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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 also add Soul Men, the creepy thriller Blindness, and the first volume of the fifth season of Melrose Place 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.
W: Too Little, Too Soon
No matter your political persuasion, most can agree that the presidency of George W. Bush is concluding on a low and solemn note, the full consequences of his years in office still unknown. There is no doubt he is one of the most controversial figures of a generation, and his life will provide vast and fertile ground for dramatists someday.
W Gets a Poster and a College Roommate
Casting for Oliver Stone's movie W, based on the presidency of George W. Bush, just continues to roll along and so far it all seems a little. .
Stone Finds His Cheney in Richard Dreyfuss
Come this Fall, the current administration will be movin' out of the spotlight just as Oliver Stone's movie about it is heading to theaters. As reported earlier this month, W. will be released October 17, 2008 so it's no wonder the casting news continues to break at a rapid pace.
Buzz News Roundup, 5/9
- More Arrested Development alum casting news: Portia de Rossi has been cast in an ABC comedy pilot, Reuters reports.
- Sopranos creator David Chase will write and direct his first feature film, E! reports.
- Justin Timberlake will produce a reality show styled like "a real-life Bourne Identity," TV Week reports; excited yet?
- According to Variety, specialty studios Picturehouse and Warner Independent Pictures are shutting down.
- Writers' strike be dammed — we're still going to get all 48 promised episodes of Lost, with 17 more to come in each of the next two years, Zap2it reports.
- Jason Sudeikis, Will Forte, and Leslie Bibb will star together in a comedy called A Good Old Fashioned Orgy, reports ComingSoon.
- So much for that idea: Natalie Portman has dropped out of the big-screen Wuthering Heights adaptation, Variety reports.
- According to Zap2It, Oliver Stone's W movie has a release date — and it's soon! The George W.
Link Time! 5/8
- Popwatch has the recent EW cover featuring Josh Brolin and Elizabeth Banks as George W. Bush and Laura Bush for the Oliver Stone movie.
- Stereogum has the initial lineup for the 2008 Siren Festival.
- At The TV Addict, you can watch a video of Zach Braff introducing tonight's Scrubs episode.
- Cinematical has a clip from the latest movie from Francis Coppola, Youth Without Youth, out on DVD next week.
- BestWeekEver has the top 10 words that only appear in gossip magazines, including "beau," "tipster" and "canoodling."
- TV with MeeVee wonders if Smallville will be less super next season since everyone seems to be leaving.
- Vulture just saw Flight of the Conchords live, and yes, it was awesome.
- The Underwire chats with Isabella Rossellini about her absurd yet fascinating Green Porno series.
Thandie Is Condi and Gruffudd Is Blair in Stone's Bush Movie
Ordinarily, I wouldn't care quite so much about all the casting news for one movie, but Oliver Stone's project about George W. Bush is different. These are political figures that everyone is familiar with, and the project is about a president who's still currently in power.
Elizabeth Banks to Play Laura Bush in Oliver Stone Movie
Oliver Stone is trucking right along with his George Bush biopic, W, for which Josh Brolin has already been tapped to play the current President. Today there's news about the woman Stone wants to portray First Lady Laura Bush: funny lady Elizabeth Banks.
This just cracks me up.
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