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	In the latest installment, Nanny McPhee appears at the door of a harried young mother, Mrs. Isabel Green, who is trying to run the family farm while her husband is away at war. But once she's arrived, Nanny McPhee discovers that Mrs. Green's children are fighting a war of their own against two spoiled city cousins who have just moved in and refuse to leave. Relying on everything from a flying motorcycle and a statue that comes to life to a tree-climbing piglet and a baby elephant who turns up in the oddest places, Nanny McPhee uses her magic to teach her mischievous charges five new lessons.... (more)
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Genres :	Art/Foreign, Comedy, Science Fiction/Fantasy, Adaptation and Sequel
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Stallone's 'Expendables' retains crown with $16.5M
LOS ANGELES – Sylvester Stallone's "The Expendables" fought off an onslaught of newcomers to finish on top of the weekend box office again.

Lionsgate's "The Expendables" remained No. 1 for a second straight weekend
with $16.5 million, according to studio estimates Sunday. Directed by and starring Stallone, the action romp about mercenaries aiming to overthrow a dictator raised its total to $64.9 million.

Five new wide releases debuted to crowd the market, but none managed to pack in huge audiences and knock off "The Expendables."

"Given all that competition in the marketplace, I don't think there was any guarantee we would hold this strong, but we did," said David Spitz, head of distribution for Lionsgate.

Leading the newcomers was 20th Century Fox's "Twilight" spoof "Vampires Suck" with $12.2 million, raising its total to $18.6 million since it opened Wednesday. The movie mocks the blockbuster franchise with a parody about a moody schoolgirl in a love triangle with a vampire and a werewolf.

"Vampires Suck" was in a photo finish for the No. 2 spot with another holdover, Julia Roberts' drama "Eat Pray Love." The Sony film about a divorced woman traveling the world in search of fulfillment pulled in $12 million to lift its total to $47.1 million.

The Warner Bros. comedy "Lottery Ticket," featuring rapper Bow Wow as a young man besieged by neighbors after he wins a $370 million jackpot, opened in fourth place with $11.1 million.

Will Ferrell and Mark Wahlberg's cop comedy "The Other Guys" held up well in its third weekend, with the Sony release taking in $10.1 million and boosting its total to $88.2 million.

"The Other Guys" was in a tossup for No. 5 with the Weinstein Co. horror remake "Piranha 3D," which opened with $10 million. Inspired by the low-budget 1978 "Piranha," the update is set at a lake where spring-break partiers are consumed by prehistoric man-eating fish.

Universal's sequel "Nanny McPhee Returns," with Emma Thompson back as the homely title character whipping a wartime family into shape, opened at No. 7 with $8.3 million. The first film, 2006's "Nanny McPhee," debuted in fewer theaters but managed to pull in $14.5 million over opening weekend.

Bringing up the rear among new wide releases at No. 8 was Jennifer Aniston's single-mom comedy "The Switch," which debuted with $8.1 million. The Disney release features Aniston as a woman whose drunken friend (Jason Bateman) switches her sperm specimen at a party to celebrate her artificial insemination.

Surprisingly, the overall box office was down only slightly compared with the same weekend last year, when "Inglourious Basterds" fired up the normally quiet late summer with a $38.1 million opening and "District 9" held up well with an $18.2 million second weekend.

Revenues this weekend came in at $125 million, down just 1.7 percent from the same weekend a year ago, according to box-office tracker Hollywood.com.

"It was the collective strength of these five newcomers, plus the holdovers," said Paul Dergarabedian of Hollywood.com. "Inglourious Basterds" and "District 9" were "so unusually strong for August that it should have made the comparison tough for this year. But the industry threw everything they had at the wall this weekend and tried to see what would stick."

Estimated ticket sales for Friday through Sunday at U.S. and Canadian theaters, according to Hollywood.com. Final figures will be released Monday.

1. "The Expendables," $16.5 million.

2. "Vampires Suck," $12.2 million.

