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Like a crisp Rocky Mountain morning, ABC's Dynasty (1981-1989) premieres on DVD in its sparkling first season, featuring the best scripts and cast of the glamorous series' nine-year run. With a manufacturer's suggested retail price of $39.98, the 13-episode season includes the original three-hour movie, Oil, and additional features on four double-sided discs in two plain snap cases. The package, lacking printed material, is a bit chintzy, but fans will welcome the transition of this larger than life television soap opera to DVD.

Packing punch, The Interpreter, directed by Sydney Pollack (Out of Africa), delivers solid suspense with pacifistic propaganda. Setting a conventional thriller to a head-spinning whodunit with shrewd use of Sean Penn's scrappiness, Mr. Pollack presents his most intelligent mystery since Absence of Malice.

BURBANK, CA, April 22, 2005—Today, Warner Bros. Pictures unveiled the first image from the highly anticipated action adventure Superman Returns, starring newcomer Brandon Routh as the Man of Steel. Bryan SingerJames MarsdenParker Posey

A notch lower than mediocre, director Nigel Cole's romantic comedy, A Lot Like Love, is what used to be called a stinker. Amanda Peet plays a trollop named Emily, and Ashton Kutcher is a dim bulb named Oliver. Together, they manage to stay awake amid some of the year's worst blather.

Treating an upset as an afterthought, The Game of Their Lives hasn't any focal point. Writer Angelo Pizzo and director David Anspaugh, who brought audiences to cheer for the basketball team in Hoosiers and for the football player known as Rudy, put the true sports story formula to soccer and come up short of a goal.

Poised to be an international blockbuster, The Interpreter recorded an $8.7 million weekend from 16 territories—especially potent considering its limited 1,157 screen count. In the United Kingdom, the Nicole Kidman-Sean Penn thriller debuted at No. 1 with $3.0 million from 367 screens, 22 percent ahead of fellow opener The Amityville Horror and comparable to The Bourne Identity. In Australia, The Interpreter notched a solid $1.3 million from 201 screens, and, in Spain, it was tops with $1.9 million at 196 screens, 20 percent higher than The Bourne Supremacy and two percent ahead of Collateral. Vin DieselSandra Bullock

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SUPERHEROES UNITE MAY 18 ON THE WB Christopher NolanChristian BaleKatie HolmesGary OldmanMorgan FreemanDavid S. Goyer

The weekend of April 15 was scary enough with Americans having to pay income taxes to the government, but MGM, in its last hurrah, piled on the fright with The Amityville Horror. Michael BayDrew BarrymoreRobert Rodriguez

Los Angeles, CA (April 14, 2005)—Brad Grey, Chairman and Chief Executive Officer of Paramount Pictures, today announced the promotion of Alli Shearmur to Co-President, Production for Paramount Pictures. Ms. Shearmur, formerly an executive vice president of production at Paramount, will oversee the day-to-day development and production of the studio's annual slate of films and literary acquisitions. Shearmur will report to Paramount Pictures President Gail Berman, who officially starts in May.

Beverly Hills, CA—The 20th annual Don and Gee Nicholl Fellowships in Screenwriting program of the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences will be accepting entries through May 2, Academy President Frank Pierson reminded writers today. Ehren KrugerSusannah Grant

The Ring Two remained atop a still soft overseas box office with $14.3 million from 46 territories. Most surprising for the horror sequel was Italy's top-ranked $2.7 million debut from 253 screens. Even though theatres closed on Friday for Pope John Paul II's funeral, the Italian market rose 34 percent from its previous weekend, which was depressed due to the Pope's death. The Ring Two topped its predecessor by 50 percent. It also played well in its Russian debut, grossing $1.8 million from 199 screens. Other openings included Chile ($178,800 from 31 screens), Indonesia ($139,071 from 39), Malaysia ($207,978 from 35) and Singapore ($163,564 from 24). With an overall total of $54.3 million so far, The Ring Two's overseas run will likely match its final domestic total (around $80 million). Will SmithNicole KidmanSean PennJohn TravoltaSandra Bullock

Beverly Hills, CA—A newly-restored print of 1967 Best Picture nominee The Graduate will be screened by the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences on Friday, May 6, at 8 p.m., in the Academy's Samuel Goldwyn Theater. The film's Academy Award-winning director, Mike Nichols, will be the evening's special guest. Dustin Hoffman

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It's fitting that in an arid market the top movie would be called Sahara. At $87 million, overall weekend business was the weakest of the year and lower than any frame last April. Matthew McConaugheyJerry BruckheimerAdam SandlerDrew BarrymoreMike MyersRobert RodriguezVin Diesel

With disease, danger and treasure, Sahara has the basic elements for a decent adventure picture. A daring swashbuckler (Matthew McConaughey, who also executive produced) rescues a long-haired beauty (Penelope Cruz) and, paired with his smart aleck sidekick (Steve Zahn), knocks around Africa in search of a Civil War battleship. It is based on Clive Cussler's novel of the same name, so it is slightly more literate than the genre's usual collection of random thrills—The Mummy, The Scorpion King—but do not expect a compass on this journey. The last major movie made from a Cussler novel was Raise the Titanic 25 years ago. It is not hard to see why.

In the slowest weekend of the year to date, The Ring Two led the way with $16.3 million from 24 territories, including predictably sequel-like debuts and falls, for a $32.6 million foreign total to date. Hitch continued to be the fallback for many moviegoers, while Robots successfully lured in families. Sandra BullockWill SmithNicolas CageDwayne Johnson

True story movie subjects—boxers, racehorses, serial killers, but not the first men on the moon—reflect the lack of Hollywood's hero worship for America's astronauts. But Apollo 13, the movie, probably comes as close as the culture allows. It was ten years ago this summer that the movie blasted off at the box office—solidifying both director Ron Howard and actor Tom Hanks as top players in Tinseltown.

As news of Pope John Paul II's death dominated the weekend, moviegoers appear to have vindicated recent accusations that America is plagued by what religious radicals call a death culture—a charge lobbed by President George W. Bush in the wake of the Terri Schiavo case—by flocking to the ultra-violent Sin City. Robert RodriguezQuentin TarantinoClive OwenBruce WillisBrittany MurphyQueen LatifahJoan AllenKevin CostnerDrew Barrymore