Steve Jobs’ life will be brought to the big screen by Oscar-winning screenwriter Aaron Sorkin in a movie based on Walter Isaacson’s best-selling biography of the enigmatic co-founder of Apple, maker of iPods and iPads.

Sony Pictures Entertainment on Tuesday unveiled plans to put Sorkin, who wrote Facebook film “The Social Network,” behind the screenplay of what will be a major release for the movie studio.

“There is no writer working in Hollywood today who is more capable of capturing such an extraordinary life for the screen than Aaron Sorkin; in his hands, we’re confident that the film will be everything that Jobs himself was: captivating, entertaining, and polarizing,” Amy Pascal, co-chairman of Sony Pictures Entertainment, said in a statement.

Sorkin will adapt Isaacson’s best-selling biography that topped book charts and became the top-seller of 2011 following Jobs’ death last October after a long battle with cancer.

Sorkin won a best adapted screenplay Oscar for his work on “Social Network” in 2011, and was nominated for a best writing Oscar in 2012 for “Moneyball.”

He also penned TV political drama “The West Wing” and is the creator of upcoming HBO’ “The Newsroom,” a behind-the-scenes look at a fictional cable news channel.

Inside this week’s Couch Potato Report is a date movie, a hockey comedy and Gremlins too!!

Imagine this…you meet someone, and fall madly, head over heels in love…and then, years after getting together, but just weeks after your marriage the two of you are in a car accident…and the love of your life ends up in a coma…and upon waking up…doesn’t have any idea who you are.

This person – whom you can’t imagine your life without – suffered brain trauma, that has erased every memory they ever had of you…every single one…and now they only remember their life before you, a life with another fiancé.

Faced with that nightmare…would you fight for your love…or would you walk away? That is the premise behind THE VOW.

Based on a true story THE VOW was primarily filmed in Toronto and stars Canadian actress Rachel McAdams from THE NOTEBOOK and CHANNING TATUM from DEAR JOHN and 21 JUMP STREET.

I never loved it, but I did like it. THE VOW is a very good movie for date night.

Back in 1997 we were introduced to a ragtag group of hockey loving misfits from Montreal in LES BOYS. Since then, that very entertaining film has produced three sequels and has become the most successful Canadian-made film series of all time.

The first sequel was released in 1998, and in LES BOYS II – which is now available in High Definition on blu-ray – the boys travel to France to play in a tournament.

LES BOYS II is a bit too long, and there are times when it is borderline boring, but there is some hilarious slapstick, the hockey scenes are very well done, and I really like these guys…so – as a hockey loving misfit myself – I will watch as many films starring the boys as they decide to make.

I thought I would want to see as many UNDERWORLD films as they decided to make at one time too…especially after the first one, starring the super sultry Kate Beckinsale as a Vampire who is acting as a Death Dealer, hunting down and trying to defeat Lycans, an ancient species of werewolf.

However, the longer this series goes on, the less interested I am in it.

Kate Beckinsale sat out the last entry in this series – 2009’s UNDERWORLD: RISE OF THE LYCANS, as it was a prequel set before her character was born, but now she has returned in the made-in-Vancouver UNDERWORLD: AWAKENING.

This hasn’t turned out to be a classic film series, but all of the films – with the exception of the third one – are worth the time of people who like vampire action films. Yes, the special effects and computer animation look cheap and very fake at times, but Beckinsale still looks amazing and UNDERWORLD: AWAKENING has some cool action and fight scenes.

I didn’t love it…but I was good enough to keep me watching the series…as long as they keep making them.

It was back in September of 2007 when the world was first introduced to Chuck Bartowski, an “average computer-whiz-next-door” who ended up becoming a spy for the government in the first season of the series CHUCK.

Over the course of the following five seasons this action, drama, comedy, and romance series grew from an entertaining show, that had some mildly annoying secondary characters, to one with a fully realized world populated by people you could not only root for, but also like.

Now, in THE COMPLETE FIFTH AND FINAL SEASON, the show comes to and end…and does it very well.

