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...Bounty Hunter, which was positioned to be the weekend's top newcomer, didn't exactly underperform; its opening was in line with the first weekends of other Aniston and Butler comedies. But with a cruddy 9% score from Rotten Tomatoes' survey of movie critics and a B-minus CinemaScore rating, the film can't expect much repeat business. At least it did better than Repo Men, whose re-poor $6.2 million made it suitable for foreclosure. Shelved for more than two years after its late-2007 shoot, the picture deepened the red-ink bloodbath at Universal, which has suffered from...
...Alice in Wonderland, $34.5 million; $265.8 million, third week 2. Diary of a Wimpy Kid, $21.8 million, first weekend 3. The Bounty Hunter, $21 million, first weekend 4. Repo Men, $6.2 million, first weekend 5. She's Out of My League, $6.015 million; $20 million, second week 6. Green Zone, $5.963 million; $24.7 million, second week 7. Shutter Island, $4.8 million; $115.8 million, 8. Avatar, $4 million; $736.9 million, 14th week 9. Our Family Wedding, $3.8 million; $ 13.7 million, second week 10. Remember Me, $3.3 million; $13.9 million, second week...
...Cola Wars" of the mid-1980s was a dark time for the soft drink industry. Pepsi and Coke were engaged in a battle for supremacy of the two-liter landscape, using any means possible to bury one another. First, they tussled over celebrity endorsers (George Michael, Elton John for Coke; Madonna, Michael Jackson for Pepsi), and then they began airing negative ads. Pepsi launched its massively successful "Pepsi Challenge" commercials, showing real people choosing Pepsi over Coke in blind taste tests. Coke responded with a parody ad in which a chimpanzee was offered the choice of both soft drinks...
...rough first round robin on Saturday,” said junior skipper John Stokes of the co-ed team, “but we were able to pull it together nicely on Sunday and finish strong...
...Crimson co-ed squad traveled to the nation’s capital to begin its spring break and posted its first team victory of 2010. The host Georgetown Hoyas provided the stiffest competition for Harvard, as the two schools emerged to face each other in the final round of competition. While both teams sported identical overall records of 13-4 on the weekend, the Crimson claimed the victory thanks to the results of individual races among the eight schools that competed...