New Release Tuesday!

On the last shopping week for Christmas, there's no better gift than to give your loved ones some great "sounds" and "visual" effects. So, here is what's new on Blu-Ray, CD and DVD today including "Wall Street: Money Never Sleeps" starring Michael Douglas, Shia Labeouf, Josh Brolin and Eli Wallach.

MOVIES
Beautiful Kate

Devil (2010) (B)

Easy A (B)

Salt: Deluxe Edition (B)

Step Up 3 (B)

Wall Street: Money Never Sleeps (B)

MUSIC

Avant - The Letter

Duran Duran - All You Need Is Now

Hex Hector - Allura

Jamie Foxx - Best Night Of My Life

Keri Hilson - No Boys Allowed

Keysha Cole - Calling All Hearts

TV SHOWS

The Andy Griffith Show - 50th Anniversary Best of Mayberry

Family Guy - It's a Trap (B)

Futurama - Volume 5 (B)

Gene Simmons: Family Jewels - 4th & 5th Seasons

(B) = Available on Blu-Ray

New Release Tuesday!

With less than two more weeks of shopping for Christmas, here are the new releases on Blu-Ray, CD and DVD which would make perfect stocking stuffers including "Michael" by the late Michael Jackson.

MOVIES
The A-Team (2010) (B)
Cyrus (B)
Despicable Me (B)
Exit Through the Gift Shop
Joan Rivers: A Piece of Work (B)
Micmacs (B)
Mother and Child (B)
Nanny McPhee Returns (B)
The Other Guys (B)
True Grit (1969) (B)
Vampire Circus (B)

MUSIC
Ciara - Basic Instinct
Crystal Bowersox - Farmer's Daughter
Diddy and Dirty Money - The Last Train to Paris
Michael Jackson - Michael
R. Kelly - Love Letter
Ryan Adams & The Cardinals - III/IV

TV SHOWS
24 - 8th Season (B) & Complete Series
Army Wives - 4th Season
Gunsmoke - 4th Season, Volume 2
Hawaii Five-O - 10th Season
The IT Crowd - 4th Season
The Jackie Gleason Show - The Honeymooners Christmas Special
Leave It to Beaver - 5th Season
Married...with Children - Complete Series

(B) = Available on Blu-Ray

New Release Tuesday!

As we enter the offical "Black Friday" week, here is a listing of what's new on Blu-Ray, CD and DVD this week including for the first time ever, "The Six Million Dollar Man: The Complete Series" starring Lee Majors, Richard Anderson & Martin E. Brooks, available exclusively through Time-Life.

MOVIES
Countdown to Zero (B)
Diary of a Mad Black Woman (B)
The Disappearance of Alice Creed (B)
Eat Pray Love (B)
The Expendables (B)
Flipped (B)
The Hunting Party (B)
I'm Still Here (B)
Jolene (B)
Madea's Big Family: The Play (B)
The Winning Season (B)
Tyler Perry's The Family That Preys (B)
Tyler Perry's Madea Goes to Jail (B)
Tyler Perry's Madea's Family Reunion (B)
Tyler Perry's Why Did I Get Married (B)

MUSIC
Alan Jackson - 34 Number Ones
Akon - Akonic
Burlesque - Original Motion Picture Soundtrack
Justin Bieber - My Worlds Acoustic (Walmart Exclusive)
Kanye West - My Beautiful Dark Twisted Fantasy
Ke$ha - Cannibal (EP)
Ne-Yo - Libra Scale
Nicki Minaj - Pink Friday

TV SHOWS
7th Heaven - 11th & Final Season
Batman Beyond - Complete Series
Deadwood - Complete Series (B)
Human Weapon - 1st Season (B)
Murder, She Wrote - 12th Season
The Six Million Dollar Man - Complete Series (Time-Life Exclusive)
Space Precinct - Complete Series
The Tudors - Complete Series

(B) = Available on Blu-Ray

The A-Team: New Explosive Trailer

Check out the newest explosive trailer for The A-Team!

The film, out June 11th., also has a new poster out featuring stars Bradley Cooper, Liam Neeson, Quinton Jackson and Sharlto Copley. Jessica Biel and Patrick Wilson also star.

The A-Team tells the story of a group of Iraq war vets looking to clear their names after they’re accused of committing a crime they didn’t take part in.

Coming Soon: Nine

This is the first trailer for the upcoming Rob Marshall movie "Nine" which will be released on November 29th. It is predicted that this film is going to be just as big (if not bigger) than Marshall's star-studded hit, Chicago.

