plays Ronny's girlfriend. Extras on the DVD include several deleted scenes, a gag reel, an alternate ending, and a making-of featurette.

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Natalie Portman and Ashton Kutcher's romantic comedy No Strings Attached had no problems getting audiences to commit to seeing it — the new release won the weekend box office race, earning $20.3 million. In second place was last week's champ, Seth Rogen superhero flick The Green Hornet, with $18.1 million.

Vince Vaughn comedy The Dilemma pulled into third place with $9.7 million, followed by award season favorite The King's Speech, which made $9.1 million (perhaps folks were eager to see Colin Firth's Golden-Globe-winning performance). The Coen Bros. western True Grit completed the top five with a haul of $8 million.

The January box office slump persisted over the Martin Luther King weekend, with the low numbers making it the least attended MLK weekend since the mid '90s. Those who did make it to the theater were looking for some action, because Seth Rogen's foray into superhero territory, The Green Hornet, came in first with $34 million.

The masked Rogen beat out the other new release, Vince Vaughn's comedy The Dilemma, which pulled in $17.4 million to get it into second place. In the number three was last week's winner, True Grit, which earned $11.2. Another success of the week was The King's Speech — between the wide release and awards buzz, it catapulted from the ninth to the fourth spot with $9 million, for the first time in the box office top five! And in the fifth spot was fellow award season darling Black Swan, which earned $8.1 million.

The title of The Dilemma seems apt, because the film is having a dilemma of its own: how do you make jokes about a marriage falling apart? The film tries to make light of what is frankly, a sad scenario, and it never really gets the balance of drama and comedy quite right.

Vince Vaughn plays Ronny Valentine, a small business owner who works on electric car motors in Chicago with his best friend from college, Nick (Kevin James). Ronny is the face of their operation, using his smooth sales techniques to wheel and deal with clients; Nick is the brains, the nerdy engineer who sees the projects through completion. They're the perfect team, and with Nick's wife Geneva (Winona Ryder) and Ronny's girlfriend Beth (Jennifer Connelly), the foursome is practically like family. But when Ronny catches Geneva playing tonsil hockey with a tattooed guy who's not, he begins to question everything: the sanctity of marriage, friendship, and most of all, to tell or not to tell?

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Back when Ron Howard's project The Dilemma was first announced, I was a little leery about how he was going to turn a subject like infidelity into a comedy. Now that we've seen the trailer, the bigger question is whether or not it will actually be funny.

Vince Vaughn stars as Ronny, a guy who works at an auto design firm with his best friend, Nick (Kevin James). Both are happily attached — Ronny to his girlfriend, Beth (Jennifer Connelly), and Nick to his wife, Geneva (Winona Ryder) — but when Ronny spies Geneva kissing another dude (Channing Tatum), he can't decide whether to tell his closest bud.

Something seems off about this preview. Perhaps it's having Vaughn, Connelly, and Queen Latifah in the same film, or that the jokes aren't cracking me up like I'd hoped (having a hard time peeing just isn't that hilarious). Even so, between Vaughn's quick tongue and Howard's direction, I figure it can't be all that bad. The film hits in January, but give it a peek when you read more

Vince Vaughn has signed on for a comedy about the repercussions of cheating (hopefully something that the newlywed knows nothing about!). The untitled Universal Pictures film follows a guy who discovers that his best friend's wife has a wandering eye — and how to deal with that knowledge. Ron Howard will direct, and Vaughn is set to produce alongside Howard's usual right hand, Brian Grazer.

Infidelity doesn't exactly lend itself to being laugh-out-loud funny, but the project is being touted as more in the vein of The Breakup, which obviously had a darker tone than your typical rom-com. That gives me hope for this one; plus, I put a lot of trust in Ron Howard to steer the movie and its subject matter in the right direction.

The film is supposedly set to start filming this Spring in Vaughn's hometown of Chicago, so they better get casting the leading lady (or ladies). Any ideas about which actress you'd like to see?