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...Runner-up for the second weekend in a row, Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince stanched its 62% dive last weekend with a more modest 40% tail-off, mostly owing to the adding of 161 IMAX screens, where the price of admission is much steeper. Of the two sophomore entries, G-Force, Jerry Bruckheimer's locked-and-loaded version of Alvin and the Chipmunks, came in third with $17.1 million, and The Ugly Truth, Katherine Heigl's R-rated tryst with Gerard Butler, plunged 53% to amass $13 million. Since the movie cost only $38 million to make...
...Funny People, $23.4 million, first weekend 2. Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince, $17.7 million; $255.5 million, third week 3. G-Force, $17.1 million; $66.4 million, second week 4. The Ugly Truth, $13 million; $54.5 million, second week 5. Aliens in the Attic, $7.8 million, first weekend 6. Orphan, $7.3 million; $26.8 million, second week 7. Ice Age: Dawn of the Dinosaurs, $5.3 million; $181.9 million, fifth week 8. The Hangover, $5.1 million; $255.8 million, ninth week 9. The Proposal, $4.8 million; $148.9 million, seventh week 10. Transformers: Revenge of the Fallen, $4.6 million; $388.1 million, sixth week...
...department, not some f---in, Jane f---in, Austen novel!" And the movie is not one of those genial Brit rom-coms like Notting Hill or Four Weddings and a Funeral. It's closer to the high-IQ ranting in plays by John Osborne and TV dramas by Dennis Potter. Put all these witty, rancid voices together and you hear the wail of a depleted nation that has lost nearly every imperial perquisite but the power to call other people idiots, and the skill to carry it off with salacious style...
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...themes of their music are the themes of the books: love and friendship, angst and struggle. "We think, What does Harry Potter go through?" Paul says. "If I was a teenager, and I was going through this, what kind of songs would I be writing? So when Harry's love life goes sour after a date with Cho Chang, you write a song about that. Or he discovers this awesome potions book with all these secrets in it, and he's totally pumped. You write a song about that...