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Steve Martin and Alec Baldwin are set to host the 82nd annual Academy Awards live on the air March 7, 2009 on ABC.

Sounds like quite a gig for Baldwin while Martin has hosted the celebrated show twice before.

I don’t think either one is much of a song and dance man, perhaps Martin is a bit.

Should prove to be an interesting match.

Martin and Baldwin star in the movie It’s Complicated with Meryl Streep.  Enjoy this interview — funny!

(HQ) Meryl Streep, Alec Baldwin, Steve Martin – Interview on the Set of “It’s Complicated” – The best bloopers are here

Battlestar Galactica: The Plan is available on Blu-ray Hi-Def and DVD from Universal Studios Home Entertainment. For the first time ever, fans can experience the uncut and uncensored story of humanity’s futuristic fight for survival through the eyes of their deadly adversaries, the Cylons. 

Watching some of the scenes in The Plan are only appropriate for an R-rating.  If you are a Battlestar Galactica fan, you’ll love this movie because all the familiar characters are in the story. 

This never-before-seen perspective of the Cylon plan reunites the series’ original television cast, including Emmy Award winner Edward James Olmos (Stand and Deliver), Dean Stockwell (JAG), Tricia Helfer (Burn Notice), Grace Park (The Cleaner) and Callum Keith Rennie (Californication). 

Battlestar Galactica: The Plan includes the uncensored 90-minute feature and revealing bonus features that take viewers onto the set of the most unexpected twist ever in the intergalactic saga’s history. Interactive features available exclusively on Blu-ray Hi-Def include the new Battlestar Galactica Trivia Game, plus stunning visuals with perfect picture and the purest digital sound available and no commercials!

Screenhead has a copy of Battlestar Galactica: The Plan to give away to a lucky winner.  Post your name and we will pick the winner Monday, November 23, 2009.

To break bread with Edward James Olmos, known to the vast legion of Battlestar Galactica fans as “Admiral Adama” is an occasion as rare as the Eye of Jupiter! However, one lucky Battlestar Galactica fan will be granted this very special opportunity, should he or she prove worthy! Go to www.ugo.com/battlestarcontest for details on how you can share a dinner table with the Admiral himself, Edward James Olmos!

Tracy P.  is our winner of The Next Iron Chef Prize Package Giveaway — Congratulations!

The Next Iron Chef :

Sunday nights 9:00 P.M./8:00 P.M. Central

THe Finale is November 22, 2009

The ten contestants include: Nate Appleman (Chef/Butcher, New York, NY), Dominique Crenn (Chef de Cuisine, Luce at InterContinental San Francisco, San Francisco, CA), Brad Farmerie (Executive Chef, Double Crown, Madam Geneva, PUBLIC and The Monday Room, New York, NY), Amanda Freitag (Executive Chef, The Harrison, New York, NY), Jose Garces (Executive Chef & Owner, Amada, Tinto, Distrito, Chifa, Philadelphia, PA), Eric Greenspan (Executive Chef & Owner, The Foundry on Melrose, Los Angeles, CA), Jehangir Mehta (Executive Chef & Owner, Graffiti, New York, NY), Seamus Mullen (Executive Chef & Partner, Boqueria Flatiron and Boqueria Soho, New York, NY), Holly Smith(Chef & Owner, Cafe Juanita and Poco Carretto Gelato, Kirkland, WA) and Roberto Treviño (Executive Chef & Owner, Budatai, San Juan, PR).

Screenhead has teamed up with the Food Network and Namco Bandai Games just in time for the holidays to unveil Food Network: Cook or Be Cooked for Wii. This new game is designed to teach players real, practical cooking skills using their Wii Remote and Nunchuk. From introductory lessons to more advanced challenges, Food Network: Cook or Be Cooked might make you a star chef.

With more than 30 recipes developed by the expert chefs of the Food Network Kitchens, the game delivers a truly authentic food experience from prep to plate. Realistic and fun challenges let Food Networkviewers; enthusiastic chefs and even kitchen-cowards perfect their culinary techniques mess-free with the motion-based Wii Remote and Nunchuk simulating an array of kitchen tools and utensils. From cracking an egg, to oiling a pan, to seasoning the perfect steak, Food Network: Cook or Be Cooked is designed to take the cooking experience from practice to practical, teaching skills that can ultimately be applied in the real kitchen, for a real-life delicious meal.

There are never too many cooks in the kitchen with this game. Friends and family can cook all recipes side-by-side in cooperative Hot Potato mode for up to four players, or have a competitive split-screen cook-off with two players. This game is the perfect gift for all the foodies or aspiring chefs on your holiday list.

Post your name now for your chance to win a one of two copies of Food Network: Cook or Be Cookedcourtesy of Food Network and Namco Bandai Games.  Screenhead will pick the two winners Friday, November 20, 2009.

Sunday, November 1, 2009 on one of the biggest sports days of the year – NFL match ups plus Game 4 of the World Series – James Cameron’s Avatar trailer will get the world’s biggest live trailer viewing when it debuts on the world’s largest video display — Cowboy Stadium’s Diamond Vision Screen – while millions of football fans watch it at home. 

