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...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, it'll end up in the black. The financial future is gloomier for the comedy Aliens in the Attic, which opened in the basement at $7.8 million...
...friendly movies such as G-Force more profitable and less costly to make than R- or PG-rated movies? Alice Troup, RIVERVIEW, MICH...
...Washington RIP, F-22? In a 58-40 split, the U.S. Senate voted July 21 to scrap orders for seven F-22 fighter jets from a $679.8 billion military-spending bill, ending a standoff between lawmakers who defended the $1.75 billion project (which does not include R&D costs) as a way to create as many as 25,000 jobs and those who derided the combat plane as a relic of the Cold War. President Barack Obama, who threatened to veto the entire bill if the F-22 plans weren't eliminated, hailed the decision as a major victory...
KILL PROGRAM Levin (D., Mich.) McCain (R., Ariz...
...Ruth R. Wisse is the Martin Peretz Professor of Yiddish Literature, and Professor of Comparative Literature, at Harvard...