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...that category, Emmerich has new competition from Lee Daniels, whose Precious has stormed the specialty box office after winning raves at festivals from Sundance to Cannes. Last week the indie drama - about a Harlem teenager who is illiterate, morbidly obese and pregnant for a second time by her abusive father - broke records in a very limited opening; this week it took in $6.1 million at just 174 theaters for a wowie-zowie $35,000 per screen. That's how Paranormal Activity started out. Fervently promoted by Tyler Perry (who brought the movie to his distributor, Lionsgate) and Oprah Winfrey, with...
...million, first weekend 2. A Christmas Carol, $22.3 million; $63.3 million second week 3. The Men Who Stare at Goats, $6.2 million; $22.4 million, second week 4. Precious, $6.1 million; $8.9 million, second week 5. Michael Jackson's This Is It, $5.1 million; $68.2 million, third week 6. The Fourth Kind, $4.7 million; $20.6 million, second week 7. Couples Retreat, $4.3 million; $102.1 million, sixth week 8. Paranormal Activity, $4.2 million; $103.8 million, eighth week 9. Law Abiding Citizen, $3.9 million; $67.3 million, fifth week 10. The Box, $3.2 million; $13.2 million, second week...
...preliminary autopsy revealed that the teacher died of an apparent heart attack while playing basketball, and a ministry spokesperson told the China Daily newspaper that the death was a "coincidental medical incident" and not related to the vaccine. No details on the second victim have been released thus far. (See pictures: "Soccer in the Time of Swine...
Consider the boring old picnic basket known as the "Agatha Christie basket," which contains fragments of pottery of unknown origins. If it had belonged to the author, as its nickname would suggest, it would undoubtedly be a keeper; however, it turns out it belonged to her second husband's second wife, and the university has no idea under what circumstances it was donated. Or what about a giant rhinoceros skull? Is that worth keeping? How about the samples of earth dug up from the English Channel, pre-Chunnel? Hundreds of beautiful hand-drawn lecture slides made by the scientist...
...merger, slated for completion late next year, is simple. BA and Iberia - combined annual revenues: $22 billion - are chasing their rivals' tails. Germany's Lufthansa, Europe's second-largest airline, has picked up smaller carriers from Austria to Switzerland in recent months. Thanks to the 2004 merger of the French and Dutch airlines, Air France-KLM is even further out in front. Troubled Iberia and BA, which both announced ugly losses over the past week, reckon eliminating duplicate services from fleet maintenance to business class lounges will save the airlines $600 million a year. That'll mean "a strong European...