Week in Review - 'Avatar,' MGM, 'Kick-Ass'

Usually, there's one big story that dominates the week's headlines. That's not the case this week, although there's enough variety in the show bidness news that it was still a pretty compelling few days. For example, one report has the budget for James Cameron's Avatar ballooning to about $500 million after all the pennies are counted. The obvious talking point is not whether or not it will make money but how much money it would take to be considered a hit. Elsewhere, we saw a couple great trailers (Clash of the Titans and Kick-Ass) and we learned that Sony thinks very highly of Cloudy with a Chance of Meatballs, to the point that the studio is promoting early home video rentals for the completely reasonable price of $25. Uh-huh. Cha-ching: Avatar is really expensive Martin Lawrence and Jamie Foxx making a Sheneneh movie...at last! Will Smith to update Flowers for Algernon? How in the world do you make a Sgt. Rock movie not set in WWII? Dig the new Clash of the Titans trailer Huh? This is the best idea they could come up with for Monopoly Great, now Dane Cook wants to play The Riddler Hot damn: The Kick-Ass trailer So...you can rent Cloudy with a Chance of Meatballs for $25...Yeah The end is nigh for MGM