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...Couples Retreat, $35.3 million, first weekend 2. Zombieland, $15 million; $47.8 million, second week 3. Cloudy With a Chance of Meatballs, $12 million; $96.2 million, fourth week 4. Toy Story 3-D and Toy Story 2 3-D, $7.7 million; $22.7 million, second week 5. Paranormal Activity, $7.1 million; $8.2 million, third week 6. Surrogates, $4.1 million; $32.6 million, third week 7. The Invention of Lying, $3.4 million; $12.3 million, second week 8. Whip It, $2.8 million; $8.6 million, second week 9. Capitalism: A Love Story, $2.7 million; $9.1 million, third week 10. Fame, $2.6 million; $20 million, third week...
With no new wide-release competition in their respective genres, last week's top three all slipped down just one notch. Zombieland dropped a less-than-expected 39%; the surprise CGI-animation hit Cloudy With a Chance of Meatballs slipped a mere 24% to inch near the $100 million mark; and the 3-D double bill of Pixar favorites Toy Story and Toy Story 2 fell 39%. The weekend should reach a cumulative $100 million. That will leave the box office 8% ahead of last year in revenue and 4% ahead in attendance, making movies...
...their early rep with the smart buddy-comedy Swingers. In the interim, Favreau has become a respected director (Elf, Iron Man) and Vaughn, pretty much, a movie star. Three of the films he has top-lined - Wedding Crashers, The Break-Up and Four Christmases - have taken in about $450 million at the North American box office; and even his 2007 Yuletide flop, the egregious Fred Claus, did $72 million. An actor who gets people to pay to see the bad movies he's in: that's a good definition of a star. The odder thing is that the large, shambling...
...Paranormal Activity's take of $7.1 million on 159 screens in perspective, consider the openings of two other films this weekend. Good Hair, Chris Rock's docu-comedy about Afro-American coiffure, took in $1.1 million at 186 sites; and the inspirational boxing drama From Mexico With Love gleaned a punchless $308,000 at 279 venues. In two showcase openings, the highly praised romantic comedy An Education - whose leading lady, Carey Mulligan, is virtually assured an Oscar nomination for Best Actress - earned a precocious $162,000 at four theaters; and the soccer movie The Damned United played to the equivalent...
Amazon, the online retailing giant, did more than any other company to turn the sale of digital books into a real business with the 2007 launch of the Kindle electronic reader. The company has sold an estimated 1.7 million units of the handheld device in the U.S., and it's getting ready to ship millions more. On Oct. 6, Amazon announced that it would soon begin selling Kindles - complete with a key feature that allows users to wirelessly download e-books from Amazon - in more than 100 countries...