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Aaron Johnson doesn't get to make much of an impression as Bennett (watch for his breakthrough role later this month in Kick-Ass) but if you could picture the girl you'd most like to turn up on your doorstep, announcing she's pregnant with your dead son's child, it would be Mulligan's Rose. Despite an absent father and a mother in rehab, Rose is poised, mature and smart enough to have won a full scholarship to Barnard. This movie lacks the energy and verve of An Education, the coming-of-age drama that catapulted the British...
...convert more screens, they and the studios still feel the shortage. This weekend there will be an unprecedented 3-D-theater traffic jam as Clash of the Titans joins last week's box-office champ How to Train Your Dragon and the Disney blockbuster Alice in Wonderland. That could make this the first weekend in movie history when the top three pictures at the domestic box office are shown in 3-D - except there aren't enough venues with suitable screens for the three movies. (See the best movies of the decade...
...movie to play instead ... Many multiplexes only have a single 3-D screen, so not having a conventional version of the highly anticipated DreamWorks family film to play on their other screens would severely affect ticket sales." Add to this the reported hints of an embargo that could deprive theater owners of hit films for months. According to the industry news blog the Wrap, "Executives at the [ShoWest] exhibition trade conference in Las Vegas said Paramount had suggested it might not be so forthcoming with Iron Man 2 and Shrek Forever After if exhibitors don't find 3-D screens...
...office race but considerably less than the opening, the same week last year, of DreamWorks' Monsters vs Aliens. The dip may be attributed to a lack of stars in the voice roles or to the more traditional, Disney-feature-like story and tone, but it could also be that more 3-D screens would have given Dragon more firepower. (Watch TIME's video "The 3-D Experience...
...from exhibitors that the number of 3-D screens would hold for two weeks. This put a serious crimp in the release of Clash of the Titans, whose opening was delayed a week, both to complete the film's reformatting in 3-D and to secure more venues that could show it in that format. Clash opens Friday on about 1,500 3-D screens and 2,000 2-Ds. Industry analyst Jeff Bock of Exhibitor Relations says Clash might have been expected to earn about $100 million this weekend - if it had secured all the 3-D screens...