CHUCK is one of those shows that I always liked, but grew to love. It is smart, features a great cast, has some great spies, spy gear and stories. Plus, it is fun and funny and even features a nice love story.

If you have never seen CHUCK, I easily recommend it…all five seasons of it!!

Chuck I know, but prior to this week, I had never seen or heard of the “comedic” duo Tim and Eric. These guys are the co-creators and stars of the sketch comedy series TIM AND ERIC AWESOME SHOW, GOOD JOB!, which I had never heard of either. Somehow I missed it…and I am so glad, because if their show is anything like their worse than awful film – TIM AND ERIC’S BILLION DOLLAR MOVIE – I would have hated it!!

In the film, Tim and Eric are given a billion dollars to make a movie, which they do make, and it fails miserably.

Then, in order to try and make the money back, they take a job running a failing shopping mall.

I know…sounds stupid, right?! Because it is!!

Even with cameo appearances from such well knows comedic stars as Will Ferrell, John C. Reilly and Zach Galifianakis, TIM AND ERIC’S BILLION DOLLAR MOVIE is not funny and in no way entertaining. It is complete and utter garbage.

I really, really didn’t care for it at all…and you should skip TIM AND ERIC’S BILLION DOLLAR MOVIE, at all costs!!

Let’s wrap things up this week with some fun and mayhem, shall we?

The kind of fun and mayhem you can only get with Gremlins!!

Yes, if like Phoebe Cates, you remember the fallout from the first Gremlins movie, released in 1984, then you would not be looking forward to their return in the 1990 sequel, GREMLINS 2…which is now available in HD on blu-ray.

Yes, the Gremlins are back, and this time, they’ve taken total control over the New York City building of a media mogul.

The original film is still the best in the series, but the second one has its moments as well…and even though there never really is much of a story…the mayhem is a blast, and the new blu-ray comes with lots of extras!!

I’ve always liked GREMLINS 2, and so I easily recommend it to you!

The mayhem filled sequel GREMLINS 2, the completely awful non-comedy TIM AND ERIC’S BILLION DOLLAR MOVIE, THE COMPLETE FIFTH AND FINAL SEASON of the great action comedy series CHUCK; the okay action flick UNDERWORLD: AWAKENING, the entertaining hockey sequel LES BOYS II, and the very good date movie THE VOW are all available now, either on disc or on demand.

Coming up inside the next Couch Potato Report

THE COMPLETE FIRST SEASON of the made in Alberta western series HELL ON WHEELS, the Academy Award nominated drama ALBERT NOBBS, the absolutely awful movie version of ONE FOR THE MONEY with Katherine Heigl as Stephanie Plum, and KEN BURNS’ outstanding documentary series THE WAR.

I’m Dan Reynish. I’ll have more on those, and some other releases, in seven days.

For now, that’s this week’s COUCH POTATO REPORT.

Enjoy the movies and I’ll see you back here again next time on The Couch!

Conan O’Brien will visit “The Late Show With David Letterman” next week for the first time in 13 years – but whatever will they find to talk about?

Maybe Jay Leno. Neither of them are huge fans.

Letterman departed for CBS after losing the “Tonight Show“ gig to Jay Leno in 1992, and O’Brien replaced him as the host of NBC’s “Late Night.” O’Brien took over “The Tonight Show” in 2009, only to lose it to Leno the next year and head off to TBS.

O’Brien last appeared on Letterman’s show on Jan. 13, 1999. The “Conan” host will appear on the “Late Show” next Thursday.

The timing may bode well for “Super Fun Night,” a CBS pilot starring Rebel Wilson that O’Brien is executive producing. CBS will make a decision on whether to order the pilot to series before its upfront presentation to advertisers Wednesday – the day before O’Brien’s appearance.

NEW YORK (AP) — NBC says “30 Rock”’s next season will be its last.

The network said Thursday the much-acclaimed sitcom will have an abbreviated run of 13 episodes in its seventh season before calling it quits.

The show has been a critical favorite since premiering in 2006. It has won numerous awards, as have its creator-star Tina Fey and co-star Alec Baldwin. Many high-profile guest stars, including Matt Damon, Elizabeth Banks and Al Gore, have appeared on the show. But the series was never a ratings smash, and this year its audience has dwindled to an average 3.5 million viewers.

