You can bring home Ryan Reynolds, Abigail Breslin and a cast of others home on DVD this June. Definitely, Maybe is coming to DVD on June 24. The disc will be priced at $29.98 SRP. The film stars Ryan Reynolds, Abigail Breslin, Isla Fisher, Derek Luke, Elizabeth Banks and Rachel Weisz.

Ryan Reynolds stars as Will Hayes, a 30-something Manhattan dad in the midst of a divorce when his 10-year-old daughter, Maya (Abigail Breslin), starts to question him about his life before marriage. Maya wants to know absolutely everything about how her parents met and fell in love.

Will’s story begins in 1992, as a young, starry-eyed aspiring politician who moves to New York from Wisconsin in order to work on the presidential campaign. For Maya, Will relives his past as an idealistic young man learning the ins and outs of big city politics, and recounts the history of his romantic relationships with three very different women.

Will hopelessly attempts a gentler version of his story for his daughter and changes the names so Maya has to guess who is the woman her father finally married. Is her mother Will’s college sweetheart, the dependable girl next door Emily (Elizabeth Banks)? Is she his longtime best friend and confidante, the apolitical April (Isla Fisher)? Or is she the free-spirited but ambitious journalist Summer (Rachel Weisz)?

As Maya puts together the pieces of her dad’s romantic puzzle, she begins to understand that love is not so simple or easy. And as Will tells her his tale, Maya helps him to understand that it’s definitely never too late to go back…and maybe even possible to find a happy ending.

Special Features
- Commentary with director Adam Brooks and Ryan Reynolds
- Deleted scenes
- Creating a Romance making of featurette
- Changing Times of Definitely, Maybe production design featurette

From Movie Web

Studio executives hope they’ve trained their audience well as the season of summer blockbusters arrives.

From May through mid-August, Hollywood will bank on the idea that there is at least one movie every week _ and sometimes two _ that you simply must see.

Summer features such box-office staples as Will Smith, Adam Sandler, Ben Stiller and Jack Black, and brings back beloved characters such as Indiana Jones, Batman, Speed Racer, Carrie and her “Sex and the City” gal pals, the “Narnia” kids, the Incredible Hulk and two very different agent couples: paranormal troupers Mulder and Scully and comic spies Maxwell Smart and Agent 99.

A look at the lineup:

JULY 11: Brendan Fraser finally offers scientific proof that there is an albino dinosaur at the Earth’s core _ and he does it in 3-D.

“Journey to the Center of the Earth” is a modern twist on Jules Verne’s classic tale presented entirely in three-dimensional digital video that practically sets the characters and effects in the audience’s lap.

Gimmicky old 3-D films “made the brain and eyeballs do calisthenics. Frankly, it made you feel kind of queasy and ill,” Fraser said. “This allows you to live in the environment that the actors inhabit.”

The weekend’s other big name, Eddie Murphy, gets to inhabit his own weird environment _ himself _ in the comedy “Meet Dave.”

Murphy stars as the leader of a group of tiny aliens scouting Earth because their own race is endangered. They blend in with humanity by tooling about in a ship that looks just like Eddie Murphy.

“He’s robotic and not quite in control of his form, his human form,” said co-star Elizabeth Banks. “Eddie’s performance, he has a lot of naivete about the world around him. He comes off as being extremely strange and odd, and that naivete translates very nicely into charm.”

From the Urbana Daily Citizen

History will provide many interpretations of George W. Bush, his life & times. Here comes the cinematic version. Oliver Stone, a three-time Academy Award winning film director and screenwriter, is making a film on President George W. Bush (simply called W) and would be shot in Louisiana. Bush experts have already begun to dissect the screenplay.

W would come as a farewell gift to Mr Bush who could view it from the comfort of the White House before he leaves office next January. This is Stone’s third film about a US president, following Nixon and JFK.

“The director has been an outspoken critic of President Bush’s policy in Iraq. Mr Bush will be played by Josh Brolin (see photo above), who starred in the Coen brothers’ No Country for Old Men. Laura Bush is being played by Elizabeth Banks, who starred in The 40-Year-Old Virgin,” reports The Independent.

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Elizabeth has been added as a confirmed guest at this year’s Met Costume Institute Ball. The event is being held on May 5 in New York City… Here are a couple of news snippets talking about the event and Elizabeth’s involvement.

As the biggest singular fashion event of the year approaches — The Met’s Costume Institute Gala on May 5 — designers have already started to announce which celebrities they are bringing as guests.

Francisco Costa of Calvin Klein revealed that he is dressing Fergie and Liv Tyler — no surprise there, since he’s brought Liv to the event the past couple of years. He hinted that Fergie and Liv weren’t his only two guests, but wouldn’t name any more names.

Meanwhile, Miuccia Prada has invited recent Oscar-winner Tilda Swinton and actress Elizabeth Banks to accompany her.

Remember, this year the Gala’s theme is superheroes, so it will be interesting to see how much the attendees play into that. I can’t wait!

BALL GAME: Tilda Swinton will go to the Met Costume Institute Ball as a guest of Miuccia Prada, according to a source. The American actress Elizabeth Banks also is said to have been invited by the house. A surprise installation is in store for the centerpiece of the Prada table at the event, meanwhile, in the form of a living art installation

From Fab Sugar and WWD

Q. Is it true that Oliver Stone is making a movie about the presidency of George W. Bush? - N.F.

A. No; Stone, who has ventured into presidential films before with JFK and Nixon, is making a film about Bush, but it’s about his formative years, not his presidential ones. Josh Brolin has been chosen to portray W., with Elizabeth Banks as Laura, Ellen Burstyn as his mother, Barbara, and James Cromwell as George H.W. Bush. The film starts shooting later this month, and Stone has promised to have it in theaters in time for the election.

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