3. "Eat Pray Love," $12 million.
4. "Lottery Ticket," $11.1 million.
5. "The Other Guys," $10.1 million.
6. "Piranha 3D," $10 million.
7. "Nanny McPhee Returns," $8.3 million.
8. "The Switch," $8.1 million.
9. "Inception," $7.7 million.
10. "Scott Pilgrim vs. the World," $5 million.
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Universal Pictures and Focus Features are owned by NBC Universal, a unit of General Electric Co.; Sony Pictures, Sony Screen Gems and Sony Pictures Classics are units of Sony Corp.; Paramount and Paramount Vantage are divisions of Viacom Inc.; Disney's parent is The Walt Disney Co.; Miramax is a division of The Walt Disney Co.; 20th Century Fox, Fox Searchlight Pictures and Fox Atomic are owned by News Corp.; Warner Bros. and New Line are units of Time Warner Inc.; MGM is owned by a consortium of Providence Equity Partners, Texas Pacific Group, Sony Corp., Comcast Corp., DLJ Merchant Banking Partners and Quadrangle Group; Lionsgate is owned by Lions Gate Entertainment Corp.; IFC Films is owned by Rainbow Media Holdings, a subsidiary of Cablevision Systems Corp.; Rogue Pictures is owned by Relativity Media LLC; Overture Films is a subsidiary of Liberty Media Corp.
...(more) - 10 19 2010 6:58PM
Capsule reviews: 'Piranha 3D' and 'The Switch'
Capsule reviews of films opening this week:

"Lottery Ticket" — The odds of winning the lottery are what, like, 1 in 175 million? The laughs aren't quite so hard to come by here, but they're not a safe bet, either.
The feature debut from longtime music video director Erik White, which he co-wrote with Abdul Williams, starts out amiably enough, with a shaggy, shambling vibe. But it eventually devolves into a weirdly violent streak, followed by some seriously heavy-handed sentimentality. Still, the ensemble cast manages to keep things sporadically enjoyable. Rapper-actor Bow Wow is all grown up here as Kevin, a recent high school graduate who's stuck working at Foot Locker but dreams of creating his own shoe line. "Lottery Ticket" is at its strongest off the top, as Kevin tries to make his way to work at the mall one morning but keeps getting delayed by the random neighbors in his Atlanta housing project. Brandon T. Jackson has a loose, easy energy about him and gets many of the best lines. But when Kevin plays the lottery and wins the $370 million jackpot, everything changes, with people cozying up to him or trying to kill him because he's now a rich man. And because he wins over the extended July 4 weekend, he must wait three days to cash in. Loretta Devine, Naturi Naughton and Ice Cube co-star. PG-13 for sexual content, language including a drug reference, some violence and brief underage drinking. 95 minutes. Two stars out of four.

• Christy Lemire, AP Movie Critic

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"Nanny McPhee Returns" — The Nanny McPhee movies may be principally for kids, but make no mistake about it: They are, quite literally, a parent's dream. Overwhelmed single parents with unruly kids are rescued by a magical nanny (Emma Thompson) who seemingly appears out of nowhere. And at no cost! For some older moviegoers escorting little ones, this premise might be impossibly alluring. And they said fans of "Avatar" were depressed when they left the theater. This sequel to 2005's "Nanny McPhee" (both penned by Thompson, adapting Christianna Brand's Nurse Matilda books) largely keeps the original's formula. McPhee, a witch-looking fairy godmother of tough love, comes to the aid of a parent trying to manage a litter of kids alone (Maggie Gyllenhaal, filling Colin Firth's shoes). McPhee obviously owes much to P.L. Travers' Mary Poppins, but there's still a warm, British naturalism to the film and an old-fashioned cheerfulness uncommon to most of today's kids movies. With Rhys Ifans as a brother-in-law scoundrel, and Maggie Smith as a ditzy shopkeeper. PG for rude humor, some language and mild thematic elements. 109 minutes. Two and a half stars out of four.

• Jake Coyle, AP Entertainment Writer

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"Piranha 3D" — Mere words cannot describe how awesomely gnarly this is, how hugely entertaining, and how urgently you must get yourself to the theater to see it. This is not a joke, by the way. This movie is a complete blast. To borrow a phrase from the kind of B-horror flicks to which "Piranha 3D" is such an effective homage: Run, don't walk. Like "Snakes on a Plane," which came out in the dead of summer four years ago, "Piranha 3D" knows exactly what it is and does exactly what it should do. It's about piranhas ... in 3-D. It's cleverly knowing without collapsing into parody. It makes great use of its extremely random cast, including Elisabeth Shue in an unusually bad-ass role as a sheriff, Ving Rhames as her deputy and Jerry O'Connell as a Joe Francis type. Christopher Lloyd has one great scene in full-on, crazed Christopher Lloyd mode as the resident fish expert. The second you see Eli Roth — playing the emcee at a wet T-shirt contest, no less — you know some hideous fate will befall him. And then there's Richard Dreyfuss, who makes a very cute cameo off the top. That's all we'll say. But the whole point of this kind of movie is the gore, and French director Alexandre Aja finds hilarious and creative ways to kill off his characters — drunk, horny college kids who've descended on a lake for spring break. R for sequences of strong bloody horror, violence and gore, graphic nudity, sexual content, language, and some drug use. 82 minutes. Three and a half stars out of four.

