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Weekend Box Office for January 16 – 18

#1 Paul Blart: Mall Cop from Sony debuts at #1 this weekend Cop earned $33.8 million in 3144 theaters this weekend. Budget for was $26 million.

#2 Grand Torino from Warner Bros. drops to #2 Torino earned $22.2 million in 2972 theaters this weekend bringing its gross to $73 million. Budget for Torino was $33 million.

#3 My Bloody Valentine 3-D from LGF debuts at #3 bringing $21.9 million in 2534 theaters. Budget is unknown.

#4 Notorious from Fox debuts at #4 bringing $21.5 million in 1638 theaters. Budget is unknown.

#5 Hotel for Dogs from Dreamworks debuts at #5 bringing $17.7 million in 3271 theaters. Budget is unknown.

Rounding out the top 10 are:

#6 Bride Wars Weekend Gross: $11,750,000, down 44% / Theaters: 3228, up 2 / Gross $37,577,000 / Budget: $30 million

#7 The Unborn Weekend Gross: $9,849,000, down 50% / Theaters: 2359, up s / Gross $33,088,000 / Budget: unknown

#8 Defiance Weekend Gross: $9,206,000 / Theaters: 1,789 / Gross $9,547,000 / Budget: $50 million

#9 Marley and Me Weekend Gross: $6,325,000, down 44% / Theaters: 2952, down 526 / Gross $132,734,000 / Budget: unknown

#10 Slumdog Millionaire Weekend Gross: $5,900,000, up 56% / Theaters: 582, down 19 / Gross $42,737,000 / Budget: $15 million

A note on “Gross”: On average, studios will earn approximately 55 percent of the final gross.

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According to Variety, the Leonardo DiCaprio (Revolutionary Road) is lining up the starring role in Beat the Reaper, a comic suspense tale about a former hit man hiding out as a Manhattan emergency room doctor whose cover is blown after a mobster recognizes him. DiCaprio, having just wrapped work on Martin Scorsese’s thriller Shutter Island (their fourth collaboration), and his production company Appian Way Productions are currently hard at work on bringing a live-action version of Akira, Katsuhiro Otomo’s ground breaking anime from 1988, to US screens. Akira will be helmed by first-time filmmaker Ruairi Robinson and is being written by Gary Whitta.

TV Guide reports that Screen Actors Guild leaders have dismissed an attempt from within their ranks to remove the guild’s chief negotiator, a move likely to add fuel to the internal feud. SAG leaders hope to ask their roughly 110,000 members for permission to call a strike. But some members have faulted the guild for not making more progress in talks with studios and called for a new negotiating team. They had hoped to force out SAG Executive Director Doug Allen — the guild’s lead negotiator — at a meeting that lasted 30 hours over Monday and Tuesday.

Kristin Scott Thomas will starring in Nowhere Boy, a biopic about John Lennon’s formative years, in which she’ll play the Beatles icon’s Aunt Mimi—sister of Lennon’s beloved mother, Julia, who died when Lennon was 17.

A new adaptation of John Steinbeck’s novel East of Eden is underway, according to EmpireOnline, and director Tom Hooper and screenwriter Christopher Hampton (Atonement) have just signed up to put it into production later this year.The book, originally published in 1952, is a retelling of the Cain and Abel story set just prior to World War I, as two brothers in California’s Salinas Valley clash as they compete for their father’s affections.

Jackie Chan is in talks to take on the role of Mr. Miyagi in an upcoming remake of The Karate Kid, per the Hollywood Reporter. The premise would be similar to the 1984 original, in that Chan would be playing mentor to a teen who’s being harassed by bullies and is in need of both philosophical guidance and some sweet self-defense moves. Will and Jada’s Smith’s child, Jaden, who starred alongside dad in The Pursuit of Happyness, is set to don the gi once worn by Ralph Macchio.

First-time writers Sean Wathen and Josh Dobkin have sold production company Stone Village their script The Field, a high concept thriller in which a group of strangers wake up in a an apparently endless field from which there’s no escape – luckily, the group has been given a number of seemingly random objects which may aid their escape.