Starring Daniel Day-Lewis, Nicole Kidman, Judi Dench, Marion Cotillard, Sophia Loren, Fergie, and Penelope Cruz, Nine is a musical about film director, "Guido Contini" (Daniel Day-Lewis) who is trying to finish a movie but has too many women in his life. There's Luisa, his lovely wife (played by Marion Cotillard), Carla his sizzling mistress (Penelope Cruz), and Claudia his muse (Nicole Kidman).

Harvey Weinstein produced the film version of "Nine," which is based on a musical originally written by Arthur Kopit and Mary Yeston and inspired by Federico Fellini's autobiographical movie, 8½. Raul Julia headlined the original 1982 Broadway production. In 2003, Antonio Banderas played the same role in the Broadway revival, which also featured Chita Rivera, Mary Stuart Masterson, Jane Krakowski, and Laura Benanti.

Based on the trailer, it looks like this will be one of the movies to watch during the Christmas holiday season.

Sherlock Holmes Trailer Features Robert Downey, Jr. in the Buff

Guy Ritchie’s upcoming Sherlock Holmes is sure to be a hit with the gays.

The director has vowed to emphasize Holmes’s physicality and the fascinating relationship between the detective, portrayed by Robert Downey, Jr., and his trusty sidekick Watson, portrayed by Jude Law. With Rachel McAdams thrown in for good measure, the flick is sure to be a box-office hit.

The newly released trailer previews some of the action to be expected, as well as some of Downey, Jr.’s skin, of which we have been told to expect much. Also of note – the last scene of the trailer, which depicts a tied-up Holmes propositioning the maid.

Watch the trailer below:

It's Official: Chace Crawford's Gettin' Footloose

Gossip Girl hottie Chace Crawford will be kicking off his Sunday shoes in the remake of Footloose, stepping into the void left behind when Zac Efron dropped out.

Crawford, 23, will play Ren McCormack, the rebellious dancing high schooler who launched the career of a then 25-year-old Kevin Bacon, Paramount Pictures has announced.

High School Musical star Efron told EW.com he passed on the role because he didn't want to be type-cast as the musical guy and was searching instead for "the unknown."

Footloose, to be directed by High School Musical's Kenny Ortega, is set to begin shooting in March 2010.

“I Love You Phillip Morris” Starring Jim Carrey & Ewan McGregor Gets Release Date: Valentine’s Day 2010

"I Love You Phillip Morris", which debuted at the Sundance Film Festival and will screen at Cannes, is going to see life outside the festival circuit after all. The gay love story starring Jim Carrey and Ewan McGregor has been acquired by Consolidated Pictures Group and will be released next Valentine’s Day.
The film is based on a true story about gay con man Steven Russell (Carrey) and his prison lover Phillip Morris (McGregor).

Here is a trailer and a clip:


I hear the love scenes are pretty steamy!

"Valentine's Day" Woos All-Star Cast

Roberts and Anne Hathaway are among the all-star cast lining up for the romantic comedy "Valentine's Day," to be directed by Garry Marshall.

Joining them in final negotiations to star in the movie are Jessica Alba, Jessica Biel, Jennifer Garner, Shirley MacLaine, Bradley Cooper and Ashton Kutcher.

The New Line film's five slightly interconnecting stories play out during a Valentine's Day in Los Angeles:

* Roberts is an army officer on leave from Iraq on a flight to Los Angeles. Cooper, on the same flight, is a gay man whose lover is a closeted football player.

* Kutcher is an owner of a flower shop who proposes to his girlfriend (Alba), only to realize he is in love with his close friend, played by Garner, who discovers her boyfriend is married.

* MacLaine plays Roberts' mother, a happy retiree who reveals to her husband a long-ago affair.

* Hathaway is an assistant working at the biggest talent agency in town and dating a mailroom assistant; Biel is a publicist unlucky in love who has no date on Valentine's Day.

Major roles still to be cast are the gay football player, MacLaine's husband, the mailroom worker, a talent agent and a young boy looking to give his crush some flowers.

Katherine Fugate wrote the initial draft, and the latest version of the script is by Abby Kohn and Marc Silverstein.

Simon Baker Nabs "Killer" Role

Simon Baker, star of the hit series "The Mentalist," is playing an attorney on the trail of a murderer in "The Killer Inside Me," Michael Winterbottom's adaptation of the Jim Thompson noir classic that stars Casey Affleck.

The story centers on a West Texas sheriff (Affleck) and his downward spiral from bored small-town cop to ruthless, sociopathic murderer. The cast includes Jessica Alba as a prostitute and Kate Hudson as the sheriff's schoolteacher girlfriend.

Baker plays a county attorney trying to expose the sheriff as the killer.

The adaptation was written by Robert Weinbach and John Curran, director of "We Don't Live Here Anymore" and "The Painted Veil."

