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SNL Scorecard: Did Jim Carrey Save a Lackluster Show?

There was something odd about last night’s Jim Carrey-hosted installment of SNL . Between the promos featuring Carrey hitting on Kristen Wiig, his monologue proposal and the good-nights where Carrey emotionally thanked pretty much the entire world, it felt like the episode might have been one big Jim Carrey therapy session. The last time Carrey hosted, May 18, 1996, Carrey wasn’t too far removed from being the guy walking down the street wearing an oversized cowboy hat looking for a copy of the Rhode Island Slut . Now, we have a more mature, certainly a more damaged Carrey hosting for a second time — complicated by hosting on, well, a day that, due to current events, people did not find particularly funny. How did he do? On to the scorecard…

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SNL Scorecard: Did Jim Carrey Save a Lackluster Show?

Weekend Receipts: True Grit Shoots Little Fockers Dead

Marshal Rooster Cogburn finally got his bounty in the form of box office gold as True Grit took the top spot after two weeks in second. Nicolas Cage’s latest camp-a-thon, Season of the Witch came in third and proud Goop-er Gwyneth Paltrow’s Country Strong came in movie-weak at number six. Your weekend receipts are here.

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Weekend Receipts: True Grit Shoots Little Fockers Dead

Kim K Was in ‘Battlefield Earth’?

Filed under: Kim Kardashian , John Travolta , Beauty , We're Just Sayin' Here’s Kim Kardashian in L.A. on Wednesday ( left ) — and John Travolta as Terl in the 2000 critical and box office flop ” Battlefield Earth ” ( right ). One of them is known for wearing wigs. We’re just sayin’. Read more

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Kim K Was in ‘Battlefield Earth’?

Friday Box Office: Dawn Treader Sails To Number One

As Christmas draws nearer audiences decided that perhaps their time would be better spent with a metaphorical Jesus than Angelina Jolie, and so the latest entry in the Chronicles of Narnia series topped the box office. Meanwhile the Depp-Jolie joint venture, The Tourist , had to settle for number two. `Tis the season! Your Friday box office is here.

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Friday Box Office: Accio Moolah! Harry Potter Has $65 Million Night

Well, holy cow. After pulling in $24 million at midnight , the penultimate Potter flick increased its take to a truly magical $65 million in its first day in release. I guarantee you that Warner Bros. execs are alternately high-fiving themselves over having another $65 million night next summer with Part 2, and then secretly calculating how much more they would have made if this one was in 3D. Oh, and some Russell Crowe prison movie self-destructed at number 5. Your Friday box office is here.

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Friday Box Office: Accio Moolah! Harry Potter Has $65 Million Night

Harry Potter Casts $24 Million Spell at Midnight

Even all those Muggles queued up at Mall of America couldn’t push Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows to a midnight box-office record. The seventh film in the series pulled down $24 million, a healthy gross that nevertheless fell well short of The Twilight Saga: Eclipse ‘s $30 million record in June. The film did break Eclipse ‘s IMAX record, however, surpassing the old $1 million watermark by $400,000. Only $106 million to go , team! [ The Wrap ]

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Harry Potter Casts $24 Million Spell at Midnight

Friday Box Office: Mad About Town

It just suddenly got so 2002 up in here as Ben Affleck ruled the Friday box office with his Beantown heist flick, The Town . Easy A had to settle for a Gentleman’s B, Devil was stuck in a purgatorial third and poor Justin Long just really wants this year to be over already. Your Friday Box Office is here.

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Friday Box Office: Mad About Town

Weekend Receipts: The American Is Number One, Machete Deported To Third Place

George Clooney was the king of the (very weak) box office this weekend, as his bare-bones thriller The American took the top spot. In a tightly-fought battle for second place, it was the surprisingly still-strong Takers who edged out Machete — though the difference between them is so small, they may swap places come Tuesday morning. And meanwhile Going the Distance ended up not going anywhere at all. Your weekend receipts are here.

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Friday Box Office: U!S!A! U!S!A! The American Is Number One

George Clooney racked up another victory as his spare thriller The American topped the rather tepid Friday box office. Campy Mexploitation flick Machete settled for number two, while Justin Long & Drew Barrymore’s Going the Distance idled at the gate at number five. Your Friday box office is here.

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Movieline Graph: Does Michael Cera Really Play the Same Role in Every Movie?

When did it go wrong for Michael Cera? Once upon a time, he was the hippest comic actor in the room, yet to judge from the Scott Pilgrim vs. the World box office, the audience has turned on him. The most common complaint is that Cera too often plays himself (literally, in the case of Paper Heart ), so to judge that claim’s validity, Movieline has assembled a graph of Cera’s most frequent filmic characteristics.

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Movieline Graph: Does Michael Cera Really Play the Same Role in Every Movie?