Synopsis:
At one time the longest-running Broadway musical, My Fair Lady was adapted by Alan Jay Lerner and Frederick Loewe from the George Bernard Shaw comedy Pygmalion. Outside Covent Garden on a rainy evening in 1912, dishevelled cockney flower girl Eliza Doolittle (Audrey Hepburn) meets linguistic expert Henry Higgins (Rex Harrison). After delivering a musical tirade against “verbal class distinction,” Higgins tells his companion Colonel Pickering (Wilfred Hyde-White) that, within six months, he could transform Eliza into a proper lady, simply by teaching her proper English. The next morning, face and hands freshly scrubbed, Eliza presents herself on Higgins’ doorstep, offering to pay him to teach her to be a lady. “It’s almost irresistible,” clucks Higgins. “She’s so deliciously low. So horribly dirty.” He turns his mission into a sporting proposition, making a bet with Pickering that he can accomplish his six-month miracle to turn Eliza into a lady. This is one of the all-time great movie musicals, featuring classic songs and the legendary performances of Harrison, repeating his stage role after Cary Grant wisely turned down the movie job, and Stanley Holloway as Eliza’s dustman father. Julie Andrews originated the role of Eliza on Broadway but producer Jack Warner felt that Andrews, at the time unknown beyond Broadway, wasn’t bankable; Hepburn’s singing was dubbed by Marni Nixon, who also dubbed Natalie Wood in West Side Story (1961). Andrews instead made Mary Poppins, for which she was given the Best Actress Oscar, beating out Hepburn. The movie, however, won Best Picture, Best Director, Best Actor for Harrison, and five other Oscars, and it remains one of the all-time best movie musicals. Hal Erickson, All Movie Guide

Cast: Audrey Hepburn, Rex Harrison, Stanley Holloway, Wilfrid Hyde-White, Theodore Bikel, Mona Washbourne, Jeremy Brett, Robert Coote, Gladys Cooper; Directed by: George Cukor

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• Happy Feet – $42,320,000
• Casino Royale – $40,600,000
• Borat - $14,350,000
• Santa Clause 3 – $8,218,000
• Flushed Away – $6,812,000
• Stranger Than Fiction – $6,600,000
• Babel – $2,902,000
• Saw III – $2,800,000
• The Departed - $2,605,000
• After Dark’s Horror Fest – $2,482,000

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Bond is back with a bang! Read on:

After over a year of intense media interest, fanboy scrutiny and arduous production, Casino Royale — the 21st James Bond movie — opens this Friday. The Martin Campbell-directed film, based on Ian Fleming’s first Bond novel, is nothing short of an amazing accomplishment. After decades of bloat and self-parody, the franchise has been revitalized. Casino Royale makes 007 cool, relevant and real again.

Campbell has made perhaps his best feature film to date here. Working from a screenplay adaptation by Neal Purvis & Robert Wade and Oscar winner Paul Haggis, Campbell’s film is a lean, mean thriller about a killer being cultivated into a gentleman spy and the emotional and spiritual toll that transformation takes on him.

Despite what some critics have said, the plot to Casino Royale is relatively simple. Newly minted 00 agent James Bond (Daniel Craig, more on him later) pursues the powers-that-be behind a bomber-for-hire he killed in a very controversial embassy battle. The trail leads the arrogant Bond to Le Chiffre (Mads Mikkelsen), an enigmatic math genius, gambler and banker to the world’s terrorists.

After 007 foils Le Chiffre’s latest scheme to bilk the stock market using his clients’ money, the villain must win back over $100 million before his clients catch up and kill him. Le Chiffre intends to win back his losses in a high-stakes poker tournament at the titular casino in Montenegro. Bond is the best cardplayer in the service so his boss, M (Judi Dench, the sole holdover from the Brosnan era), assigns him to beat Le Chiffre. MI6 then hopes to bring Le Chiffre in so that he will roll over on his terrorist allies.

