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Bangkok Dangerous Hobbles to Top Spot

Variety  |  Sep 7, 08 8:05 PM CDT

(Newser) - Nicolas Cage action flick Bangkok Dangerous stumbled to box office victory during an unusually slow Labor Day weekend, Variety reports. With sales down 17% over last year's holiday, Bangkok needed just $7.8 million to top Tropic Thunder 's $7.5 million. Completing the top 5 were The House Bunny ($5.9 million), The Dark Knight ($5.7 million), and Traitor ($4.7 million). More »

Thunder Still Roars at Box Office

Variety  |  Aug 31, 08 4:30 PM CDT

(Newser) - Tropic Thunder kept rumbling this weekend with an $11.5 million box office score and a hold on the top spot, Variety reports. The Vin Diesel vehicle Babylon AD debuted in second with $9.5 million, while third-place Dark Knight made history as the second flick ever to bank $500 million. Filling out the top five were The House Bunny ($8.3 million) and political thriller Traitor ($7.9 million). More »

Thunder Holds Onto Top Spot

Variety  |  Aug 24, 08 6:41 PM CDT

(Newser) - Tropic Thunder banked $16.1 million to become the third flick this summer to win two straight weekend box office crowns, Variety reports. Sorority laffer The House Bunny earned $15.1 million to debut in second, followed by Universal’s remake of Death Race ($12.3 million), The Dark Knight  ($10.3 million), and the animated Star Wars: The Clone Wars ($5.6 million). More »

Thunder Rolls at Box Office

Variety  |  Aug 17, 08 6:44 PM CDT

(Newser) - Hollywood spoof Tropic Thunder bombarded the box office this weekend by banking $26 million in top spot, Variety reports. Batman flick The Dark Knight fell to second but raked in $16.8 million and became the second-highest grossing domestic pic ever. Filling out the top five were Star Wars: The Clone Wars , Mirrors , and Pineapple Express , Bloomberg reports. Woody Allen's Vicky Cristinia Barcelona debuted on 692 screens and came in tenth. More »

No Charges for Bale in Mom/Sis Assault

BBC  |  Aug 14, 08 1:54 PM CDT

(Newser) - Christian Bale will not be charged in the alleged assault of his mother and sister, the BBC reports. A spokesman for the British prosecutor’s office said there was “insufficient evidence to afford a realistic prospect of conviction.” Bale and his family have been incommunicative with the press since the incident at a London hotel last month, after which Bale was arrested and questioned. More »

'Blockbuster Fatigue' Hits Hard

Salon  |  Aug 12, 08 8:30 PM CDT

(Newser) - This summer has seen several enormous hits, but moviegoers are nevertheless suffering from “blockbuster fatigue,” Stephanie Zacharek writes in Salon. "The whole point of going to the movies in the first place is to be overwhelmed," the critic acknowledges, pondering what draws us to a blockbuster in the first place, and how an entire season of them can leave viewers in a cinematic daze. More »

Batman Slices Pineapple to Rule a 4th Weekend

Variety  |  Aug 10, 08 3:03 PM CDT

(Newser) - The Dark Knight is still lording it over the box office, grossing $26 million over the weekend for a fourth consecutive win—and overtaking Shrek 2 to become the third biggest Hollywood blockbuster ever with a cumulative $441.5 million. Judd Apatow's new comedy Pineapple Express beat The Dark Knight on Friday, but finished at No. 2 with $22.4 million for the weekend. The Sisterhood of the Traveling Pants 2 took third place, grossing $10.8 million. More »

Dark Knight Curse Claims More Victims

Radar  |  Aug 10, 08 7:44 AM CDT

(Newser) - First a technician died on the set of the Dark Knight , then Heath Ledger overdosed. Christian Bale allegedly assaulted his mother recently, and now Morgan Freeman is recovering from a nasty car accident and undergoing a divorce. Folks have started muttering about a Dark Knight curse, and Radar insists the hex is real. What other tragedies plague actors linked to the film? Aaron Eckhart is doomed to play supporting roles for the rest of his life. More »

Mummy Sequel Misses Top Spot at Box Office

Variety  |  Aug 3, 08 5:28 PM CDT

(Newser) - Even the undead can't stop Batman: The Dark Knight defeated The Mummy: Tomb of the Dragon Emperor in its third weekend win, grossing an unexpected $43.8 million and hitting nearly $400 million. The Mummy sequel took second with $42.4 million, while Kevin Costner's Swing Vote , the only other newcomer, grossed $6.9 million. Step Brothers took third with $16.3 million. More »

Oscar for Ledger? You Must Be High

Los Angeles Times  |  Aug 1, 08 1:04 PM CDT

(Newser) - It’s time to put an end to the inane campaign to give Heath Ledger an Oscar for The Dark Knight , writes Eric Lucas in the LA Times. Ledger’s much-fawned-over performance “ultimately devolves into a can-can dance of snuffling pseudo-psychopathia,” Lucas writes. “It has all the subtlety of a hangover—exactly what I'd expect from someone who headed home every night to a pill party.” More »

Studio Went Super-Secret to Protect Batman

Los Angeles Times  |  Jul 28, 08 4:20 PM CDT

(Newser) - In a dazzling covert operation, Warner Bros. kept the lid on The Dark Knight so tight pirated copies didn’t hit the Web until 2 days after its Australian premiere—long enough to keep the film’s record opening on track, the Los Angeles Times reports. Digital piracy can keep fans online and out of theaters; early bad buzz can also kill a film’s box office in the crucial first weekend. More »

Could Batman Be Bush?

Wall Street Journal  |  Jul 25, 08 10:42 AM CDT

(Newser) - They actually have a lot in common, the beleaguered president and the superhero currently smashing box office records, writes Andrew Klavan in the Wall Street Journal .  In The Dark Knight , Batman, like Bush, is "vilified and despised for confronting terrorists in the only terms they understand." He's also willing to "push the boundaries of civil rights to deal with an emergency," knowing they can be restored when the crisis is past. Under cover of a mask, he writes, the film praises Bush’s “fortitude and moral courage.”  More »

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