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...there movies nobody likes but everyone sees? Yes, especially over weekends when only one major-studio film is released. That seemed to be the case with Couples Retreat, the Vince Vaughn comedy that received a flatulent 13% on Rotten Tomatoes' survey of critics' reviews and a mediocre B rating from CinemaScore's poll of exiting moviegoers. Yet by Sunday night, according to early estimates, it will have earned $35.4 million, the top gross ever for a movie on Columbus Day weekend...
...This weekend, PA has expanded to all-day runs on 159 screens in 44 cities, and according to early reports, it's headed for a box-office breakout - perhaps the highest three-day gross of any film showing in fewer than 200 venues. "Look out, cuz there's a freight train coming," an executive from a rival studio told Deadline Hollywood's Nikki Finke, "and Paramount is going to make a TON of cash on this pickup. Cuz they ain't spending anything on it, and who knows where the ceiling is!" The box-office figures will make headlines, giving...
Welcome to the weekend, dreary Harvard students. Trying to put stuff of by a few more hours? FlyBy's got your back with some quirky news from around the Ivies...
...Yale Daily News selected their new guard of editors over the weekend. The new editor-in-chief may or may not get a better internship gig than his predecessor, who was forced into a back room at Vanity Fair to watch eight hours of cable news straight for four consecutive days in August...
...After I received the news, Malia walked in and said, 'Daddy, you won the Nobel Peace Prize, and it is Bo's birthday,' " referring to the First Mutt. "And then Sasha added, 'Plus we have a three-day weekend coming up,' " in reference to Columbus Day. "So it's good to have kids to keep things in perspective." (See pictures of Obama's family tree...