THIS WEEKEND TOP TEN MOVIES — NOVEMBER 20-22

1. The Twilight Saga: New Moon, $140.7 million
2. The Blind Side, $34.5 million
3. 2012, $26.5 million
4. Planet 51, $12.6 million
5. Disney’s A Christmas Carol, $12.2 million
6. Precious: Based on the Novel ‘Push’ by Sapphire, $11 million
7. The Men Who Stare at Goats, $2.8 million
8. Couples Retreat, $2 million
9. The Fourth Kind, $1.7 million
10. Law Abiding Citizen, $1.6 million

NICOLE RICHIE IS HOME FROM HOSPITAL: Nicole Richie is back home and doing well after a hospital stay for treatment of pneumonia, her boyfriend Joel Madden wrote on his band Good Charlotte’s web site. “All is well and we are home with no problems,” Madden wrote. He came back to Los Angeles from an international tour last week and went straight to Cedars-Sinai Hospital, where Nicole was being treated. Nicole ande Joel have two children, son Sparrow, born in September, and daughter Harlow, 22 months.

NO VERDICT YET IN SARAH JESSICA PARKER SURROGATE CASE: Jury deliberations resume today (Monday) in the trial of an Ohio police chief who allegedly broke into the home of the woman who carried twins as a surrogate mom for Sarah Jessica Parker and Matthew Broderick. Martins Ferry Police Chief Barry Carpenter is accused of taking photos of an ultrasound test and a plaster stomach cast that were in the surrogate’s home, in hopes of selling them to celebrity photographers. Carpenter has said he entered the home while on routine patrol only because a basement door was open. He says he showed the photo to paparazzi and others as a joke. The jury deliberated for five hours on Friday.

HEIDI KLUM IS NOW MRS. SAMUEL: It’s official. Heidi Klum is now Heidi Samuel. A court commissioner approved her petition to adopt her husband Seal’s last name on Friday in Los Angeles. It’s about time. The supermodel and the soul singer were married four years ago, and had their third child together, daughter Lou, five weeks ago. They also have two sons, Henry, 3, and Johan, 2. And Seal, who is 46 years old, is the adoptive father of Klum’s daughter Leni, 5. The Project Runway star has not said whether she’ll use her new surname professionally.

LARRY HAGMAN’S DALLAS-SIZE ESTATE UP FOR SALE: Actor Larry Hagman, best known as wicked J.R. Ewing in the 1980s series Dallas, is hoping to sell a sprawling mansion in Ojai (oh HI), California, that is worthy of an oil baron. But the house is so eco-friendly that the electric bill is only $13 a year! The solar-powered house itself, however, will cost you $11 million. It has nine bedrooms and 14.5 bathrooms sprinkled around 18,000 square feet of space.

OJ SIMPSON’S JAILHOUSE CAREER: Prison inmate and ex-football star OJ Simpson is lifting weights and getting in shape at Lovelock Correctional Center in Nevada, according to The New York Post. In his spare time, he teaches other inmates about anger management and preaches racial harmony. Um . . . Anger management? OJ?

HOWARD K. STERN SETTLES OUT OF COURT: The one-time lawyer and lover of Anna Nicole Smith has settled out of court his suit against writer Rita Crosby, author of the book about Smith Blonde Ambition. Stern sued over an allegation in the book that Stern and Larry Birkhead, rivals for the affections of Smith, had been caught on tape in a sexual encounter with each other. A move to dismiss was filed on Friday, according to TMZ.

SANDRA BULLOCK GETS A CAREER BEST: New Moon may have broken records last weekend, but Sandra Bullock got a respectable second place at the box office, and her personal career best for a movie opening, with her new drama The Blind Side. The movie came in second with $34.5 million in ticket sales. The fact-based story about a Tennessee housewife who takes in a homeless black teenager and encourages him to become a football hero has won strong reviews from critics. Only last September, her comedy All About Steve was a bomb, earning less in its entire run than The Blind Side did in its opening weekend. Bullock’s biggest movie so far is The Proposal, which earned $164 million in the U.S.

UMA AND R-PATZ GET CLOSEUP: Uma Thurman has signed to co-star with Twilight series star Rob Pattinson in an adaptation of the short story “Bel Ami” by French writer Guy de Maupassant (gee deh maw-pah-SAHNT). Kristin Scott Thomas also has joined the cast. Ami tells the story of a young French journalist who rises to wealth and success in Paris by seducing influential women. Thurman and Thomas both play socialites who fall for Pattinson’s character. Nicole Kidman reportedly turned down the role that Thurman is playing.

DONNY, MYA OR KELLY? Who will take home the mirrorball? Will it be Donny Osmond, Mya or Kelly Osbourne? The big finale of Dancing with the Stars finally airs this week. The finale starts tonight at 8 PM ET, with the results show to air tomorrow night (Tuesday) on ABC.

TRAVOLTA SCREENS OLD DOGS FOR CHARITY: John Travolta and Kelly Preston held a private advance screening of their latest movie at home in Ocala, Florida, as a fundraiser for local charities. The event raised money for five nonprofit agencies, including the Jett Travolta Foundation, named for the couple’s son Jett, who died at age 16 at the family vacation home in the Bahamas. Other beneficiaries include Florida Highway Patrol Advisory Council, Project Hope, the Marion County Public Safety Assistance Trust, and the Humane Society of Marion County. John and Kelly and their daughter Ella Bleu greeted fans on the red carpet Friday for the movie, Old Dogs. Robin Williams co-stars in the Disney comedy about two men who are placed in the care of 7-year-old twins.

• Old Dogs opens this Wednesday, November 25th.

COUGAR TOWN SHUTS DOWN FOR NOW: Production of the sitcom Cougar Town has temporarily shut down while star Courteney Cox takes care of a family matter, according to a statement from ABC. Reps for the star and the show declined to identify the issue. Cox, who is 45, plays a randy divorcee on the ensemble comedy.

BRAD PITT MAY BE HEADED FOR BERMUDA TRIANGLE: Some day soon, you may see Brad Pitt on the big screen playing a cargo pilot who crashes in the Bermuda Triangle and ends up in a parallel universe fighting evil aliens. A major Indian movie production company and Pitt’s company have bought the movie rights to the story, called Dark Void. But first, Dark Void is being released as a video game. The game, developed for Windows, Playstation 3 and Xbox 360, is due in January. The Indian movie company, Reliance, has done deals with other Hollywood stars including Pitt pals Julia Roberts and George Clooney.

LEVI JOHNSTON PLAYS IT COY: Photos from Levi Johnston’s Playgirl magazine photo shoot finally popped up on the Internet on Saturday, and he’s playing it coy, or at least Playgirl is. The photos show Johnston only from the waist up. More equally tasteful photos will be released weekly for the next few weeks, a Playgirl spokesman says. Readers who want to see the whole Levi — or at least as much as the photos reveal — will have to buy the mag or enroll in the Web site. As the Web site Gawker.com says: “Levi only has one thing Playgirl’s readers want to see, and it’s not his SAT2 score.”

The dust hasn’t even settled on Oprah Winfrey’s announcement last week that she’ll end her long-running daytime talk show in 2011, and already people are talking about who could replace her. Winfrey’s show has claimed the coveted 4 p.m. eastern time slot for more than 20 years. That’s considered the best time of the day, because more people are at home then.