Lionsgate scored a triple win on the national home video charts the week ending Jan. 24, as the sci-fi actioner Gamer, with a mere $20.5 million in theatrical receipts, topped all three charts.

Lionsgate typically saves some of its moderately successful theatricals for January and February DVD and Blu-ray Disc releases, when major-studio menus are light. As a result, the mini-major is able to dominate the charts in those months, racking up significant sales and rentals.

Gamer debuted at No. 1 on the Nielsen VideoScan First Alert sales chart for the week, with the previous bestseller, Tyler Perry’s I Can Do Bad All by Myself, another Lionsgate release, falling all the way down to No. 8.

Gamer also was the top-selling Blu-ray Disc release of the week, with Nielsen research showing that 31% of the title’s total first-week sales were on the Blu-ray Disc format.

Source: The Hollywood Reporter

Parade has a newly published interview with some new quotes from Michael C . Hall. You can read it in our press archives. Thanks to Anne for the heads up!

A couple of my favorite excerpts:

As for the folks back home in North Carolina.
“They like the show — at least that’s what my Mom tells me. I think it’s fun for them to see me. Honestly, I think some of my family members of a certain generation were more skittish about me playing a gay character on Six Feet Under than watching me play a killer. Now what does that say about the culture we live in that we can relate more to a murderous rage?”

He’d like to thank his mom.
“By the time I had decided to pursue acting, my father had passed away. But, my mother, thankfully, was by no means like a stage mom. She just basically said, ‘Okay. You do that.’ I’m sure she was biting her tongue thinking, ‘How are you going to pull it off? I mean the odds are so against you. Anyway, she gave me some good advice growing up like, ‘Showing up is 95% but don’t overstay your welcome,’ ‘Try not to be a burden on anybody,’ and ‘Don’t worry about a thing.’”

The Harry Potter Alliance (http://www.thehpalliance.org) and different websites across many different fandoms have put together a massive online donation drive to assist efforts in Haiti. Some of these fandoms include websites from Harry Potter, True Blood, Firefly, Mad Men, Dexter and many many more.

If you donate at http://www.thehpalliance.org/haiti by January 30th, you are automatically entered to win one of more than 200 prizes, many of which are unique, rare, and highly valuable! So far, the drive has raised well over $40,000 in less than 48 hours! It has been truly amazing, and it wouldn’t be possible withoutunprecedented inter-fandom cooperation.

Dexter fans might be interested in these prizes in particular:

- Donate $10.00 by Jan. 30th and you can win bobbleheads from almost all characters from Dexter donated by Showtime., OR
- Donate $30.00 by Jan. 30th and you can win A DEXTER season 1-3 DVD package! Also donated by Showtime

More non-related prizes include such gems as A full set of Harry Potter novels signed and donated by J.K. Rowling or original, never before seen, concept art from the film Where the Wild Things Are. And these are just a few of the items you can win by donating. A complete list of prizes can be found at here.

For more information or to donate go to http://www.thehpalliance.org/haiti, or you can follow their twitter.

This is nothing relatively new in general, but rather a fun new feature on the site. Today I created a new category in the video vault for audio clips, where I just posted the Dodge commercials and now I’ve added a couple of clips of Michael singing. Mainly from various episodes of the great Six Feet Under. Thanks to
michaelchallic at Youtube for some of the videos. These clips are sure to put a smiles on your face!

VIDEO LINKS:
- Audio Clips

Michael C. Hall is currently doing some voice work for Dodge Motors. Earlier I stumbled upon his commercials and just uploaded them to the video vault. Some are quite hilarious, considering the subject!

This isn’t the first voice work for the actor. In 2006 & 2007 he narrated several History Channel documentaries. And obviously we all know his awesome voice-overs for Dexter.

VIDEO LINKS:
- Dodge Commercials

I’ve now added all of the coverage of Michael at the 16th Annual Screen Actors Guild Awards. Screencaps of the show itself (low quality for now, I will replace if I’m able to find a higher quality video), some footage from the red carpet, press room snippets and a post-win interview with E! News. I’ve also added HQ & MQ images from the arrivals, audience, on stage and a photoshoot picture. Tons of pictures here! Furthermore I have uploaded all of the clips I capped to the video vault.

GALLERY LINKS:
- Photoshoots: 16th Annual Screen Actors’ Guild Awards – Portraits
- Public Events: 16th Annual Screen Actors’ Guild Awards – Arrivals
- Public Events: 16th Annual Screen Actors’ Guild Awards – Show
- Public Events: 16th Annual Screen Actors’ Guild Awards – Press Room
- Public Events: 16th Annual Screen Actors’ Guild Awards – Audience & Backstage
- Award Shows Captures: 2010 Screen Actors’ Guild Awards (Show)
- Award Shows Captures: 2010 Screen Actors’ Guild Awards (Red Carpet)
- Award Shows Captures: 2010 Screen Actors’ Guild Awards (Press Room)
- Award Shows Captures: 2010 Screen Actors’ Guild Awards (Post Win Interview)

Michael C. Hall had plenty to celebrate Saturday night.

Just a week after winning a Golden Globe for his serial killer star turn on Showtime’s Dexter, the actor was named outstanding actor in a drama series at Saturday’s Screen Actors Guild Awards. And, he told People Magazine backstage, his cancer is in remission.

“I’m two-thirds of the way through this treatment that already has this thing in remission,” he said. “It’s nice in the homestretch to have this kind of shock of positive energy. It’s a celebration.”

Hall, 38, who is very private, initially said he revealed that he was being treated for Hodgkin’s lymphoma, because he knew he would be making several public appearances. “Because award shows were imminent, I had to make a statement,” he said at last week’s Globes.

As it turns out, there has been one unexpected and positive result of his admission. “I’ve been feeling very well,” he told reporters backstage at the SAG Awards, “because I made this announcement. Because of these public events, I’ve heard from people I would have not have heard from otherwise.”

Source: People

Examiner has some of what was said by Michael in the SAG Press Room.

How have you spent your time in the days between winning your Golden Globe Award and your Screen Actors Guild Award? And how are you feeling?

I have been feeling very well. Because I made this announcement [about recovering from Hodgkin’s lymphoma, a type of cancer], these public appearances were on the horizon, and it’s actually been a nice surprise. I’ve had a lot of people reach out to me who otherwise wouldn’t have: high-school teachers, friends from college. I spent a lot of this week responded to a lot of concerned but ultimately congratulatory e-mails and things like that. It’s been a lot of fun.

When you started Dexter, did you foresee getting any awards for the show? Did you think the show would be as critically acclaimed as it is?

I didn’t know. I knew our task was to sympathize a serial killer, and that it was a unique goal. I thought that the show would probably develop some sort of cult following, but I didn’t anticipate that the following would be as broad, that it would attract as many different kinds of viewers as it’s had. And I certainly didn’t foresee [Dexter] bobbleheads and video games and all that stuff.

Where did you put your Golden Globe, and where are you going to put your Screen Actors Guild Award?

I put it [the Golden Globe Award] in a little passageway in between the bathroom and the guest bedroom, where we have such things in our house. I’ll probably put it [the Screen Actors Guild Award] up there.