Weekend Recap: Streep's Bad Habit, Akira, Avengers, and More

Even though this weekend wasn't as busy as we've seen in the summer, and will again in the fall, there were plenty of stories we covered here at The Big Picture (and that others covered as well) that might be of interest to you. So if you did nothing but watch football over the past two days or if - heaven forbid - you were actually productive, here are some headlines you might want to brush up on:

Roger Ebert responds to the incident at the Toronto Film Festival in which another film critic swatted Ebert with a rolled-up binder.

Meryl Streep looks Oscar-ready in this new trailer for Doubt.

Here's your first look at Heath Ledger's final film, The Imaginarium of Dr. Parnassus.

Joseph Gordon-Levitt denies he's been cast in a live-action version of Akira.

Burn After Reading takes the weekend box office crown.

Eva Longoria wants to be in The Avengers?

And from around the web...

Kung-Fu Panda sequel coming on DVD this November (\film)

Ozzy Osbourne documentary in the works (First Showing)

Something called Doomsday Protocol cost Fox over a million bucks (CHUD)

Friday the 13th gets an unnecessary restored DVD release (Bloody Disgusting)

Hitchcock: Showman or Psycho (Times of London)