Amazon is offering up Curb Your Enthusiasm: The Complete Seasons 1-6 DVD set for $79.99 (down 66% from $238.98).

If you do the math (which I typically do), you’ll that that works out to just over $13 per season as opposed to the nearly $40 list price — even with Amazon’s usual discount, each season averages around $30. Therefore, this is a huge savings and definitely worth getting if you’re a fan of the series. And this deal beats out the price by a few dollars from that last time this DVD set was on sale.

For those of you not familiar with this half-hour HBO series, it stars Larry David, who co-created Seinfeld and was the basis for the George Costanza character. In Curb, David plays himself, which if you thought Costanza was outrageous, you should see the “real” Larry David. Most episodes are packed with famous actors, also playing themselves, and typically, Larry David will always put his foot in his mouth and do something extremely inappropriate.

No, this is not news. What it is, is one of the funniest damn things seen in a long, long while.

Here’s the setup: comedian Skyler Stone came to the realization that this whole Twilight thing was getting a wee bit out of hand. He decided that it was time to act, and began planning a necessary intervention for a group of fans of the franchise, all documented via video for the website Funny or Die. Stone set up a super-duper-special premiere of the new movie The Twilight Saga: New Moon, which had a packed house in no time whatsoever. The multitudes of beaming fans were recorded expressing their indescribable joy (some on a questionable level), and before long, they were seated and ready for showtime. This is when Mr. Stone comes out and breaks the bad news before attempting to talk some sense into the crowd. Sadly, none of it seems to sink in very well, but the effort is much appreciated.

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Nintendo’s Wii is a triumph of creative engineering in the realm of video games that had previously only been experienced inside a shrinking number of arcade venues. Not since the first Nintendo in the mid `80s has a console been able to innovate to a level that bridges generational gaps and ushers in a brand new era of gaming.

So, it’s incredibly sad to see the amount of dust collecting on Wii consoles owned by friends or family members.

The most frequent explanation I hear for this kind of mass console neglect is due to the lack of available opponents, which changes drastically when large groups of people consume a moderate amount of alcohol at a party. The same is true during the holiday season because there is always an abundance of bored loved-ones eager to avoid playing board games.

Obviously there is nothing wrong with the Wii, which is just as fun today as it was the day it was purchased. In fact, I’d argue that anything with the power to make both your old college roommates and your grandmother swat fists into the air and holler at the television screen is FAR MORE entertaining than any other device.

This level of entertainment can only increase with the addition of Wii accessories that help to mimic real-life sports…

Twilight: New Moon
Directed by Chris Weitz
Starring Kristen Stewart, Robert Pattinson, Taylor Lautner
Rated PG-13
Release date: November 20, 2009

So after much anticipation, this weekend I got my first look at The Twilight Saga – New Moon, and it did not disappoint. The opening scene in the meadow is as ethereal and beautiful as it is haunting, as Bella (Kristen Stewart) continues to agonize over aging while her glorious vampire love Edward (Robert Pattinson) stays forever seventeen and refuses to change her, afraid that he will damn her soul for all eternity.

Director Chris Weitz really raised the bar in this film as compared to its predecessor. The vampires are much more realistic, with beautiful pale skin and honey amber eyes — except of course, for the non-vegetarian Volturi and bad vamps, whose red eyes are far superior to the somewhat cartoonish ones in Twilight. The background and scenery in the Forks scenes are much better, filled with lush green forests and bright gray clouded skies.

It is at Forks High School that we see Edward Cullen and Bella Swan on Bella’s 18th birthday, watching Romeo and Juliet. Foreshadowing the events to come, Edward explains to Bella how envious he is of humans’ ability to commit suicide and how he had considered it when James had attacked her in Twilight. The first mention of the Volturi is made here, and we soon learn more about this royal vampire clan.

As any video game player knows, the Sony Playstation 3 exclusive title Uncharted: Drake’s Fortune is one of the more popular titles to be released in the past few years, and that popularity has seemingly doubled with the recent release of the mega-hit sequel Uncharted 2: Among Thieves. As we all fully expected, it was announced back in June that a movie adaptation was in the works, and that Kyle Ward had been tapped to pen the screenplay (Read: Kyle Ward Snags Another Gig; Tapped To Write ‘Uncharted: Drake’s Fortune’ Adaptation). Now comes word that this initial set-up did not work out so well and a brand new plan is in motion.