• Christy Lemire, AP Movie Critic

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"The Switch" — Not a single moment rings true in "The Switch," which is unfortunate because it's actually about a situation in which a lot of women find themselves. Jennifer Aniston's character, Kassie, is a single, 40-year-old New York TV producer who wants to have a baby but doesn't want to wait around for a man — or worse yet, the wrong man — to make that happen. So she turns to a sperm donor, only to have her longtime best friend, the uptight stock trader Wally (Jason Bateman), switch the specimens in a drunken stupor. Why, you may be wondering, does Wally even have access to the cup that contains the makings of Kassie's future child? Because the whole deal is going down at an insemination party thrown by the movie's obligatory wacky best friend (Juliette Lewis), complete with jokey turkey basters. Like most situations — and like the similarly hokey "The Back-up Plan" from earlier this year, starring Jennifer Lopez — this one is played in broad, sitcommy fashion, utterly divorced from the way people behave in real life. PG-13 for mature thematic content, sexual material including dialogue, some nudity, drug use and language. 100 minutes. One star out of four.

• Christy Lemire, AP Movie Critic

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"The Tillman Story" — Pat Tillman was many things to many people: a son, brother, husband, friend and, as a player for Arizona State University and the Arizona Cardinals, a football star who drew cheers for his exciting, physical style. But once he gave up his NFL career to join the Army Rangers in 2002 and then was fatally shot in Afghanistan in 2004, he became something else entirely, something larger than life through his death: a symbol of American patriotism, a poster boy, a crucial part of the government's message. And that turned him into something he wasn't. "The Tillman Story" attempts to get to the bottom of what happened the day he was killed by following the exhaustive investigative efforts of Tillman's family — namely, his mother, Dannie — and, in the process, allows us to get to know who the man himself really was. Director Amir Bar-Lev, whose previous documentaries include the smart, suspenseful "My Kid Could Paint That," approaches "The Tillman Story" as a bit of a mystery, as well. Tension builds as details emerge and the disparity between lie and truth becomes more glaringly obvious. Not all of this is new. Books have been written on the subject since Tillman's death, including one by his mother. But Bar-Lev thoroughly and methodically lays it all out and lets the information speak for itself. R for language. 94 minutes. Three and a half stars out of four.

• Christy Lemire, AP Movie Critic

...(more) - 10 18 2010 11:36AM
Box Office Preview: 'Expendables,' 'EPL' to repeat
LOS ANGELES – Lionsgate's "The Expendables" and Sony's "Eat Pray Love" look to take on all comers in a crowded weekend at the nation's theaters, delivering a two-peat at the top of the box office chart.

With solid
midweek grosses averaging close to $4 million per day and a total gross closing in on $50 million, the star-studded and muscle-bound "Expendables" should again kick some major butt.

Director and co-star Sylvester Stallone must have been feeling a bit like his underdog Rocky Balboa heading into last weekend's derby, given the critical drubbing he took. But he's now the champ going into a rematch and will likely top the weekend at around $15.8 million against an expected 55 percent drop, with the film approaching the $70 million mark by Sunday.

In another possible repeat of a debut performance last weekend, Sony's "Eat Pray Love," which had a very loyal 72 percent female audience fan base during its opening weekend, enjoyed a mere 4 percent Friday-to-Saturday drop and solid $3 million per day midweek grosses. A very modest sophomore weekend drop in the low 40 percent range will likely land it in the second spot again, with around $14 million female-fueled bucks.

Things get really interesting in the chart at this point, with five wide-release newcomers all vying for a place in the top five and even a crack at knocking "EPL" off its second-place perch. Universal's "Nanny McPhee Returns" could be looking at a mid-teen debut along with Warner Bros.' "Lottery Ticket," and so a heated battle for second and third place will ensue. However, with "Piranha's" 3-D wild card factor in the mix, the ravenous stars of the update of the 1978 schlock film classic might take a bigger bite than expected.

That leaves Fox's "Vampire's Suck" and Miramax's "The Switch" in a fight for what's left. "Vampire's Suck" is a Wednesday opener and will likely earn close to $20 million for five days, thus giving it a weekend gross in the $7 or $8 million range.

