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...Monday update: Final figures for the weekend showed that Wimpy Kid did even better than its estimate, with $22.1 million, while The Bounty Hunter was a bit under its forecaste, at $20.7 million. Green Zone actually earned $6.113 million to finish fifth, ahead of She's Out of My League ($5.8 million) and just a few thousand dollars below Repo Men ($6.126 million). Alice in Wonderland was still the big winner, with a $34.2 million final tally...
...exactly underperform; its opening was in line with the first weekends of other Aniston and Butler comedies. But with a cruddy 9% score from Rotten Tomatoes' survey of movie critics and a B-minus CinemaScore rating, the film can't expect much repeat business. At least it did better than Repo Men, whose re-poor $6.2 million made it suitable for foreclosure. Shelved for more than two years after its late-2007 shoot, the picture deepened the red-ink bloodbath at Universal, which has suffered from a year of flops, including Green Zone, down a crushing 58% from its dismal...
...Pattinson is finding it hard to attract fans when he's not in his giant fantasy-film franchise; in Star Wars terms, he's more Mark Hamill than Harrison Ford. That would make Stewart the new Carrie Fisher. If she's to tread Fisher's path, she'd better cultivate a sassy tongue and learn to write clever, withering books about herself...
...first day had horrible conditions, with pouring rain,” Lambert said, “but it was better the second day with light wind and sunny weather...
...spoke to the press about the deal. "In the end, like the [Catholic] bishops, I wish that we could have had statutory language," Stupak said. "But we only have 44 votes in the Senate and I recognize that we just couldn't get something through. The Executive Order is better than nothing and I have every assurance it will stand." After the bill passed, Republicans tried to challenge it by bringing up Stupak's own arguments against it. Democrats responded dramatically by bringing up Stupak himself to defend the passage of the law. At one point, as he argued...