Baker, a native of Australia, plays a private investigator with psychic abilities on CBS' "Mentalist," a breakout hit of the 2008-09 television season.

Christina Aguilera Going "Burlesque"

Christina Aguilera will make her screen debut for Screen Gems in "Burlesque," a contemporary musical that Steven Antin will direct. Antin wrote a script that was revised by "Erin Brockovich" scribe Susannah Grant.

Aguilera will play an ambitious smalltown girl with a big voice who finds love, family and success in a Los Angeles neo-burlesque club that appears to be right out of Bob Fosse's "Cabaret."

Donald De Line will produce rhe picture which will shoot later this year.

While Aguilera has won four Grammy Awards, a Latin Grammy and has sold more than 25 million albums, she has never starred in a film, though she lent her voice to the animated "Shark Tale."

"I couldn't be more excited, as this was a project written with her in mind," Screen Gems topper Clint Culpepper said.

Deal comes on the heels of Screen Gems benefiting from the star power of another songstress, Beyonce Knowles, who toplined thriller hit "Obsessed."

Hugh Jackman to Haunt "Ghostopolis"

Hugh Jackman is moving from mutants to ghosts.

The "X-Men Origins: Wolverine" star is attached to "Ghostopolis," an upcoming graphic novel from Doug TenNapel that the author recently set up at Walt Disney Studios.

The story centers on a man who works for the government's Supernatural Immigration Task Force. His job is to send ghosts who have escaped into our world back to Ghostopolis. When a living boy accidentally is sent to the other side, the agent must team with a female ghost (and former flame) to bring him back.

Jackman will produce through his Seed Productions, as will the Gotham Group. No director or writer has been hired yet for the project.

TenNapel's graphic novels are in high demand as movie projects, with nearly all of them being developed at studios. His dinosaur tale "Tommysaurus Rex" is set up at Universal, "Creature Tech" at New Regency and "Monster Zoo" at Paramount.

Seed Productions, which Jackman runs with his wife, Deborra-Lee Furness, and John Palermo, is developing several comic book projects, including an adaptation of Virgin Comics' "Nowhere Man."

Meryl Streep Plays Julia Child in "Julie& Julia"

The Streep-inator is about to strike again.

Action hero Harrison Ford was once the superstar staple of the summer blockbuster season, but now Oscar's favorite leading lady, Meryl Streep, is making a habit out of cashing in on the busiest moviegoing period of the year with female-oriented counterprogramming.

First, it was her fashionatrix in 2006's The Devil Wears Prada. Then came last year's disco diva in Mamma Mia! Combined ticket sales: a solid $268.8 million in the USA and Canada and $929.2 million worldwide.

Next, Streep juggles pots, pans and pâté in what promises to be a deliciously rich portrait of Julia Child during the decade-long span when she evolved into America's queen of French cuisine in Julie & Julia. Joining her is Amy Adams, her nun sidekick from Doubt, as blogger Julie Powell, who spent a year toiling over all 524 recipes in Child's classic Mastering the Art of French Cooking.

Director/writer Nora Ephron, who did the screenplays for Streep's Silkwood (1983) and Heartburn (1986), says the actress basically did an informal audition for her a couple of Junes ago when they bumped into each other at New York's Shakespeare in the Park.

"It was before I even started writing the script," the filmmaker says. "She asked, 'What are you doing?' I said, 'Blah, blah, Julie Powell, Julia Child, 524 recipes.' She went into Julia as we were walking out of the theater. She did her for a full 10 seconds. I think she even said, 'Bon appétit,' " the late chef's famous sign-off from her PBS cooking show. "I thought, 'OK, look no further.' "

Once Prada opened, Ephron says, "I knew if I could get her, not only would she be the best person for it, but she would also force the studio to make the film. She was a movie star at age 57 or whatever she is."

The role is more of a stretch than usual for Streep, who is 59. Not only does her half of the plot begin with Child at age 37 in 1949 as a student at Le Cordon Bleu in Paris, but the chef also was a strapping 6-foot-2.

How did Streep, who is 5-foot-6 or so, manage to create such a towering presence? "Meryl believed that in order to capture the essence of the character, you had to believe Julia Child is 6-foot-2," Ephron says. "Actually, our ambitions were more modest. We made her 6 feet. We used a whole bunch of fabulous tricks. Everything we could think of. Ann Roth did amazing things with costumes."

Naturally, the whiz at accents nailed the native Californian's distinctive vocal inflections. A dark, matronly wig tops off the transformation.

The performance, Ephron says, "is not an imitation, it's more of a habitation."

Source: USAToday.com