November 4 has come and gone, but the voting isn't over yet. Voting for the People's Choice Awards started yesterday and continues through December 7. You don't get many choices, though. Looking at the just-announced list of nominees, you might think only a handful of movies came out in 2008. Iron Man, The Dark Knight, and the new Indiana Jones will vie for top honors in both the favorite movie and favorite action movie categories. It's not surprising that in an award system based on popular opinion the highest grossing films would rise to the top of the list. Statistically speaking, chances are pretty good that even if you only saw three movies this year, those were the three you saw. Other not-unexpected movie nominees include Wall-E, Sex and the City, and Mamma Mia!

Just in case you're not reading our DVDs Unwrapped blog, we thought we'd clue you in on the latest DVDs we've gotten the chance to review. We were going to review Sukiyaki Western Django, but we decided to keep our sanity.

Today's Round-Up is a mixed bag. Sometimes you reach in and pull out a nugget of gold, and sometimes you pull out a cow pie. Sometimes you end up with a little of both. Let's just start with what is potentially the biggest pile to come out of the bag: Brett Ratner (Rush Hour 3, X-Men: The Last Stand) is close to signing a deal to direct the half-anticipated, half-dreaded Conan update. On the plus side, the writers reportedly looked to Robert E. Howard's original pulp stories of the 1930s to create their version of the sword-wielding barbarian. On the minus side for Ratner detractors, they're now "doing a quick polish" to work in some of the would-be director's ideas. What those ideas might be is left to your imagination. Perhaps Ratner will work all the crap out of his system on Beverly Hills Cop 4, which he's likely to complete before starting any other project.

In a battle that had all comers bearing their claws, it was the pack of citified zoo animals in Madagascar: Escape 2 Africa that managed to come out on top. The DreamWorks sequel raked in a whopping $63.1 million on 4,056 screens, which just slightly edges out this summer's Wall-E for the biggest opening weekend for an animated feature this year. That haul is also more than three times the moolah brought in by the second-place Role Models, which, despite ads featuring funny kids sass-mouthing Seann William Scott and Paul Rudd, is an R-rated movie not for the kiddies. The only other new release in the top ten was Soul Men, which landed in sixth place with a tally of $5.4 million on 2,044 screens.

Apparently, Steven Spielberg has been dying to work with Will Smith, which makes me say out loud, "Steven Spielberg hasn't worked with Will Smith yet?" How did such a big-shot director and bankable movie star not team up and gross 500 billion dollars already? It seems like this should have happened long ago. Maybe if it had, they probably wouldn't be trying to get the rights to remake the South Korean film Oldboy right this very minute. If you've seen Oldboy, you may think this is blasphemy, since Smith is the posterboy for mainstream American pablum. Or, like me, you may think this has the possibility of being Will Smith's greatest role ever, the one that finally snags him the Academy Award, and the one that makes everyone look at him differently for the rest of his life... in a good way. Maybe.

The newest Watchmen production diary is out, and it's a very special episode this week. Apparently, and don't tell anybody this... girls kick ass. No, it's true! Specifically, Carla Gugino and Malin Akerman kick ass, as they're pretty much the only two women in the movie, and they play mother and daughter crimefighters Silk Spectre I and Silk Spectre II, even though one is 37 and the other is 30. This video is the first time anyone has seen Gugino in her old-woman makeup, interacting with her grown daughter, and it's also the first footage we've seen of her teammate Hooded Justice, outside of the group photo he takes with the original Minutemen. (We also see the young Comedian in his jester suit.) And, of course, since the video is titled "Girls Kick Ass," there are plenty of shots of the younger Spectre beating cons up during the prison break. But don't just read about it -- watch it after the jump.

Transformers fans are fawning over any facts or pictures they can find from the set of the new Transformers movie, Revenge of the Fallen, and they just got a doozy. While one complaint about the last film was "not enough robots" (a complaint I don't understand, since there were a dozen of them, and you could barely tell them apart from each other), Revenge seems to be correcting that with three times as many in this film, according to a producer. That includes the return of main baddie Megatron with a new tank mode, the franchise's first female Transformer (Arcee), its first combiner Transformer (Devastator) and the evil Transformer boogeyman The Fallen -- all of whom are straight out of the comic and toy line. The latest news has people agog, though: Isobel Lucas, who co-stars in the film with Shia LaBeouf and Megan Fox, may be a Transformer herself.

Having learned the hard way on Halloween nights as a child, snarfing candy hand over fist, I've long been a big believer in the old adage that you can have too much of a good thing. One person that doesn't seem to feel that way is James Cameron, who has spent the last ten years working on bringing his next project, Avatar, to the big screen. And in a plane just off the big screen. And now in a plane just off the even bigger screen. Lost yet? What I'm referring to is today's announcement that not only will Avatar be released in 3D, but it will also be released in IMAX 3D.

Jack Black is about to be a Yahoo. Well, more of one than normal, anyway. 20th Century Fox is moving forward with production on a version of Gulliver's Travels, and it will be the actor's next project. Fox's take will be a modern version, with Black playing the title character Lemuel Gulliver as a travel writer who, on an assignment to the Bermuda Triangle, suddenly finds himself a giant among men when he washes ashore on the hidden island of Lilliput, home to a population of industrious, yet tiny, people. Which, being a girl over 6 feet tall, is kind of how I feel on the elevator every day.