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...with $31 million, more than double the $14 million take of the runner-up, and last week's winner, Michael Jackson's This Is It. The very odd Clooney comedy came in third, with $13.3 million, just beating out the $12.9 million gleaned by the low-budget alien-abduction thriller The Fourth Kind. Trailing these were the unkillable phenomenon of Paranormal Activity, with $8.6 million in its seventh week, and Diaz's The Box, limping into sixth place with $7.9 million. Finally, playing at just 18 theaters, the heralded drama Precious: Based on the Novel 'Push' By Sapphire amassed...
...psychic phenomenon known as remote viewing, which is the subject of this week's George Clooney semicomedy, The Men Who Stare at Goats. Bell promoted the notion that Mayan mystics predicted some great cataclysm to befall the earth on Dec. 21, 2012, and next week Roland Emmerich has a thriller on that very theme: 2012. Bell lived near Area 51, the Nevada military base that may be a giant freezer warehouse for alien bodies; in two weeks there's a Dwayne (The Rock) Johnson movie called Planet...
...deal benefit the public along with authors and publishers, while providing only minimal profit to Google? Or will it chart the course for future digital publishing and nudge Google ahead of rivals in the infancy of an emerging and potentially lucrative business? It is suspense worthy of a legal thriller - and Scott Turow is among the settlement's supporters...
...Smooth Criminal" interpolates Jackson into antique movie clips with Rita Hayworth, Humphrey Bogart and Edward G. Robinson. "They Don't Care About Us" sends 1,100 CGI soldiers marching down a kind of Champs-Elysées whose Arc de Triomphe is bent into an M for Michael. "Thriller" was to boast 3-D effects. And "Earth Song," the rain-forest-message number, has a dewy child (a girl, if you're wondering) facing down a bulldozer, which was then to motor toward the front of the stage, ready to devour the star. "Save Michael," he seemed to be saying...
...entertainer who dies before his time, immortality is measured in residuals - the money from commemorative projects like this. Michael Jackson will have no resurrection - in the end, that was that - but the movie does earn him a redemptive legacy. It proves that, at the end, he was still a thriller. Fans and doubters alike can look at the gentle, driven singer-dancer at the center of this up-close document and say admiringly, This...