Latino Review has it on good authority that Mr. Ward is contractually obligated to write the script for another video game adaptation in Hitman 2, and that it would be at least a year before he could get to Uncharted. Instead of waiting for this — a project that they’re itching to get moving immediately — Sony has instead gone out and hired Thomas Dean Donnelly and Joshua Oppenheimer to write the script.

Star Trek: The Art of the Film
Hardcover
By Mark Cotta Vaz
Titan Books
Release date: November 17, 2009

When the Star Trek was in production with director JJ Abrams and crew I was constantly on the hunt for information on the various characters, creatures, and settings for the franchise reboot. Once I saw the film, which was released early this summer, I totally fell in love with it, and couldn’t wait to view all the goodies I knew would be included in the eventual DVD/Blu-ray release.

That’s why a book like Star Trek: The Art of the Film was the perfect accompaniment to the bonus material-laden Blu-ray edition of Star Trek, both of which were released last week. This 160-page hardcover coffee table book by Mark Cotta Vaz takes you through the journey from concept to screen for the film by way of concept art and storyboards to full-color promo images and action shots.

After a foreword by Abrams and a thorough introductory chapter on the filmmakers’ initial ideas for the reboot, how they planned to approach issues with the Trek, and specially how to allow for Leonard Nimoy to reprise his iconic role as Spock in what essentially was a prequel story, the remainder of the book devotes a chapter each to a different subject pertaining to this version of the Trek universe. Star Trek’s fictional planets and its alien inhabitants, as well as future Earth each has its own chapter, as do each of the starships, Starfleet Academy, and that damn unwinnable Kobayashi Maru test.

Amazon just began their weeklong Black Friday sales, which means every day this week new items will be up for sale, along with “Lightning Deals” that are on sale for a few hours at a time. Some new video game deals have gone up today. On happening right now is Call of Duty 4: Modern Warfare Game of the Year edition for $25 – that’s 50% that list price of $49.99. Hurry, this deal ends by 3pm EST today or before that if supplies run out.

Also, Amazon’s exclusive edition of the for Ghostbusters: The Video Game – Slimer Edition for Xbox 360, Playstation 3, or Nintendo Wii is on sale now for only $29.75 (that’s 57% off the list price of $69.99 and is the lowest sale price I’ve seen for the product ever!). Be sure to select the “Slimer Edition” before checkout.

This video game features the voices of the original cast from the classic Ghostbusters films, including Bill Murray, Dan Aykroyd, Harold Ramis, and Ernie Hudson, with Aykroyd and Ramis providing the script and storyline for the game.

Amazon has launched today their weeklong Black Friday Sale, where each day this week, items will be drastically reduced in price.

All the items up for grabs are limited time only and limited supply, which means if you see it and want it, buy it immediately before either the sale ends or all items are claimed.

Each day will have all-day sales, as well as Lightning Deals, which have an even smaller sale window. I’ve listed some upcoming Lightning Deals here below and I’ll add more to it soon.

Check out today’s DVD/Blu-ray Sale, which has several Harry Potter Blu-ray editions on sale, as well as Blu-ray editions of The Boondock Saints, Batman Begins, and Quantum of Solace.

LIGHTNING DEALS [Add 3 hours for EST]

MONDAY

4am – 8am PST

• Blazing Saddles – $2.00
• Yes Man – $5.00
• The Polar Express – $5.99

8am – 12pm PST

• Blood Diamond – $2.00
• Nights in Rodanthe – 5.99
• 17 Again – $10.00

It’s being reported that Peter Iliff has been brought in to pen a brand new feature film in which the world famous American Gladiators become superheroes. The movie is said to be based on the TV show we’re all familiar with that began in 1988 and recently came back for a short two-season run. No word on if Gladiators like Nitro, Malibu, Zap, Lace, or some of the newer ones like Crush, Wolf, or Titan will actually star in the film, or if they will cast new faces. It will be produced by Scott Mednick.

Iliff isn’t exactly a household name, but the man has brought us some decent titles over the years. He first wrote the popular action movie Point Break (and a possible future sequel called Point Break Indo), which starred a young Keanu Reeves and the late Patrick Swayze. He then went on to write Harrison Ford’s Patriot Games, the high school football flick Varsity Blues, and Under Suspicion with Gene Hackman and Morgan Freeman. Mednick also has an impressive resume of producing jobs that includes Superman Returns, Beerfest, 300, We Are Marshall, and Where the Wild Things Are.

