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Weekend Receipts: The Help Takes a Holiday

As if there was any doubt, we officially have a phenomenon on our hands: The Help has held fast for its third consecutive week at the top of the box-office charts, vanquishing a trio of new competitors and further burnishing its credentials for the rapidly approaching awards season. This is getting serious. Your four-day holiday Weekend Receipts are here.

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Weekend Receipts: The Help Takes a Holiday

The Change-Up: ‘No Dumber Than a Movie About Talking Apes’

Judging from Twitter buzz, The Change-Up is either a really funny (and really dirty) R-rated comedy with marketing that does it a great disservice, or the terrible body swap disaster that the marketing points toward. Perhaps that’s why this new promotion for the Universal laugher gets right to the core of things: Jason Bateman and Ryan Reynolds are funny and handsome, and you probably really like them. Translation: let them sell the movie! And sell they do: “It’s no dumber than a movie about a bunch of talking apes.”

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The Change-Up: ‘No Dumber Than a Movie About Talking Apes’

Check Out the Poster for Apollo 18: In Spacesuit, No One Can Hear You Scream

Another day, another hair-raising poster that terrible parents let their kids see. This one’s a closeup of an astronaut presumably waiting to perish in Apollo 18 , a disturbing “found-footage” mockumentary in the style of The Blair Witch Project and The Real Housewives of New Jersey . Handle it?

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Check Out the Poster for Apollo 18: In Spacesuit, No One Can Hear You Scream

About That Time Courtney Love Saved Chris Rock From an Oscars-Related Fight

Maybe instead of soliciting advice from Judd Apatow , this year’s Academy Award co-host (and new Twitter user ) James Franco should be asking an actual former Oscar host for advice. Like Chris Rock, who in a new interview admitted that he almost got into a fight because of his stage material. Fortunately, Courtney Love was there to save him.

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About That Time Courtney Love Saved Chris Rock From an Oscars-Related Fight

Trailer Premiere: ’80s Rock Icon Battles Demons in Bob and the Monster

“It was one of the most magical times ever,” recalls Anthony Kiedis of the 1980s Los Angeles punk scene that gave birth to bands like his Red Hot Chili Peppers amidst a haze of sex, drugs, and rock ‘n’ roll. But for indie rock icon Bob Forrest, lead singer of the post-punk band Thelonious Monster, the freely available substances that liberated the scene also sent him into a spiraling drug dependency that ruined his career. After years of battling his demons, Forrest became a renowned drug counselor helping others, and his struggle formed the basis of the documentary Bob and the Monster .

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Trailer Premiere: ’80s Rock Icon Battles Demons in Bob and the Monster

REVIEW: Appetites Go Awry in Nifty, Nasty Horror Import We Are What We Are

You might want to catch We Are What We Are before its inevitable, much-too-glossy remake brightens the walls of American multiplexes. I saw it last fall at the 2010 Fantastic Fest in Austin, where writer/director Jorge Michel Grau’s deft confidence at rendering his tale of family dynamics gone horribly awry in Mexico City got his film a jury prize.

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REVIEW: Appetites Go Awry in Nifty, Nasty Horror Import We Are What We Are

Friday Box Office: Glee-ful Dianna Agron Falls Short Of Mean Mom January Jones In Battle Of The TV Blonds

Dianna Agron’s chances of being Glee ‘s first cast member to become a movie star hit a small snag Friday as her first major film, I Am Number Four , underperformed at the box office, leading Unknown , the Liam Neeson and January Jones thriller, to the number one spot. Critically panned cross-dressing comedy Big Mommas: Like Father, Like Son had to settle for number three, barely beating out Just Go With It . Your Friday box office is here.

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Friday Box Office: Glee-ful Dianna Agron Falls Short Of Mean Mom January Jones In Battle Of The TV Blonds

Could Blake Lively Be The Next Michelle Williams?

The news that CW starlet Blake Lively would be spending her Gossip Girl hiatus filming the independent film Hick , in which she will play a meth addicted single mother, shockingly came as no big surprise. The young actress has shown a somewhat remarkable ability in choosing smart projects while also balancing her required role as a pretty and promiscuous blond on a network television show. While her cast mates are playing bland boyfriends, 3-D victims and sociopathic college co-eds during their off time, Ms. Lively is quietly, and quickly, establishing herself as a movie star — much like Michelle Williams.

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Could Blake Lively Be The Next Michelle Williams?

Weinstein Company Enters 2012 Razzie Race With Outer Space Horror Flick Apollo 18

That greedy old Harvey Weinstein! With The King’s Speech dominating the Academy Award nominations and looking like the front runner in most major categories next weekend, one would think the man would be content. Alas, it seems like his strong grasp over the Oscars is no longer enough and he must seize control of every awards show there is. Thus, surefire future Razzie nominee Apollo 18 .

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Weinstein Company Enters 2012 Razzie Race With Outer Space Horror Flick Apollo 18