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...BOX: ''I hate every f---ing place in the world. I hate Europe. I hate the Bahamas and ll those islands filled with hostile natives.'' -- HOWARD STERN
...model, not after a decade in the spotlight. These days, does anyone wanna be Madonna? Does anyone even wanna see Madonna? Not on the movie screen. Body of Evidence, in which she played a woman accused of killing her lover with sex, earned just $14 million at the U.S. box office, less than her 1991 documentary Truth or Dare. Sales of Madonna albums have also had diminishing returns; the latest, Erotica, has sold about 2 million in the U.S., down from Like a Virgin's 7 million. Sex, her notorious $50 diary and sado-catechism, enjoyed a frenetic first...
...After Ledger's death, curiosity about his performance - not always driven by the best of impulses - only grew. "It added to a certain mystique about the film," says Steve Mason, box-office analyst at FantasyMoguls.com. While Warner Bros. was anxious about appearing to capitalize on interest in Ledger's death as The Dark Knight's release date approached, it resumed showcasing Ledger in trailers. "The performance is so good, had they not highlighted it, it would have been a mistake," says Paul Dergarabedian, president of box-office analysis firm Media By Numbers. In the end, Fellman says, "[Ledger] certainly...
...When it came to breaking box-office records, Batman wasn't flying solo. Universal's Mamma Mia! earned $27.6 million to snare the best opening for a musical, narrowly beating out last summer's Hairspray and helping propel the record weekend sales across the industry...
...built on first-weekend hype that quickly falls off as new films arrive in theaters, but audiences are spreading good word of mouth and, in some cases, returning to see the film on IMAX screens. Whether there'll be enough returns to put The Dark Knight in all-time box-office territory remains to be seen. But Hollywood appears to have its box-office superhero...