Wow, we got a better response to last week's Sydney White contest than we anticipated. That must mean one of two things: You really are big Amanda Bynes fans, and celebrate her entire catalog. Or maybe you're hurting for beer money and think a Bynes-autographed poster will score you some cheddar on eBay. On second thought, highly doubt it's the latter. So congrats to our Bynes maniacs below.

1. "...And then he totally gave me an A!" -- Gregory R.

2. "I can't feel my hands!"
-- Aaron L.

3. "I know! I got my Prozac perscription refilled!" -- Kayla W.

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This week we're stepping it up a little, with three copies of the special one-disc edition of the Knocked Up DVD to give away. So free the inner-Apatow within you and make us "cackle" -- not only will we send you the DVD, but you'll get a Knocked Up dartboard, door hanger and bumper sticker as well. Sorry, no clothing this week. And a special heads up for next week: We'll be giving away our BIGGEST prize yet (and you know I don't use Caps Lock lightly). Bigger than the Eragon snowboard. Bigger than the guitar. Bigger than the HD DVD player. Yes, even bigger than the Mr. Woodcock hats! Good luck, and come back next Thursday at 4 PM to see this week's winners and find out what all the fuss is about...

UPDATE: WINNERS ANNOUNCED! Click Here

Apologies for the late posting this week. All I'll say is that it was due to events involving over-the-counter pain killers, Indian cough syrup, and pepper spray. Or maybe that's just something I stole from an upcoming movie synopsis. Guess you'll never know, unless you're big into synopses. Either way, congratulations to our Mr. Woodcock winners from last week's contest listed below. Being so congratulatory all the time is boring, though, so I'd like to call out last week's worst caption as well: "These captions are never funny." Not only was it totally non-constructive, but the captioner didn't even use double quotes around it (I added for effect).

1. "Have you heard of The Shins? Listen to this song, it'll change your life." -- Philip G.

2. "Jock itch. You?" -- Todd G.

3. "So... still got that Bull Durham/Nuts About Sports thing going on or am I twenty years too late?" -- Matthew K.

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This week we've got a photo featuring your favorite actress (no matter what you say), Amanda Bynes, in your new favorite sorority comedy (ditto) Sydney White. Not your cup of tea? Than have some fun with it, be funny, and prove last week's worst caption winner wrong. Our three favorite caption writers will win Amanda Bynes-autographed posters and a mini mirror (to look at yourself in front of your new autographed poster, obviously). Good luck!

UPDATE: WINNERS ANNOUNCED! Click Here

No huge surprises in last weekend's box office returns. Jodie Foster's new thriller took the lead with slithery CGI serpents bringing up the rear at number five. Superbad is definitely getting some McLovin' after being in the top five for five weeks now. Here are the numbers from last weekend:

The Brave One: $13.4 million
3:10 to Yuma: $8.9 million
Mr. Woodcock: $8.7 million
Superbad: $5.1 million
Dragon Wars: $5 million

This weekend we've got three new releases, plus two more flicks going into wider release. Check it out:

Good Luck Chuck
What's It All About: Dane Cook plays a man cursed. Every woman he has ever slept with has found true love with the next person they meet after dumping him. Now that he's in love with a woman played by Jessica Alba he has to find a way to break the curse.
Why It Might Do Well: Judging from the trailer, Ms. Alba spends at least part of the film in her underwear. Not a bad thing.
Why It Might Not Do Well: The plot synopsis and all the pratfalls in the trailer remind me way too much of Three's Company.
Number of Theaters: 2,500
Prediction: $10 million

Resident Evil: Extinction
What's It All About: Milla Jovovich returns as Alice, kicking zombie butt in the Nevada desert and taking on the evil Umbrella Corporation in this third installment of the video game-based franchise.
Why It Might Do Well: Halloween's success at the box office showed that people are up for a good scare, and for my money I'll take a zombie flick over a slasher movie any day of the week. I'm even willing to overlook my lukewarm feelings about Resident Evil: Apocalypse.
Why It Might Not Do Well: The list of crappy movies based on video games is a long and sad one.
Number of Theaters: 2,700
Prediction: $22 million

Sydney White
What's It All About: Amanda Bynes stars in this modern take on Snow White, playing a college student who after being rejected by the sorority she hoped to join is taken in by seven dorks.
Why It Might Do Well: Bynes has a great sense of comedic timing. If you thought The Amanda Show was just for kids, you might be surprised at how intelligent the humor was.
Why It Might Not Do Well: It's basically a teen comedy, and Superbad is a tough act to follow.
Number of Theaters: 1,900
Prediction: $7 million

And, although these next two opened last weekend, they're both spreading out into a greater number of theaters:

Across the Universe
What's It All About: A musical love story that takes place in the turbulent 1960s set to the music of The Beatles.
Why It MIght Do Well: It looks downright trippy, and it's got Beatles tunes. What's not to love?
Why It Might Not Do Well: It's not a huge release so this won't make the top five.
Number of Theaters: 400
Prediction: $2.5 million

