At The Movies

Law Abiding Citizen
Clyde Shelton (Gerard Butler) is an upstanding family man whose wife and daughter are brutally murdered during a home invasion. When the killers are caught, Nick Rice (Jamie Foxx), a hotshot young Philadelphia prosecutor, is assigned to the case. Over his objections, Nick is forced by his boss to offer one of the suspects a light sentence in exchange for testifying against his accomplice. Fast forward ten years. The man who got away with murder is found dead and Clyde Shelton coolly admits his guilt. Then he issues a warning to Nick: Either fix the flawed justice system that failed his family, or key players in the trial will die. Soon Shelton follows through on his threats, orchestrating from his jail cell a string of spectacularly diabolical assassinations that can be neither predicted nor prevented. Philadelphia is gripped with fear as Shelton's high profile targets are slain one after another and the authorities are powerless to halt his reign of terror. Only Nick can stop the killing, and to do so he must outwit this brilliant sociopath in a harrowing contest of wills in which even the smallest misstep means death. With his own family now in Shelton's crosshairs, Nick finds himself in a desperate race against time facing a deadly adversary who seems always to be one step ahead.

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The Proposal
Sandra Bullock and Ryan Reynolds star in a romantic comedy where corporate ambition makes for strange bedfellows. Margaret Tate is a hard nosed executive who makes life miserable for her overworked assistant Andrew Paxton. But when Margaret is threatened with deportation to her native Canada, the quick thinking exec announces that she and Andrew are engaged to be married. Andrew agrees to go along with her scheme, if there's a long awaited promotion in it for him. But in order to keep up appearances, she must help celebrate his grandmother's 90th birthday in Alaska, where the future in-laws teach her a thing or two about family.

The Buzz..

FlashForward has earned a full season pickup from ABC, meaning viewers will actually get to see why the date April 29, 2010, is so important to the show's mystery. The network announced that it has ordered nine more episodes of FlashForward, its most watched new series. It joins fellow ABC pickups The Middle, Modern Family and Cougar Town. The series chronicles the aftermath of an event when everyone on the planet blacks out for 137 seconds and sees a vision of what happens on April 29, 2010 (which happens to be a Thursday near the end of the TV season). Joseph Fiennes, Sonya Walger and John Cho head the cast.

The man who first brought The X-Men to the big screen, Bryan Singer, says he'd be interested in making another movie about the mutant superheroes. Singer, who directed the first two X-Men movies but parted ways with the franchise prior to X-Men: The Last Stand in 2006, says he has talked with 20th Century Fox, which released the films, about directing a fourth installment. No deal is in place, however. The X-Men has been a healthy franchise for 20th Century Fox since Singer's first film in 2000. All three have made better than $150 million at the box office, and the Wolverine spinoff starring Jackson has made about $180 million this year. A Wolverine sequel and a movie focusing on Ryan Reynolds' Deadpool character are in development.

Stop us if you've heard this one: A late night talk show host is dating one of the female members of his show's staff. Nope, it's not David Letterman we're talking about, and there's no extortion plot involved. People reports that Jimmy Kimmel is involved with the co-head writer for Jimmy Kimmel Live, Molly McNearney. Kimmel's publicist confirmed the relationship between the host, 41, and the 31 year old McNearney, who's worked on Jimmy Kimmel Live for several years. A source close to the couple tells the magazine that after Kimmel split with comedian Sarah Silverman, he and McNearney "both found themselves single, and they clicked. They're really happy together."

Carrie Underwood, winner of American Idol season 4 and many awards, is returning to FOX to headline her own holiday special, airing December 7th. The two hour show is tentatively titled Carrie Underwood: An All Star Holiday Special. Stars joining Ms. Underwood include Dolly Parton, Brad Paisley and other American Idol winner David Cook.

The cast of Glee was slated to be part of the annual Macy's Thanksgiving Day Parade. Emphasis on was. The show was preparing to march in the 83rd annual Thanksgiving parade after getting an invite from the department store chain. That, however, happened without NBC's knowledge, and the network later vetoed the Glee cast's appearance.

About a third of American homes with televisions now also have at least one DVR, so it's no surprise that the seven day DVR ratings would grow by more than they did at this time last year. Nor is it really a huge surprise that the most-watched shows on live TV, at least those that aren't sporting events, also tend to gain the most in terms of raw numbers of viewers in DVR. That's been the pattern for the past couple of seasons, and it was the case for the first week of the 2009-10 season. Nielsen has released its live plus 7 numbers for the first official week of the season and in general the shows at the top of the same day ratings are also at the top of the seven day list too. Grey's Anatomy was the biggest gainer in raw numbers, adding 2.97 million viewers from its same day total, while The Mentalist picked up an additional 2.95 million people.

Riding a wave of success due to their inescapable hit Use Somebody, Kings Of Leon have announced that they'll release a live DVD on November 10th called Kings of Leon: Live At The O2 London, England. The DVD was shot June 30th in front of 18 thousand fans on one of the three nights the band performed at the O2 arena.

Soulja Boy was arrested in an Atlanta suburb on Wednesday night. The 19 year old rapper was reportedly partying at an abandoned house with about 40 people when the cops arrived after receiving a complaint. Soulja Boy apparently ran from the cops and has since been charged with the misdemeanour offence of obstruction. He taken to jail but released on $550 bond after a night behind bars.

Billy Talent have announced a Canadian tour in 2010. The 19 date jaunt will begin in Victoria on March 3rd and head across the country until they end up in Toronto to play their final date on March 28th.

Miley Cyrus has quit Twitter. Miley Cyrus fans will have much less access to the Hannah Montana star, effective immediately. Fans going to Miley’s Twitter page were greeted with “sorry, that page does not exist.”

Kim Kardashian and her family have opened a new cupcake shop in Beverly Hills. The Kardashians rode in on a horse drawn carriage to celebrate the opening of Famous Cupcakes, which sells gourmet, organic, kosher cupcakes. In a stroke of synergy, the pastries will also be featured as product placement in the family’s reality show, Keeping Up With The Kardashians.

Jennifer Lopez’s new song Fresh Out Of The Oven has just hit the internet. However, the Neptunes produced track featuring Pitbull is apparently not going to be on her upcoming album, Love. And, while the song was released under the name “Lola,” her rep told People that “Lola” is not the singer’s new alias.

In case you just can’t get enough of Robert Pattinson, there’s a new documentary coming out on the Twilight heart throb. A new feature length doc titled Robsessed (yes, that’s really what it’s called) is said to take a look at the 23 year old actor’s speedy rise to fame and superstardom. The “broadcast quality biography” will be out on DVD some time in November, to coincide with the theatrical release of the second Twilight movie, New Moon, which hits theatres on November 20th.

Lady Gaga is everywhere right now and soon we’ll see her rubbing elbows with the cast of Gossip Girl. Following her recent potty mouthed appearance on Saturday Night Live, the provocative singer is shooting an upcoming episode of Gossip Girl where she’ll play herself.

Carly Simon has filed a lawsuit against Starbucks for withdrawing involvement in the company's music label, Hear Music, just five days before the singer's album was due to come out last year.

Hours after Michael Jackson's first posthumous single This Is It was released amid great hype on Monday, it emerged that the tune had been recorded 18 years ago by an obscure Puerto Rican singer. Moreover the co-author of that tune, My Way songwriter Paul Anka, threatened to sue Jackson's estate for proper credit and his share of royalties.