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...earn more than Avatar on their opening day. That's happened just three times in the month it's been in theaters: on Dec. 23 with Alvin and the Chipmunks: The Squeakquel; on Christmas day with Sherlock Holmes; and this past Friday. The Book of Eli, a postapocalyptic Western about a martial artist whose greatest artillery is his copy of the Bible, took in $11.7 million that day, beating the Pandorans' $10.4 million. Avatar then stormed back to take the Saturday crown, $17.2 million to $11.8 million, and, according to studio estimates, will easily win the first three days...
...final amendments to the plan were presented to the community just a week before the BRA first reviewed the plan for approval in December. The changes aimed to reduce the density of the apartment complex and respect the aesthetics of the neighborhood, and also included more retail space along Western...
...Chan's character in The Spy Next Door, has a double life too. He's both Clark Kent - a bespectacled, mild-mannered pen importer in a Western suburb - and Superspy, working for the Chinese and American governments. Now he's received his hardest mission: babysitting the three children of his next-door neighbor and girlfriend (Amber Valletta) when she leaves town to care for her father. "I brought down dictators," Bob says to one of his fellow spies. "How tough can three kids be?" He soon finds out; but what Bob undergoes is a day on the couch compared with...
...Nevertheless, Western studios' ongoing efforts to make successful Indian films in Bollywood have yet to bear fruit. Sony's $9 million love story Saawariya fell off the radar after a short run in late 2007. Last January, analysts dismissed Warner's $9 million kung-fu comedy Chandni Chowk to China as Bollywood's most expensive flop ever, and the 2008 Disney animation flick Roadside Romeo, co-produced with a major Indian studio, only mustered a three-week run. Despite their high production values, all three films were short on content, say analysts...
...says Candar. "The West is relieved to have someone taking on Israel. They've outsourced the job to Erdogan. That's why, when he does the cost analysis of saying these things about Israel, he has the added confidence of knowing that Turkey won't face recrimination from its Western partners either...