Well, it’s offical: “Alias” is no more. That is, after this season, which ends its run in May 2006. The news was announced today by president of ABC Entertainment, Stephen McPherson, and couldn’t have come soon enough. With the series suffering from ridiculous plot turns and star Jennifer Garner’s pregnancy, it’s nice to see that the network wasn’t afraid to axe the show before it got out of hand. Then again…
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Out on DVD this week:
1) War of the Worlds – PASS: Fans of Spielberg’s work will eat up the two-disc special edition of the film with hours of bonus material, but anyone else semi-interested should just take it for a test drive.
2) Alien Vs. Predator: Special Edition – PASS: This has generated about as little bit of buzz as humanly possible, namely because Fox released a not-so-special-edition of the movie less than six months ago.
3) Senifeld: Seasons 5 & 6 – BUY: How can you not buy these two seasons? This is exactly when the series realized its full potential and became a ratings giant for NBC. Also, with every DVD box set offering a collection of hilarious extras, it’s hard not to indulge.
Other notable titles releasing today include “The Polar Express” and “Aeon Flux: The Complete Animated Collection,” but if I were you, I’d hold out one more week when a number of great films debut on disc.
Based on Sunday’s estimates:
1) Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire – $101.4 million (first weekend).
Bored with setting £100 notes on fire, J.K. Rowling decides to buy the Isle of Man, renames it Azkaban, and sinks it into the Irish Sea.
2) Walk the Line – $22.4 million (first weekend)
No wonder Johnny had such a rough upbringing: his dad was a freaking Terminator.
3) Chicken Little – $14.7 million (third weekend, $99.1 million to date)
For their next CGI feature, Disney will make a movie about a virgin (voiced by Rachel McAdams) who crashes weddings by day and spends her evenings as a vigilante fighting to free clones from a utopian facility where their organs are harvested for profit. The soundtrack will not feature a single song released after 1978.
4) Derailed – $6.5 million (second weekend, $21.8 million to date)
We’d come up with something witty to say about this movie, but Weinstein Co. didn’t want to show it to us, and we didn’t want to see it.
5) Zathura – $5.1 million (second weekend, $20.2 million to date)
Scores of kids whose parents couldn’t score tickets to “Potter” flock to “Jumanji in Space,” are subjected to playground ridicule for at least a week.
What on earth happened to: Jarhead? Onetime Oscar hopeful, unceremoniously booted out of the top 5 by an unpronounceable kids movie.
Pulling their heads up out of the sand long enough to conduct a joint press conference, the Big Four and Pipsqueak Two broadcast networks urged advertisers to count DVR playback audiences in their advertising guarantees.
One tiny problem: Research from multiple sources indicates that people with DVRs consistently skip upwards of 75% of all commercials during playback. The networks counter that DVR owners also tend to watch more television — 12% more, in fact.
That’s groovy and all, but if I’m an advertiser, I’m going: “Okay, so they watch 12% more TV, but they still skip 75% of the ads in it. That means they’re really only getting a net increase of 3% more exposure to ads…which means that 72% of my ads are still being skipped…and you want me to pay full price for that why, again?”
To which the networks respond: “Heh-heh. Um. Well. Gosh, look at the time. You’re awfully good with numbers, by the way. Have you thought about going into accounting? No? You’re going to stay right here? Huh. Okay. Hey, is that my phone ringing? I’ve gotta go.”
The Harry Potter movies are one of the most successful franchises in the history of film, so it’s no surprise that the fourth installment of the series (“Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire“) is the main attraction this weekend in theaters. And out of all of the chapters thus far, I must say that this is the best looking Potter of the bunch, and one that I’m actually excited to see. Meanwhile, the other major release of the week is the Johnny Cash biopic “Walk the Line,” and while it may not bring in as much business as the adolescent wizard, it will certainly make a good lump of cash. The film probably won’t win Best Picture or Best Director honors at next year’s Academy Awards, but if it doesn’t sweep the Best Actor/Actress category, I’d be stunned. Joaquin Phoenix is shoe-in for the award (I don’t even need to see anything else to determine this) and Reese Witherspoon has a pretty good shot considering everything else that’s been released. If nothing else, this a movie you should see strictly for these two performances.
“Saw 2” and “Chicken Little” are still tearing up the box office, and if you haven’t seen them yet, then maybe you should.
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