"The Incredible Hulk" has painted the home video charts green, debuting at No. 1 on all three tallies.

The summer hit bumped the previous week's winner, "Indiana Jones and the Kingdom of the Crystal Skull," to No. 2 on Nielsen VideoScan's DVD and Blu-ray Disc sales charts and on Home Media Magazine's video rental chart last week.

The horror film "The Strangers" opened at No. 3 on the DVD and rental charts, and at No. 4 on th Blu-ray chart.

Four weeks after its release, "Iron Man" maintained an iron-fisted hold on the charts. The summer blockbuster -- like "Hulk," based on a Marvel Comics character -- finished the week as the No. 4 seller and renter, while on Blu-ray it held fast at No. 3. It

"American Beauty" director Sam Mendes is bringing the popular 1990s comic "Preacher" to the big screen.

The project, which was previously set up as a one-hour series at HBO, is now at Columbia Pictures.

Created by Garth Ennis and Steve Dillon, the Vertigo Comics series told the story of a down-and-out Texas preacher possessed by Genesis, a supernatural entity conceived by the unnatural coupling of an angel and a demon.

Given immense powers, the preacher teamed with a former girlfriend and a hard-drinking Irish vampire and set out on a journey across America to find God -- who apparently had abandoned his duties in heaven -- and hold him accountable for his negligence.

Getting a "Preacher" project off the ground has long

Samuel L. Jackson is taking on another heavy role.

Having most recently played a dirty cop in "Lakeview Terrace," Jackson is set to star as a bad guy again in a remake of Motown Records founder Berry Gordy's 1985 cult classic "The Last Dragon."

Jackson will play Sho'Nuff, the Shogun of Harlem, a role played in the original by the late Julius Carry, whose spiel included asking ego-driven questions like "Am I the baddest mofo lowdown around this town?" Each time his gang of thugs answered, "Sho'Nuff!"

Columbia Pictures' updated plot will be along the same lines of the original, centering on young martial arts student Leroy Green in his quest through the streets of New York to achieve the highest leve

Courteney Cox, welcome to "Cougar Town."

ABC has ordered a comedy pilot in which the former "Friends" star will play an attractive newly single 40-year-old mom with a 17-year-old son. It comes from "Scrubs" creator Bill Lawrence.

"Forty-year-old women on TV are so beautiful and perfect and wrinkle-free," said Lawrence, who first worked with Cox when he was a writer on "Friends." "People don't do the reality of it, and there is a real comedy area about a woman who is talking about Botox, about having sex with the lights on and how her body is changing."

Lawrence and co-writer Kevin Biegel, also a "Scrubs" veteran, had the idea for the show for a while, and Lawrence felt that Cox, w

Gary Oldman is in negotiations to star opposite Denzel Washington in "The Book of Eli," an action thriller that returns the British actor to his more villainous side.

It centers on a lone hero named Eli (Washington) who must fight his way across the wasteland of a near-future America to protect a sacred book that might hold the key to saving the future of humanity.

Oldman will play Carnegie, the despot of a small makeshift town deficient of standard necessities, services, and most noticeably, laws. Carnegie is determined to take possession of the book Eli is guarding.

Albert and Allen Hughes are directing the project for Warner Bros. and Alcon Entertainment. Filming is due to start February in New Mexico with an eye toward a January 2010 relea