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Is The Big Bang Theory’s Cast Worth a 285% Raise?

The telegenic nerds of The Big Bang Theory are renewed for their fourth season, but months ahead of their new time-slot debut, the show’s three main stairs want hefty raises : a 285-percent increase from $65,000 to $250,000 an episode. Big Bang Theory ‘s ratings jumped in season three to about 14.2 million viewers each week, nearly double its first season draw. Still, a six-figure raise is the kind of maneuver usually associated with a bona-fide frontliner like Charlie Sheen, not ensembles (unless you count Friends ). Is this trio in the wrong?

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Is The Big Bang Theory’s Cast Worth a 285% Raise?

On Demand: Indie Insurgency

Ultra-indies (and Noah Baumbach) dominate the week on-demand — all the better to feed your inner malcontent, opt out of the “event” movie business, and keep it cheap and at home…

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REVIEW: Marmaduke Slobbers its Way to Kid-Flick Mediocrity

The big-screen comic adaptation no one was waiting for, Marmaduke has arrived, and all the questions you never had are answered at last: Is Marmaduke still a hilariously big dog? Who exasperates his owners? Will live-action technology be used to render his flatulence in real time? Does he try on bikinis and say “Ack ack ack!”? A creaky comic strip whose mediocrity has become a brand interchangeable with that of fellow syndicate mainstays Family Circus and Cathy , Marmaduke was inexplicably chosen to drive a feature vehicle; at least Garfield had the “talking cat” thing going on. Ah, but lo: Marmaduke speaks! And when that giant, slobbering pup turns to the camera, jowls digitally jiggling, and Owen Wilson’s wobbly voice comes out, that final unasked question is put to bed: Will your worst fears be realized? Yes. Yes they will.

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REVIEW: Marmaduke Slobbers its Way to Kid-Flick Mediocrity

Moment of Truth: Living in Emergency Gets Real With Doctors Without Borders

Welcome back to Moment of Truth, Movieline’s weekly spotlight on the best in nonfiction cinema. Today we hear from director Mark Hopkins and doctors Chiara Lepora and Arnaud Jeannin, three of the principals behind Living in Emergency: Stories of Doctors Without Borders, which opens this week in New York, Los Angeles and five other cities (with more to come throughout June). If you ever think you’ve got it rough at your job, have a look at the daily agendas handled by the team featured in the new documentary Living in Emergency: Stories of Doctors Without Borders . From Liberia to Congo, from war zone to hot zone, the surgeons and pathologists here battle a succession of obstacles in their pursuit to bring medical care to people who need it most. These really are their stories — and they’re riveting.

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Can You Find the Leaked Thor Concept Art in This Picture?

Hot on the heels of the leaked Marvel concept art that gave us our first look at Chris Evans in his Captain America costume, Collider’s gotten similar pictures that show Chris Hemsworth as Thor. Just to make things fun, we’ve hidden it in a photo collage above, but if you’re having trouble picking out which is the real concept art and which is just a videogame character, we’ve got the full-sized image below. Enjoy!

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Sarah Silverman Loses It

The sexual oversharing stakes were recently upped when Alison Brie wrote a story about her early days as a self-described “Queen of Copulation.” Now it’s Sarah Silverman’s turn, and in an excerpt from her new book published on Nerve, she details the bloody loss of her virginity. It’s actually kind of sweet, and the only objectionable gross-out joke comes at Mario Cantone’s expense. Who knew? [ Nerve ]

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QUACK-QUACK! Where to Find This Week’s Awesomest Critical Skirmish

So there’s this documentary called Burzynski opening this week in New York City. I haven’t seen it and had never even heard of it before last night. But oh, what an introduction at The Village Voice , where critic Ella Taylor — perhaps still rinsing bile residue after her Sex and the City 2 takedown — absolutely trashed the film, its subject and its director. And then came the defenders trashing Taylor. Wait — what the hell is a Burzynski again?

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Farewell, Old Christine

Warner Bros. TV has officially pulled the plug on The New Adventures of Old Christine . After CBS surprisingly canceled Christine last month, ABC toyed with the idea of reviving the Julia Louis-Dreyfus series but could not afford the license fee. The network opted out of reviving the other hit that CBS canceled unexpectedly, Ghost Whisperer , last week. [ Deadline ]

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On DVD: When the Wolfbane Blooms…

You may have to be an old-school psychotronica fan to get all flushed about The Wolfman , the big-budget, bandwagon-jumping remake famous at this point only for bad reviews and a brief box-office fizzle in February. It’s a schizophrenic movie at heart, longing to be a big ker-splash the pleases the hordes but at the same time wallow in the deep pools of yesteryear “monster culture” with which not many filmgoers under 35 will be intimate. Even among those of us older than that, only a small slice will have seen the original Wolfman (1941), can recall Famous Monsters of Filmland magazine and The Monster Times, harbor memories of local TV station “horror hosts,” and can name the four actors that played the Frankenstein monster in the ’30s-’40s Universal series, in order.

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3 Better Ideas for an LGBT-Based Reality Series Than Logo’s ‘Gay Housewives’

The cast members of Logo’s upcoming “Gay Housewives” series (first called Kept , now called The A List ) comprise a lame procession of models and other, model-shaped people. Former Lance Bass paramour Reichen Lehmkuhl was no more intriguing in 2005 than he is now, and regrettably, the onetime Amazing Race winner is the biggest name slated for the new series. Boring! In 2010, it’s bizarre that a legitimate LGBT -based non-competition reality series has yet to emerge. We’ve thought of three shows we’d love to see in primetime, the kinds of shows that could educate and scintillate.

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