Those wild animals in Madagascar 3: Europe’s Most Wanted showed their box office heft, beating out Prometheus to land atop the overall box office for the weekend. The opener for the third installment of the animated feature figured bigger than anticipated for the pic which debuted at the Cannes Film Festival last month and is clearly flexing its franchise prowess. The film had an 8% increase Saturday, bringing out families. But Prometheus is certainly not a disappointment. The feature also had better than expected numbers. Internationally, the pic stood at $91.5 million over the weekend after nearly two weeks in release in some territories and its IMAX $9.1 million total is a June record. 1. Madagascar 3: Europe’s Most Wanted (3-D animated) Gross: $60.35 million Screens: 4,258 (PSA: $14,173) Weeks: 1 Certainly not a bad start for the animated film and on par with its previous installment, Madagascar: Escape 2 Africa , which opened also in first place back in 2008 with a $63.1 million gross in 4,056 theaters (for an impressive $15,559 average). That film went on to gross over $180 million domestically, according to Box Office Mojo and nearly $424 million worldwide. 2. Prometheus Gross: $50 million Screens: 3,396 (PSA: $14,723) Weeks: 1. Prometheus actually slightly topped Madagascar in the per screen average take by $550. Worldwide, Prometheus has seen $141.5 million so far since it first hit screens abroad in addition to this weekend’s domestic debut. 3. Snow White and the Huntsman Gross: $23.02 million Screens: 3,777 (PSA: $6,095) Week: 2 (Change: – 60%) The Kristen Stewart starter added just four more theaters in its second weekend, dropping to number 3 in the ranking with a 60% drop in overall gross compared to its opening $56.255 million last week. The movie has picked up $182 million worldwide so far. 4. Men in Black 3 3-D Gross: $13.5 million Screens: 3,792 (PSA: $3,560) Week: 3 (Change: – 54%) Another pretty big drop for Men in Black though 456 locations fewer screened the title over the previous weekend. Still, the pic has amassed $441.7 million internationally. That’s some serious cha-ching! 5. The Avengers Gross: $10.8 million Screens: 3,129 (PSA: $3,454) Week: 6 (Change: -47%) Still going strong, the year’s biggest film so far has grossed nearly $1.4 billion worldwide. 6. The Best Exotic Marigold Hotel Gross: $3,235,000 Screens: 1,298 (PSA: 2,492) Week: 6 (Change: -28%) The specialty has stayed in the top ten of the overall box office after its initial roll out in only dozens of theaters. It held onto number 6 among all releases last weekend, despite being in comparatively far fewer venues and its gross decline was only 28% compared to the previous week. And what did you see this weekend? Was it worth it?
So says Marvel superproducer Avi Arad , describing the spark between the on- (and rumored off-)screen Amazing Spider-Man couple: “On camera the chemistry is real. Those scenes are where Marc Webb really gets into his element. It’s the hardest thing to do and they do it. These two are like Hepburn-Tracy of modern time. It’s a war of brains that turns into attraction.” Does that make Spider-Man their Woman of the Year ? Discuss. [ ScreenCrush ]
It’s going on seven years since Brokeback Mountain brought cowboys and leading men out of the closet – even if they weren’t exactly gay. But still, man on man snogging sessions still make some headlines as was the case recently with 30 Rock star Alec Baldwin and actor Russell Brand who share make-out time in the forthcoming Rock of Ages . THR caught up with Baldwin following the film’s Hollywood premiere. The two actors’ characters spell out their love for each other via the REO Speedwagon song “Can’t Fight This Feeling” and top it all off with a smooch. “It’s not like Brokeback Mountain, it’s not two leading men who you are used to getting down with some gorgeous young girl,” Baldwin told THR. “It’s a little more chaste because I’m older (than Brand).” So perhaps Baldwin is brandishing the cougar-equivalent for the male-set? Baldwin of course didn’t think it was a big deal (and hey, is it really? Glamsters have been making out for decades haven’t they?) “We live in an age, and I’m being imprecise here, where half the country gets it, and the other half doesn’t,” noted Baldwin. “I live where men and women who want to get married—who gives a shit? No one gives it a thought. It’s like seeing women in power. Or like seeing African American CEOs. We’re in a fully realized age of equality in all things and it’s not surprising or new. But there is that other half for whom that is surprising and new.” It should be noted that Baldwin is once again going to be a married man (to a woman just for the record) but no word on what the next Ms. Baldwin (if she takes his name by and by) thinks. Baldwin added that the U.S. still holds hang-ups over the gay thing compared to its fellow first-worlders across the pond where same-sex relationships are just part of the day to day. “America is still a place where people are fighting these culture wars.” [Source: THR ]
David Lynch ians, clear your schedule: You’ll want to spend the next hour or so indulging in these 50 minutes of deleted scenes unearthed from Lynch’s surreal 1986 noir Blue Velvet . Order a case of Pabst Blue Ribbon longnecks and raise a toast, as Jeffrey Beaumont might: “Here’s to an interesting experience!” Thanks to the folks at Dangerous Minds, the collection of deleted scenes from Blue Velvet ‘s Blu-ray release is viewable online and below. Enjoy, and hash it out: Would re-inserting these 50 minutes make for a better cut, or is Lynch’s theatrical version the better for leaving them on the cutting room floor? [ Dangerous Minds via Paste Magazine ]
This country’s public education system has been in dire need of a boost for years — just look at the evidence collected by the diligent folks at Next Movie ; they’ve created a PSA from all your favorite movie student/slackers (because not all of America’s bright young stars of tomorrow can argue their way from a C+ to an A-). Ah, the classroom movie. So ripe a setting for tales of crap teachers learning to lead and crap students learning to learn. For some reason the ultimate movie about teaching and teachers is absent from the above honor roll — yes, I speak of 1995’s Dangerous Minds , the movie that taught us the most important lesson of all: That even a two-hit wonder like Coolio could make one of the best (according to Billboard ) ditties of all time. Seriously, kids. If Coolio can make it, so can you. [via Next Movie ]
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By modifying a single gene, scientists have made Hobbie-J the smartest rat in the world, a new study says. A similar gene tweak might boost human brainpower too, but scientists warn that there is such a thing as being too smart for your own good.