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...Proposal has demonstrated that a movie doesn't need two stars to be a hit, The Hangover proved it doesn't need any. Same with the starless Up (sorry, all you Ed Asner fans), which in its fourth weekend amassed another $21.3 million, for a domestic total thus far of $224.1 million. In no time Pixar's alter-kocker comedy will pass Star Trek, yet another no-star wonder, as the year's top-grossing film - until, that is, the Transformers or Harry Potter sequels overtake it. See a trend, folks? Stars don't sell movies; brands, genres and word...
...Unless the star is - and here's where industry analysts do spit-takes with their Evian - Sandra Bullock. Every once in a while, every blue moon, audiences want to be reminded of why they made someone a star in the first place. They like Bullock, they really like her; they just haven't seen any reason to go to her movies. The advertising for The Proposal gave them that excuse: it played on both cutting a successful woman down to her co-star's size and allowing Bullock to flash her trademark poop-eating grimace, the signal of a working...
...million, third week 3. Up: $21.3 million; $224.1 million, fourth week 4. Year One: $20.2 million, first weekend 5. The Taking of Pelham 1 2 3: $11.3 million; $43.3 million, second week 6. Night at the Museum: Battle of the Smithsonian: $7.3 million; $156 million, fifth week 7. Star Trek: $4.7 million; $239.4 million, seventh week 8. Land of the Lost: $4 million; $43.7 million, third week 9. Imagine That: $3.1 million; $11.4 million, second week 10. Terminator Salvation: $3.1 million; $119.5 million, second week...
Conspiracy theories were bound to flourish given Wicks' political affiliations and the Telegraph's own establishment credentials. Once nicknamed "The Torygraph," one of the daily's most famous editors served as a Conservative Cabinet minister; among its current star columnists is its former reporter, the Conservative Mayor of London, Boris Johnson. Lewis vehemently denies any suggestion of bias. The decision to start with government was purely editorial, he says, and MPs from the Conservative and Liberal Democratic parties were subsequently scrutinized with the same vigor. "Had this expenses story landed in a different environment, it wouldn't have had this...
...Swiss tennis star Roger Federer, 27, earned his first French Open title on June 7. A straight-sets victory over Sweden's Robin Soderling made Federer the sixth man in history to win all four Grand Slam tournaments...