Movieline's Week in Review: Ladies First

As in: Here, let me get the door, and let us flee this week for the fresh air of the weekend. It's been a good one, though, right? I mean, so much Helen Mirren! Let Movieline's Week in Review jog your memory, and drop by Saturday and Sunday for the artisanal verbal handiwork of weekend editor Dixon Gaines. Have a good one!

· Jen Yamato hit the WonderCon beat pretty damn hard, chatting up the likes of Saoirse Ronan, Paul Bettany, Henry Cavill, Joe Wright, Logan Lerman and Cam Gigandet.

· Thanks to this week's illustrious interviewees, including Dennis Quaid, Vera Farmiga, David Gordon Green and Verge designee Dustin Ingram.

· History! Helen Mirren and the tortured Three Stooges updating have it!

· We determined who should really direct Barack Obama's reelection campaign ads.

· Arthur schmarthur. Who's ready for some Melancholia?

· The one and only Jerry Weintraub taught us how to produce movies.

· To Catch a Thief is being remade whether you want it or not. We came up with solutions.

· Christopher Walken will be avoiding New Jersey for a while.