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...Train Your Dragon won the weekend box-office battle, but with a purr, not a roar. DreamWorks' latest effort in CGI animation earned $43.3 million in its opening three days, according to early studio estimates. That was more than enough for it to dethrone Disney's Alice in Wonderland, which had reigned for the last three weeks and from which it had filched many of the venues that show movies in the zazzier 3-D format, where a $3 or $4 price hike on each ticket is the norm. Still, Dragon's firepower was more tepid than scalding when compared...
...money is. DreamWorks wouldn't mind if Dragon ended up near Alice, which is closing in on $300 million in domestic gross (and another $350 million abroad), and just behind Avatar, which finally fell out of the top 10 after 14 weeks, as one of 2010's three biggest winners - all in 3-D. (See the top 10 movie performances...
...other new wide release, Hot Tub Time Machine, fit the underachieving mold. The lurid, inspired title aside, fans of late-night soft-core woo-pitching will be disappointed to learn that the four people in the hot tub at the beginning of the film are all guys, three of them middle-aged. The movie has plenty of gross-out gags, mandatory for an R-rated comedy, but with John Cusack as its star, it may have skewed too old (late-30s, early-40s) to drag the young into its make-fun-of-the-'80s time frame. The picture pulled...
...telescope at the Apache Point Observatory in New Mexico. Because every feature of each galaxy had to be categorized by at least 20 people - having multiple classifications of the same object is important because it helps scientists assess how reliable each one is - astronomers estimated it would take three to five years to categorize all million galaxies...
...took three weeks. In the first year, 50 million classifications were made by 150,000 people. Galaxy Zoo became the world's largest database of galaxy shapes. There are now German- and Polish-language versions, and a Chinese one is scheduled to launch sometime in April. (See pictures of Earth from space...