Citing what he calls “an economic crisis in the Marvel Comics world”, Samuel L Jackson has let it slip that he has yet to close a deal to play Nick Fury in Iron Man 2 says TotalFilm. In fact, according to the actor, the lack of a solid offer might see him out of everything Marvel, including The Avengers and The First Avenger: Captain America. Meanwhile Mickey Rourke is currently in talks to play the antagonist (possibly The Crimson Dynamo) for Iron Man 2

Natalie Portman is set to star in and executive produce Don Roos’ adaptation of Ayelet Waldman’s novel Love and Other Impossible Pursuits. Variety says the plot follows a young woman who discovers the key to recovering her marriage in her relationship with her precocious stepson. Also starring are Scott Cohen and Charlie Tahan, with Marc Platt serving as producer of the project, which is scheduled to head into principal photography next month. Roos, who also penned the screenplay, most recently directed Happy Endings. He also co-wrote the family comedy Marley & Me for David Frankel and The Governess for Nigel Cole. As for Portman, she was last seen in The Other Boleyn Girl. She will next star in New York, I Love You, followed by Jim Sheridan’s Brothers. Cohen’s credits include several episodes of Gilmore Girls and Law & Order: Trial by Jury. Tahan most recently starred in Night in Rodanthe.

Before opening wide in the U.S. on April 10, Observe and Report will be having its world premiere at the 2009 South by Southwest (SXSW) Film Conference and Festival. On Monday, January 12, the SXSW Film Fest. has announced that the comedy movie from “The Foot Fist Way” director/co-writer Jody Hill will be filling the centerpiece slot on Monday, March 16. Starring Seth Rogen, Anna Faris and Ray Liotta, the comedy movie follows a deluded, self-important head of mall security named Ronnie Barnhardt in his effort to be real cop and win his dream girl’s heart. When the mall is struck by a flasher, Ronnie seizes the opportunity to showcase his talents. But his pursuit of glory creates a war with Detective Harrison of the Conway Police. Now, he must not only catch the flasher, but get him before the real cops do.

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Weekend Box Office For January 9 – 11

#1 Grand Torino from Warner Bros. claws its way to #1 spot after debuting at #20 way back on December 12. Torino earned $29 million in 2808 theaters this weekend bringing its gross to $40 million. Budget for Torino was $33 million.

#2 Bride Wars from Fox debuts at #2 bringing $21.5 million in 3226 theaters. Budget was $30 million.

#3 The Unborn from Universal takes #3 again bringing $21 million in 2357 theaters. Budget is unknown.

#4 Marley and Me from Fox drops to #4 again bringing $11.3 million, thats down 53%, bringing total earnings to $123 million. Marley showed in 3478 theaters, down 27 from last. Budget is unknown.

#5 The Curious Case of Benjamin Button from Paramount drops to #5 bringing $9.4 million, down 49%, for a total of $94.3. Buttons showed in 2947 theaters, down 41. Budget was $150 million.

Rounding out the top 10 are:

#6 Bedtime Stories Weekend Gross: $8,550,000, down 58% / Theaters: 3511, down 173 / Gross $97,180,000 / Budget: $80 million

#7 Valkyrie Weekend Gross: $6,662,000, down 52% / Theaters: 2838, up 60 / Gross $71,509,000 / Budget: $75 million

#8 Yes Man Weekend Gross: $6,155,000, down 55% / Theaters: 2955, down 479 / Gross $89,410,000 / Budget: $70 million

#9 Not Easily Broken Weekend Gross: $5,600,000 / Theaters: 724 / Gross $5,600,000 / Budget: $5 million

#10 Seven Pounds Weekend Gross: $3,900,000, down 61% / Theaters: 2456, down 302 / Gross $66,830,000 / Budget: $55 million

A note on “Gross”: On average, studios will earn approximately 55 percent of the final gross.

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According to Empire Online McG (Charlie’s Angels, Terminator Salvation) has signed with Disney to direct the update of 20000 Leagues Under the Sea.

In further Disney news from Empire, Garrett Hedlund (Eragon, Friday Night Lights) has signed on to star in Disney’s Tron sequel, now titled simply Tron joining returning cast members Jeff Bridges and Bruce Boxleitner who will be reprising their original roles.

