The Secret Life of Bees
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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 now add Bottle Shock and Madagascar: Escape 2 Africa to your queue.
Wahlberg Feels No Payne at the Box Office
Mark Wahlberg had a good weekend. His movie Max Payne was No. 1 at the box office, with an estimated $18 million.
The Secret Life of Bees: Just Sweet Enough
When I left my screening of The Secret Life of Bees I felt comforted and content, and it took me a while to understand why: This movie calls back to older, Southern-set, empowering movies like Steel Magnolias and Fried Green Tomatoes. Those films celebrate womanhood and the importance (and potency) of female friendship, all against the unique backdrop of the American South. The stories are beautiful and sentimental, with tragedy and heartache going hand-in-hand with love and humor.
Movie Preview: The Secret Life of Bees
It's not every day that the film adaptation of a well-loved book appears to capture the same atmosphere and sentiments that the book does, but in my opinion, the trailer for The Secret Life of Bees looks like it might do just that. I loved the novel by Sue Monk Kidd; it was one of those books that left me feeling sad at the end because I had to part with characters I'd come to care about deeply.
The story follows 14-year-old Lily (Dakota Fanning) whose mother died, leaving Lily with an abusive father.
Rewind: This Week's Buzz
- Did you get all my holiday brainteasers this week? Test your knowledge with these trivia questions about A Christmas Story, Miracle on 34th Street" National Lampoon's Christmas Vacation, Rudolph the Red-Nosed Reindeer, and Scrooged.
- I also have a quiz about holiday music and another quiz about some of those movies that aren't "holiday movies" but feature the holidays, like Love Actually and Beautiful Girls.
- Speaking of holiday entertainment, what gets you in the spirit the most: holiday music, movies or TV specials?
- I got the incredibly cool opportunity to interview Ellen Page. And she is awesome.
- Striking members of the Writers Guild plan to picket the Golden Globes — in full evening wear.
- Of course, the biggest movie trailer of the week is the super creepy one for The Dark Knight, but I also really dug the one for George Clooney's Leatherheads.
- In Dakota Fanning movie news, Alec Baldwin will be joining her in My Sister's Keeper, and Fanning herself will be at the center of the film adaptation of The Secret Life of Bees.
- After this week's last episode of Gossip Girl for a while, are you on Team Blair, Team Serena, or Team Both?.
Cast of Secret Life of Bees Set, Dakota Fanning Strikes Again
In yet more book-to-movie news, the bestselling novel by Sue Monk Kidd The Secret Life of Bees will be adapted for film and they already have a cast mostly in place. The young girl at the center of the story will be played by — who else? — Dakota Fanning.
Other Search Results
Buzz News Roundup, 2/13
- Jennifer Hudson and The Secret Life of Bees were big winners at the NAACP Image Awards. — Reuters
- Columbia Pictures is bringing a time-traveling Jane Austen drama to the big screen, based on the British miniseries Lost in Austen. — ComingSoon
- Director Christopher Nolan's next project has nothing to do with Batman: He'll direct an original screenplay he wrote called Inception, a sci-fi action film, for Warner Bros.
Announcing the Winners: The People's Choice Awards
The Dark Knight's crazy box office success translated into a whole bundle of People's Choice Awards on Wednesday night. The film took home the trophies for Favorite Movie, Favorite Action Movie, and Favorite Cast, and Christian Bale also won Favorite Superhero and part of the Favorite On-Screen Matchup award (shared with the late Heath Ledger).
Carrie Underwood was another big winner of the night, taking home three awards — including the Favorite Star Under 35 trophy.
Pushing Daisies Rundown: Episode One, "Bzzzzzzzzz"
Oh, joy! Pushing Daisies is back! And it seems to have returned perfectly in form, too, with a premiere that finds Chuck putting her love of bees to use, Olive letting secrets get the best of her, and the introduction of a pig named Pigby.
What to TiVo: Monday
- Fox is new with House and 24
- NBC is new with Superstars of Dance and has The Last Templar
- CBS has repeats of The Big Bang Theory, How I Met Your Mother, Two and a Half Men, Worst Week, and CSI: Miami
- ABC is new with The Bachelor and True Beauty
- The CW has repeats of Gossip Girl and One Tree Hill
- TNT is new with The Closer and the series premiere of Trust Me
- MTV is new with Bromance, The City, and Daddy's Girls
- VH1 is new with Real Chance at Love
- ABC Family is new with The Secret Life of the American Teenager
- Late-night highlights include Brian Williams and Ben Kweller on Late Show with David Letterman on CBS; Josh Brolin, Windell Middlebrooks, and the Bird & the Bee on The Tonight Show with Jay Leno on NBC; and John C. Reilly, Jimmie Johnson, and the Walkmen on Late Night with Conan O'Brien on NBC
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