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For people who wanna check out Jennifer Lopez’s triumphant return to Hollywood: The Back-up Plan

If this year’s releases are any indication, apparently America isn’t interested in romcoms about artificial insemination. Who knew?

Days ago, the Jason Bateman/Jennifer Aniston-fronted The Switch crashed and burned at the box office, raking in just $8.4 million at 2,000+ engagements. Earlier this year, Jennifer Lopez’s The Back-Up Plan, released today on the home media market, didn’t do much better with $12.2 million over three days. At 3,200+ locations, that one’s per-theater average was actually about $500 less than The Switch’s.

Critical opinion wasn’t much better – especially in Back-Up’s case. Over at Rotten Tomatoes, just 21% of critics had positive things to say about the flick, about a woman who conceives twins through AI on the same day that she meets the man of her dreams. Oh, Hollywood.

Penned by Kate Angelo, the movie marked the TV writer-producer’s debut movie. Prior to The Back-Up Plan, she worked on What About Brian, Will & Grace, The Bernie Mac Show and Becker.

Disc includes: Deleted scenes, Making Of featurette, Jennifer Lopez interview

For people who don’t get seasick: Pirates of the Caribbean Trilogy [Blu-ray]

When that first teaser for Pirates of the Caribbean: On Stranger Tides gets released in probably the next couple months, the country will be all atwitter over what beholds Jack Sparrow and the rest of the gang (save for Will Turner and Elizabeth Swann) we’ve come to know over Pirates of the Caribbean’s first three movies.

Before that happens, Disney is releasing the (first?) trilogy in a convenient Blu-ray package. 'Tis a pity movies two and three aren’t anywhere near as good as the first movie. Yet maybe in time I’ll come to like ‘em more, like the Matrix trilogy.

The Curse of the Black Pearl disc includes: An Epic at Sea featurette, The Making Of featurette, Fly on the Set featurette, blooper reel

Dead Man’s Chest disc includes: Liar’s Dice: Interact with Real Pirates from the Movie game, Captain Jack: Secrets and Legends Revealed by Johnny Depp and Others featurette, Meet Davy Jones: The Creation, Mystery and mythology of the Sea’s Ghostly Ruler featurette, Bloopers of the Caribbean featurette

At World’s End disc includes: Enter the Maelstrom featurette, Bloopers of the Caribbean featurette, Keith and the Captain: On Set with Johnny Depp and the Rock Legend featurette, Anatomy of a Scene: The Maelstrom featurette, The Tale of Many Jacks featurette

August 24, 2010
Blu-ray
$5 a Day
2:22
Abandoned
Ajami
The Back-up Plan
City Island
Death Note Collection
Dorian Gray
Essential Holiday Collection
Fullmetal Alchemist: Brotherhood Part 2
George A. Romero's Survival of the Dead (Ultimate Edition)
The Great Rift
Late Fee
The Long Good Friday
Lost: The Complete Sixth and Final Season
Machine Gun McCain
Mona Lisa
The Pixies: Acoustic & Electric
Redemption
Shogun Assassin (30th Anniversary Edition)
The Simpsons: The Complete Thirteenth Season
The Square
Time Bandits
The Universe: Our Solar System
Withnail & I
Zakk Wylde's Black Label Society: Boozed, Broozed
Pirates of the Caribbean Trilogy

DVD
$5 a Day
2:22
90210: The Second Season
Abandoned
Ajami
Ax Men: The Complete Season Three
The Back-up Plan
City Island
Dorian Gray
Electric Light Orchestra: Live The Early Years
Flight of the Conchords: The Complete Collection (Set)
George A. Romero's Survival of the Dead (Ultimate Edition)
Gossip Girl: The Complete Third Season
The Great Rift
Lost: The Complete Sixth and Final Season
Machine Gun McCain
NCIS: Seasons 1-7 (Set)
NCIS: The Seventh Season
Pawn Stars: Season Two
The Pixies: Acoustic & Electric
Redemption
Shogun Assassin (30th Anniversary Edition)
The Simpsons: The Complete Thirteenth Season
The Square
The Universe: Our Solar System

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