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In theaters Friday: Elizabeth: The Golden Age, Michael Clayton, Lars and the Real Girl, We Own the Night New on DVD: Evan Almighty, Surf's Up, You Kill Me

Oliver Stone announced this week his plans to produce a biopic of cocaine king Pablo Escobar, based on the memoir of Escobar's brother titled Mi Hermano Pablo. The thing is, Joe Carnahan is already in pre-production on his own Escobar flick, Killing Pablo. This practice seems to happen over and over in Hollywood, almost as if the industry is deciding to remake the same movie simultaneously just to save us all some time.

You know the drill, we get Capote then 10 months later we get Infamous. There are also two biopics of revolutionary and American t-shirt star Che Guevara coming out next year -- Guerilla and The Argentine, but Steven Soderbergh and Benicio del Toro are making them both.

So, are rival biopics some kind of new status symbol in Hollywood? Maybe you're a nobody until somebody at Sony and Warner Bros. is hastily editing footage and trying to beat each other to the box office with a movie about you.

For Frank Miller fans, here's a cast update on The Spirit. Paz Vega and Jamie King have joined the lineup that already includes Scarlett Johansson, Eva Mendes, Sarah Paulson and Samuel L. Jackson. Hmm. You think guys will be interested in seeing this?

Finally, the trailer for The Bucket List hit this week. With Rob Reiner directing and Jack Nicholson and Morgan Freeman as terminal cancer patients looking for thrills, this could be a decent life lesson film for the family, or it could be Beaches with crusty old dudes. Nicholson and Freeman are so good, they're even fun to watch in terrible movies (like Anger Management and Evan Almighty). The Bucket List, as in "things to do before kicking the bucket," is in theaters this Christmas.