Eastern Promises
What's It All About: David Cronenberg and Viggo Mortensen, the director and star of A History of Violence, re-team for this thriller. Naomi Watts plays a London midwife who comes into possession of a diary that could be dangerous for Russian mobsters.
Why It MIght Do Well: After their last collaboration, I'm dying to see what Mortensen and Cronenberg come up with.
Why It Might Not Do Well: Oh, don't be so negative.
Number of Theaters: 1,325
Prediction: $8 million


Here's how I'm betting things will go this coming weekend:
1. Resident Evil: Extinction
2. Good Luck Chuck
3. The Brave One
4. Eastern Promises
5. Sydney White

And here's how our little competition went last week:
1. Josh: 13
2. Matt: 11
2. Anna07: 11
2. Porcalina: 11
3. Ness265: 9
3. drklrdbill: 9
4. Lee: 8
4. Max: 8
4. Brad: 8
5. Ray: 7
6. peter: 6
7. ABIRD0006: 4
7. MikeJM79: 4

Here's how the competition works:
Please post your prediction in the comments section below before 5:00PM on Saturday. One point for every top five movie correctly named, two points for every correct placement, and one extra point for the top movie.

Following a long tradition of movie titles based on songs, the previously named House Bunny is now called I Know What Boys Like. And yeah, it's a good bet we'll be hearing the hit tune by The Waitresses in it, probably during the opening credits. Maybe a second time, too. Personally, I prefer for studios to exclusively attach song titles to biopics, but this time I find the new name so much better than the old, that I don't mind. Anyway, the comedy, starring Anna Faris as a former Playboy Bunny, has begun filming in Los Angeles. Recently some hot photos of Faris from the set hit the web, and before that we heard about the rest of the cast, which includes children to the stars Colin Hanks and Rumer Wilson Willis -- get Dakota Johnson and we've got "Spawn of the Bonfire of the Vanities" here -- and real-life Bunnies Holly Madison, Bridget Marquardt and Kendra Wilkinson.

Written by Legally Blonde scribes Karen McCullah Lutz and Kirsten Smith, I Know What Boys Like follows Faris' ex-Bunny as she gets kicked out of the Playboy Mansion and is taken in by a Sorority comprised of "socially clueless" girls who are about to lose their housing. Guessing by the new title, Faris' character will teach these young women what boys like, how to attract them and other valuable bits of information for females with only a concern for acquiring a husband. But I'm sure the girls also help their new sexy sister learn about more practical things, which don't involve looking like a Playmate. Since the movie has just begun production, it should be at least a year before it hits theaters, giving us plenty of time to forget the similar story of Sydney White, the Amanda Bynes vehicle opening in a few weeks. Of course, the upcoming college comedy is about a hot girl living in a Frat House full of dorks, after she's kicked out of a Sorority, so I guess they aren't too similar.

I see in my future another guilty pleasure starring Amanda Bynes (do I consider her a celebrity crush if all I want to do is squeeze her cheeks like an annoying relative?). Myspace has the trailer up for the young actress' latest, which is titled Sydney White (formerly Sydney White and the Seven Dorks), and I can't deny that I think I'll enjoy it. A teen college comedy apparently loosely adapted from the Snow White story, it is basically the same direction Bynes went in with last year's Shakespeare remake She's the Man. And yes, I kinda liked that one. This time around she doesn't have to pretend to be a boy, but she does become one of the boys -- or dorks -- when she befriends a house full of losers (including Freaks and Geeks' Samm Levine). The movie's equivalent of the evil queen is Sara Paxton, pretty much recycling her role from Sleepover (both that film and this were directed by Joe Nussbaum) as a prissy sorority diva who makes enemies with Byne's S. White. In the trailer, she's shown as the butt of a cheap but great gag involving a nod to the "Heigh-Ho" song from Disney's Snow White and the Seven Dwarves.

As for the movie's Prince, a guy appropriately named Tyler Prince, the role belongs to Matt Long, who was last seen as a young Nicolas Cage in Ghost Rider. He doesn't get much screen time in the trailer, which concentrates more on the social awkwardness of the dorks (some of which are very un-dwarf-like in height). Speaking of the dorks, they may be my only issue with the otherwise innocent, cute little movie. I'll just never buy the idea that geeks are really that amazed to see a girl's underwear. I didn't believe it 20 years ago in Sixteen Candles and I don't believe it now. Real dorks may be socially awkward, sure, but they aren't morons. After seeing modern dorks done right in Knocked Up, I don't know if I could accept them as portrayed in Sydney White. But I do like watching Bynes' facial comedy, so there's still a chance I'm interested. Now that the actress has received more exposure recently via Hairspray, a lot more people may be interested, too.

John Waters 1988 hit movie-turned-Broadway-musical is heading back to the big screen on July 20 -- this time as a musical -- with Adam Shankman (The Wedding Planner) at the helm and a bevy of A-list stars in the cast. We have an exclusive first look at 10 Hairspray character posters below, from an in-drag John Travolta to a still-smokin' Michelle Pfeiffer. Click on the images for larger versions.