The government’s $1.34 billion coupon program that would help viewers offset the cost of analog-to-digital converter boxes reached its funding limit Sunday. Now, anyone who requests one of the $40 coupons will be placed on a waiting list, the Commerce Department’s National Telecommunications and Information Administration says. There are currently 103,000 people on the list. The boxes range from $40 to $70, and can be purchased without a coupon. The shortage is being attributed to a late surge in coupon requests, December request more than doubled Octobers. Digital transition will take place on Feb. 17. When the switch happens, the more than 70 million TVs in the U.S. that receive free, over-the-air broadcast signals via an antenna or “rabbit ears” will be unable to watch their television without a digital converter box.

New Line has hired Eagle Eye director DJ Caruso to make Jack The Giant Killer. The film takes a grown-up look at the Jack And The Beanstalk fairy tale, according to Variety. The plot will see a princess getting kidnapped which throws a long-standing peace accord between men and giants into chaos.

According to WENN Twilight’s Robert Pattinson was forced to drop out of Rosario Dawson’s (Seven Pounds, Eagle Eye) indie pic Parts Per Billion due to scheduling conflicts with New Moon, the sequel to Summit’s Twilight.

Reelz says that Adam Shankman (The Pacifier, The Wedding Planner) will produce an adaptation of the 1958 musical Bye Bye Birdie. Shankman directed the hit musical Hairspray in 2007 and is a former choreographer. Columbia Pictures hopes the musical vet will breathe some new life into the long-gestating adaptation, which has undergone a number of different incarnations, including a proposed re-imagining with a hip-hop star in the lead.

The newest name to be added to the call sheet for Sylvester Stallone’s The Expendables is Mickey Rourke. Rourke will be joining Stallone, Jason Statham, Jet Li, Dolph Lundgren, Randy Couture, and Forest Whitaker. Rourke will play an unscrupulous arms dealer who becomes the go-to guy for a group of mercenaries planning to topple a South American dictator.

Variety reports Quantum Quest, the independently financed 3-D animated film being made in conjunction with NASA, has assembled its voice cast. William Shatner, Chris Pine, James Earl Jones and Hayden Christensen will topline the voice cast of the $10 million pic that is being financed by Taiwanese toonshop Digimax. Samuel L. Jackson, Amanda Peet, Jason Alexander, Sandra Oh, Mark Hamill, Abigail Breslin and Spencer Breslin round out the voice cast. Apollo 11 astronaut Neil Armstrong also will lend his voice, marking his bigscreen debut. Directed by Dan St. Pierre (a supervisor on The Lion King and The Little Mermaid) and Harry Kloor (producer of the series Earth: Final Confilct), Quantum Quest will bow first in Imax and subsequently in conventional theaters in late 2009.

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Weekend Box Office For January 4 – 6

#1 Marley and Me from Fox takes #1 again bringing $24 million in 3505 theaters. Budget is unknown.

#2 Bedtime Stories from Buena Vista holds at #2 netting $20 million in 3684 theaters. Budget was $80 million.

#3 The Curious Case of Benjamin Button from Paramount holds at #3 bringing $18 million in 2988 theaters. Budget was $150 million.

#4 Valkyrie from UA holds at #4 bringing $14 million in 2778 theaters. Budget was $75 million.

#5 Yes Man from WB holds at #5 this weekend bringing in $13 million in 3434 theaters. Budget is $70 million.

Rounding out the top 10 are:

#6 Seven Pounds Weekend Gross: $10,000,000, down 24% / Theaters: 2758 / Gross $60,038,000 / Budget: $55 million

#7 The Tale of Despereaux Weekend Gross: $7,020,000, down 21% / Theaters: 3091, down 16 / Gross: $43,742,000 / Budget: $60 million

#8 Doubt Weekend Gross: $5,031,000, down 5% / Theaters: 1287, up 20 / Gross $18,730,000 / Budget $20 million

#9 The Day The Earth Stood Still Weekend Gross: $4,850,000, down 37% / Theaters: 2337, down 65 / Gross: $74,299,000 / Budget $80 million

#10 Slumdog Millionaire Weekend Gross: $4,770,000, up 10% / Theaters: 612, down 2 / Gross $28,779,000 / Budget $15 million

A note on “Gross”: On average, studios will earn approximately 55 percent of the final gross.

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Weekend Box Office For December 26 – 28

#1 Marley and Me from Fox opens at #1 bringing $37 million in 3480 theaters. Budget is unknown.

