Hey, I'm actually letting you guys know about this on the same day everything is posted. Maybe I'm turning over a new leaf. Anyway, I wrote three reviews for this week: the Scarlett Johansson-led Nanny Diaries, the journalistic integrity drama Resurrecting the Champ, and the Billy Crudup-Mandy Moore indie Dedication.

And you know what? They were all decent. I really liked Champ, and Dedication was pretty good, too. Nanny Diaries was more eh, but still not a train wreck - good for its target audience, although not much more than that. The ironic thing is, the end of August is well known for introducing movies that don't make very much money. I think they're all going to flop (although Nanny might not). Oh well.

So I've been writing news stories all day for work today when I came across a synopsis for the new NBC show Chuck. I vaguely already knew of the show's existence, but I really had no idea what it was about or anything like that. It debuts this fall, and here's the official plot:

From executive producer, Josh Schwartz (”The O.C.”) and executive producer-director McG (”Charlie’s Angels,” “We Are Marshall”) comes a one-hour, comedic spy thriller about Bartowski (Zachary Levi, “Less Than Perfect”) - a computer geek who is catapulted into a new career as the government’s most vital secret agent. When opens an e-mail subliminally encoded with government secrets, he unwittingly downloads an entire server of sensitive data into his brain. Now, the fate of the world lies in the unlikely hands of a guy who works at Buy More. Instead of fighting computer viruses, Chuck must fight assassins and international terrorists.

With the government’s most precious secrets in Chuck’s head, Major John Casey (Adam Baldwin, “My Bodyguard”) of the NSA assumes the responsibility of protecting him. His partner is the CIA’s top agent (and Chuck’s first date in years) Sarah Walker (Yvonne Strzechowski, “Gone”). They’ll keep him safe by trading in his pocket protector for a bulletproof vest.

Also starring on NBC’s ” Chuck” are Joshua Gomez (”Without a Trace”) as Chuck’s best buddy Morgan and Sarah Lancaster (”What About Brian?”) as Chuck’s ever-supportive sister Ellie. Josh Schwartz and Chris Fedak wrote “Chuck ,” which is produced by College Hill Pictures and Wonderland Sound and Vision in association with Warner Bros. Television.

Basically the show seems like kind of a buddy action-comedy starring a computer geek guy and a hot secret agent girl. The thing is, I already wrote a script that's really, really similar to this. Now, it's not so similar that I'm about to sue, but it is similar enough that I can pride myself on coming up with basically the same idea that NBC turned into a real show. (Then again, considering their ratings the past couple of seasons, maybe that's not such a great feat.)

For anyone curious, my script was a feature-length film, not a TV show, called The MacGuffin. It was about a geeky video store clerk who inadvertently comes across some computer data which immediately puts him in danger with a cult group of assassins who want the information. To his rescue comes a hot secret agent girl, and together they engage in (somewhat) witty banter while running from and outsmarting the bad guys.

As you can see, if you take out the Adam Baldwin role in the show, the plot overview is pretty similar. And now it's going to be on network TV. Go me.

Here's a pretty long interview based on a roundtable I did with the three stars of Superbad: Jonah Hill, Michael Cera, and Christopher Mintz-Plasse. Yup, I even met them and everything this time. The flick did great this weekend, even outgrossing Knocked Up's first weekend. Check out the interview.

...But here's a Rush Hour 3 review. And a Rosario Dawson interview. (I didn't actually interview her - my boss did - but I did actually meet her! Twice! But I'm not, like, starstruck or anything. Totally not.)

Unless something comes up for this weekend, the next reviews I'll be doing are and The Nanny Diaries and Resurrecting the Champ, both of which are set to come out in two Fridays - so they'll be up then in case I forget to write a post about them on here. Neither of them were bad, by the way (I saw both today back-to-back). Nanny was a little cutesy and was very obviously based on a chick-lit book, but Champ actually impressed me a fair amount.

As promised, here are my three reviews of movies that came out yesterday: The Ten, The Bourne Ultimatum, and Becoming Jane.

This past weekend was the annual movie-geek-fest Comic-Con in San Diego, and I actually got to go, covering as many events as I could for TheCinemaSource. You can see most of the coverage and pictures we got over on this page.

Anyway, with the planning and traveling and writing that went in to that, I forgot to tell you I had two reviews up: for The Simpsons Movie and that Don Cheadle movie Talk to Me. You're about to get a lot more, too, as I'm reviewing three movies coming out this coming weekend. Yeah, I'd rather they not all come out at once too, but oh well. I guess I could've written the reviews in advance so I wouldn't have to write them all tomorrow, but what fun would that be?

I was going to just leave you with that tease and not tell you which movies, but then I realized that no one cares. So since you guys are the loyal readers of my site (I don't think I get any other traffic), here are the movies and an exclusive preview of what I thought of them:

• Bourne Ultimatum - awesome.
• Becoming Jane - zzzzzzzzzzzz.
• The Ten - extremely hilarious.

Usually August is where they dump a lot of the movies they were afraid weren't good enough to do well in June and July, but with Bourne, Superbad, and The Ten all being reeeeally good, it looks to be a pretty good month. Plus, Rush Hour 3! Now that's just the clincher.

Oh, and if it's in theaters near you, see Sunshine. It's destined to be lost in the shuffle of higher-profile movies, but it's absolutely worth seeing on the big screen.