the buzz log

Most Searched Movies on Yahoo!, Opening This Weekend

1. "The Soloist" (PG-13)
2. "Obsessed" (PG-13)
3. "Fighting" (PG-13)

Yes, the A-listers come out in "The Soloist," the most-searched premiere this week. But in the guilty-pleasure department, the throwdown's between Channing Tatum and Beyonce Knowles.

In one corner, a former male model who stepped up to be a heartthrob, and now stars in a flick about underground fighting circuits. In the other corner, a mega-singer who crooned at the First Couple's first dance, and is out to protect her man from a female psycho in an action thriller.

Sorry Tatum, but Beyonce doesn't just score the knockout: She is the knockout, scoring a tenfold advantage in searches on Yahoo!. Just in case people didn't appreciate her movie's classic cult origins, the official site spells out her movie "Obsessed" as "Jungle Fever meets Fatal Attraction." Sprinkle in "Single White Female" and "Unlawful Entry," and you get an idea of the stalker mishmash that is Beyonce's film.

No critical love, but none of that matters when you get Beyonce throwing around Ali Larter, who has her own small-screen cred as a super-endowed fighter on NBC "Heroes." Anyone who caught Beyonce as Foxxy Cleopatra ("Austin Powers in Goldmember") should remember the lady's fierce. Plus, look at who she's protecting: uber-sizzler Idris Elba, most fondly remembered as Stringer Bell from HBO's "The Wire."

Besides, for some action fans, it's nice to see a lady in the mix. Maybe next time Beyonce can graduate from stalkers and go solo as an Iron Lady or XX-Man. Or would that be XX-Woman? You get the idea.