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...hero of The Chronicles of Riddick and xXx, returned to glory as the stolid stud behind the wheel and helped drive his new vehicle to record-breaking numbers. Earning an estimated $72.5 million in its first three days, F&F had the biggest opening not only of any 2009 film but also of any movie released in the normally somnolent month of April. (Previous top dog of the cruelest month: the Adam Sandler-Jack Nicholson Anger Management, which picked up $42 million six years ago.) F&F also cadged $30.1 million internationally, bringing its three-day cume to $102.6 million...
...gigantic gross to the producers' simple trick of reuniting the quartet of leading actors from the 2001 original: Diesel, Paul Walker, Jordana Brewster and Michelle Rodriguez. Well, O.K., but what individual star power do these folks have? What hits have they headlined? Anyone who can spontaneously name the last film that each of these four starred in deserves a share of F&F's profits. (Or spends too much time fishing through the video-store discount bin. The answers, in case you were wondering, are Babylon A.D., The Lazarus Project, A Cat's Tale and The Texas Chainsaw Massacre...
...People in other countries go to the movies too, though the international box-office results aren't widely noted here. But for a fan of that endangered species, foreign films, it's cheering to note that movies Americans have never heard of can pull in blockbuster numbers. Recent global winners include the French comedy Welcome to the Sticks, at $243 million; the first installment of the two-part Red Cliff, John Woo's return to Chinese-language action films, starring Tony Leung Chiu-wai and Takeshi Kaneshiro, which has taken in $125 million; and Hayao Miyazaki's charming anim...
...tell he's struggling with issues of sexuality and wanting to leave his home but not knowing if he can make it in the big city. There's a lot of uncertainty there. I think that's the real story - his decision at the end of the film concerning: Do I accept small town, suburban attitudes, where men are treated like sexual studs, even if they're married, and women are sluts. There are these closed-minded issues, and he has a really childish view of what love is, and Em, with her complications and problems, really makes him come...
...know that I faced many of these same problems, saving all my money so I could go to film school, and I found it interesting as I started getting notes on this script from people in Hollywood that some told me not to make it a period piece because kids will think it's about a different generation, and then some were asking me: Well, why doesn't James just go to New York and get a job at The New Yorker? Why is he such a loser at an amusement park? And I was sort of like...