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...Transformers: Revenge of the Fallen, $402.1 million 2. Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince, $302 million 3. Up, $293 million 4. The Twilight Saga: New Moon, $284.6 million* 5. Avatar, $283.8 million* 6. The Hangover, $277.4 million 7. Star Trek, $256.7 million 8. The Blind Side, $209.1 million* 9. Monsters vs Aliens, $198.4 million 10. Ice Age: Dawn of the Dinosaurs, $196.6 million (See what we learned from a decade at the movies...
When Finnish filmmaker Timo Vuorensola came up with the idea for his movie Star Wreck, a parody of Star Trek, he knew that looking for conventional distribution would be futile. An amateur, science-fiction comedy with a miniscule budget - and in Finnish, to boot - would hardly be attractive to mainstream studios. So Vuorensola took matters into his own hands: he used a Finnish social networking site to build up an online fan base who contributed to the storyline, made props and even offered their acting skills. In return for the help, Vuorensola released Star Wreck in 2005 online for free...
After completing his sophomore year at Harvard, Gillespie embarked on his own Forrest Gump-like trek across America. Instead of packing up his things and boarding a plane to his hometown of Wilmette, Illinois, Gillespie and two friends decided to set off on a two-week, 1,000 mile plus bike trip back home from school. They paced about 90 miles a day through six states on mostly side roads, starting at 6 a.m. every morning and riding until dark with lunch breaks for peanut butter and honey sandwiches...
...some time between 10 p.m. and midnight on a predeterminded day of the week, Spring Greeney ’09 and her three housemates board their bikes and make the trek to a series of closed local grocery stores. They park their bikes behind the store, and open the side dumpster door...
...making the trek across the river wasn’t enough, you also have to pay $15 for a ticket. Those were definitely free last year...