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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...
Well before the 1 o'clock matinee of Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince on a Wednesday, the 30-something woman driving the pink Vespa scooter with the license plate "Tonks" had pulled into the parking lot in Missoula, Mont., and headed inside to get a good seat. If you understood the reference, then you won't be surprised that even in a recession that has been very kind to Hollywood generally - ticket sales are up 12% this year - the reception of the sixth installment of the boy wizard's story has been spellbinding. The film raked in almost...
...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...
...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...