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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.
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Which Do You Prefer: No Doubt or Gwen Stefani's Solo Stuff?
Some music news today: No Doubt is planning to regroup for an album and a tour. In an IM conversation on their site, guitarist Tom Dumont wrote "I have cabin fever. Maybe we should play some shows or something," to which Gwen Stefani responded, "I think we should go out now.
Amy Adams Joins Wahlberg and Bale in The Fighter
Now that the filmmakers have finally settled on the two male leads for The Fighter, a lady love has been cast. The endearing Amy Adams will join Mark Wahlberg and Christian Bale in the story about a famed Massachusetts boxer. Based on a true story, Wahlberg will play "Irish" Mickey Ward and Bale will play Ward's "trainer-brother" Dick Eklund, and the movie will follow "their early days on the rough streets of Lowell, Mass., through Eklund's battle with drugs and Ward's eventual world championship in London."
TV Tonight: Hung
Ever since we first learned of its, er, suggestive name, I've been curious to see HBO's Hung. Possibilities for sick jokes aside, there are lots of solid reasons I'm looking forward to checking out this comedy tonight.
For one thing, the extra-long (.
Link Time! 4/9
- Save One Show is back — can your fave get saved? — Watch with Kristin
- This "trailer" for an Everybody Poops movie spoofing Where the Wild Things Are cracks me up. — Cinematical
- Speaking of spoofiness, did you catch "Kanye West" on South Park last night?
Gossip Girl Countdown: Two Weeks to Go
My Monday nights have definitely been lacking a certain something since Gossip Girl went into repeats a month ago. But it's starting to seem like we've made it through the worst, as it's just two more weeks till the Upper East Siders are snarking all over my screen again. To celebrate, I've got a quick new look at what's to come, but before that, here's a quick roundup of what we know will be happening when GG finally returns on March 16:
- Tamara Feldman will be back as Poppy Lifton, Serena's socialite friend, for four episodes.
- She'll factor into Serena's torrid new love affair that may be at least partially inspired by Anne Hathaway's life.
- That will also help trigger the return of Georgina Sparks — as a reformed hippie?
- Another on the list of returning recurring characters: Carter Baizen (Sebastian Stan).
- No Doubt will appear on the show's May 11 episode, otherwise known as the young Lily flashback episode, performing Adam and the Ants' "Stand and Deliver" — though it's unclear if they'll be present-day No Doubt or an '80s throwback.
- Oh yeah — and we still have to see some exes kissing (yeah, there be spoilers).
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