Movie News: Sunday, October 22

'Father Knows Best' actress Wyatt dies (AP)
   

AP - Jane Wyatt, the lovely, serene actress who for six years on "Father Knows Best" was one of TV's favorite moms, has died, her son Christopher Ward said Sunday. She was 96.

'Potter' actor Radcliffe takes stage (AP)
   

AP - The world knows him as boy wizard Harry Potter. Now, Daniel Radcliffe wants the world to see him differently.

Take A Look At Optimus Prime and Starscream
   

The first images of what Optimus Prime and Starscream will look like in the upcoming Transformers movie have just made their way onto the web. These toy images are of the robots in their original "Protoform" configurations (ie. what they look like on Cybertron before they get reconfigured to look more like earth vehicles after arriving on earth).

AICN points us to Actoys were they have a bunch of images of the two toys. See them below and then go to the site to see more.

Cage puts up Bel-Air home for $35M (AP)
   AP - Nicolas Cage is leaving Bel-Air. The actor has put his home in the tony community on the market for $35 million. He bought the seven-bedroom, seven-bathroom spread eight years ago for a mere $7 million.

The top movies at the North American box office (Reuters)
   Reuters - Following are the top 10 movies at the North American box office for the three-day weekend beginning October 20, led by new release "The Prestige," according to studio estimates compiled on Sunday by Reuters. Final data will be issued on Monday.

A whole lotta "Sex" in Hungarian comedy (Reuters)
   Reuters - "Just Sex and Nothing Else," as you would sagely guess from the title, really means "sex and a whole lot else," which is what this Hungarian crowd-pleaser served up here at the recent Chicago International Film Festival.

"El Cortez" a cliched crime drama (Reuters)
   Reuters - Sharing its title with a historic Reno hotel that's seen better days (or maybe not), "El Cortez" is a clumsy lump of ponderous pulp fiction with "Cooler" aspirations.

Magicians scoop troops on box-office battlefield (Reuters)
   Reuters - War raged on several fronts at the weekend box office in North America as the dueling magicians in the period thriller "The Prestige" vanquished the U.S. troops in director Clint Eastwood's World War Two drama "Flags of Our Fathers."

'Potter' character Radcliffe takes stage (AP)
   

AP - The world knows him as boy wizard Harry Potter. Now, Daniel Radcliffe wants the world to see him differently. Next summer, the 17-year-old will take to a London stage in the Tony Award-winning drama "Equus" and will perform nude during one scene, according Newsweek magazine in editions that will hit newsstands Monday.

'Prestige' conjures $14.8M at box office (AP)
   

AP - The magic act "The Prestige" debuted as the weekend's No. 1 movie with $14.8 million, outperforming Clint Eastwood's World War II saga, which opened at No. 3 with $10.2 million.