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The top-three movies, along with solid holdovers that included
Universal's "It's Complicated" at No. 4 with $18.7 million, steered
Hollywood to a big start to 2010 after a year of record revenue.
The latest chapter of the vampire saga, which has made pinup stars of
actors Robert Pattinson and Taylor Lautner, is behind only The Dark
Knight's $158.4 million last year and Spider-Man 3's $151.1 million in
2007.
Thousands of fans from as far away as New York filled the streets near UCLA on Monday, hoping to catch a glimpse of their favorite undead stars attending the evening premiere of "New Moon' -- the second film in the "Twilight' vampire saga.
Jonze leaned on newcomers, oversized puppets and the sometimes-critical
advice of a legendary author to bring the story to life.
The movie earned $30.1 million to lead this weekend's films.
Robert Redford has chosen Savannah as the shooting location for his post-Civil War film about a woman who was executed for playing a role in President Abraham Lincoln's assassination.
An elite squad of guinea pigs has worked its own brand of magic at the box office, taking the No. 1 spot from boy wizard Harry Potter.
Astro Boy is coming back. Imagi Animation Studios is putting the final
touches on an animated movie premiering Oct. 23 - and the trick now is
reminding the Astro-less generation who he is.
Eight years later, Daniel Radcliffe, 19, Emma Watson, 19, and Rupert
Grint, 20, exude the confidence and certainty that comes with
headlining one of Hollywood's most lucrative movie franchises.
Brüno offers more shock value for your moviegoing dollar than any other movie this year.
In Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince, the ongoing schoolboy feud
between the bespectacled boy wizard and his bratty blond nemesis, Draco
Malfoy, becomes something much nastier.
Tom Hanks is rejoining the board that oversees the Academy Awards.
The stars of "Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince" are due to walk the red carpet at the film's premiere in London.
Public Enemies is a welcome adult alternative to summer's sophomoric blockbusters. The only transforming going on here is actors skillfully taking on roles of '30s-era gangsters and lawmen.
As with holiday weeks in general, this is usually a drab time for DVD releases, given the competition from floats, backyard munitions and Bloody Marys. But this time, the week has been equally spiked in a couple of senses, thanks to an American classic plus one of 2009's finest movies so far.
In an Independence Day battle at theaters among transforming robots,
prehistoric mammals and Johnny Depp, the winner was ... fireworks.
When science and cinema collide, the story wins. The makers of Ice Age: Dawn of the Dinosaurs had to fully embrace that idea.
Moviegoers who helped Transformers: Revenge of the Fallen earn $200.1
million in its opening five days, just short of record-holder The Dark
Knight, know the computer-effects-heavy film plays a lot of tricks on
the eye.
They're back –Bonnie and Clyde, Dillinger and Baby Face, Jekyll and Hyde, Holmes and Watson.
Transformers 2: Revenge of the Fallen is proof positive that not every summer action blockbuster has the mettle to be a franchise.
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