Today's Pick

Bruce Willis is back to his action hero roots, and Disney is aiming to hunt down the top spot this weekend to challenge "Cloudy" with the opening of 54-year-old star Willis starring "Surrogates," the biggest budget film of the year for Disney Studios' adult-oriented Touchstone label, which previously released romantic comedies "The Proposal" and "Confessions of a Shopaholic." The $80-million sci-fi thriller blockbuster is adapted from the Top Shelf graphic novel of the same name by Robert Venditti and Brett Weldele in 2005, a rough mystery about technological addiction.
Following a six-year absence, the director Jonathan Mostow is back in theaters with a much smaller property and a fraction of his "Terminator 3: Rise of the Machines" price tag, which made more than $430 million worldwide. Mr. Mostow is no stranger to filming cyborgs, his film is a clever blend of familiar elements and more inventive fare, including the unique premise and some quirky effects.
Welcome to the future! How do you save humanity when the only thing that's real is you? "Surrogates" is set in the not-so-distant future, where human beings stay at home and send robots out into the world as their surrogates in daily life. Desperate to avoid the perils of everyday living, humanity has turned virtual reality into actual reality. When the genius creator of the surrogates is murdered, FBI agent Greer (Bruce Willis) is forced to leave the safety of his own home for the first time in years and survive in the real world. Like most of the world's population, Greer has two halves: His better-looking surrogate is controlled by his stay-at-home, somewhat grizzled, real self. The Stepford-pretty robots have helped eliminate crime and racism, but things get complicated when surrogates begin dying and their hosts being dying too.
So "Surrogates" is meant as pure science fiction, right? Wrong. The filmmakers and futurists behind the movie say they're aiming for an only slightly enhanced version of present-day trends. The film has a solid and pretty original premise, a well-chosen cast and the special effects are top-notch and the visual look of the film is excellent.

It’s been awhile since the music scene has had an all female band–not one of those prissy, just-stand-there-and-look-cute bands but one that could sing, dance and play their own instruments. Then in walks Walt Disney Records' KSM.
KSM, the all-female pop band formed in 2006, consisting of members Sophia Melon, Kate Cabebe, Shae Padilla, Katie Cecil, and Shelby Cobra, and got their big break as proteges of the Go-Go's, one of the top female rock bands of all time. The name "KSM" comes from the fact all of the group members' first names begin with 'K' or 'S', and the group decided to add an 'M' for music.
Coming off several months of glowing non-stop buzz, the all-female teen rock quintet KSM has been building momentum for the impending release of their debut album "Read Between the Lines" on September 22, and includes popping tunes like "I Want You To Want Me" and "Don't Rain on My Parade." Written and produced by Matthew Gerrard and Robbie Nevil, who have worked on the "High School Musical" projects, recorded and performed entirely by KSM. The debut album is available as a free download on iTunes the week from September 15 and has been selected for this week's highly coveted iTunes "Single of the Week".
Though the album marks the band's recording debut, KSM has already become enormously popular across the country, having played in front of 500,000 fans. Not only have they had more than a million plays on MySpace, KSM recently wrapped up a summer tour with Demi Lovato (they previously opened for Jonas Brothers and Honor Society on select dates). The lead singer Shelby says, "Being all girl, all teen, we're usually pre-judged. People don't expect that much, but we usually convince the audience that we're a legit rock band, not just a 'chick band'".
The teen rock quintet have also officially released a music video for the title track of their debut album "Read Between the Lines". The video is simple in its form with the five-piece rocking out the performance in a neon-lit stage. Enjoy!

Everything went according to plan this weekend... The 3-D "G-Force", an elite squad of guinea pigs has worked its own brand of magic at the North American box office, taking the #1 spot with $32.2 million from boy wizard "Harry Potter"($30m) over the three-day weekend at 37 international locations, according to studio estimates Sunday. The Walt Disney release from producer Jerry Bruckheimer, with its mixture of live action and computer-generated animation, is a "Mission: Impossible"-style adventure. This is the 1st live-action Disney film to be produced in Disney Digital 3-D. It was released in the US last Friday.

The story is about a team of specially trained secret agent guinea pigs that takes on a mission for the US government to stop a diabolical billionaire, who plans to taking over the world with household appliances. According to Paul Dergarabedian of Hollywood.com, the strong run of "G-Force" has benefited from a "great marketing campaign and a premise that had people scratching their heads while simultaneously grabbing the family." The number was a slightly greater 3-D share than "Up" and "Ice Age: Dawn of the Dinosaurs" had in their debuts.