#2 Bedtime Stories from Buena Vista opens at #2 netting $28 million in 3681 theaters. Budget is unknown.

#3 The Curious Case of Benjamin Button from Paramount opens at #3 bagging $27 million in 2988 theaters. Budget was $150 million.

#4 Valkyrie from UA opens at #4 bringing $21.5 million in 2711 theaters. Budget was $75 million.

#5 Yes Man from WB drops to #5 this weekend bringing in $16.4 million, down 9%, for a total of $49.5 million in 3434 theaters. Budget is unknown.

Rounding out the top 10 are:

#6 Seven Pounds Weekend Gross: $13,400,000, down 9% / Theaters: 2758 / Gross $39,026,000 / Budget: $55 million

#7 The Tale of Despereaux Weekend Gross: $9,368,000, down 7% / Theaters: 3107, up 3 / Gross: $27,945,000 / Budget unknown

#8 The Day The Earth Stood Still Weekend Gross: $7,900,000, down 20% / Theaters: 2402, down 1158 / Gross: $63,615,000 / Budget unknown

#9 Spirit Weekend Gross: $6,510,000 / Theaters: 2509 / Gross $6,510,000 / Budget unknown

#10 Doubt Weekend Gross: $5,675,000 / Theaters: 1267 / Gross $5,675,000 / Budget unknown

A note on “Gross”: On average, studios will earn approximately 55 percent of the final gross.

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Weekend Box Office For December 19 – 21

#1 Yes Man from WB opens at #1 bagging $18.1 million in 3434 theaters. Budget is unknown.

#2 Seven Pounds From Sony debuts at #2 bringing in $16 million. Pounds showed in 2758 theaters. Budget was $55 million.

#3 The Tale of Despereaux from Universal debuts at #3 this weekend bringing in $10.5 million. Despereaux showed in 3104 theaters. Budget is unknown.

#4 The Day The Earth Stood Still from Fox drops to #4 bringing in $10.1 million, down 66%, for a total of $48,627,000 million. Earth showed in 3560 theaters. Budget is unknown.

#5 Four Christmases from Warner Bros. drops to #5 bringing in $7.7 million, down 40%, bringing total earnings to $100,154,000. Christmases showed in 3515 theaters, thats down 25. Budget was $80 million.

Rounding out the top 10 are:

#6 Twilight: Weekend Gross: $5,227,000, down 34% / Theaters: 2991, down 658 / Gross, $158,461,000 / Budget $37 million.

#7 Bolt Weekend Gross: $4,256,000, down 43% / Theaters: 2968, down 165 / Gross, $95,009,000 / Budget unknown.

#8 Slumdog Millionaire : Weekend Gross: $3,150,000, up 44% / Theaters: 589, up 420 / Gross: $12,134,000 / Budget unknown

#9 Australia Weekend Gross: $2,325,000, down 44% / Theaters: 2212, down 491 / Gross, $41,947,000 / Budget $130 million.

#10 Quantum of Solace : Weekend Gross: $2,150,000, down 42% / Theaters: 1874, down 761 / Gross, $161,300,000 / Budget $200 million.

A note on “Gross”: On average, studios will earn approximately 55 percent of the final gross.

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Stephen Norrington (The League of Extraordinary Gentlemen) has been tapped to reimagine The Crow, the 1994 flick based on the cult-classic comic book.

Harrison Ford has signed on to star in J.J. Abrams’ latest project, Morning Glory, a comedy about an ailing morning news show in chaos. Rachel McAdams is in talks to sign on as an aspiring producer who tries to temper the storm of feuding anchors and set the show straight. Ford will play one of the newsmen in question. Roger Mitchell (Notting Hill) will direct the film, while Abrams and fellow Lost and Fringe chief Bryan Burk are producing.

House regular Olivia Wilde has been tapped for the female lead in Disney’s Tron sequel, dubbed TR2N, which will also see Jeff Bridges back in the role he originated in the 1982 original. In theaters in 2011.

