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The Spy Next Door
Bob Ho (Jackie Chan) is an undercover CIA superspy who decides to give up his career in espionage to settle down with his next-door neighbor and girlfriend, Gillian. But Bob has one more mission to complete before Gillian agrees to marry him: winning over her three opinionated kids. When Gillian suddenly has to leave town, Bob volunteers to babysit the children so he can earn their approval. But when one of the kids mistakenly downloads a top-secret formula from his computer, Bob's archenemy, a Russian terrorist, moves in for the attack, forcing Bob to juggle the roles of spy and prospective stepfather in the most challenging mission of his career!

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Moon
Astronaut Sam Bell (Sam Rockwell) is living on the far side of the moon, completing a three year contract with Lunar Industries to mine Earth's primary source of energy, Helium-3. It is a lonely job, made harder by a broken satellite that allows no live communications home. Taped messages are all Sam can send and receive. Thankfully, his time on the moon is nearly over, and Sam will be reunited with his wife, Tess, and their three year old daughter, Eve, in only a few short weeks. Suddenly, Sam's health starts to deteriorate. Painful headaches, hallucinations and a lack of focus lead to an almost fatal accident on a routine drive on the moon in a lunar rover. While recuperating back at the base (with no memory of how he got there), Sam meets a younger, angrier version of himself, who claims to be there to fulfill the same three year contract Sam started all those years ago. Confined with what appears to be a clone of his earlier self, and with a "support crew" on its way to help put the base back into productive order, Sam is fighting the clock to discover what's going on and where he fits into company plans.

The Buzz...

Confirming days of rumors, Jeff Gaspin, the chairman of NBC Universal Entertainment, announced that starting Feb. 12, The Jay Leno Show will no longer air at 10 p.m. but that the network hoped to keep Leno for an 11:35 p.m. show, Conan O'Brien for 12:05 p.m. and then Jimmy Fallon after that. But, Gaspin adds, "It's not a done deal yet." Gaspin admits that The Jay Leno Show "did not meet affiliate needs" but that through it all, Leno and O'Brien have been "incredibly gracious and professional."

Stuart Townsend has departed Marvel Comics' movie adaptation of Thor because of creative differences, according to sources close to the production. Townsend had been cast as Fandral, an ally of Norse god Thor. He was replaced by Joshua Dallas, according to the two sources, who spoke on condition of anonymity because they were not authorized to speak on the record. The cast change came as production was about to begin.

Avatar has just accomplished a very rare four peat on top of the weekend box office with another $48.5 million in the bank. The James Cameron epic easily outpaced this frame's competition and the only real challenger next week is Book of Eli with Denzel Washington which is tracking strongly. Avatar has a new domestic cume of $429 million and has made an astounding $1.34 billion globally according to studio estimates. The big question is whether it can topple Titanic's domestic high mark of $600 million set a decade ago. At this point, it's looking more and more likely.

For Oprah Winfrey fans, it's a Gold Ticket of a lifetime: an expenses paid weekend extravaganza in New York City to commemorate the 10th anniversary of O, The Oprah Magazine and to meet Oprah. The February issue of O features a golden ticket sweepstakes for the Live Your Best Life Weekend from May 7-9 in New York. Each magazine includes a pull out ticket driving readers to log on to Oprah.com to see if the ticket is one of 10 winners who, along with a guest, will be provided airfare, accommodations and tickets for the weekend's events.

Blake Lively seemed the unlikeliest actress to win the role of the Green Lantern's love interest, Carol Ferris, of all the 5 candidates reportedly considered for the part. However, the Gossip Girl and Sisterhood of the Traveling Pants actress impressed with her audition and beat out the competition for the upcoming comic book adaptation. As far as the rest of the cast goes, Ryan Reynolds has been cast as the emerald hero, while the rest of cast remains unknown. The villain roles of Dr. Hector Hammond and Sinestro will most likely be cast next.

David Hasselhoff is indeed leaving America's Got Talent. Howie Mandel will replace him as a judge. Mandel, of course, is best known nowadays for hosting Deal or No Deal. That show will continue in syndication, but there are no plans to bring back the primetime version anytime soon.

Josh Duhamel that he and his wife Fergie recently renewed their wedding vows. Josh tells us that the couple got the idea from Heidi Klum and Seal, who renewed their vows last May. He also said the ceremony was great and that the couple may even plan to do it annually.

People Magazine reports that Marilyn Manson and Evan Rachel Wood are engaged. In a romantic gesture, Manson proposed to the True Blood actress while he was on stage in Paris. Manson, who is 19 years older than Wood, has split with her twice before during their rocky courtship. He's also been married once before, to burlesque star Dita Von Teese, but has stated recently that he's a better person for his relationship with Wood.

Avril Lavigne’s fourth album, being produced by soon-to-be ex husband Deryck Whibley, was supposed to be released last November. Now Lavigne is saying the release is expected in “early 2010.” But a source says it could be more like mid 2010 because the two young Canadians who moved to Hollywood four years ago, got married and then separated, can’t stand working with one another and are finding it “terribly frustrating” to finish the last few songs.

After about a year of speculation, a rep for Disney confirmed today that the Hannah Montana show will end after the fourth season, which starts production this month.

Taylor Swift has made history. She’s now the highest selling digital artist in music, after making sales of 24.3 million digital tracks. Swift’s last album Fearless was the number one selling album of 2009.

Did Taylor Lautner leave Taylor Swift for his old flame Selena Gomez? Online gossip sites are buzzing today with reports that the Taylors broke up after Lautner rekindled his romance with Gomez to the point where, quote “the sparks are flying.”