NBC will join other broadcast networks in unveiling full new prime-time schedules for advertisers next week. NBC will make its upcoming lineup official on Sunday.

Funnyman Jerry Seinfeld is returning to TV in a new U.S. reality series.

The actor and star of long-running sitcom Seinfeld will show off his love for the auto industry in upcoming program Comics and Cars.

The 58 year old will team up with his pals Alec Baldwin, Ricky Gervais, and former writing partner Larry David to test-drive cars from their youth and trade stories and laughs.

According to The Daily, the project has not yet been picked up by a network, but the news should come as no surprise to fans as the stand-up comedian has been dropping hints about the gig over the last several weeks on Twitter.com.

In a series of tweets, he wrote, “Working on my New Thing. Shooting in Manhattan with the Great @alecbaldwin… New Seiny Gig Update: Always lovable Ricky Gervais and myself shooting today in City Island, NY… Seiny and LD (Larry David) back together again? What could this mean? Here’s a clue: A 1952 VW (Volkswagen).”

Seinfeld has largely remained absent from the small screen since his self-titled series went off the air in 1998, only making occasional cameos in such shows as David’s Curb Your Enthusiasm and Baldwin’s 30 Rock.

Lisa Kudrow has said that a Friends reunion is highly unlikely to ever happen.

The actress played Phoebe Buffay in the hit sitcom throughout its run, which ended in 2004. Since then there has been regular speculation over a potential movie follow-up. But she has now apparently ruled the possibility out.

Kudrow told E! Online: “I don’t think it will ever happen whether any of us want it to happen or not. I don’t think any of us would do it unless [show creators] David Crane and Marta Kauffman wrote it and I don’t know how they could do it.”

However, she did suggest that a spoof version of the show could be a success in the future, adding: “The Brady Bunch Movie was hilarious because it was a spoof. I can’t wait from 10, 20 years from now to see the younger actors. I think that will be really fun.”

Matt LeBlanc, who played Joey Tribbiani, last week told a similar story, saying: “Yeah, [a reunion] probably won’t happen. There’s no plans for anything like that. Everyone seems to be talking about that these days, but nope, no irons in the fire there.”

NEW YORK – American writer and illustrator Maurice Sendak, whose children’s book “Where the Wild Things Are” has been a standard bedtime story for at least three generations, has died at the age of 83.

Sendak died during the night at Danbury Hospital in Connecticut from complications from a recent stroke, a hospital spokesperson said on Tuesday. He lived in nearby Ridgefield, Connecticut.

Sendak, who was born in Brooklyn in 1928 and was dubbed by one critic as the Picasso of children’s books, illustrated more than 50 books during his long career and won a number of prizes for his drawings. The Swedish government awarded him the Hans Christian Andersen Award for children’s book illustration in 1970.

The Kane Funeral Home in Ridgefield confirmed it had been contacted by the family to handle funeral services.

Sendak, who was a sickly child, spent much of his time indoors. He enjoyed books and drew throughout high school. He became a professional illustrator after working briefly as a window dresser at the F.A.O. Schwarz toy store in New York and taking classes at the New York Art Students League.

He illustrated his first book, “The Wonderful Farm” in 1951 and won international acclaim in 1963 with “Where the Wild Things Are” about a boy who imagines a world of toothy monsters. The following year the American Library Association awarded him the prestigious Caldecott Medal for his illustration in the book.

Dozens of other children’s book following including “In the Night Kitchen” in 1970, which is dedicated to his parents, and “Outside Over There” in 1981.

In 1996 then President Bill Clinton awarded Sendak the National Medal of Arts.

Sendak also worked as a costume and stage designer for operas by Ravel, Mozart and others.

“Bumble-Ardy,” the first book in three decades in which he did both illustrations and text, was released in September by HarperCollins Publishers.

Inside this week’s Couch Potato Report are two very strong female characters, although one is totally clueless.