Serving as the British government’s “money” and eyes and ears on Bond is Vesper Lynd (Eva Green). She is clearly attracted to 007, but does not succumb to his charms that easily. She is also no mere bimbo; she is a mature woman — a professional and every bit Bond’s mental equivalent. After beating Le Chiffre, Bond finds himself tied naked to a chair and facing torture. What ultimately results from this turn of events is something the misogynistic, sexual conquistador Bond never thought he’d fall victim to: love.

Unable to use the golden gun in his pants for quite awhile, the recuperating Bond genuinely and deeply falls in love with Vesper and they plan on a new life together. She has stripped him of his emotional armor. But before you can never say never again, Bond realizes the bad guys are not quite done with him yet. By the end, Bond is becoming the icy, lethal secret agent — “the blunt instrument” that Fleming envisioned — that men want to be and women want to be with.

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Description:
AVP brought two great franchises together for one brutal blow-out battle. The young Predator warriors travel to Earth, where an alien nest has been allowed to breed and grow. The young Predators face countless Alien warriors, fearsome foes with acid coursing through their veins. Can the Predators defeat the Alien menace, outnumbered as they are, and survive the ritual trial?

Hot Toys’ series of AVP figures continues with the Brown Alien Warrior, the perfect addition to your AVP collection. This new exclusive edition of the Alien Warrior figure is cast in a brown color, and features a unique face hugger accessory. The Alien Warrior is true to 1:6 scale, standing approximately 16″ tall. The figure features bendable hands and tail, and an extending set of inner jaws. Some simple assembly is required.

Artist(s): Hot Toys

ALIEN VS PREDATOR TM & (c) 2006 Twentieth Century Fox Film Corporation. All Rights Reserved.

Product Type: Model Kit
Product Size: 16″ (406mm)
Pre-order: Estimated to Ship 1st Quarter 2007
Price: $129.99

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Synopsis:
As a serial killer terrifies the San Francisco Bay Area and taunts police with his ciphers and letters, investigators in four jurisdictions search for the murderer. The case will become an obsession for four men as their lives and careers are built and destroyed by the endless trail of clues.

Based on the true story of one of the most intriguing unsolved crimes in American history and the book by Robert Graysmith.

Cast: Jake Gyllenhaal, Robert Downey Jr., Mark Ruffalo, Anthony Edwards, Cassius Clay, Ione Skye; Directed by: David Fincher

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The Holiday is a romantic comedy about two women who swap homes for Christmas.

Iris, a journalist on a London newspaper, is stuck in a dreadful relationship with a colleague who won’t commit to her. She lives in a tiny village in the Cotswolds and in a fit of desperation agrees to swap her house with Amanda.

Amanda is a hugely successful film industry executive who owns her own company, having found out that her long-term boyfriend is unfaithful, she needs a holiday.

Cast: Cameron Diaz, Kate Winslet, Jude Law, Jack Black, Eli Wallach, Rufus Sewell, Edward Burns; Directed by: Nancy Meyers

