Turner Classic Movies will pay tribute to the late Jane Wyman on Friday with telecasts of seven of her films, including Johnny Belinda and The Lost Weekend. The marathon starts at 6 am/ET.... Lisa Rinna invites gals to show "their girls" some love by logging onto PlaytexFits.com, a "virtual playground for bras and boobs".... Barbara Walters premieres a weekly Sirius Satellite Radio call-in show Monday at 6 pm (Channel 102).... This year's Kennedy Center Honors, airing Dec. 26 on CBS, will salute the careers of Steve Martin, Diana Ross, Martin Scorsese, Brian Wilson and pianist Leon Fleisher.... DVD releases have been set for Fantastic Four: Rise of the Silver Surfer (Oct. 2) and Monty Python's Life of Brian (pushed back to Nov. 20).
read more
The Fantastic Four sequel — which, as our own Maitland put it in the new TV Guide Talk podcast (guest-starring moi), is "better" than the original if only because it's shorter — nonetheless predictably topped the weekend box office with a $57.4 million haul. Rounding out the top five were Ocean's Thirteen ($19.1 million), Knocked Up ($14.5 mil), POTC3 ($12 mil) and Surf's Up ($9.3 mil). Emma Roberts' Nancy Drew opened at No. 7 with $7.1 million (about a third of Aunt Julia's ask). In limited release to some 500 screens, Jaime Pressly's DOA: Dead or Alive drew a full $232,000.
read more
Per the Reporter, Fantastic Four sequel helmer Tim Story has inked a deal to adapt for the big screen The Losers, a DC Comics series about a special-ops team left for dead.... Bill Murray is the mayor of the City of Ember, a family flick about a mysterious town's existence.... Elizabeth Banks is a cruel stepmother in A Tale of Two Sisters, based on a Korean horror film of the same name.... Harald Zwart (Agent Cody Banks) will direct Steve Martin in The Pink Panther 2.
read more
