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Welcome to How to Spend $20, BOP’s look at the latest Blu-ray discs and DVDs to hit stores nationwide. This week: Kristen Stewart and Dakota Fanning take a break from vampires, Jeffrey Dean Morgan fires a gun and Chicago finds reason to celebrate.

Pick of the Week

For people who think Kristen Stewart learned to play guitar via Guitar Hero: The Runaways
In between her continued role as human sex object between a jealous vampire and buff werewolf, Kristen Stewart broke the Led out with teeny bopper (and fellow Twilight alum) Dakota Fanning in The Runaways, a biopic about the 1970s all-girl rock band of the same name based on Cherie Currie's tell-all tome, Neon Angel: Memoir of a Runaway. In the flick, Fanning played lead vocalist Currie, while Stewart filled the shoes of rhythm guitarist and vocalist Joan Jett. A good amount of the movie focuses on Currie and Jett's relationship, as well as the band's formation in 1975 and Currie's subsequent departure.

Produced for $10 million, The Runaways failed to deliver at the box office. It opened in limited release - 244 theaters - on March 19th and never debuted in more venues than that in a weekend. (It was slated for a wide release on April 9th, yet appeared in 20% less theaters that weekend in comparison to its mid-March debut. The Runaways’ soft $3,300 venue average probably had a lot to do with that). All said and done, The Runaways limped to a Stateside total of only $3.5 million.

For those hoping to hear Stewart and Fanning's respective pipes, you're in luck. Both girls lend their real voices to covers of "Queens of Noise" and "Dead End Justice," while Fanning flies solo for one of the band's most known songs, "Cherry Bomb."

Disc includes: Audio commentary, Behind the Scenes featurette





For people who forget if Tracy Morgan’s real last name is Morgan or Jordan: Cop Out (Special Edition)
Tracy Morgan proved his hard (and funny) work on 30 Rock is paying off for a possible lengthy career in mainstream Hollywood when a pair of recently released movies he starred in performed decently at the domestic box office. One of those movies would be Cop Out, a $37 million buddy cop comedy with Bruce Willis that debuted to $18.2 million in its opening weekend (coming in behind Shutter Island) on its way to a $44.8 million total. Against a production budget of $37 million, the project is already in the black before the lucrative home media market comes into play.

Like Michael Cera, Morgan essentially plays the same character every time we see him, yet audiences seem to largely embrace it. His split personality of brash meets oblivious on 30 Rock earned him an Emmy nod in 2009 - something he failed to repeat, however, this year.

Disc includes: Extended scenes and outtakes, PIP Moments with Kevin Smith and Seann William Scott featurette, Walks-On by Kevin Smith featurette, Wisdom from the S* Bandits featurette, Factoids About the Movie featurette

For people who think The Losers would have performed at least 25% better at the box office had Zoe Saldana been covered in blue paint: The Losers
Based on the Vertigo comic book series of the same name, The Losers is an ensemble action movie starring the likes of Jeffrey Dean Morgan, Chris Evans, Idris Elba and Hollywood hot thing Zoe Saldana. Many people drew comparisons between it and The A-Team. And rightfully so. Both projects have eerily similar log lines. A key difference between the two, however, is that the movie’s protagonists were betrayed and left for dead, not framed for a crime they didn’t commit.

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