With the release of AVENGERS in theatres this weekend, the Summer Movie Season has begun!! We have arrived at that time of the time of year when movies blow up real good and it is best if you check your brain at the door before going in.

That way, you can just enjoy what unfolds in front of you, with little to no expectations…just sit back and enjoy!

And if you follow those guidelines at home after picking up or downloading the action movie HAYWIRE, you will have a blast!! But if you think too much about it, this latest from Academy Award winning director Steven Soderbergh won’t entertain you at all.

I shut of my brain, and I had a blast!!

HAYWIRE stars fitness model, mixed martial arts fighter – and non-actress – Gina Carano as a well-trained and much in-demand secret agent for a government security contractor.

After she is betrayed and left for dead, she goes after those responsible.

Now, if when I say the name HAYWIRE…you are thinking of the eighties band from Prince Edward Island…you are thinking too hard!!

Turn off your brain, and this is a great action film, with an incredibly beautiful woman kicking some butt, and a fantastic supporting cast that includes Channing Tatum, Michael Douglas, Antonio Banderas, Ewan McGregor, and Michael Fassbender.

However, if your brain is on, you will see holes in the plot, the timelines won’t work out…and when does she have time between traveling back from Europe to get a haircut?!?

I had a blast with HAYWIRE, and I can’t wait to shut my brain off and enjoy it again.

I have two films for you know, based on true stories, stories that need to be told and shared with the world, but deserve to be told better than in either of these films.

Angelina Jolie’s directorial debut IN THE LAND OF BLOOD AND HONEY is the first one…and it is just an all round bad movie.

Nothing works here, in what is supposed to be a tragic love story set against the backdrop of the Bosnian War.

The Bosnian War took place in Bosnia and Herzegovina between April 1992 and December 1995. The most recent research places the number of killed people at between 100,000 and 110,000 and the number displaced at over 2.2 million, making it the most devastating conflict in Europe since the end of World War II.

That war is part of humankind’s history, and more people should know about it because – as they say – those who don’t know their history are condemned to repeat it.

There are a few scenes in IN THE LAND OF BLOOD AND HONEY that are effective, but they are few and far in-between. The ten minute making of featurette does a better job of communicating the horrors of that war than the whole 127 minute film did.

Now, I know that IN THE LAND OF BLOOD AND HONEY is meant to be a movie…it is not a documentary…but even the movie part doesn’t add up as it is basically telling the same story that existed between Ralph Fiennes and Embeth Davidtz in SCHINDLER’S LIST…but make no mistake, IN THE LAND OF BLOOD AND HONEY is no SCHINDLER’S LIST!!

I will give Angelina Jolie credit for being ambitious in her directorial debut, but you don’t need to see it. This is a movie that you should skip.

I also think you should skip a movie called HUNGER…although it features a tremendous performance from Michael Fassbender – of SHAME – playing Bobby Sands…the twenty-seven-year-old Irish Republican Army member who went on a hunger strike in 1981 in order to protest the British government’s refusal to recognize him and his fellow IRA inmates as political prisoners, rather than as ordinary criminals.

I knew of Bobby Sands before I started watching this film, but I didn’t know much about him. After seeing HUNGER, I still don’t know that much about him…and I wanted to know more.

HUNGER is a very raw, intense and dramatic film, that is compelling and interesting at times…just not enough times for me to recommend it.

I have four films that I would like to share my thoughts on now…four films that are all new to blu-ray…four films that I always enjoy watching, well, okay, three films that I always enjoy watching…and a not-so-great sequel that features some characters I like.

Robert Redford’s 1972 western JEREMIAH JOHNSON leads the way.

Directed by Academy Award winner Sydney Pollack – who was also behind the lens for the Redford films OUT OF AFRICA, THE WAY WE WERE and THREE DAYS OF THE CONDOR – JEREMIAH JOHNSON is about one man’s attempt to leave civilization behind and learn to survive in the wilderness of the Rocky Mountains.

Redford is completely believable as the mountain man, and he gives a quiet, understated performance in an exceptionally well made movie that has more than a few great twists and turns…including several that are heartbreaking.

