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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.
Burn After Reading
The Coen brothers do criminals well and in this film they got an impressive group of actors to play "accidental" criminals in a very funny way.
Nicolas Cage Tops a Slow Weekend Box Office
Well, the Fall movie season came in with a whimper. According to Variety, "The first weekend after Labor Day is always sluggish, but this year the frame was affected by the start of the NFL football season and was particularly dreary." Bangkok Dangerous came in at No.
Tropic Thunder Is No. 1 For the Second Week in a Row
Ben Stiller's Tropic Thunder won the top spot at the box office for the second weekend in a row, earning an estimated $16.1 million. This makes Tropic Thunder, Iron Man, and The Dark Knight the only movies to have stayed at No. 1 for two consecutive weeks this Summer (so that's two major box office winners for Robert Downey Jr.!).
What to Download: New Music on iTunes
Tuesdays are big in entertainment-ville: Not only do all the new DVD releases hit Netflix, but new music also pours into stores, including iTunes. So I take a spin through each week's iTunes music releases and pick out some albums and tracks worthy of a download. Here are today's selections:
Rock me: The buzzed-about upcoming comedy Hamlet 2, about a high school musical sequel to Shakespeare's Hamlet, has its soundtrack out today.
Pop Poll: Hamlet 2 – Funny Or Lame?
So Steve Coogan stars in the American comedy film Hamlet 2, as a high school drama teacher looking to motivate his students and save his department by writing a sequel to Shakespeare's "Hamlet". A sequel?! To Hamlet?!
Link Time! 4/17
- Maura Tierney apparently wants her character to be killed off ER, so TV Squad wonders: How should Abby die?
- FilmExperience has the lowdown on Baz Luhrmann's challenge for young filmmakers.
- According to Cinematical, there's now an R-rated trailer up for one of this year's most well-received Sundance movies, Hamlet 2.
- Vulture has video of Jason Segel's five best moments on the short-lived series Undeclared.
- Got a question for Neil Patrick Harris? Popwatch needs more ideas for what to ask him in an upcoming interview.
- Stereogum has some thoughts on Lily Allen's new tunes "I Don't Know" and "I Could Say."
- Awesome! A Pop Candy reader writes about her experience as an extra on the set of Lost.
Hamlet 2, American Teen Among First Big Deals at Sundance
Buying started slow at Sundance this year, but things started picking up on Tuesday. Check out a rundown of some recent acquisitions:
- Hamlet 2, which stars Steve Coogan as a high school drama teacher, sold to Focus Features for $10 million — making it one of the biggest deals ever in the history of Sundance and putting it in the same league as Little Miss Sunshine. I didn't get to see this one, though the screenings for it at Sundance have been packed.
- Another one of the first non-documentary feature films to be picked up was Henry Poole Is Here, which sold for about $4 million on Monday night.
Hamlet 2: The Teen Comedy
Though this be madness, yet there is method in 't.
Variety brings us news of a little something called Hamlet 2 (yes, as in a sequel to Shakespeare's Hamlet), a film starring Steve Coogan and Catherine Keener. The project will be the first produced by Eric Eisner's (son of former Disney chief Michael Eisner) production company L+E.
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Sugar Bits — Susan Boyle Might Be Axed From BGT Final
- Producers might axe Susan Boyle from Britain's Got Talent final if she isn't mentally strong enough — The Sun
- Rihanna will testify in the case against Chris Brown — CNN
- Depeche Mode's Dave Gahan has undergone surgery to remove a malignant tumour on his bladder — MTV
- The BBC's horse racing presenter Clare Balding has thyroid cancer — Daily Mail
- David Tennant will reprise his role as Hamlet for a BBC 2 screen production — BBC
- Tom Brady has denied rumours Gisele is pregnant — PA
- Liverpool footballer Fernando Torres married his childhood sweetheart in Madrid — Mirror
Sugar Bits — Jonathan Ross to Return to BBC This Month
- Jonathan Ross's Friday night chatshow will return to BBC1 on 23 January following his three month-suspension over "Manuelgate". Jonathan will host his Radio 2 Saturday show on 24 January, and his other regular BBC1 show, Film 2009, will be back on air on 26 January. — Guardian
- Andrew Sachs is to appear in Coronation Street.
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