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...Deadline Hollywood Daily blog: "HP6 with a PG rating is selling more discounted kiddie tickets. And it had virtually no biz from higher priced IMAX theaters: just 3 venues compared to TF2's 169." Not that the moneymen care about the number of tickets sold. Bucks, not bodies, determine box-office winners...
Here are the studios' official weekend estimates for the top 10 movies, as reported by Box Office Mojo: 1. Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince, $79.4 million; $159.7 million, five days 2. Ice Age: Dawn of the Dinosaurs, $17.7 million; $152 million, third week 3. Transformers: Revenge of the Fallen, $13.8 million; $363.9 million, fourth week 4. Brüno, $8.4 million; $49.6 million, second week 5. The Hangover, $8.3 million; $235.9 million, seventh week 6. The Proposal, $8.3 million; $128.1 million, fifth week 7. Public Enemies, $7.6 million; $79.5 million, third week 8. Up, $3.1 million; $279.6 million...
...write about an amateur boxing match in which you participated. You had your nose broken and your jaw knocked out of line. Would you ever box again? I would like to box again. It's very thrilling. I'm not the sort to jump out of a plane or skydive, but in boxing, you're really putting yourself on the edge, especially for a safe, middle-class person like myself. I wish I was the kind of writer who would go to a war zone and write about something that's meaningful and important to people, but that...
...question, especially since the program was an open secret. On Oct. 28, 2001, the Washington Post ran an article with the title "CIA Weighs 'Targeted Killing' Missions." And in 2006, New York Times reporter James Risen wrote a book in which he revealed the program's secret code name, Box Top . Moreover, it is well known that on Nov. 3, 2002, the CIA launched a Hellfire missile from a Predator drone over Yemen, killing an al-Qaeda member involved in the attack on the U.S.S. Cole. And who knows how many "targeted killings" there have been in Afghanistan and Iraq...
...Baron Cohen's comedy may be raking it in at the U.S. box office, but the Ukrainian Culture Ministry has failed to see the funny side. It has decided that Brüno's edgy parody of homophobia, with its numerous risqué sex scenes, is too much for Ukrainian citizens to handle and has nixed the film's distribution. Maksym Rostotskiy, a member of the Ministry of Culture's Expert Commission on Film Distribution, says he felt obliged to ban the film "as a psychologist and a lawyer," adding that it contains "scenes of homosexual relations with elements...