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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.
Doubt: All About Meryl and Philip
Doubt is a tense, thought-provoking and incredibly well-written play, and it must be difficult to adapt such a dense play for the big screen. With a play there's the understanding that we're somewhat confined in terms of location and there's often a lot of talking and emoting. The film adaptation of Doubt is pretty much entirely talking and emoting.
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."
Movie Preview: Meryl Streep, Philip Seymour Hoffman in Doubt
Um, we're not in Mamma Mia! anymore. The trailer for the Pulitzer Prize-winning-play-turned-movie, Doubt, has hit the Web and it's dark — and bubbling with Oscar potential.
Buzz News Roundup, 12/12
- The Golden Globe nominations will be announced tomorrow morning, but Variety says nominees might not attend the January ceremony because of the writers' strike. Also on the chopping block because of the strike: the Television Critics Association press tour, says the Associated Press — and maybe splashy Upfront presentations, too, says the New York Times.
- But, the Screen Actors Guild Awards will go on as planned, Variety reports.
- According to ComingSoon, Will Arnett will voice Knight Rider in the TV film.
- Amy Adams just might join the cast of Doubt, which also now includes Viola Davis, writes Zap2It.
- Journeyman is done, Broadcasting & Cable reports, though its final two episodes will air.
- According to Variety, Josh Groban's holiday album Noel continues to be a bestseller for its third week in a row.
- ComingSoon writes that Paul Rudd will star in the wedding-themed comedy I Love You, Man, about a groom-to-be who is on the hunt for a best man.
- Joan Allen will star and Lasse Hallstrom will direct a remake of the Japanese film Hachiko, A Dog's Story, reports Variety.
- Rolling Stone has an intriguing interview with Billy Joel regarding his wartime holiday album Christmas in Fallujah.
Other Search Results
Link Time! Watch George Clooney Voicing Fantastic Mr. Fox
- So cool — see how the voice acting was done on The Fantastic Mr. Fox — Cinematical
- Comedy Central is teaming up with The Onion for a TV show — The Hollywood Reporter
- No Doubt is suing Activision for using their likenesses inappropriately in Band Hero — GeekSugar
- 2012 already has a TV series sequel, 2013 — MTV Movies Blog
- Fox Searchlight has halted the national release of Gentlemen Broncos — Vulture
- Sufjan Stevens admits his 50 states album concept was a joke — Stereogum
- Amazing video mash-up of scenes with characters saying the movie's title — Videogum
- Anthony Hopkins and Annette Bening will play Ernest Hemingway and wife in Hemingway and Fuentes — Variety
- The Decemberists' Colin Meloy and wife Carson Ellis are writing a children's book — Pitchfork
- 10 scary Christmas movies to bridge Halloween and Christmas — Rotten Tomatoes
The Box: An Inadequate Package to Unwrap
I so wanted The Box to be a worthy successor to Donnie Darko, director Richard Kelly's first film and much-appreciated cult fave. Unfortunately, I didn't exactly get my wish.
The Box is a highly stylized, good-looking thriller, from the retro 1976 Virginia setting to the Barbie and Ken looks of leads Cameron Diaz and James Marsden.
TV Tonight: V Premiere
The Visitors are coming! Tonight, V invades ABC with an updated redo of the eighties sci-fi series. I'm still somewhat confused over why the network is splitting up the season into two separate installments (the first four episodes now; the rest in March), but you can bet I'll be watching to assess if the show is worth following into Spring.
Movie Preview: Matt Damon in Green Zone
Matt Damon is officially a Hollywood juggernaut. Not only does he have a ton of movies in the works (a Liberace biopic, an Eastwood film, and as of today a new project with the Coen brothers), and here's a peek at his upcoming thriller Green Zone. Even though I've been anxiously awaiting a fourth Bourne installment, Green Zone looks like a worthy substitute for the time being.
90210 vs. Melrose Place: Which Was More Scandalous?
Tuesday night's soapy dramas packed several surprises into this week's episodes — 90210 introduces a whole new character to love (or hate) and Sasha drops a bomb on Dixon; while over on Melrose, Riley and Jonah's seemingly perfect relationship is quickly unraveling. But the biggest surprise of all? Ella was nice.
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