Craig Robinson, who plays Darryl on the “The Office”, will be hosting the next season of “Last Comic Standing.”   “Last Comic Standing” has had several hosts, including Bill Bellamy, the show’s most recent host.  “Last Comic Standing” is a talent show that has the comics competing to be the best comic. 

Source:InsideTV

Couples retreat was a box office hit for Vince Vahn and the rest of the cast.  The romantic comedy opened last year at number with over $34 million in box office ticket sales.    In the United States it grossed $109 million and almost $169 million worldwide.   Couples retreat star Vince Vahn, Jason Bateman, Jon Favreau, Faizon Love, Kristin Davis, Kristen Bell and Malin Akerman.

This past week it also scored some big numbers by being the number one rented and purchased DVD from Blockbuster.    

The complete List is Below:

Top 10 Renting DVD Titles at U.S. BLOCKBUSTER stores for the week ending Feb. 14, 2010:

  1. Couples Retreat

  2. The Time Traveler’s Wife

  3. The Stepfather

  4. Zombieland

  5. Love Happens

  6. Surrogates

  7. The Hurt Locker

  8. The Collector

  9. Amelia

  10. A Serious Man

Top 10 Online Renting DVD Titles at Blockbuster.com for the week ending Feb. 14, 2010:

  1. Couples Retreat

  2. The Time Traveler’s Wife

  3. Zombieland

  4. The Stepfather

  5. Surrogates

  6. Amelia

  7. Love Happens

  8. The Hurt Locker

  9. Whip It

  10. Inglourious Basterds

Rentrak have release their top ten list of for DVD sales for last week. 

   RANK TITLE                                 STUDIO    WEEKS IN RELEASE

   —- —–                                 ——    —————-

     1  Zombieland                             Sony                     1

    — ———-                             —-                   —

     2  Michael Jackson’s This Is It           Sony                     2

    — —————————-           —-                   —

     3  Love Happens                        Universal                   1

    — ————                        ———                 —

     4  Amelia                                 FOX                      1

    — ——                                 —                    —

     5  Surrogates                          Touchstone                  2

    — ———-                          ———-                —

     6  Cloudy With a Chance of Meatballs      Sony                     5

    — ———————————      —-                   —

     7  Saw VI                              Lionsgate                   2

    — ——                              ———                 —

         Tyler Perry’s I Can Do Bad All By

     8   Myself                             Lionsgate                   4

    — ———————————   ———                 —

     9  The Hangover                       Warner Bros.                 8

    — ————                       ————               —

    10  Planet Hulk                         Lionsgate                   1

Many popular titles are in the top ten for this week. “Cloudy With a Chance of Meatballs” continues to remain in the top ten.  Tyler Perry’s “I Can Do Bad All By Myself” spent its fourth week in the number 4 spot as  the sequel to his movie “Why Did I Get Married”, which starring Janet Jackson, gets set to be released soon.   Another Jackson movie of note, Michael Jackson’s “This Is It”, settles into the number 2 spot this week

To say that I am excited that the next season of “Lost” is coming back is definitely an understatement.   This show has got me hooked.  Not only is the acting great, but the writing is so imaginative and detailed that you cannot help but watch. 

With the final season ,we will see some old characters come back.  Does  that mean that the plan work and Juliet setting off the hydrogen bomb, Jughead, has made after thing right and that flight never crashes on the island?  Not necessarily.  With the way that “Lost” travel through time we will not know when and where in time these characters will appear.

We all have our little hopes and dream of what would happen.  I am wishing for a happy ending, but “Lost”, though built in imagination, doesn’t deal in happy endings.     I cannot wait until Tuesday night.

The week ending on January 17, 2010 has Tyler Perry’s “I Can Do Bad All By Myself” sitting at number one for DVD sales at Blockbuster Stores in the United States.

The list of the top ten DVD sales at Blockbuster is below:

1. Tyler Perry’s - I Can Do Bad All By Myself

  2. The Hurt Locker

  3. Cloudy with a Chance of Meatballs

  4. The Hangover

  5. Halloween II

  6. The Heartbreak Kid

  7. Failure to Launch

  8. Save the Last Dance

  9. Kiss the Girls

  10. Zodiac

Corbin Bleu starred in three successful “High School Musical” movies.  The first two premiered on the Disney Channel and garnered a very large fan base.  “High School Musical 3: Senior Year” made it all the way the big screen- to the delight of all the forever “High School Musical” fans. 

Now Corbin Bleu continues to show his musical and acting skills in the Broadway production of “In the Heights.”

Source: BroadwayWorld.com

A man was arrested after surveillance video showed him stealing DVDs from a display shelf at a Wal-Mart in Traverse City, Michigan.  He admitted to stealing DVDs for over 2 years.   I am not sure if all the thefts occurred at Wal-Mart or if hit other stores.   The article mentioned that he had stolen $18,000 in DVDs.    That really is a lot of DVDs  for anyone to steal.   I wonder if he actually watched the DVDs.  Maybe he stole them to make boat leg copies to sell or if he just sold the copies out right.   The articles did not say what he actually did with the DVDs; I’m just doing a little speculating.

Friday was the Disney’s “The Princess and the Frog” first official showing and the movie grossed $7.2million.  Including some limited engagements the filmed has brought in over $10 million.   “The Princess and the Frog” is Disney’s includes the first princess of African descent.   The setting of the story is  New Orleans, Louisiana.

Heather Locklear  has reprised her role as Amanda Woodward on Melrose Place.  Amanda was one of the key characters in the 90s version of Melrose Place and it hopeful that her return will help the new version succeed.  The newer version of Melrose Place has not been doing as well in the ratings.  There has been some casting changes like the return of Amanda and losing Ashlee Simpson’s character, Violet.  Although it was stated that Violet would not be a long-term character.

Promo For the Return of Amanda on Melrose Place

Melrose Place Boxed DVD Sets

This holiday season Jim Carey will be starring in a new adaptation of Charles Dickens’s “A Christmas Carol.” The original story was published in 1843 and will have seen many incarnations of the story over the years. Now the story will be on the big screen as 3-D animation, like what we saw in The Polar Express. Digital 3-D has allowed Jim Carrey to take on more than the role of Ebenezer Scrooge. He is also the ghosts of Christmas past, present and future. Jim has long shown his ability to play different character from his days of being on the 90s hit “In Living Color.” It will great to see how he lends his voice to character in Disney’s “A Christmas Carol.” The movie opens in theaters everywhere on November 6, 2009 with showings in Disney Digital 3D and IMAX 3D.