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...Monday update: Final figures for the weekend showed that Wimpy Kid did even better than its estimate, with $22.1 million, while The Bounty Hunter was a bit under its forecaste, at $20.7 million. Green Zone actually earned $6.113 million to finish fifth, ahead of She's Out of My League ($5.8 million) and just a few thousand dollars below Repo Men ($6.126 million). Alice in Wonderland was still the big winner, with a $34.2 million final tally...
...business. At least it did better than Repo Men, whose re-poor $6.2 million made it suitable for foreclosure. Shelved for more than two years after its late-2007 shoot, the picture deepened the red-ink bloodbath at Universal, which has suffered from a year of flops, including Green Zone, down a crushing 58% from its dismal opening last week. If Universal were a financial institution, it'd be begging for federal protection. Except that it's less like AIG, more like Lehman Brothers...
...Alice in Wonderland, $34.5 million; $265.8 million, third week 2. Diary of a Wimpy Kid, $21.8 million, first weekend 3. The Bounty Hunter, $21 million, first weekend 4. Repo Men, $6.2 million, first weekend 5. She's Out of My League, $6.015 million; $20 million, second week 6. Green Zone, $5.963 million; $24.7 million, second week 7. Shutter Island, $4.8 million; $115.8 million, 8. Avatar, $4 million; $736.9 million, 14th week 9. Our Family Wedding, $3.8 million; $ 13.7 million, second week 10. Remember Me, $3.3 million; $13.9 million, second week...
...appointment is no accident. North Sinai is not a territory the Egyptians take lightly. Bordered on the west by the Suez Canal Zone and on the east by Israel and the volatile Gaza Strip, North Sinai is home to a thriving cross-border smuggling trade and a sometimes rebellious local Bedouin population. Mwafi says the skills of his previous job have come in handy in governing Egypt's wild east. "As the director of military intelligence," he explains, "I had very good relations with the director of Israeli military intelligence." He adds that representatives of the two forces meet "every...
After being pressed on the issue, a local official confided, "They are right" - Bedouin are generally excluded from the security apparatus. "There is some suspicion," he added, referring to security attitudes toward the Bedouin, particularly near the border zone...