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This sweeping, highly literate historical epic covers the Allies’ mideastern campaign during World War I as seen through the eyes of the enigmatic T. E. Lawrence (Peter O’Toole, in the role that made him a star). After a prologue showing us Lawrence’s ultimate fate, we flash back to Cairo in 1917. A bored general staffer, Lawrence talks his way into a transfer to Arabia. Once in the desert, he befriends Sherif Ali Ben El Kharish (Omar Sharif, making one of the most spectacular entrances in movie history) and draws up plans to aid the Arabs in their rebellion against the Turks. No one is ever able to discern Lawrence’s motives in this matter: Sherif dismisses him as yet another “desert-loving Englishman,” and his British superiors assume that he’s either arrogant or mad. Using a combination of diplomacy and bribery, Lawrence unites the rival Arab factions of Prince Feisal (Alec Guinness) and Auda Abu Tayi (Anthony Quinn). After successfully completing his mission, Lawrence becomes an unwitting pawn of the Allies, as represented by Gen. Allenby (Jack Hawkins) and Dryden (Claude Rains), who decide to keep using Lawrence to secure Arab cooperation against the Imperial Powers. While on a spying mission to Deraa, Lawrence is captured and tortured by a sadistic Turkish Bey (Jose Ferrer). In the heat of the next battle, a wild-eyed Lawrence screams “No prisoners!” and fights more ruthlessly than ever. Screenwriter Robert Bolt used T. E. Lawrence’s own self-published memoir -The Seven Pillars of Wisdom as his principal source, although some of the characters are composites, and many of the “historical” incidents are of unconfirmed origin. Two years in the making (you can see O’Toole’s weight fluctuate from scene to scene), the movie, lensed in Spain and Jordan, ended up costing a then-staggering 13 million and won seven Academy Awards, including Best Picture and Best Director. The 1962 Royal Premiere in London was virtually the last time that David Lean’s director’s cut was seen: 20 minutes was edited from the film’s general release, and 15 more from the 1971 reissue. This abbreviated version was all that was available for public exhibition until a massive 1989 restoration, at 216 minutes that returned several of Lean’s favorite scenes while removing others with which he had never been satisfied. Hal Erickson, All Movie Guide

Cast: Peter O’Toole, Omar Sharif, Anthony Quinn, Alec Guinness, Jack Hawkins, Claude Rains, Anthony Quayle, Arthur Kennedy, Jose Ferrer, Michel Ray, Norman Rossington, John Ruddock, Donald Wolfit; Directed by: David Lean

Lawrence of Arabia 40th Anniversary Movie Poster Print – Style B

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Victor and Scraps Doll – Sideshow Collectibles

Corpse Bride Collectibles – Jun Planning Dolls

Description:
Set in a 19th century European village, this stop-motion animation feature follows the story of a young man, Victor, who is whisked away to the underworld and wed to a Corpse Bride. Meanwhile, his real bride waits bereft in the land of the living. It is a tale of love, optimism, and the afterlife, told in classic Burton style.Sideshow Collectibles is proud to bring you Jun Planning’s series of highly detailed, incredible Corpse Bride dolls. These articulated figures are clothed in real fabric, very much like the original stop-motion animation puppets.

The Victor doll includes Scraps, his loyal skeletal dog, which can be easily assembled to create the perfect companion for your Corpse Bride collection.

Artist(s): Jun Planning

© 2006 Warner Bros. Ent. All Rights Reserved.

Product Type: Dolls
Product Size: Approx 15″ H (381mm)
Est. Box Size: 18″ H (457mm) x 10.5″ W (267mm) x 7″ D (178mm)
Est. Product Ship Weight: 6.00 lbs (2.16 Kg)

Pre-order:
Estimated to Arrive the 4th Quarter, 2006
Price: $127.00

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Corpse Bride with Bench Doll – Sideshow Collectibles
Corpse Bride Collectibles – Jun Planning Dolls

Desciption:Set in a 19th century European village, this stop-motion animation feature follows the story of a young man, Victor, who is whisked away to the underworld and wed to a Corpse Bride. Meanwhile, his real bride waits bereft in the land of the living. It is a tale of love, optimism, and the afterlife, told in classic Burton style.

Sideshow Collectibles is proud to bring you Jun Planning’s series of highly detailed, incredible Corpse Bride dolls. These articulated figures are clothed in real fabric, very much like the original stop-motion animation puppets.

The Corpse Bride doll includes a park bench, which can be easily assembled to create the perfect display for your Corpse Bride collection.

Artist(s): Jun Planning

© 2006 Warner Bros. Ent. All Rights Reserved.

Product Type: Dolls
Product Size: Approx 15″ H (381mm)
Est. Box Size: 18″ H (457mm) x 10.5″ W (267mm) x 7″ D (178mm)
Est. Product Ship Weight: 6.00 lbs (2.16 Kg)
Pre-order: Estimated to Arrive 4th Quarter, 2006 Price: $127.00

Corpse Bride with Bench Doll

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