The Day the Earth Stood Still
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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 selections below you can take home The Day the Earth Stood Still, The Tale of Despereaux, and Beverly Hills, 90210: Season 7.
Box Office: The Day the Earth Earned a Lot of Money
The Day the Earth Stood Still may not have been a critical hit but it is now officially a box office success, earning $31 million over the weekend and topping Four Christmases, which slid into second place. Twilight, Bolt, and Australia followed in third, fourth, and fifth places respectively.
Meanwhile, Variety is reporting that smaller, independent films "delivered one of the best weekends ever for the specialty box office."
A Chat With My Boyfriend About the Day the Earth Stood Still
The last time I chatted with my boyfriend about movies here we discussed Brendan Fraser, mummies, and Yetis and it was a lot of fun. So, I recruited him again for The Day the Earth Stood Still, a remake of the 1951 sci-fi classic of the same name.
I had a feeling that despite a pretty neat-looking cast (Jennifer Connelly, Keanu Reeves, Kathy Bates, Will Smith's kid Jaden, Mad Men's Jon Hamm, and John Cleese — John Cleese!) this movie might not turn out to be all that great.
BuzzSugar at Comic-Con: Day One!
Greetings from sunny San Diego! And I'm not kidding about the sunny: Though I'll be spending most of the weekend indoors, I at least got to bask in the rays (or, OK, sweat next to other sweaty people) while waiting in line for this morning's 20th Century Fox panels.
Frankly, it's been a pretty insane trip so far.
Movie Preview: The Day the Earth Stood Still
The modern remake of the 1951 sci-fi film The Day the Earth Stood Still attempts to update the older version, shifting its themes from Cold War political tension and the threat of human violence to the imminence of environmental retaliation from an abused Earth. Keanu Reeves, who plays the protagonist in this new version, explains:
The first one was borne out of the cold war and nuclear détente. Klaatu came and was saying cease and desist with your violence.
Buzz News Roundup, 1/16
- The American Idol premiere was its lowest rated in four years, TV Week reports — but it still got more than 33 million viewers.
- Variety has more details on Apple's new iTunes movie rental service.
- Studios have canceled dozens of deals with producers as a result of the strike, writes The Hollywood Reporter.
- While the Grammys and Oscars are in question, the NAACP Image Awards will go on as planned, the New York Times reports.
- Forest Whitaker may star in Patriots, a post-Katrina sports drama directed by Tim Story, writes ComingSoon.
- According to Billboard, Alicia Keys' album returns to its No. 1 spot on the charts, though the Juno soundtrack is up there, too, coming in as the No. 3 bestselling album in the country.
- The Hollywood Reporter has news that Will Smith's son Jaden Smith will star in the sci-fi thriller The Day the Earth Stood Still.
- According to ComingSoon, the director of 27 Dresses, Anne Fletcher, has signed on to direct Ryan Reynolds and Sandra Bullock in the romantic comedy The Proposal.
- The Decemberists' Colin Meloy will release a live solo album in April, Pitchfork reports.
Buzz News Roundup, 11/7
- It may be "news" instead of news, but nonetheless, a source tells The New York Observer that Lindsay Lohan is in talks to guest-star on Ugly Betty.
- It's official: PopSugar says The Eagles bested Britney Spears on the Billboard charts, thanks to a last-minute rule change that let the Eagles album be on the chart despite being sold only at Wal-Mart.
- ComingSoon has news that Josh Lucas will star in Tell-Tale, the film adaptation of Edgar Allen Poe's "The Tell-Tale Heart."
- According to NME, Meat Loaf has canceled his Europe tour due to a cyst on his vocal cords — but he swears he's not retiring for good just yet.
- Zap2It has news that Jennifer Connelly will join Keanu Reeves in the remake of The Day the Earth Stood Still.
- Lalia Ali will host a teen makeover series called Student Body on the N, Variety reports.
- Reuters reports that Mayor Michael Bloomberg will have a cameo in the Sex and the City movie.
- According to a recent study, most people paid nothing for Radiohead's latest album, writes Billboard.
- Rosie O'Donnell is in discussions with MSNBC to host a prime-time show, reports Zap2It.
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