'Lorax,' 'Project X,' And More: Double Feature Friday!

If one movie is never enough for you and you're looking for a flick to get you in the mood for this week's new release, Double Feature Friday is here to help. Every week we break down the new releases and pair them with older movies that you should catch before heading out to the theater. Or just skip the new movie and check out the classic we recommend. "Dr. Seuss' The Lorax" & "The Day After Tomorrow" The connection between these two is a simple cause and effect. "Dr. Seuss' The Lorax" preaches an environmentalist message, and "The Day After Tomorrow" teaches us that if we pollute, wolves will hunt us down in the frozen tundra of Manhattan and eat us. Strangely enough, "The Lorax" functions as a spot-on prequel to "The Day After Tomorrow," only less cartoonish. And if you're a parent and your child asks what happens next as you walk out of "The Lorax," you can turn to him and say, "Son, let me show you. Let me show you." "Project X" & "Scott Pilgrim vs. The World" One of the several factors that doomed Edgar Wright's "Scott Pilgrim vs. The World" was the amazing hype built up by the movie blogs and film journalists who heralded the film as a masterpiece and a sure-fire hit. When it opened and subsequently bombed, many quickly dismissed it and moved on with their lives. Michael Bacall, who co-wrote the "Scott Pilgrim" screenplay with Wright, now has a new movie coming out this week and gives you the perfect excuse to give "Scott Pilgrim" a second look. Separated from all the hype and inflated expectations, the movie stands up pretty well. "Being Flynn" & "Taxi Driver" The Robert De Niro of the 70s and 80s, the actor of a generation, may be gone forever. His big budget efforts earn unintentional laughs, while his lower-budget films, like "Being Flynn," only receive middling reviews. It's bad enough to mourn an actor while he's still working, but then he has to go and stir up old memories by playing a cab driver in "Being Flynn." So instead of torturing yourself with visions of what we've lost, remember the good times with the Scorsese classic and one of the best movies of the 70s. Plus, it recently received a great restoration for a Blu-ray release. "Tim and Eric's Billion Dollar Movie" & "Monty Python's The Meaning of Life" As completely out there in their own world as Tim & Eric seem, their inspiration comes from one of the most famous comedy troupes of all time. The absurdist humor that Tim & Eric have carved out a niche with really came into fashion in the 1970s with "Monty Python's Flying Circus." The strangeness of Tim & Eric owes so much to Graham Chapman, John Cleese, Terry Gilliam, Eric Idle, Terry Jones and Micahel Palin, even if it seems tame by today's standards. What do you plan on watching this weekend? Let us know in the comments below and on Twitter!

Activision Boss joins Coca-Cola board

The Coca-Cola Co. has chosen Activision Blizzard leader and Boss Bobby Kotick towards the company's board of company directors. Included in the move, Kotick was hired towards the Atlanta-based company's management development committee. "Bobby brings an business mindset and an advanced of monetary literacy and digital understanding to the company," stated Muhtar Kent, chairman-Boss from the Coca-Cola Co. "His global brand expertise and insight is going to be invaluable once we keep growing our business and purchase improving our digital engagement with customers and clients all over the world.Inch Activision Blizzard, the earth's biggest videogame writer, is behind such franchises as "Wow,Inch "StarCraft" and "Cod,Inch the very best-selling title during the last many years, breaking sales records with every release. Kotick has offered as Boss of Activision since 1991. From 2003-08, Kotick also offered like a director of Yahoo. Contact Marc Graser at marc.graser@variety.com

Exclusive: Go Behind the curtain of Hulu's New Series Battleground

Battleground Hulu is not only the place where one can use view television shows you missed any more. On Tuesday, the web site launches its first original scripted series Battleground - and we've got a behind-the-moments think about the show.Watch My Show: Battleground's JD Walsh and Marc Webb answer our showrunner surveyCreated by JD Walsh (two and a half Males) and executive-produced by Marc Webb (500 Occasions of Summer season, The Astounding Spiderman), the 13-episode faux-documentary comedy follows youthful campaign employees in Wisconsin that are running the campaign in the distant third-place Senate candidate. (Think Work plus politics.) The cast is introduced by Jay Hayden as campaign manager Chris "Tak" Davis in addition to features The Voice's former social media correspondent Alison Haislip.See the exclusive clips below to get the lowdown around the program from Walsh as well as the cast.

