You Don't Mess with the Zohan

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 selections below you can add M. Night Shyamalan's The Happening and Gus Van Sant's Paranoid Park to your queue today. Oh, and maybe there are folks out there excited to bring home You Don't Mess With the Zohan? Maybe?

Very Funny TV-to-DVD
Yee-haw! This week brings us more TV-to-DVD with two favorites headed to a home theater near you:

• 30 Rock: Season Two
  Tina Fey has been on a roll with her frequent appearances on Saturday Night Live but come Oct. 30 she'll return to her day job, 30 Rock. Is there anything this woman can't do? I for one will be adding this DVD of the show's second season to my collection. Special features include commentary by Fey, deleted scenes, a peek at the table read for the episode titled "Cooter," and a featurette called, "The Academy of Television Arts and Sciences Presents: An Evening With 30 Rock."
• How I Met Your Mother: Season Three
  Another adorable television comedy I would love to own (hint, hint parents). Special features include Lily and Marshall's honeymoon videos, additional scenes, behind-the-scenes footage, an unrated gag reel and, of course, music videos!




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• Pioneering music executive Jerry Wexler, who helped build Atlantic Records into a powerhouse in the 1950s and 1960s with artists like Aretha Franklin and Ray Charles, died on Friday at age 91. — Reuters
• Adam Sandler's latest comedy, You Don't Mess With the Zohan, is banned from Arab cinemas. — Variety
• Superbad director Greg Mottola will direct the next Simon Pegg-Nick Frost collaboration, titled Paul. — ComingSoon
• The Food Network is looking into the competitive eating genre with a new series tentatively titled Eat the Clock. — Hollywood Reporter
• Hanna-Barbera's 1960s show Banana Splits will get a modern makeover on Cartoon Network. — Variety
• AC/DC's new album, Black Ice, will be sold exclusively in the U.S. via Wal-Mart, Sam's Club and the band's website, beginning Oct. 20. — Billboard
• Now it's totally official: Laurence Fishburne will definitely succeed William Petersen on CSI. — Hollywood Reporter

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It looks like fans can't get enough of Marvel superheroes on the big screen as the company scored another hit this summer with The Incredible Hulk. Despite average reviews and the fact that Ed Norton's conflict with the studio over the final cut of the film became widely known, The Incredible Hulk pulled in an estimated $54.5 million over the weekend.

Kung Fu Panda held strong in second place while M. Night Shyamalan's The Happening exceeded many expectations by landing in the third spot with about $30.5 million.

You Don't Mess with the Zohan was No. 4 followed by Indiana Jones and the Kingdom of the Crystal Skull at No. 5 and Sex and the City at No. 6.

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• Leonardo DiCaprio signed on to star in a new movie about the creator of the Atari video game, Nolan Bushnell. — BuzzSugar
• Kung Fu Panda beat out the competition for the number one spot at the box office this weekend, with You Don't Mess with the Zohan coming in second. Indiana Jones and the Kingdom of the Crystal Skull and Sex and the City came in third and fourth. — BuzzSugar
• As expected, Hillary Clinton suspended her campaign Saturday and endorsed Barack Obama as the Democratic Party's nominee for the presidential race. —CitzenSugar
• A video of Amy Winehouse singing a racist song while surrounded by drug paraphernalia was leaked over the weekend. Meanwhile, her husband Blake Fielder-Civil pleaded guilty to charges of assault today. — PopSugarUK
• Angelina Jolie and Brad Pitt reportedly built a $140,000 nursery in their LA home in preparation for the upcoming twins. — Rush & Molloy
• Anne Hathaway's boyfriend Raffaello Follieri might be having some legal troubles again as the Office of the NY State Attorney General's Office investigates The Follieri Foundation, a children's charity led by Raffaello. — NY Post
• Patrick Swayze will start filming a new TV series on A&E called The Beast this summer as he continues to recover from pancreatic cancer. — People
• ICYMI, Jessica Alba gave birth to a baby girl named Honor Marie Warren this weekend.

Po the panda and friends kicked some box office butt this weekend, winning the No. 1 spot handily with an estimated $60 million over the weekend. Kung Fu Panda is the second-best opening DreamWorks Animation has ever had behind Shrek the Third. In second place came the Adam Sandler and Judd Apatow comedy You Don't Mess with the Zohan, earning a healthy $40 million.

Indiana Jones and the Kingdom of the Crystal Skull was bumped to the third spot and has grossed an estimated $253 million. The good news for the Sex and the City movie is that it has almost passed the $100 million mark domestically. The bad news is it experienced a steep decline that put it at No. 4. The super scary flick The Strangers dropped to No. 5.

According to Variety, box office watchers had expected way closer results between Kung Fu Panda and Zohan so a big congrats is in order to Jack Black and crew!

Photos courtesy of Paramount Pictures

• Korbi TV has an interview with juicy details about the upcoming season of Weeds — including a possible Conrad/Heylia spinoff!?
• CitizenSugar shares her thoughts on this week's season premiere of Morgan Spurlock's 30 Days.
• TV Filter is integrating a surprising number of TV catchphrases into everyday speech these days.
• Cinematical already plans on buying the 20th anniversary DVD of Heathers, which will be released July 1, even though they know it's kinda gimmicky.
• Popwatch asks, what's on your current karaoke set list? (This post also includes the old video for Mandy Moore's "Candy," which is a crazy throwback featuring a baby-faced Moore.)
• Vulture is more than a wee bit confused by You Don't Mess with the Zohan.
• Stereogum has an MP3 of Phosphorescent covering the Righteous Brothers' "You've Lost That Lovin' Feelin'".
• The TV Addict has exclusive video — direct from Canada! — of Shanae Grimes and Rob Estes talking about the new 90210.

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Adam Sandler went with one of his standard super casual outfits for the premiere of You Don't Mess With the Zohan in LA last night, but he still had plenty of pretty ladies to pose with on the red carpet. His co-star Emmanuelle looked gorgeous as usual, while his wife Jackie showed off her already growing baby bump. This has been a big week for Adam between confirming his baby news and promotional tour, and it's about to get even sweeter —on Sunday he'll receive the MTV Generation Award at the Movie Awards! We are already gearing up for the big event, and now we're excited to have a funny acceptance speech to look forward to.

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It won't be the first collaboration between Adam Sandler and Judd Apatow — that honorable title goes to the hairdresser comedy You Don't Mess With the Zohan, which Apatow apparently wrote — but it will be the first Apatow-directed movie that Adam Sandler stars in.

Everyone's remaining tight-lipped about what, exactly, the project will be about, though so far Sandler's costars will include Apatow's wife Leslie Mann, and Seth Rogen (of course!). The Apatow machine is unstoppable, it seems. In addition to Zohan, he's got his hands in a gazillion other things, including Drillbit Taylor (which he produced), Pineapple Express (which he wrote), Forgetting Sarah Marshall (produced), Step Brothers (produced), The Year One (producing), and Pure Imagination (going to produce). Everyone wants a piece of the Apatow these days.

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