"The Switch" and its cachet as the cinematic cousin to the popular indie hit "Juno" will hope for solid word-of-mouth and long-haul prospects after a possible sub-$10 million debut in fewer theaters than the other newcomers.

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Paul Dergarabedian is president of the Box Office Division of Hollywood.com. and has been providing box office information to The Associated Press for nearly two decades.

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...(more) - 10 19 2010 10:31AM
'Takers' grabs top box-office spot from 'Exorcism'
LOS ANGELES – The heist thriller "Takers" has stolen the No. 1 spot at the weekend box office away from the fright flick "The Last Exorcism."

"Takers" debuted with $20.5 million to grab to grab a narrow win over "T
he Last Exorcism," which opened in second-place with $20.4 million, according to final studio numbers Monday.

Based on studio estimates a day earlier, "The Last Exorcism" had a thin lead over "Takers." But the movies switched places once final weekend numbers were released.

The top 20 movies at U.S. and Canadian theaters Friday through Sunday, followed by distribution studio, gross, number of theater locations, average receipts per location, total gross and number of weeks in release, as compiled Monday by Hollywood.com are:

1. "Takers," Sony Screen Gems, $20,512,304, 2,206 locations, $9,298 average, $20,512,304, one week.

2. "The Last Exorcism," Lionsgate, $20,366,613, 2,874 locations, $7,087 average, $20,366,613, one week.

3. "The Expendables," Lionsgate, $9,527,937, 3,398 locations, $2,804 average, $82,040,183, three weeks.

4. "Eat Pray Love," Sony, $6,815,555, 3,108 locations, $2,193 average, $60,531,326, three weeks.

5. "The Other Guys," Sony, $6,285,712, 3,181 locations, $1,976 average, $99,018,172, four weeks.

6. "Vampires Suck," Fox, $5,221,780, 3,233 locations, $1,615 average, $27,834,256, two weeks.

7. "Inception," Warner Bros., $4,876,356, 2,070 locations, $2,356 average, $270,519,920, seven weeks.

8. "Nanny McPhee Returns," Universal, $4,714,215, 2,798 locations, $1,685 average, $16,991,285, two weeks.

9. "The Switch," Miramax, $4,583,481, 2,017 locations, $2,272 average, $14,831,771, two weeks.

10. "Piranha 3D," Weinstein Co., $4,302,878, 2,491 locations, $1,727 average, $18,266,889, two weeks.

11. "Avatar," Fox, $4,007,750, 812 locations, $4,936 average, $753,773,889, one week.

12. "Lottery Ticket," Warner Bros., $3,854,303, 1,973 locations, $1,954 average, $17,284,641, two weeks.

13. "Despicable Me," Universal, $2,859,680, 1,833 locations, $1,560 average, $30,749,875, eight weeks.

14. "Scott Pilgrim vs. the World," Universal, $2,505,555, 1,566 locations, $1,600 average, $26,166,945, three weeks.
15. "Salt," Sony, $1,883,890, 1,168 locations, $1,613 average, $113,260,644, six weeks.
16. "Dinner For Schmucks," Paramount, $1,779,540, 1,501 locations, $1,186 average, $69,204,372, five weeks.
17. "Step Up 3D," Disney, $1,227,816, 901 locations, $1,363 average, $39,715,304, four weeks.
18. "Toy Story 3," Disney, $1,010,710, 600 locations, $1,685 average, $405,659,221, 11 weeks.
19. "Cats & Dogs: The Revenge of Kitty Galore," Warner Bros., $675,231, 823 locations, $820 average, $41,279,244, five weeks.
20. "The Kids Are All Right," Focus, $522,172, 342 locations, $1,527 average, $19,149,701, eight weeks.
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Universal Pictures and Focus Features are owned by NBC Universal, a unit of General Electric Co.; Sony Pictures, Sony Screen Gems and Sony Pictures Classics are units of Sony Corp.; Paramount and Paramount Vantage are divisions of Viacom Inc.; Disney's parent is The Walt Disney Co.; Miramax is a division of The Walt Disney Co.; 20th Century Fox, Fox Searchlight Pictures and Fox Atomic are owned by News Corp.; Warner Bros. and New Line are units of Time Warner Inc.; MGM is owned by a consortium of Providence Equity Partners, Texas Pacific Group, Sony Corp., Comcast Corp., DLJ Merchant Banking Partners and Quadrangle Group; Lionsgate is owned by Lions Gate Entertainment Corp.; IFC Films is owned by Rainbow Media Holdings, a subsidiary of Cablevision Systems Corp.; Rogue Pictures is owned by Relativity Media LLC; Overture Films is a subsidiary of Liberty Media Corp.
...(more) - 10 25 2010 1:45PM
'Expendables' endures at No. 1 with $17 million
LOS ANGELES – Sylvester Stallone's action tale "The Expendables" led the box-office for a second-straight weekend with $17 million.

