Today, September29, marks the DVD release of the fourth season of CBS’ fan favorite How I Met Your Mother. But, wait, there’s more…

Also out today on DVD are two feature flicks featuring popular TV-comedy talent: the romantic comedy Away We Go, starring John Krasinski (The Office) and Maya Rudolph (Saturday Night Live), and the animated family comedy Monsters vs. Aliens, which includes voice work by The Office’s Rainn Wilson, Will Arnett (Saturday Night Live), and The Colbert Report’s Stephen Colbert, among many other funny people.

Basic cable’s TBS has a nice treat in store for fans of House of Payne and Meet the Browns mastermind Tyler Perry.

On September 9, the network will air the hourlong special presentation The Tyler Perry Show to help the entertainment mogul spread the word about has new comedy feature flick I Can Do Bad All by Myself, which hits theaters across America on Friday, September 11. Follow the jump for more details.

Weather Girl: Partly Cloudy with a 90% Chance of Total Meltdown
Love that tag line!
The new indie comedy movie Weather Girl doesn’t hit theaters in the United States until July 10, but it has already generated excellent word of mouth and racked up a few notable honors at several film festivals, including Best Narrative Feature at the deadCENTER Film Festival, Honorary Mention for the Audience Award at the Nashville Film Festival, and Best Narrative Feature at the Vail Film Festival.

Written and directed by Blayne Weaver (Outside Sales, Losing Lois Lane), the flick stars The New Adventures of Old Christine’s Tricia O’Kelley …read more

Director and writer Kevin Smith has done it again. Combining the talents of Seth Rogen (Pineapple Express, Superbad, Knocked Up) and Elizabeth Banks (Scrubs, The 40 Year Old Virgin, the Spider-Man trilogy) with a hilarious script helped him create his latest hit flick, last year’s distinctively titled sex comedy Zack and Miri Make a Porno.
The movie follows the adventures of Zack Brown (Rogen) and Miriam Linky (Banks) as they attempt to do exactly what the title says. Nobody can claim they don’t know what they’re getting themselves into when they sit down to watch this one.
But, Zack and …read more

The comedy drama Soul Men was a bittersweet film release for two major reasons: the cast includes comedian Bernie Mac and musician Isaac Hayes, both of whom passed away unexpectedly within a day of each other, on August 9th and August 10th of last year, respectively. Fans of the entertainers will have the chance to own a memento next month when the music-themed movie is released on DVD on Tuesday, February 10.
Soul Men is about two estranged soul music legends (Mac and Samuel L. Jackson) who discover their friend and former bandleader has died. Afterwards, they decide to …read more

…movie superstars Meryl Streep, Alec Baldwin, and Steve Martin! Yowza! That lineup almost makes me wish I could knock off a couple of decades years and switch my gender for the following casting opportunity.
Reps for Universal Pictures have just sent out information regarding an open casting call for males aged 15 to 17 years. According to the studio, it doesn’t matter if you’ve been acting since the womb or never before in your life. All they require is a serious focus on becoming an actor.
Sounds good so far. Read on to review the word-for-word instructions, …read more

Cool casting news: It looks like Scrubs star Sarah Chalke is heading back to Lifetime in another made-for-TV project.
The Canadian actress many sitcom fans know best as fictional Sacred Heart’s Dr. Elliot Reid last appeared on the network in the successful 2006 movie Why I Wore Lipstick to My Mastectomy. Now, she’s set to star in the four-hour mini-series Maneater, slated to premiere in 2009.
The series is based on the book of the same name by Starter Wife novel author Gigi Levangie Grazer (and, yes, the Debra Messing mini-series turned series is based on that bestseller, as well). …read more

Everybody Loves Raymond and Back to You sitcom veteran Patricia Heaton will appear in an entirely different kind of television program tonight when her new Hallmark Hall of Fame movie Front of the Class premieres on CBS at 9pm EST.
The feel-good drama is reportedly based on the true story of Brad Cohen (Jimmy Wolk), who became a successful teacher, despite suffering years of ridicule and complications due to Tourette’s syndrome. Heaton plays his mother Ellen, alongside Treat Williams (Everwood), who stars as his father Norman.
Take a look at an interview about the movie Heaton recently gave on CBS News …read more

On Tuesday, the Weinstein Company and Genius Products released the DVD version of the recent comedy-drama family flick The Longshots, starring rapper-turned-actor Ice Cube (Barbershop) and teen actress Keke Palmer (Akeelah and the Bee). I haven’t seen it yet, but that’s not stopping me from giving one lucky fan of the movie the opportunity to win a very cool T-Shirt in support of the release.
Based on the real-life story of Pop Warner’s first female quarterback, The Longshots follows Jasmine Plummer’s (Palmer) journey from misfit to football hero under the coaching of her uncle, former high school football star Curtis …read more

Today marks the U.S. (and Estonian!) opening of Disaster Movie, the latest genre spoof from filmmakers Jason Friedbeg and Aaron Seltzer. In case you don’t know, they’re the team that parodied the teen-horror genre in Scary Movie, clichéd romantic comedies in Date Movie, overblown blockbusters in Epic Movie, and the ultra-macho film 300 in Meet The Spartans.
The current release stars Matt Lanter, Vanessa Minnillo, Carmen Electra, Kim Kardashian, G-Thang, Nicole Parker, Crista Flanagan, and Ike Barinholtz in a tale of continual and increasingly worse mishaps certain to boggle the mind.
According to the official synopsis, the movie “follows the comic …read more