Director Seth Gordon has signed on to direct Mr. Romance for New Regency. The film will be a male-driven romantic comedy about the real-life Mr. Romance event, which aims to find guys to grace the covers of bodice-ripping romance novels. Mr. Romance, the film, will follow an ordinary guy who enters the contest in order to win back the love of his life. Jeff Roda will write the script based on upon a GQ article written by Joshuah Bearman. Bearman was a co-producer on Gordon’s breakthrough documentary, King Of Kong, with which he got involved after writing an article on the movie for Harper’s.

Big Vision Entertainment has acquired the rights to comedy duo Cheech and Chong’s library and plans to make Cheech & Chong’s Smokin’ Animated Movie, a feature-length ‘toon comprising some of their more memorable routines.

Reported by Variety, Witherspoon has been cast as one of three main characters in James L Brooks’ upcoming film How Do You Know?, which will begin shooting in March for Columbia Pictures. Brooks’ past films include 2004’s Spanglish, 1997’s As Good as it Gets and Terms of Endearment, which won the Oscar for Best Picture in 1983. Additionally, Witherspoon will be lending her voice to the main character of Dreamworks Animation’s upcoming Monsters Vs Aliens. Due out in early Spring, Witherspoon will play Susan Murphy, a young girl who turns into a super-monster named Ginormica and is tasked with saving the world after being struck by a meteorite. Witherspoon has also signed on to star in an as-yet untitled romantic comedy alongside Ben Stiller for Almost Famous and Jerry Maguire director Cameron Crowe. Filming is expected to begin in July.

Brittany Robertson (From Within) is set to star in Light Years, a family dramedy helmed by Gary Fleder about an adopted 15-year-old girl (Robertson) who tracks down and reconnects with her birth parents, a morning radio-show host for a mother and an immature bar owner father.

According to WENN Filmmakers are planning a movie adaptation of Nancy Horan’s novel about Frank Lloyd Wright titled Loving Frank, and have hired Reservation Road writer John Burnham Schwartz to pen a screenplay. The story will centre around Wright’s relationship with Chicago society queen Mamah Borthwick Cheney, leading up to her murder, when a servant set fire to the couple’s Wisconsin home in 1914.

Dimension Films has signed rocker turned director Rob Zombie for a sequel to his 2007 remake/prequel/reboot Halloween. The second installment in the new series, simply called H2, will not be a redo of Halloween II. Nor will it have any relation to Halloween H20, the seventh in the original franchise. Variety says Zombie hopes to rush the movie into production in March for a possible October 2009 release.

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Weekend Box Office For December 12 – 14

#1 The Day The Earth Stood Still from Fox debuts at #1 bringing in $31 million. Earth showed in 3560 theaters. Budget is unknown.

#2 Four Christmases from Warner Bros. drops to #2 bringing in $13.2 million, down 20%, bringing total earnings to $87,972,000. Christmases showed in 3540 theaters, thats up 205. Budget was $80 million.

#3 Twilight drops to #3 bringing in $8 million, down 38%, bringing total earnings to $150,108,000. Twilight showed in 3649 theaters, up 29. Budget was $37 million.

#4 Bolt drops to #4 this weekend bringing in $7.5 million, down 23% bringing total earnings to $88,891,000. Bolt showed in 3133 theaters, down 383. Budget is unknown.

#5 Australia from Summit drops to #5 bringing in $4.2 million, down 39%, earning a total of $37,883,000. Australia showed in 2703 theaters, down 18. Budget was $130 million.

Rounding out the top 10 are:

#6 Quantum of Solace : Weekend Gross: $3,800,000, down 43% / Theaters: 2635, down 788 / Gross, $157,668,000 / Budget $200 million.

#7 Nothing Like the Holidays : Weekend Gross: $3,500,000 / Theaters: 1671 / Gross:$3,500,000 / Budget unknown

#8 Madagascar: Escape 2 Africa : Weekend Gross: $3,250,000, down 36% / Theaters: 2768, down 549 / Gross: $170,006,000 / Budget $150 million

#9 Milk : Weekend Gross: $2,636,000, up 43% / Theaters: 328, up 299 / Gross: $7,630,000 / Budget unknown

#10 Transporter 3 : Weekend Gross: $2,250,000, down 51% / Theaters: 2541, down 85 / Gross:$29,276,000 / Budget unknown

A note on “Gross”: On average, studios will earn approximately 55 percent of the final gross.

