We hate to say we told you so, but Australia—Baz Luhrmann's sweepy weepy about his homeland in the 1940's—is not doing so well at the ol' box office. Nikki Finke reports that it's basically tanking, ceding top honors to such unambitious, unartsy fare as the darkening Twilight and this weekend's most likely top dog (and we mean dog), Four Christmases.
That Reese Witherspoon/Vince Vaughn laff riot will likely haul in some $47 million over the 5-day holiday weekend, while the $129 million-budgeted Australia will likely drum up a lowly $18 million, having earned a paltry $2.265 million on its opening day (Wednesday). And, perhaps more embarrassingly, word has it that the slapdash new James Bond film is outpacing Australia... in Australia. Which is grim! Studio Fox heralds Luhrmann's big overseas appeal, naturally (foreigners love weird melodramatic shit!), but this picture had high American Oscar hopes and now... sigh. They appear to have fizzled in just three days. Bad news for Fox, bad news for Jackman, and really bad news for Kidman, who desperately needed a hit.
And, honestly? We're kinda disappointed too. We had high hopes.
Adults don't have Sesame Street, they just have Suze Orman and James Cramer and other financial wizards to turn to for life advice. We're forced to look in other places for 
We talked to a trusted real estate advisor about Jam's new property. He priced the house at around $125,000, while noting it could go for less given the market. Although an earlier scene revealed that the house wasn't in the nicest of neighborhoods, the block looked like it had been kept up. "The exterior is pleasant enough," said our expert. He also noted the tiny windows in the bedroom, the remnants of a particular home-building trend that now looks severely outdated. It's not the most beautiful house in the free world, but that's not the point. "Land is never a bad investment," noted our expert as he described the good sense Jim Halpert had in living many years without anything in the way of expenses or dependents other than dinners with Rashida Jones at TGIFriday's.
If you've ever seen the full extended versions of The Lord of the Rings trilogy, you know how much you missed out in the theaters. It's like that every week now with The Office, whose expanded cast and tendency for short scenes sometimes makes you feel like you're reading a condensed Reader's Digest story. Show creator Greg Daniels helps the situation by posting two of the week's deleted scenes online 
The grass is always greener when it comes to The Office. When the show began running bloated hour-long episodes, viewers complained that the show became too drawn-out and dull. Back to its usual half-hour form, the show just doesn't deliver enough insane Dwight to satisfy our considerable need in that department. With The Office rounding into form after moving some characters off the show, these deleted scenes capture the small moments of Dunder Mifflin that warm our hearts.
The early returns on Zack and Miri Make A Porno aren't what Harvey Weinstein was hoping for. After 
The Office still offers plenty of laughs, but a certain reckless need to humiliate the characters has been missing from the show lately. This week that will change when the show's Halloween episode will feature a Dark turn from office perv Creed. The full episode preview, along with the latest information on Angela and Andy's nuptials, comes after the jump.
Tennis star Venus Williams is back from the Beijing Games, after her and little sis Serena beat Spain's Anabel Medina Garrigues and Virginia Ruano Pascual for the doubles gold medal.
Tennis, anyone?
NBC posted Dwight Schrute's org chart from last week's episode of 
