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...After several weekends with two or three movies bunched near the top, here was a winner that won't be overturned in the recount. It earned $34.1 million, according to early studio estimates, and beat out the second-place finisher, The Hangover, by more than $7 million, and the weekend's other new movie, the Jack Black-Michael Cera prehistoric comedy Year One, by about $14 million. Bullock's first No. 1 movie in a decade (since Forces of Nature), it nearly doubled her previous personal-best opening (the 2007 Premonition, at $17.6 million...
Artists hoping to avoid becoming a target of Russia's censorship laws may find themselves forced to take a page out of Ilya Glazunov's book. Last week, Putin visited Glazunov, one of Russia's most famous painters, at his studio on the artist's 79th birthday. The Prime Minister paused in front of a painting of a knight, Prince Oleg with Igor, which Glazunov had completed in 1973. Then he offered his critique that the sword in the painting was too short. "It would only be good for cutting a sausage," Putin said. (See pictures of Putin's Patriotic...
Original predictions for the R-rated comedy's debut last weekend were in the $25-30 million range. So industry swamis were surprised to see that in the early studio tabulation last Sunday, the movie came in a close second to the Pixar hit Up. The following day they were flummoxed by the full weekend figures, showing that The Hangover actually beat out Up for the No. 1 slot, $45 million to $44.3 million. Films flip-flopping the top two positions from early estimates to final ones: that hardly ever happens. (TIME Reviews The Hangover: A Bro-Magnon Bromance...
...pictures from an X-Ray studio...
...pictures from an X-ray studio...