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...movies based on the Stephenie Meyer novels about a teen girl's love with the proper vampire. With its $72.7 million Friday take - more than its predecessor, last year's Twilight, earned in its first full weekend - New Moon set a one-day record for the North American box office. By tonight, according to studio estimates, it will have earned $140.7 million, which makes the film a prime mover in what could be, according to Variety, "the second-best weekend ever at the domestic B.O. in terms of overall ticket sales." And not on a holiday. And not in summer...
...size of New Moon's boodle left the industry's box-office handicappers flummoxed. Like crazed billionaires trying to outbid one another for an evening with Angelina Jolie, they kept jacking up their weekend estimates as New Moon broke record upon record, day by day. On Thursday the smart money was on a $100 million opening; on Friday the ante was raised to $120 million, and on Saturday they finally got it right. Of course, the $140.7 million is simply another estimate: Summit Pictures' Sunday-morning guess at Sunday evening's take. The real number, released tomorrow afternoon, could...
...have written a book just about these aspects of industrial farming, and it may well have provided a more compelling rationale for choosing vegetarianism. But it would have been less affecting. However, like his novels, “Eating Animals” often uses graphics, such as a small box the size of an industrial chicken cage, to illustrate a point. This is almost always trite and unnecessary, and undermines his credibility as a serious thinker about an important issue...
...centerbacks will have to deal with crosses [because Monmouth is] very opportunistic,” Clark said. “[But] we should handle them when they step into our box...
...Hampshire junior Courtney Sheary spent the last 85 seconds of the game in the box for a hooking infraction, but the Crimson couldn’t muster a shot on goal...