I really enjoyed JEREMIAH JOHNSON, and it looks and sounds amazing on blu-ray!!

I have to admit that I also enjoyed the blu-ray for the 1967 Academy Award winning film CAMELOT!!

CAMELOT won three Oscars – for Art/Set Decoration, Costume Design, and Best Music – and this is the Hollywood adaptation of the hit Broadway musical about the love triangle between King Arthur, Guenevere, and Sir Lancelot.

The cast of CAMELOT includes Richard Harris, Vanessa Redgrave and Franco Nero and they are all great, and this new 45th Anniversary Digibook Edition comes with 36 pages of photos and trivia, a soundtrack sampler, the all-new featurette “Camelot: Falling Kingdoms” and a great look back at the world premiere of the film.

CAMELOT is a great film, one that can easily be referred to as an “old school classic”. I really enjoyed it!!

Lets fast-forward from 1967 to 1997, and the release of the superb sci-fi comedy MEN IN BLACK.

MEN IN BLACK STARS Tommy Lee Jones and Will Smith, two miss-matched members of a top-secret organization established to monitor alien activity on Earth.

They find themselves in the middle of a deadly intergalactic terrorist plot and have to fight to save the earth.

The original MEN IN BLACK is still a tremendously entertaining film, and it has been released on blu-ray before, but it’s less-than-inspired sequel – MEN IN BLACK II – is brand new in HD…if only it was a better movie.

The actors are just going through the motions in the second film, and it comes across as a retread more often than not…but I like the characters so much, that I could never dislike the film.

MEN IN BLACK I is a classic…MEN IN BLACK II is the sequel to a classic…and I am really looking forward to seeing MEN IN BLACK III when it is released in theatres on May 25th!!! Here’s hoping that it is a classic, instead of a sequel to a sequel!!

We started off this week’s edition of The Report, with a film starring the strong, smart and beautiful Gina Carano, and it now ends with the strong, smart and beautiful Alicia Silverstone, in the 1995 film CLUELESS.

Released in 1995 CLUELESS is a modern day comedy classic that is loosely based on Jane Austen’s novel, Emma.

Silverstone stars here as a Beverly Hills teenager named Cher who likes to help people, shop, and hang out with her friends.

The blu-ray for CLUELESS features some great extras, including a retrospective feature with the great comedic actor Paul Rudd, from ANCHORMAN and I LOVE YOU MAN, who co-starred in the film in one of his earliest roles.

I loved CLUELESS when it was first released, and I had a great time watching it again this week. It is a film that I highly, very highly recommend!!

The still fun nineties film CLUELESS, the very entertaining MEN IN BLACK and the it’s less than great sequel MEN IN BLACK II, the 1967 Academy Award winning adventure CAMELOT, Robert Redford’s 1972 Western JEREMIAH JOHNSON, the very dramatic but not very informative biopic HUNGER, Angelina Jolie’s less than impressive directorial debut IN THE LAND OF BLOOD AND HONEY, and the mindless action flick HAYWIRE are all available now, either on disc or on demand.

Coming up inside the next Couch Potato Report

Canadian actress Rachel McAdams stars with Channing Tatum in romance film THE VOW, the fun and hockey loving Quebecois guys we met in LES BOYS are back – and in Europe – in LES BOYS II, and Kate Beckinsale returns to the UNDERWORLD action franchise in AWAKENING.

I’m Dan Reynish. I’ll have more on those, and some other releases, in seven days.

For now, that’s this week’s COUCH POTATO REPORT.

Enjoy the movies and I’ll see you back here again next time on The Couch!

Ad-Rock: “I’m glad to know that all the love that Yauch has put out into the world is coming right back at him.”

Adam Yauch’s Beastie Boys band member Adam Horovitz, aka Ad-Rock, has taken to the band’s blog to thank fans for their support in the wake of Yauch’s death on Friday.

“As you can imagine, shit is fkd up right now. But I wanna say thank you to all our friends and family (which are kinda one in the same) for all the love and support,” he wrote.