Today marks the 46th anniversary of the assassination of U.S. President John F. Kennedy. There’s been much speculation over the years about the truth behind Kennedy’s assassination, as well as what the country and its global relations would have been like if Kennedy had lived.

Virtual JFK: Vietnam If Kennedy Had Lived, a new documentary from director Koji Masutani, explores the “What If?” scenario, Would the U.S. have been involved in the Vietnam War if Kennedy was not assassinated in 1963? The documentary, which was recently released on DVD, contains rare and archival footage, and offers insight into Kennedy’s political decisions.

In the coming weeks, our friends over at Movie Geeks United will have Masutani on their show talking about Virtual JFK, so be on the lookout for that. Check out the synopsis and trailer for the documentary here below.

With the premiere of Twilight: New Moon this past weekend, the film’s stars have been making the talk show rounds in promotion of the Twilight sequel.

Last week, star Taylor Lautner went on the Jay Leno Show to debut a new clip from the film, while Kristen Stewart sat down with Conan O’Brien on The Tonight Show. [Read Video: Taylor Lautner Debuts ‘New Moon’ Clip On ‘Jay Leno Show’ + Kristen Stewart on ‘The Tonight Show’.]

Now, there’s a whole new set of videos — all of which you can watch here below — of the talk show interviews with Lautner and Stewart, as well as with Robert Pattinson, Dakota Fanning, and Kellen Lutz.

Watch the entire episode of the interview with Stewart, Pattinson, and Lautner from Jimmy Kimmell Live, which is especially funny, though if you’re not a die-hard Twilight fan, skip the end part where audience members ask the young stars embarrassing, inappropriate questions. Also, see Part 3 of Lautner’s appearance with on Late Night With Jimmy Fallon where the two of them race mini bikes — seriously, VERY funny, I laughed so hard I got the hiccups.

Reports have been coating the Internet over the past few days that a new movie is being made based on the multi-platform video game, Dark Void, and that mega-star Brad Pitt could possibly star in the lead role. Reliance Entertainment and Pitt’s Plan B Entertainment have officially acquired the rights to the property and are currently developing the idea.

There’s a tiny bit of a problems with stories like this, however, as none of it is nearly as likely as it sounds through the eyes. First, and most importantly, is the fact that Dark Void is a video game that no one knows much about yet — it could be the greatest game ever made, it could be the worst ever made; no one will really know until the game is released in January. The two studios will do their best to develop a good strategy, for sure, but until they see how it does and how the story plays to audiences, this is still a project that might not even happen.

The Gold Box deal of the day over at Amazon today is the classic 1960s television series The Prisoner, starring Patrick McGoohan, on recently re-released Collector’s Edition DVD and Blu-ray.

The Blu-ray edition is on sale for $40.99 (that’s 59% off the list price of $99.95); the Collector’s Edition DVD set is on sale for $28.99 (that’s 59% off the list price of $69.95).

The Blu-ray release contains a high definition restoration and sound re-mix of the series’ original 17 episodes, and both versions include tons of bonus material like a feature-length documentary, featurettes, rare footage, audio commentaries, and much more.

Note, this sale is valid only for today (Nov. 22) while supplies last.

Last month we learned that Eclipse, the third book in author Stephenie Meyer’s popular vampire series Twilight, had heightened awareness of the classic Emily Brontë novel Wuthering Heights. [Read ‘Twilight’ Gives Boost To ‘Wuthering Heights’.]

In Eclipse it is revealed that Brontë’s 1847 novel is a favorite of Bella’s, the main character in the Twilight series.

Now, Hulu is streaming the 1939 film adaptation of Wuthering Heights online for free to residents of the United States. (You can watch the entire film here below.)

The black and white film, directed by William Wyler and produced by Samuel Goldwyn, starred Laurence Olivier as Heathcliff and Merle Oberon as Catherine. Both the film and the book are worth checking out, but this film takes some liberties, not surprisingly. In the novel, it really comes across that Heathcliff and Catherine are selfish, horrible people, while the movie plays on the star-crossed lovers theme.

In their “Countdown to Black Friday” event, Amazon is currently giving $40 store credit when you purchase a qualifying Hero video game bundle from offered in their Hero Bundle Deal.

For a limited time, buy one of the qualifying games on their lists — a version of Band Hero Super Bundle; DJ Hero Bundle with Turntable; or Guitar Hero 5 Guitar Bundle Game — and you’ll get $40 Amazon store credit. Bundles are available for Xbox 360, Playstation 2, Playstation 3, and Nintendo Wii.

