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