Newcomer Nikki Blonsky stars as Tracy Turnblad, a chubby teen who wins a spot on the American Bandstand-esque Corny Collins Show in 1962 Baltimore. Amanda Bynes plays Tracy's saucy best pal Penny Pingleton.

John Travolta plays the plump Edna Turnblad, mother of the aforementioned aspiring dancer. Yes, that's correct: A virtually unrecognizable Travolta plays a woman. And he's married to Christopher Walken. Great stuff.

John Waters' 1988 hit about a chubby teen who wins a spot on the American Bandstand-esque Corny Collins Show gets a makeover courtesy of choreographer-turned-director Adam Shankman (The Wedding Planner) in this summer's Hairspray. This time around, John Travolta plays the plump Edna Turnblad, mother of the aforementioned aspiring dancer (Nicole Blonsky). Yes, that's correct: A virtually unrecognizable Travolta plays a woman. And he's married to Christopher Walken to boot. I'd go on about how the all-star cast also includes Michelle Pfeiffer, Amanda Bynes, and Queen Latifah, but frankly Shankman had me at "Travolta married to Walken." Get an exclusive first look at the poster below (double-click on the image for a larger version).

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Not being a teenage girl I sometimes get my teenybopper it-girl actresses confused. If memory (and imdb) serves, Amanda Bynes is the one in What a Girl Wants and She's the Man, not the one in Material Girls and the Casper Meets Wendy TV Movie (that's Hilary Duff, btw) or the one in A Walk to Remember and Saved! (Mandy Moore, hello?) or the one in the Freaky Friday remake and Mean Girls (Lindsay Lohan, for those keeping score at home).

Man, even though they're all different people (of course) they do tend to blend together a little -- at least for me (not a teenage girl, remember?). Anyway, this particular post is not about any of those other mean, material or otherwise saved girls. No, this post is about that other girl who apparently knows what she wants -- Amanda Bynes.

According to our friends at production weekly, Bynes was recently attached to star in the upcoming flick Sydney White and the Seven Dorks, scripted by Chad Creasey and directed by Joe Nussbaum. Bynes would play the role of Sydney in the film -- which, believe it or not, is an updated take on the Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs fairy tale set among college freshmen in the Greek system. Unpopular Sydney comes to campus and ends up challenging the top sorority hottie, Rachel, for the premiere spot in the Greek-babe pecking order.

Amanda Bynes playing a college-age sorority girl in a movie? Boy, they really grow up so fast, don't they? What's next, Lindsay Lohan pretending to service some guy on screen? Oh, wait. No word on additional casting or a start date for this little gem but don't worry girls, I'm sure you won't have to wait too long.

Which of these hot young actresses is your favorite?

One HHUUUUUUUUUUGE new release this weekend, and one other spunky little movie that was brave enough to share a release date with the Great and Powerful V for Vendetta. But, really, how much overlap is there between the audiences for that and She's the Man? One edgy cheerleader? Maybe two? In sum: V for Vendetta is either really deep or it's not, and Amanda Bynes rules. Details follow.

• V for Vendetta: Critical responses to this one seem to come from two very distinct groups: those who believe that the movie's effort to address important political and philosophical issues goes beyond the surface, and those (like James) who feel it's "one of those movies that's hung up on big ideas without ever actually having any." To their credit, those in the latter camp are so articulate in their criticism that, if you happen to read those reviews first (I did), the writers in the former often seem incredibly naive. That said, however, they too make convincing arguments - this is the first film since The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe that has produced such a well-written, thoughtful pool of reviews.

• She's the Man: In easily the most surprising movie news of the weekend, people actually seem to like this movie. Sure, there's the odd critic who rips it because, well, it's just not very good. For the most part, though, reviewers (like our own Christopher) acknowledge that fact and quickly move on to talking about how adorable and charming and talented Amanda Bynes is. Let that be a lesson to you, all ye purveyors of average teen movies: Amanda Bynes=critical kryptonite.
  

We'll never know if Shakespeare would have appreciated She's the Man, an update of his play Twelfth Night: Or What You Will reset in teen sports comedy land. It is a good bet, at least, he's not rolling in his grave about it, at least no more than Ovid and Chaucer, among others, were rolling in theirs during the Elizabethan era, when the Bard put the poet in poetic license with his own reworking of classics like Pyramus and Thisbe (as Romeo and Juliet) and The Knight's Tale (as The Two Noble Kinsmen). Twelfth Night was itself somewhat a variation of his own The Comedy of Errors, an early title based rather faithfully on Plautus' Menaechmi.

The works of William Shakespeare remain one of the rare arguments in favor of remakes these days, as repeat after rehash after revival is met with great public disdain. There was little plot development he didn't lift from some prior story, but his genius was in how he told, not what he told, and it is the language of his writing that has carried distinction over time. It is therefore ironic that modern versions of his plays, in turn, inherit a sort of credibility by making a legacy out of the action.