The offer is only for qualifying titles shipped and sold by Amazon (meaning, NOT a third-party listing on Amazon), and is limited to one per customer. Offer ends on November 27, 2009 11:59 PM Pacific time.

Up until now, we had only seen a mediocre teaser trailer for Percy Jackson & The Olympians: The Lightning Thief, but now the first full trailer is online and it definitely gives you a better idea of what the movie is looking to become.

The movie is directed by Chris Columbus, who also directed Harry Potter and the Sorcerer’s Stone. This is fitting, as The Lightning Thief has a definite Harry Potter vibe to it, only instead of wizardry, we have Greek mythology. It’s definitely aimed at a teen/family audience, but also looks like it could be a lot of fun for all ages. The story follows a teenage boy who discovers that he is the son of god of the sea, Poseidon, and has to help to locate the lightning bolt of Zeus before a war breaks out amongst the gods.

Click on over to check out the trailer and share your thoughts below!

ABC has officially announced that its ultimate milk and honey show, Lost, will begin its final season on February 2, 2010. The station will attempt to make an event out of the evening by airing one of their hour-long recap episodes right before the two-hour Lost premiere airs. The final season is set to air 18 episodes, with the premiere and likely two-hour finale counting as four of the total episodes. There have been talks of the show possibly taking a short break when the upcoming Winter Olympics take place, but that is still unknown for sure.

The sixth season has the ultimate of challenges ahead of it. The show has consistently delivered some of the best writing and most compelling television in the history of the medium, but with so many questions left to answer, the task at hand is for them to remain as flawless as they’ve been while still answering most of the mysteries that remain. And with one of the mysteries being the random “sightings” of deceased characters, expect to see many familiar faces within the final run.

OK, so this isn’t exactly the geekiest of news, but it is potentially one of the more earth-shattering entertainment news stories to break in a long time, and so here it is. Oprah Winfrey’s label Harpo put out the press release today, officially announcing that on September 09, 2011, the very last episode of The Oprah Winfrey Show would air, which will cap off the universally popular talk show’s 25th season. It looks as if Oprah plans to concentrate on her network, OWN, when the show reaches its closure point.

Rumors of the show’s end have risen and faded, risen again and faded again, but never have they ever come to this kind of finality that her seven million daily viewers feared so dearly. As those of us who are not fans and do not watch know, Oprah is about as close to a god on Earth as there is when it comes to her loyal following, so expect many a hearts to be broken by the news. Lives have been changed, perspectives and paths and physical appearances altered, and books — good and bad — have been made into super-hits all by this woman’s hand. Love her or hate her, the end of Oprah is an occurrence of epic proportions.

Click over to the other side to read the press release from Harpo.

For as long as the Jackass crew has been doing what they do, fans have had to assume it was only a matter of time before they just couldn’t handle that kind of damage anymore. Even so, after the success of Jackass: Number 2, it was all but guaranteed that if they could take the hits, there would be a third film eventually, and it appears that that time is now. Cinematical is reporting that a list of Paramount Pictures’ 2010 slate of movies includes not only a third movie in the franchise, but specifically a Jackass 3-D!

Since the last movie, the gang moved on to many different projects of their own. Bam Margera has had a few TV shows added to his resume with regulars like Ryan Dunn appearing often. Steve-O and Party Boy Chris Pontius had their show Wildboyz for a while, and Pontius has unexpectedly moved on to more serious acting roles, recently snagging a part in a future Sofia Coppola film. Johnny Knoxville hasn’t appeared in nearly as many movies as it looked like he was building toward, but he and some other members of the cast and crew have begun other TV shows like MTV’s Nitro Circus, which is just like Jackass, but with professionals, and just as entertaining if you’re into that kind of “humans doing incredibly stupid things” kind of humor.

Gentle Giant will release a fully-loaded deluxe version of R2-D2 complete with eight accessories.

The ever-popular astromech droid from the Star Wars saga will come with a periscope scanner, mechanical gripper, utility saw, Luke’s Return of the Jedi lightsaber, and more, all of which can all be assembled into the statue’s exposed chest or dome panels.

The 7-inch-tall, 1/6th scale Poly Stone statue is hand painted and will be a limited edition.

This deluxe R2-D2 will be available Spring 2010. No word yet on price or pre-ordering.