A rush of newcomers had so-so debuts, led by the "Twilight" spoof "Vampires Suck,"
which opened at No. 2 with $12.2 million.

The top 20 movies at U.S. and Canadian theaters Friday through Sunday, followed by distribution studio, gross, number of theater locations, average receipts per location, total gross and number of weeks in release, as compiled Monday by Hollywood.com are:

1. "The Expendables," Lionsgate, $16,968,032, 3,270 locations, $5,189 average, $65,357,117, two weeks.

2. "Vampires Suck," Fox, $12,202,831, 3,233 locations, $3,774 average, $18,566,733, one week.

3. "Eat Pray Love," Sony, $12,111,162, 3,082 locations, $3,930 average, $47,214,078, two weeks.

4. "Lottery Ticket," Warner Bros., $10,652,297, 1,973 locations, $5,399 average, $10,652,297, one week.

5. "The Other Guys," Sony, $10,163,337, 3,472 locations, $2,927 average, $88,253,482, three weeks.

6. "Piranha 3D," Weinstein Co., $10,106,872, 2,470 locations, $4,092 average, $10,106,872, one week.

7. "The Switch," Miramax, $8,436,713, 2,012 locations, $4,193 average, $8,436,713, one week.

8. "Nanny McPhee Returns," Universal, $8,407,685, 2,784 locations, $3,020 average, $8,407,685, one week.

9. "Inception," Warner Bros., $7,838,179, 2,401 locations, $3,265 average, $262,031,594, six weeks.

10. "Scott Pilgrim vs. the World," Universal, $5,201,970, 2,820 locations, $1,845 average, $20,898,255, two weeks.

11. "Despicable Me," Universal, $4,662,065, 2,236 locations, $2,085 average, $231,056,990, seven weeks.

12. "Dinner For Schmucks," Paramount, $3,520,805, 2,149 locations, $1,638 average, $65,800,919, four weeks.

13. "Salt," Sony, $3,410,012, 1,794 locations, $1,901 average, $109,895,105, five weeks.

14. "Step Up 3D," Disney, $3,150,401, 1,592 locations, $1,979 average, $36,868,951, three weeks.

15. "Cats & Dogs: The Revenge of Kitty Galore," Warner Bros., $1,701,134, 1,580 locations, $1,077 average, $39,660,611, four weeks.
16. "Toy Story 3," Disney, $1,523,124, 730 locations, $2,086 average, $403,803,642, 10 weeks.
17. "The Kids Are All Right," Focus, $818,213, 404 locations, $2,025 average, $18,239,725, seven weeks.
18. "Get Low," Sony Pictures Classics, $713,794, 146 locations, $4,889 average, $1,697,877, four weeks.
19. "The Twilight Saga: Eclipse," Summit, $566,864, 557 locations, $1,018 average, $297,216,798, eight weeks.
20. "The Sorcerer's Apprentice," Disney, $476,035, 472 locations, $1,009 average, $60,605,526, six weeks.
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Universal Pictures and Focus Features are owned by NBC Universal, a unit of General Electric Co.; Sony Pictures, Sony Screen Gems and Sony Pictures Classics are units of Sony Corp.; Paramount and Paramount Vantage are divisions of Viacom Inc.; Disney's parent is The Walt Disney Co.; Miramax is a division of The Walt Disney Co.; 20th Century Fox, Fox Searchlight Pictures and Fox Atomic are owned by News Corp.; Warner Bros. and New Line are units of Time Warner Inc.; MGM is owned by a consortium of Providence Equity Partners, Texas Pacific Group, Sony Corp., Comcast Corp., DLJ Merchant Banking Partners and Quadrangle Group; Lionsgate is owned by Lions Gate Entertainment Corp.; IFC Films is owned by Rainbow Media Holdings, a subsidiary of Cablevision Systems Corp.; Rogue Pictures is owned by Relativity Media LLC; Overture Films is a subsidiary of Liberty Media Corp.
...(more) - 10 23 2010 9:12AM

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