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Nope — It’s Just Chuck Testa.

Did I mention it’s Friday? That entitles us to a little bit of off-topic fun — which is to say, the single greatest taxidermy commercial in the history of modern advertising. Don Draper couldn’t touch this. Click through for a look and the rest of your week-ending Buzz Break.

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Nope — It’s Just Chuck Testa.

Listen to a Folk Song Inspired By Poltergeist

Henning Ohlenbusch has more than just one of the most awesome names in contemporary music. He also now has a full-length album of songs inspired by movies. It’s quite the spectrum, too — Planes, Trains and Automobiles , The Straight Story , Amélie , Joe Versus the Volcano , Logan’s Run , Meatballs , The Year My Voice Broke , Superbad and, in an irresistible effort you can hear after the jump, a folk song inspired by that mellow, soothing cinematic bromide known as Poltergeist .

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Weekend Forecast: Will The Lion King 3D Rule the Box Office Jungle Again?

In this installment of Weekend Forecast, three new and (mostly) intriguing offerings vie at the box office: the Ryan Gosling showcase Drive , Sarah Jessica Parker’s I Don’t Know How She Does It , and Rod Lurie’s remake of Sam Peckinpah’s Straw Dogs . But will any of them be a match for the proven global box-office dazzle of Disney’s The Lion King 3D ?

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Weekend Forecast: Will The Lion King 3D Rule the Box Office Jungle Again?

Trailer: Rebecca Hall Is a World War I-Era Ghost Hunter in The Awakening

Have you heard about The Awakening yet? No, not the Kate Chopin novel about female empowerment or the Kate Beckinsale Underworld fourquel about vampire warrioress empowerment but Nick Murphy’s period thriller about 1920s ghost empowerment. Rebecca Hall stars as an author/skeptic who is invited to a creepy boarding school in World War I-era England to investigate a phantom boy. Naturally, things take a supernatural turn for the worse and, well, take a look for yourself in the trailer below.

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Trailer: Rebecca Hall Is a World War I-Era Ghost Hunter in The Awakening

REVIEW: I Don’t Know How She Does It Has Plenty of Fear and Loathing to Go Around

The title phrase of I Don’t Know How She Does It is lobbed repeatedly at intrepid working mom heroine Kate Reddy (Sarah Jessica Parker, who also provides a Sex and the City -style pontifical voiceover) throughout this alleged comedy, sometimes in celebration, sometimes out of envy or condescension. Inherent in it is a swirl of self-doubt and competition. To be a mother, director Douglas McGrath’s film suggests, is to be in the constant grip of guilt and judgment, worried that you’re not giving enough, convinced that others are doing things better or more correctly than you, soothed when they appear to be doing worse.

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Warrior Prize Pack Giveaway: We Have a Winner!

Let’s hear it for all the readers, fans and aspiring MMA fighters who participated in our 10-word review contest for Gavin O’C onnor’s Warrior , starring Tom Hardy, Joel Edgerton and Nick Nolte. We’ve received a plethora of thoughtful submissions but alas, we could only choose one as the winner. Click ahead to see whose knockout review earned him/her a prize pack of the ultimate Warrior memorabilia.

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Warrior Prize Pack Giveaway: We Have a Winner!

REVIEW: Lion King 3D Makes Refreshing Use of Extra Dimension

The Disney Digital 3D™ification of The Lion King for its theatrical re-release, a limited run meant to herald the arrival of new Blu-ray and 3-D Blu-ray editions like a baboon waving a newborn lion cub around at the top of a cliff, has prompted at least one blogger to suggest that this is an instance of the company “trying to ruin” her childhood. And while childhoods are very fragile things in the Internet age, prone to explode with the merest hint of contact with George Lucas’s latest doings or a Point Break remake or a Monopoly movie, I suspect in this case the outrage is as manufactured as the demand for these animated classics that are always being jerked back into the Disney Vault to be kept fresh for the next generation of susceptible children and their nostalgic parents. For most of the young audience members getting their first exposure to The Lion King , any theatrical experience, 3-D or not, is going to be dwarfed by repeated home viewings on TVs and smaller screens, again and again until the very cadences of the lines are etched permanently into their grey matter (“When he was a young warthog–” “When I was a young warthooooooooog!”).

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REVIEW: Lion King 3D Makes Refreshing Use of Extra Dimension

South Korean Romance Film Inspires Real-Life Break-Up Agency

If your romantic relationship is doomed to failure but you simply cannot summon the courage to end it, then boy, does China have the service for you! For the equivalent of anywhere between $15 and $30 USD, Chinese residents can hire a break-up agency to end their relationship. Is it cowardly? Yes! Painless? Yes! (Well, for you.) Inspired by a romance film? Yes again!

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South Korean Romance Film Inspires Real-Life Break-Up Agency

Surprise 8-Minute Girl with the Dragon Tattoo Trailer Makes A Case for the Fincher Remake

Over the summer, audiences got their first taste of David Fincher ‘s English-language version of The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo in the form of a “leaked” trailer that was either stolen and placed online or (more likely) a brilliantly secretive piece of marketing posed as an accidental viral phenomenon. This week something called Mouth Taped Shut ( http://mouth-taped-shut.com/ ) debuted announcing a special surprise attached to a number of “secret” regional screenings of upcoming Sony films Straw Dogs and Moneyball . That surprise turned out to be an eight-minute preview trailer for Fincher’s Dragon Tattoo .

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Surprise 8-Minute Girl with the Dragon Tattoo Trailer Makes A Case for the Fincher Remake

Photo Evidence Found in Toronto of the One Thing Hotter Than Ryan Gosling

Ryan Gosling may be a real street fight-stopping hero in man capris and the vulnerable getaway driver next door in this week’s Drive , but a keen-eyed Movieline reader in Toronto sent in evidence of the one thing hotter than the Goss. No, not those Scarlett Johansson pics. Something even sweeter! Feast your eyes upon this discovery and stay for more in today’s Buzz Break!

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Photo Evidence Found in Toronto of the One Thing Hotter Than Ryan Gosling