Those crazy folks at Empire give us "The 60 Reasons Why Spielberg Rules". They do love the man over there.

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The Top 10

#

Movie

Weekend Gross

Change

Total

1

The Pursuit Of Happyness

$27,000,000

–

$27,000,000

2

Eragon

$23,450,000

–

$23,450,000

3

Charlotte’s Web

$12,026,00

–

$12,026,00

4

Happy Feet

$8,520,00

-34%

$149,406,000

5

The Holiday

$8,200,000

-35.8%

$25,310,000

6

Apocalypto

$7,723,000

-48.5%

$27,924,000

7

Blood Diamond

$6,270,000

-27.5%

$18,390,000

8

Casino Royale

$5,700,000

-36.1%

$137,574,000

9

The Nativity Story

$4,700,000

-17.7%

$23,056,000

10

Unaccompanied Minors

$3,675,000

-36.8%

$10,223,000

(source)
Lessons learned

Apparently having "happy" in you title is the road to a number 1 opening. And the producers of The Pursuit Of Happyness believed in that so much they were willing to put a misspelling in the title!

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CNN :

Actress Natasha Lyonne, a star of "American Pie" who was accused of threatening to sexually molest a dog, turned herself in at a New York court Friday.
 Well, at least she put some creativity into it, instead of going for the obvious "I will kill your dog".
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Charlotte’s Web
The Players: Dakota Fanning, Julia Roberts(voice)The Story: A devious spider teams up with a deeply egotistical pig in order to fool some poor farmers. Or something like that.Rotten Tomatoes: 89% freshTrailer
I, like so many others, love this story. And because of that I really hope that they have done a good job , so […]

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Nominations here. Reaction here.

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Reuters:
In rental stores … "Beerfest" bowed at No. 6, with $6.1 million, more than 30% of its theatrical take.
If you are interested in the future projects of the Beerfest guys go here. 

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JJ Abrams says that Star Trek XI is will open in 2008, not 2009. Perhaps they should select a director already? Or just admit that JJ is going to do it.

Are you just dying to see "Tales From Earthsea", the new Studio Ghibli animation directed by Hayao Miyazaki's son Goro? Well, then you are […]

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Here is an interesting story about how Pixar develops the screenplays for their animated movies. Included are these three rules that every Pixar movie must follow:

"Tell a compelling story with humor and heart that keeps people wondering what will happen next.
"Secondly, populate it with memorable characters. If audiences invest in your main […]

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As you might remember "The Hills Have Eyes" was released earlier this year. The film, which was a remake of a Wes Craven movie from 1977, didn't add much to the original. But it was well acted, looked good and managed to maintain most of the creepiness and scares of it's source material. Overall, a […]

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The new film from Park Chan-wook (director of the wonderfully messed up Oldboy) has just been released in South Korea. The film, titled “I’m a Cyborg, But That’s OK”, is a romantic comedy. Set in an mental institution. I can only imagine.

I wasn’t that impressed with Australian horror fest Wolf Creek. But I’m not ready […]

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