FOX Sports will take the entire country viewing FOX NFL SUNDAY, America’s No. 1 NFL pre-game show, to Arlington, Texas and the new Cowboys Stadium, where the three minute and thirty second trailer will play live from the enormous Mitsubishi Electric Diamond Vision screen. 

The crowd attending the Cowboys-Seattle Seahawks game will experience the Avatar trailer live just minutes prior to the noon (Central) kickoff between the Cowboys and Seahawks, on the enormous, four-sided, high-definition screen that hangs above the Cowboys Stadium playing field.  At the same time, millions of others watching FOX NFL SUNDAY will see the trailer on-air – making it the largest live motion picture trailer viewing in history.

In addition, throughout the day ninety-second Avatar commercial spots will air on all regional games carried on the Fox affiliates, the national game on Fox, and the World Series on Fox.

Avatar opens in theaters everywhere December 18.

The Guardian, the dramatic legal TV series starring Simon Baker, on DVD with the First Season in a 6 disc set, including all 22 first season episodes. In stores now from Paramount and CBS Home Entertainment, but you can win a copy here at Screenhead!

The Guardian is truly a captivating legal drama starring Simon Baker (The Mentalist), is available now on a six-disc DVD set featuring all 22 riveting first season episodes from CBS Home Entertainment and Paramount Home Entertainment.

When a hotshot corporate lawyer has a run-in with the law and is sentenced to 1,500 hours of community service, he becomes The Guardian – a part-time child advocate at Legal Aid Services, where one case after another is an eye-opening instance of kids caught up in difficult circumstances. The Guardian garnered a host of industry acclaim with Simon Baker earning a Golden Globe nomination for the lead role.

Post your name and Screenhead will pick the 9 winners Thursday, November 19, 2009.

Heather M. (94) and Tim Hughs (108) are the winners of the exclusive giveway package.

Screenhead has an exclusive Community giveaway opportunity for our loyal visitors! In anticipation of Community, each prize pack includes all these great goodies (as you can see in the image): 

• Cooler
• Beer Stein (Greendale Community College)
• Pencil
• Magnet
• Water bottle
• Key-chain Bottle Opener 

Community is about a band of misfits at Greendale Community College, lead by Jeff Winger (Joel McHale), who form a study group where they eventually learn more about themselves than the course of work they are studying.

Well, you’ve got to applaud a cable channel that’s so almost-relevant that people probably only watch it for an average of ten seconds or less (how long does it take to get the ten day forecast, anyway?) for trying to introduce a reason to get people to hang around.

They’re showing movies now, you see, and they’ll even include occasional bouts of weather related commentary.

And there are a LOT of weather-related movies out there.  The Sci Fi Channel (still refuse to call it SyFy) shows them nigh-relentlessly at least one block a weekend.  Movies about earthquakes, tornadoes, blizzards, really unlikely solar phenomena–you name it, it’s here.  But these are not the movies the Weather Channel will be showing.

Their first title, admittedly, works:  it’s The Perfect Storm.  Has “Storm” right in the title–can’t get a whole lot more relevant.  But their followup is a bit weak.  The next three movies they plan to show are March of the Penguins, Misery and Deep Blue Sea.

Apparently it counts as long as there’s something weather-oriented in the movie.  Next thing you know they’ll show Clue because it has a thunderstorm in it.  Come on, guys–this is the weakest of weak sauce.  You too good to show Twister?  Storm of the Century?  There’s all kinds of weather movies you could show before resorting to Kathy Bates hobbling a dude.

You can do BETTER, Weather Channel.

And just when you think a  movie about the creation of Facebook is strange. News is just in that Julian Jarrold, director of Becoming Jane and the remake of Brideshead Revisited, is in talks to direct a film charting the rise of Paul Potts. And who is Paul Potts? No, it’s not about the leader of Cambodia’s communist movement (now THAT would be an interesting film). Paul was the rather shy young man who wowed the audience of Britain’s Got Talent with this video of him singing an operatic aria. The clip has raked in millions of hits since it hit Youtube in 2007. Since then Paul has gone on to release two albums and has sold them in the millions.

But do we really need to see the story of this in movie form? The majority of winners of these .. Got Talent or.. Idol TV shows seem to end up as one-hit wonders, quickly releasing a record to cash in on the immediate success, and then swifly fading away into cabaret hell. And besides Potts’s rise to fame and fortune, is there really enough dramatic material to warrant 90 minutes? And even if there was, it seems almost futile to portray such backstories when our TV’s and PCs are already inundated with video clips and gap-filling retrospective shows, bringing us through the tabloid headlines covering their lives (and it’s not like this story will be new to a US audience, as in 2008 America’s Got Talent found their own Potts in Neal Boyd). Or will we be surprised by a film of Beckettian wit, in which a man stands in a  mobile-phone store for hours waiting for something to happen? It seems unlikely that a film of Potts would be anything more than a dull biopic, detailing the major facts of his life,  offering little more than a sadly excessive 15 minutes of fame, and deservedly ending up as a Saturday afternoon TV movie.