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Friday Box Office: Neverending Story

As expected, the Toy Wonders are running roughshod over both Adam Sandler’s new comedy-in-name-only, Grown Ups , and Tom Cruise’s much-feared Knight and Day . Sandler can at least boast that — if projections are correct — his nearly-perfect string of $40 million opening weekends record remained untarnished. Meanwhile, back in Tom Cruise’s lead-lined, thetan-free mediation chamber, the erstwhile Mr. Mapother is no doubt punching the air in zombie-eyed joy that his movie is not a complete bomb. Hurray! It’s only sorta-bombing! After a bloodless opening day of less than $4 million, it’s picking up steam to head into the station on Sunday with a projected weekend gross of $20 million and a five-day gross of $27 million. Savor the rest of the little victories with us after the jump.

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What are Woody Allen’s Favorite Woody Allen Movies?

The IM comes in from a few friends, and it’s virtually the same in every case: “Woody Allen picked six favorites from his own list of films, and have you SEEN the choices?” I hadn’t yet, but at the same time, my Google Reader had filled up with aggrieved headlines about it, and to take it from the reception, he chose unwisely! So I look at the six he picked, and guys? They’re not that bad.

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What are Woody Allen’s Favorite Woody Allen Movies?

This Weekend on Cable: Julianne Moore Headlines Your Worst Nightmare

This weekend on cable, nightmare scenarios proliferate like mushrooms — and not the fun kind, either — just to take your mind off the wars and natural disasters and the economy and global warming and…

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Andy Richter Finally Over ‘Bad Breakup’ With NBC

It’s taken 6 months and a 30-city comedy tour, but Andy Richter is finally over his Tonight Show heartbreak. “It’s like a bad breakup,” Richter told Variety . “Once you get over it, you don’t want to dwell.” It also helps that the comedian — who says he never would have abandoned Conan O’B rien after such an “unnatural ending,” unlike Max Weinberg — has a more cooperative network behind him. “[TBS] has been nothing but supportive. We can do whatever we want and be ourselves.” [ Variety ]

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It May Be Time For Kevin Smith’s Jorts Intervention

Kevin Smith attended the premiere of Eclipse last night with his daughter, dressed like he usually is, but even more so. While we’re not style critics here at Movieline, and we just shrugged at Smith’s shirt (which was potentially stolen from a college freshman who is so psyched that he can now wear clothes with cuss words on them), we feel it is necessary to address the jorts, once and for all.

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It May Be Time For Kevin Smith’s Jorts Intervention

How Miley Cyrus Forced Disney to Ban On-Set Tweeting

Miley Cyrus may have been one of the first stars to famously delete her Twitter — as she told Movieline , “It’s dangerous, it’s not fun, [and] it wastes your life” — but who knew that her habits could dampen other people’s online oversharing? According to her director pal Adam Shankman, he and Cyrus are responsible for a new no-tweeting stipulation that Disney has started to write into its cast and crew contracts. #howdidthishappen?

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How Miley Cyrus Forced Disney to Ban On-Set Tweeting

Jane Lynch’s Stuffed Slasher Short

Linsday Lohan to Flirt with Dog, For Art

Does there come a point in reenacting exploitation, humiliation, and sexual degradation where the reenactment essentially becomes real life for the performer forced to endure it? It’s a tough question about whether in its making, art can perpetuate or exploit the very moment it purports to condemn, and I guess we’ll have to ask Lindsay Lohan about it after she tries to get a dog to have sex with her in her new film, Inferno.

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Hollywood Ink: Will Matt Damon Be Cameron Crowe’s Zoo-Keeper?

MPAA Officially Delivers ‘R’ Rating For The Expendables

The last few weeks have seen a bit of back and forth about how Lionsgate would release The Expendables ; to hear producer Avi Lerner tell it , test audiences would have at least some influence on the rating depending on their reactions to PG-13- and R-rated cuts. But more evidence emerged today that the film will arrive in the theaters the way Sylvester Stallone intended. And I think we all know what he intended.

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MPAA Officially Delivers ‘R’ Rating For The Expendables