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Robocop R1 CE in August
News: Fox and MGM Home Entertainment have announced the Region 1 DVD release of Robocop (20th Anniversary Collector’s Edition) on 21st August 2007 priced at $22.98 SRP. Paul Verhoven’s 1987 cult hit returns to DVD once again, this time as a two-disc collec…

Tiger and the Snow, The
An Italian poet (Roberto Benigni) falls in love in Iraq in early 2003 in a romantic comedy also directed by Benigni. Yes, it’s as bad as it sounds. [Not rated]

Spider-Man 3
Cinema Review: In Spider-Man 3, Spidey battles the Sandman and a personality-changing black gloop from Outer Space, in the film which opened in the UK and Ireland on 4 May. Review by Gary Couzens.

76% Avenue Montaigne
A cute and bubbly French comedy that carries no deeper lessons or agendas than to have a little fun for 90 minutes.

Eurovision win boosts Serbia mood (Reuters)

Reuters - The victory of Marija Serifovic at the 2007 Eurovision song contest caused an outpouring of national pride in Serbia, a country more used to rebuffs from Europe over its wartime past than to accolades.

Nic Cage Cast As Capone In "Untouchables" Sequel
Nicolas Cage is set to slide into the role of mobster Al Capone in a prequel to 1987’s “The Untouchables” that will examine the gangster’s early years and rise to power. Per MTV, Cage steps into a role made well-known by Robert DeNiro, who played Capone in the original…

NBC OKs deal to save ‘Law & Order’ shows (AP)

AP - NBC Universal and producer Dick Wolf struck a last-minute deal Sunday to keep “Law & Order” and its two spinoffs on the air, although “Law & Order: Criminal Intent” episodes will first be seen on the USA cable network.

Authors like King, Lethem trying comics (AP)

AP - Author Jonathan Lethem was a big fan of the comic “Omega the Unknown” when he was a boy growing up in Brooklyn, and he was pretty depressed when the superhero vanished from corner store shelves.

Book Review: Rant
As is the case with most Chuck Palahniuk books, I simply don’t know what to say about Rant.

Friday Box Office Analysis: 5/12/07
Spider-Man 3’s decline is cataclysmic. The good news is that Spidey films have great weekend holdover. Then again, with $200 million in the bank, we don’t need to take up a collection for Sony.