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According to Variety, Jennifer Aniston and Gerard Butler are talks to star in an as-yet untitled comedy centering on a bounty hunter whose latest mark just so happens to be his ex-wife, who is wanted after skipping out on bail. Hitch director Andy Tennant will helm the flick, which starts shooting this May.

Fran Drescher tells People she’s offering up her name as a replacement for Senator Hillary Clinton, who has been nominated as Secretary of State. New York Gov. David Paterson must find an interim to fill the remaining two years of Clinton’s term. “I’m a New Yorker. It’s a part of the fabric of my being,” says Drescher, 51. “It just seems natural to me to throw my hat in the ring.”

The Los Angeles Film Critics Association on Tuesday named the Disney-Pixar film Wall-e the Best Picture of 2008, the first time the cinema-honoring society has ever tapped an animated film for its top prize.

According to Variety Ben Affleck is currently working on Arizona, a real-life drama that will allow the Gone, Baby, Gone director his second shot behind the camera. Affleck will direct the film about an Arizona Republic reporter killed in a 1976 car bombing while investigating an organized crime ring.

TV Guide says that Angelina Jolie and Brad Pitt each scored acting nods for their respective films, Changeling and The Curious Case of Benjamin Button from the Critics Choice Awards on Tuesday. Up against Pitt for actor honors are Clint Eastwood (Gran Torino), Richard Jenkins (The Visitor), Frank Langella (Frost/Nixon), Sean Penn (Milk) and Mickey Rourke (The Wrestler). Jolie will face Cate Blanchett (The Curious Case of Benjamin Button), Kate Beckinsale (Nothing But the Truth), Anne Hathaway (Rachel Getting Married), Melissa Leo (Frozen River) and Meryl Streep (Doubt). Button, out Christmas Day, and Changeling are also two of the 10 nominees for Best Picture.

E! Online reports Keanu Reeves (The Matrix) has signed on to star in 47 Ronin, according to Variety. Set in 18th century Japan, the film will follow the true story of a group of samurai swordsmen who avenge the death of their master and are still revered today.

Empireonline.com says that James Gray has signed on to direct The Lost City Of Z, an epic adventure to star Brad Pitt. Based on a non-fiction book by New Yorker writer David Grann, the novel and film will follow the fortunes of Percy Fawcett, a Victorian-era British spy and soldier who became obsessed with exploring the Amazon in search of Z, an advanced civilisation he was convinced lived in the jungle.

Alexandre Desplat, whose score for David Fincher’s The Curious Case of Benjamin Button is one of this year’s most anticipated and already considered a strong contender in the Oscar race, is doing the music for Terrence Malick’s new film, The Tree of Life, which incidentally also stars Brad Pitt (he plays the title character in Fincher’s film). Desplat’s involvement in The Tree of Life has been confirmed to Upcoming Film Scores by one of the film’s producers. Malick is known for his strong visual sense and the pacing of his films often call for sustained and ambient musical scores. The story of the film, which also stars Sean Penn, has been closely guarded but it is said to focus on the evolution of an eleven-year old boy. Picked up for distribution by Summit Entertainment, it is slated for release in fall/winter of 2009.

Joseph Fiennes has been picked for ABC’s new sci-fi pilot, Flash Forward, about what happens when everyone in the world passes out for two minutes and has a mysterious premonition of the future E! reports. He and John Cho (Harold and Kumar) will play investigators trying to figure out what happening. The show is being touted as a Lost companion piece.

The Wolfman has been moved form an April release to November according to Empire Online. Universal has taken the bold step of moving the Joe Johnston-directed Benicio del Toro vehicle from its original April 3 date to November 6.

E! says Russell Brand (Forgetting Sarah Marshall) is signing on for a remake of the 1981 Dudley Moore-Liza Minnelli comedy classic Arthur.

The box office did less than half the business last weekend that it did the previous weekend during the Thanksgiving holiday. Still, the top 12 films’ gross was 5.30 percent above that for the comparable weekend a year ago, according to box-office trackers Media by Numbers.

Twilight’s Kristen Stewart has signed on to play Joan Jett in the biopic The Runaways, about the punk practitioner’s 1970s all-girl rock band responsible for “Cherry Bomb,” “Queens of Noise” and “Born to Be Bad.”

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