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- Singer Eartha Kitt died Thursday at age 81. — AP
- 20th Century Fox has won a ruling against Warner Bros. towards their claim over the rights to Alan Moore and Dave Gibbons' graphic novel Watchmen.
What to Netflix: New DVD Tuesday
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.
Do You Want There to Be More Narnia Movies?
Media insider press releases can be fairly dull, but there's an intriguing blurb in this one announcing the departure of a Walden Media co-founder:
[Cary] Granat will be Walden's creative consultant on the third installment in The Chronicles of Narnia franchise — Voyage of the Dawn Treader — which the company hopes to greenlight soon.
Greenlight soon? So it's not already going?
Should Young Adult Authors Be Careful With Their Messages?
Now that the Twilight series's popularity has reached a deafening pitch with the release of Breaking Dawn, there is starting to be a bit of blowback, particularly concerning the messages it might be sending to young, female readers. Many have noted Bella's low self-esteem, stating that she may not be the best role model for the young tweens captivated by this tale of vampire love.
But Twilight is not the first young adult series to cause a stir.
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Easy Virtue: Sparkling Cast Can't Help the Center Star
Easy Virtue, a film adaptation of Noel Coward's jazzy 1920s-set play, pits the old traditions of Europe's landowning gentry against the brash modernity that America had come to symbolize. The old guard is represented by a wealthy British family led by the brittle matriarch Mrs. Whittaker (Kristin Scott Thomas). When her son, John Whittaker (Ben Barnes), marries a sexy race car driver named Larita (Jessica Biel) several years his elder, the entire family is thrown into a tizzy.
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