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Seriously, HBO… OVERREACTION MUCH?

After Game of Thrones show creators David Benioff and D.B. Weiss pointed out a prosthetic head on a spike that looks very much like former President George W. Bush during DVD commentary of Season 1, Episode 10, HBO FREAKED OUT, stating it was 'unacceptable, disrespectful and in very bad taste.'

And even though Weiss & Benioff have since apologized, claiming they meant nothing political or intentional by the prosthetic's unfortunate placement, HBO execs have decided to pull the episode from all future DVD sales AND have taken it off of their streaming HBO GO service.

If they had just left it alone, then the hilarious realization would have

Tags: d.b. weiss, david benioff, dvd sales, executives, game of thrones, george w bush, hbo, overreaction, silly, streaming, television

Oh boy. This is one hell of a flub!

Netflix was thrown into scandal this past weekend when Google Plus Week host Dan McDermott noticed that the Whitney Houston film The Bodyguard was no longer available for streaming, and was allegedly told by a company representative that the studio pulled the film so they could make money on DVD sales in light of her death!

However, the whole thing turns out to be a misunderstanding, and McDermott is the first to admit it!

According to him, the rep with whom he spoke "had bad information" and once he checked the film's cache, he discovered

Tags: capitalize, death, dvd, dvd sales, expiration, licensing, misinformation, netflix, steve swasey, streaming, the bodyguard, whitney houston

As expected, Twi-Hards stormed retailers this past weekend for the release of Breaking Dawn Part I.

Between Saturday and Sunday nearly 3.2 million DVDs and Blu-Rays were purchased, making it the third best-selling Twilight Saga DVD in its first weekend.

In addition to hard copies, more than 50,000 digital copies of Breaking Dawn were purchased and the film was rented nearly 80,000 times via Pay-Per-View and other on-demand video rental services.

Wow.

Did U buy or rent the movie this weekend???

Tags: breaking dawn part 1, dvd, dvd sales, twilight