When you think about a ensemble containing Willem Dafoe, Bob Hoskins and Matthew Modine, what comes to mind?  Screwball stripper comedy, of course!
>From Reuters:

Dafoe will play the owner of a New York go-go dancing club whose brother and financial backer (Modine) threatens to pull the plug on his business. The owner and […]

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Producer Mark Burnett, Downey engaged
Unfortunately, it’s Roma Downey. The marriage probably won’t even be in Massachusetts either.

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Here
First. I hadn’t realized that this film took place in the sixties until I watched the trailer. That was surprising.
Second. The film will look amazing. Which we kind of expect with Fincher.
Third. The trailer is oddly filled with jokes and with upbeat music. Really, about half of the trailer has a very light mood. And […]

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Jack Black, on the upcoming Be Kind Rewind:
Black stars as Jerry, a junkyard worker who attempts to sabotage a power plant that he believes is melting his brain. But when his plan goes awry, the magnetic field that he creates accidentally erases all of the videotapes in a local video store where his […]

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Again, Variety:
TOKYO — Japanese pics are on track to grab a majority share of the 2006 box office, the first time domestic product has beaten foreign films since 1985, according to numbers compiled by the Nikkei newspaper.
Japan of course has a prolific film industry which pumps several blockbusters a year, few of which ever […]

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Variety
How far, and fast, will Morocco’s box office fall?
Bedeviled by a DVD boom, satellite TV and piracy — though the Moroccan government is cracking down on DVD duplication outfits, says CCM director Nour-Eddine Sail — total admissions tumbled 56% from 10.8 million in 2002 to 4.8 million in 2005.

That is really […]

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There are plans to make a movie about The Smurfs. In 3D.
Let that one sink in.

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From Variety we have this:
"The Simpsons" has made News Corp. as much as $2 billion over the past 17 years, while "Family Guy" is fast approaching the eight-figure mark for the conglom.
Those figures make the profits behind "Friends" and "Seinfeld" look like chump change. It’s no surprise, then, that network execs are anxious to […]

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The Nativity Story is directed by Catherine Hardwicke ? The same woman who directed Thirteen and Lords of Dogtown ? Really?
That’s some outside the box thinking right there.

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The Top Ten

Movie

Weekend Gross

Change(%)

Total Gross

1

Happy Feet

  $37,945,000  

-8.6%

$100,126,000

2

Casino Royale

  $31,000,000  

-24.1%

$94,223,000

3

Deja Vu

  $20,836,000  

–

$29,029,000

4

Deck The Halls

  $12,000,000  

–

$16,882,000

5

Borat

  $10,400,000  

-28.8%

$109,280,000

6

The Santa Clause 3

  $10,016,000  

+20.6%

$67,199,000

7

Stranger Than Fiction

  $6,000,000  

-9.2%

$32,761,000

8

Flushed Away

  $5,841,000  

-11.5%

$57,366,000

9

Bobby

  $4,909,000  

expanding

$6,157,000

10

The Fountain

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