Danny Boyle's Slumdog Millionaire (aka 2008's Best Picture, according to the Oscars) has arrived in stores and is now ready for a whole new audience to discover. Other major releases this week include bittersweet comedy Marley & Me and Seven Pounds starring Will Smith, plus new comedy specials from Jim Gaffigan and Ricky Gervais. You can also look for 8 new horror movies from the After Dark Horrorfest [1], along with recent genre hits Special and Timecrimes (let's hope Magnet does a better job with the subtitles on the latter). Last but not least, Ghostbusters fans will be excited to get their hands on the 5-disc '80s cartoon set The Real Ghostbusters: Volume 1. What are you picking up this week? Slumdog Millionaire [2] (DVD, Blu-ray [3]) Marley & Me [4] (DVD, Blu-ray [5]) Seven Pounds [6] (DVD, Blu-ray [7]) Special [8] Timecrimes [9] Tell No One [10] (DVD, Blu-ray [11]) The Broken [12] Autopsy [13] Voices [14] Dying Breed [15] Perkins' 14 [16] The Butterfly Effect 3: Revelations
Sean

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DVD Links: DVD News | Release Dates | New Dvds | Reviews | RSS Feed As I am typing this up I am completing my tour of the five most recent James Bond Blu-rays released last week. I have already watched Goldfinger, Moonraker, The World is Not Enough and Quantum of Solace and I am watching Never Say Never Again for the first time with plans of watching Thunderball immediately afterward. I am sure many of you know the story and why I will be watching Thunderball, but for those that don't, stay tuned as it will certainly be part of my Bond Blu-ray Round-Up Part Two. If you missed the first one you can read it here. As for what else is on my plate I just received the new Blu-ray copy of No Country for Old Men as well as Doubt. I am also interested in taking a peek at Cecil B. DeMille's Cleopatra,
Brad Brevet

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Jai Ho it up with the DVD debut of Danny Boyle's multiple Oscar-winning film, Slumdog Millionaire! It's also your week to catch films you might have missed in theaters, from Jennifer Aniston's tale of puppy love (Marley & Me) to the latest heart-wrencher from Will Smith (Seven Pounds). Those who dare to go foreign will be justly rewarded with two well-reviewed imports (the French thriller Tell No One and the Spanish sci-fi Timecrimes), while art-house devotees have two remastered Wong Kar-Wai films to choose from (Happy Together and Fallen Angels). Horror fans have an octet of new flicks to check...

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Answer: 2001.s Ali. Question: what was the last Will Smith movie that failed to make at least $100 million?
Until 2008.s Seven Pounds, that is. Although this flick reunited Smith with director Gabriele Muccino, his collaborator on 2006.s hit The Pursuit of Happyness, Pounds failed to find much of an audience. It stalled at $69 million, a rather tepid take for a Smith movie.
In Pounds, Smith plays Ben Thomas, an IRS agent. In the wake of tragedy, Ben tries to reward good in the world, a quest that leads him to intersect with a mix of strangers who require various forms of help.
Yes, that may be the shortest story summary I.ve ever committed to a review. The nature of Pounds means that less is more in this circumstance; if I provide greater detail, I risk spoiling different elements and I also may dumb down the tale too much.
Often when I wrote plot synopses,

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I know it hasn't been the most popular choice, but for about five years now, I've stood by my vote for Rosario Dawson as the big screen Wonder Woman. She's not the lily-white Megan Fox, but she can act, I'm sure she could do the action, and she's got a fairly Amazonian quality, and I mean that as a compliment. Don't know if it could ever happen, but that's where I stand: Vote Rosario for Wonder Woman.
Anyway, Dawson is featured in a smokin' new pictorial in Complex Magazine this month, and role playing is on the menu.