The outpouring of grief and kind actions — from Mets player using Beastie Boys as their walk-on music, to Red Hot Chili Peppers performing tributes in concert — has not been lost on Horovitz, who along with Yauch and Michael Diamond (Mike D) comprised one of the most important hip-hop groups in history.

“I’m glad to know that all the love that Yauch has put out into the world is coming right back at him,” he said in the web message.

Yauch died Friday (May 4) at age 47 after a three-year fight with cancer.

NASHVILLE, Tenn. (AP) — George Lindsey, who spent nearly 30 years as the grinning Goober on “The Andy Griffith Show” and “Hee Haw,” has died. He was 83.

A press release from Marshall-Donnelly-Combs Funeral Home in Nashville said Lindsay died early Sunday morning after a brief illness. Funeral arrangements were still being made.

Lindsey was the beanie-wearing Goober on “The Andy Griffith Show” from 1964 to 1968 and its successor, “Mayberry RFD,” from 1968 to 1971. He played the same jovial character — a service station attendant — on “Hee Haw” from 1971 until it went out of production in 1993.

“America has grown up with me,” Lindsey said in an Associated Press interview in 1985. “Goober is every man; everyone finds something to like about ol’ Goober.”

He joined “The Andy Griffith Show” in 1964 when Jim Nabors, portraying Gomer Pyle, left the program. Goober Pyle, who had been mentioned on the show as Gomer’s cousin, thus replaced him.

“At that time, we were the best acting ensemble on TV. The scripts were terrific. Andy is the best script constructionist I’ve ever been involved with. And you have to lift your acting level up to his; he’s awfully good.”

In a statement released through the funeral home, Griffith said, “George Lindsey was my friend. I had great respect for his talent and his human spirit. In recent years, we spoke often by telephone. Our last conversation was a few days ago … I am happy to say that as we found ourselves in our eighties, we were not afraid to say, ‘I love you.’ That was the last thing George and I had to say to each other. ‘I love you.’”

Although he was best known as Goober, Lindsey had other roles during a long TV career. Earlier, he often was a “heavy” and once shot Matt Dillon on “Gunsmoke.”

His other TV credits included roles on “M*A*S*H,” ”The Wonderful World of Disney,” ”CHIPs,” ”The Glen Campbell Goodtime Hour,” ”The Real McCoys,” ”Rifleman,” ”The Alfred Hitchcock Hour,” ”Twilight Zone” and “Love American Style.”

Reflecting on his career, he said in 1985: “There’s a residual effect of knowing I’ve made America laugh. I’m not the only one, but I’ve contributed something.”

He had movie roles, too, appearing in “Cannonball Run II” and “Take This Job and Shove It.” His voice was used in animated Walt Disney features including “The Aristocats,” ”The Rescuers” and “Robin Hood.”

Lindsey was born in Jasper, Ala., the son of a butcher. He received a bachelor of science degree from Florence State Teachers College (now the University of North Alabama) in 1952 after majoring in physical education and biology and playing quarterback on the football team.

After spending three years in the Air Force, he worked one year as a high school baseball and basketball coach and history teacher near Huntsville, Ala.

In 1956, he attended the American Theatre Wing in New York City and began his professional career on Broadway, appearing in the musicals “All American” and “Wonderful Town.”

He moved to Hollywood in the early 1960s and then to Nashville in the early 1990s.

“There’s no place in the United States I can go that they don’t know me. They may not know me, but they know the character,” he told The Tennessean in 1980.

At that time, he said the Griffith show “was the first soft rural comedy with a moral.”

“We physically and mentally became those people when we got to the set.”

He did some standup comedy — ending the show by tap and break dancing.

One of his jokes:

“A football coach, holding a football, asks his quarterback, ‘Son, can you pass this?’ The player says, ‘Coach, I don’t even think I can swallow it.’”

Lindsey devoted much of his spare time to raising funds for the Alabama Special Olympics. For 17 years, he sponsored a celebrity golf tournament in Montgomery, Ala., that raised money for the mentally disabled.

The University of North Alabama awarded him an honorary doctorate in 1992, and he was affectionately called “Doctor Goober” by acquaintances after that.