‘If ‘Predators 2’ was to come around, or ‘Predators-es,’ I’d jump at the opportunity,’ director Nimrod Antal says. By Eric Ditzian, with reporting by Todd Gilchrist and Josh Horowitz Adrien Brody Photo: MTV News When Robert Rodriguez sat down in the mid-’90s to script the next installment in the ‘Predator’ franchise, he ended up laying out far more than just one movie. “You could have split it up into three pictures,” Rodriguez told MTV News recently.
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Pastor and leader of Love Center Choir topped the charts from the ’70s to the ’90s. By James Montgomery Walter Hawkins Photo: Ilya Dreyvitser/ Wireimage Walter Hawkins , a Grammy-winning gospel singer, composer and pastor, died Sunday after a long battle with pancreatic cancer. He was 61. His brother Edwin a Grammy-winning gospel musician in his own right, told The Associated Press that Walter passed away at his home in Ripon, California, adding that he “suffered bravely but now he will suffer no more, and he will be greatly missed.” Hawkins was born in Oakland and began singing in gospel choirs as a teenager, along with his brothers. In 1967, as a member of the Edwin Hawkins Singers, he recorded “Oh Happy Day,” which would become one of the first gospel-leaning songs to cross over to the mainstream, winning a Grammy and being named one of the RIAA’s Songs of the Century. Following the success of “Day,” Hawkins enrolled at the University of California, Berkeley, where he studied for his divinity degree. While at the university, he also recorded his first solo album, titled Do Your Best, in 1972. The following year, he became a pastor and founded the Love Center Church in Oakland, where he also formed the Love Center Choir. With the choir, he recorded a successful series of albums called Love Alive, which topped the Billboard Gospel Albums charts from the 1970s until the ’90s. The fourth installment, released in 1990, stayed at #1 for an astonishing 33 consecutive weeks. As a songwriter and composer, Hawkins worked with the likes of Van Morrison and Diahann Carroll and was responsible for more than 100 hit songs on the gospel charts. Over the course of his career, Hawkins won one Grammy (he was nominated for nine) and three Dove Awards, and he was inducted into the Christian Music Hall of Fame. At the time of his death, he was said to be working on a brand new Love Alive album, due to be released in the fall. Related Artists Walter Hawkins
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Steve Carell’s animated flick takes #1 at the box office, beating the ‘Twilight’ sequel and ‘Predators.’ By Josh Wigler “Despicable Me” Photo: Universal The Box-Office Top Five #1 “Despicable Me” ($60.1 million) #2 “The Twilight Saga: Eclipse” ($33.4 million) #3 “Predators” ($25.3 million) #4 “Toy Story 3” ($22 million) #5 “The Last Airbender” ($17.2 million) Audiences clearly didn’t despise “Despicable Me” this weekend, as Universal’s latest family-friendly animated flick won the top spot at the box office over rivals “The Twilight Saga: Eclipse” and “Predators.” “Despicable Me” stars Steve Carell as Gru, a diabolical supervillain with an army of minions at his disposal. His current mission in life is to challenge his rival, Vector (Jason Segel), for supervillain supremacy, but Gru finds himself sidetracked by the arrival of three orphaned girls who suddenly look to him as a father figure. The tale of a bad guy gone good was widely embraced by audiences across the country, rocketing “Despicable Me” to an unexpected $60.1 million first-place finish. With a production budget of $69 million, “Despicable Me” is quite the lovely new property for Universal, with franchise potential going forward. Although superheroes and villains led the pack at the box office this weekend, supernatural creatures weren’t far behind. “Eclipse” took second place in its second weekend in theaters. With a domestic weekend worth $33.4 million, the third “Twilight” film has earned a massive $237 million in the U.S. since opening on June 30, with an even greater $456 million worldwide total. Beyond “Despicable Me,” the weekend’s other major new release was “Predators,” producer Robert Rodriguez and director Nimrod Antal’s resurrection of the languishing science-fiction franchise. Starring Adrien Brody as one of several mercenaries abducted by aliens and turned into prey for the titular creatures, “Predators” managed a solid $25.3 million opening domestically and $18 million overseas, surpassing its $40 million production budget with a $43.3 million worldwide total. “Toy Story 3” and “The Last Airbender” finished in fourth and fifth place with $22 million and $17.2 million, respectively. The weekend’s highest per screen averaged belonged to newcomer “The Kids Are All Right,” scoring a walloping $72,143 per screen at just seven locations. Upcoming Releases Nicolas Cage brings some magic to the box office as “The Sorcerer’s Apprentice” hits this week, while director Christopher Nolan and star Leonardo DiCaprio remind you that the dream is real in “Inception.” Check out everything we’ve got on “Despicable Me” and “Eclipse.” For breaking news, celebrity columns, humor and more — updated around the clock — visit MTVMoviesBlog.com . Related Photos ‘The Twilight Saga: Eclipse’ “Toy Story 3”
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