Wild Hogs, which grossed $168.2 million at the box office, continues to run wild, topping last week's DVD sales and rental charts. The Disney blockbuster unseated incumbent 300 in both instances. Meanwhile, DVD releases have been set for Desperate Housewives: The Complete Third Season — Dirty Laundry Edition (Sept. 4), Bosom Buddies: The Second Season (Sept. 4), Charmed: The Final Season (Sept. 11) and Evan Almighty (Oct. 9).
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This past Friday at 4:20 pm (ha!), FanLib.com launched an official contest inviting Weeds fans to imagine their own resolution to the Season 2 finale. (Good luck, but you won't come close to how the Aug. 13 season opener actually plays out. Unless you've either seen it or pen your entry while gobsmacked by some Acapulco gold.) Go here for deets.... The year's No. 1 comedy, Wild Hogs, roars onto DVD Aug. 14.... Maurice "Maury" Hill, the last surviving cast member (as Captain Hayward) and a writer of Space Patrol, died on July 12 of heart complications. He was 89.
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New Line Records' soundtrack for the forthcoming Hairspray redo is available for pre-order at retailers as well as at iTunes — a first for the popular music hub.... FX has ponied up about $16 million for the cable rights to the hit comedy Wild Hogs and the thriller The Invisible, to first air in fall 2009.... Tom Sizemore's 16-month prison sentence for violating probation in a drug case has been reduced, leaving him with nine more months to serve, says the AP.
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Tom Wilkinson, Pirates of the Carribean's Bill Nighy, The Riches' Eddie Izzard and classically trained theater vet Carice Van Houten (as Tom Cruise's love interest) have joined the cast of Bryan Singer's Valkyrie, a fact-based account of German generals' plot to assassinate Hitler during WWII.... Jack Black is a schoolteacher who discovers he has witchlike abilities, then (unwittingly) joins an all-girls coven in Man-Witch.... Wild Hogs director Walt Becker is at work on a sequel to the wildly successful comedy.
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