Bill Hinzman dies at 75

Actor and filmmaker Bill Hinzman, most broadly noted for his role since the first zombie shambling across a graveyard in George Romero's "Evening in the Living Dead," died of cancer Feb. 5 in Darlington, Pa. He was 75. The 1968 horror pic launched Hinzman around the extended career of creepy roles using what many envisage to think will be a new horror genre. His other film credits include "The Crazies" (1973), "Flesheater" (1988) and "Legion in the Evening" (1995). His last movie role reaches last year's "River of Darkness."Hinzman also labored just like a cinematographer, beginning with "The Crazies," and directed, additionally to starred in, "Flesheater" and "The Majorettes" (1987).In line with the Chicago Sun-occasions, he's managed to get by his wife, Bonita, a daughter, his mother, two brothers and sisters together with a daughter. Contact Variety Staff at news@variety.com

American Idol's Danny Gokey Will got married

Danny Gokey and Leyicet Peralta The The American Idol Show Show alum Danny Gokey is becoming married, People reviews.Gokey got married model Leyicet Peralta on Sunday in Florida before 100 pals and family. "We are so grateful to own found each other now be capable of spend the comfort within our lives together," the happy couple mentioned in the statement. "We pray our gratitude evolves more each day because there is lots for people to accomplish now."Idol's Danny Gokey is engagedThis might be the 2nd marriage for Gokey, 31, who infamously lost his wife, Sophia, monthly before his Season 8 Idol audition in 2008 after heart surgery. He later established a children's foundation, Sophia's Heart, in their title. Gokey, who finished third on Idol, and Peralta, 25, asked for their site visitors that gifts be like a donation to Sophia's Heart.The pair got engaged lately.

Christmas date for 'Playing the Field'

FilmDistrict has moved back its opening of romantic comedy "Playing the Area" from March 9 to Xmas Day. "Playing the Area" might have faced competition around the earlier date from Disney's "John Carter," Sony's "Think Just like a Guy," Relativity's "The Raven" and Open Road's "Quiet House." Christmas features a set of Leonardo DiCaprio game titles -- "The Truly Amazing Gatsby" from Warner Bros. and "Django Unchained" in the Weinstein Co. "Playing the Area" stars Gerard Butler and Jessica Biel together with Judy Greer, Dennis Quaid, Uma Thurman and Catherine Zeta-Johnson. Story focuses on the homecoming of the upon the market soccer professional whose glory days are behind him, moves to Virginia to reunite together with his estranged ex-wife and neglected boy and begins to teach the boys' team. FilmDistrict, released this year by Graham King and Tim Headington, acquired domestic privileges to "Playing" from Nu Image/Millenium throughout last year's Cannes Film Festival. A spokesperson for FilmDistrict indicated Thursday the date change is made to make the most of holidays moviegoing. The change comes per month after FilmDistrict decided to a 3-film distribution cope with Open Road, to which Open Road will release scifier "Avoid M.S. One," starring Guy Pearce and Maggie Sophistication, on April 20, and also the "Red-colored Beginning" remake on November. 2. The 3rd film has not been selected. Contact Dork McNary at dork.mcnary@variety.com

Ratings: Downton Abbey Debuts Strong The Bachelor Lower Again

Downton Abbey What's this?!? There's some composed of taste?!? Downton Abbey's Season 2 premiere averaged 4.2 million audiences. Nielsen data on Tuesday shown the Emmy-winning series' return Sunday evening bending the normal PBS prime-time rating, and marked an 18 percent hop within the show's first-season average - which made PBS ecstatic. PBS Leader/Boss Paula Kerger mentioned: "I'm so pleased that audiences have clustered for his or her local PBS station and Downton Abbey to relish the very best drama on television this season.In . Read our recap in the Bachelor The second installment in the Bachelor, however, which first demonstrated the other day to 7.74 million audiences (lower about 13 percent when compared with this past year, declined to 7.24 million, or about 7 percent, preliminary Nielsen data shows. Week 2 also saw a decrease with a 2.2 rating from 2.4 among industry-valued 18-to-49-year-olds. Despite the fact that eventual cable amounts surely might have the national football league and nfl and college football national title game involving the Alabama Crimson Tide and LSU Tigers was most likely probably the most-seen program on television Monday evening, fans apparently weren't everything psyched to look for the rematch. It attracted a 13.8 overnight rating, lower fourteen percent from a year ago as well as the worst rating since 2002. Since it switched out, it absolutely was a lesser year (about ten percent) for your bowl games on ESPN, as theRose, Orange and Sugar Bowls, together with the BCS title game, all declined this season. See the relaxation in the day's news on TVGuide.com 8 p.m.CBS: The Way In Which I Met Your Mother [rerun] 6.52 million audiences (2.2 demo rating) 2 Broke Women [rerun] 7.22 million (2.4)ABC: The Bachelor 7.24 million (2.2) Fox: House [rerun] 3.26 million (1.)NBC: Who's Still Standing? 6.17 million (1.6)CW: Gossip Girl [rerun] 739,000 (.3) 9 p.m.CBS: two and a half Males [rerun] 8.33 million audiences (2.2 demo rating) Mike & Molly [rerun] 7.80 million (2.3)NBC: Fear Factor 5.47 million (2.2)Fox: House [rerun] 3.28 million (1.2)CW: Hart of Dixie [rerun] 850,000 (.3) 10 p.m.CBS: Hawaii Five- [rerun] 6.04 million audiences (1.6 demo rating)ABC: Castle 9.75 million (2.3)NBC: Rock Center with John Williams 2.84 million (.6)