Her one-time Sundance flick, Explicit Ills, is finally out in limited release this weekend. She was also really good in Seven Pounds, disarmingly so, and that film will be on DVD at the end of the month. We got a recent update from her about Sin City 2, so if you're a fan of the Frank Miller,
Colin Boyd

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To say that a sequel to the brilliantly fun and visually stunning Sin City is hotly anticipated is an understatement, indeed. But it’s been four years since the first and some of us are getting anxious about whether or not we will actually see another one anytime soon.
Well appears that it is still in the development stages as in an interview, star of the first film Rosario Dawson gave us a little bit (and I’m sorry to say “little” is the correct description) about the progress of Sin City 2:


Q: Jamie King said she’s read the “Sin City 2″ script. Have you?
Rosario Dawson: No, I have not. She’s working with Frank [Miller] to possibly produce something together. I just talked to Frank about it though and said he finished it a couple of months ago so I’m really excited to get it going.
Ross Miller

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"Remarkable, the advanced brainwashing that has been perpetuated on the females of your culture. Raised from birth to believe they're not strong enough to compete with the boys, and then as adults, taught to trade on their very femininity."
— Diana in Wonder Woman, the animated movie

I should tell you upfront that I'm not generally a fan of animated movies — they tend to bore me unless they were a childhood favorite — but my partner Lori likes them, and she occasionally makes me watch them with her (as penance, I suppose, for all the lesbian movies I make her watch).
Last night, we watched the new straight-to-dvd PG-13 animated Wonder Woman movie from Warner Bros., directed by Lauren Montgomery and based on a story by Bruce Timm, William Marston, and Gail Simone (who is currently the head writer of the Wonder Woman series) about the journey of the Amazon princess Diana
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This one isn't about just one role. It's about the body of work. The complete list of nominees. Leonardo DiCaprio - Revolutionary Road, Body Of Lies Ralph Fiennes - The Duchess, The Reader, In Bruges Will Smith - Hancock, Seven Pounds Daniel Craig - Quantum Of Solace, Defiance Josh Brolin - Milk, W. Sam Rockwell - Choke, Snow Angels, Frost/Nixon Tom Cruise - Valkyrie, Tropic Thunder James Franco - Milk, Pineapple Express Robert Downey Jr. - Iron Man, Tropic Thunder, Charlie Bartlett Click Here to vote of the 7th Annual Tsr Movie Awards The Academy Awards just don’t cut it. Every year I watch, and every year I think they get something wrong. Not only that, why can’t there be more than five nominations, categories that fans care about (no offense “Best Achievement in Sound Editing), and who

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The Academy Awards have five actors up for Best Actor. We have 11 actors. That means we are more than two times better. The complete list of nominees … Michael Sheen - Frost/Nixon Will Smith - Seven Pounds Tom Cruise - Valkyrie Frank Langella - Frost/Nixon Mickey Rourke - The Wrestler Sean Penn - Milk Josh Brolin - W. Richard Jenkins - The Visitor Philip Seymour Hoffman - Synecdoche, New York Clint Eastwood - Gran Torino Brad Pitt - The Curious Case Of Benjamin Button Click Here to vote of the 7th Annual Tsr Movie Awards The Academy Awards just don’t cut it. Every year I watch, and every year I think they get something wrong. Not only that, why can’t there be more than five nominations, categories that fans care about (no offense “Best Achievement in Sound Editing), and

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Congratulations to "The Secret Life of Bees." The film won big at the NAACP Image Awards, while the organization is celebrating its 100-year anniversary! Yay!
Here's the full list of the winners of the Film Awards category:
Film Awards
Actor in a motion picture
Will Smith, "Seven Pounds" (Columbia Pictures)
Actress in a motion picture
Rosario Dawson, "Seven Pounds" (Columbia Pictures)
Supporting actor in a motion picture
Columbus Short, "Cadillac Records" (Sony Music Film/Parkwood Pictures)
Supporting actress in a motion picture
Taraji P. Henson, "The Curious Case of Benjamin Button" (Paramount)
Motion picture
"The Secret Life of Bees" (Fox Searchlight)
Independent motion picture
"Slumdog Millionaire" (Fox Searchlight)
Documentary (theatrical or televison)
"The Black List" (HBO)
Foreign motion picture
"The Class" (Sony Pictures Classics)
Directing in a motion picture (theatrical or television)
Gina Prince-Bythewood, "The Secret Life of Bees" (Fox Searchlight Pictures)
Writing in a motion picture (theatrical or television)
Jenny Lumet,
Manny

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