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This week :
Ben Affleck is the valet de chambre aboutTown ; Shawn Levy is theDeadliest Warrior ; Steven Soderbergh’sContagionspreads ; Sony Pictures isInsidious ; Ron Perlman gets quick toDrive ; Al Capone endure toCicero ; Harrelson , Foster , Cube , Buscemi , Heche , Nixon , Weaver and Wright visitRampart ; and more .
Box Office
Ben Affleck is back ! The Oscar - deliver the goods star has top the box agency withThe Town . The film , which he directed , starred , and co - wrote , bestow in an estimated $ 23.6 million over the weekend . Affleck has had quite a decade , after his breakout hitGood Will Huntingalongside chum Matt Damon , he went on to star in a string of hits ( and misses ) , headlining quite a few prominent budget military action films . However , his relationship with Jennifer Lopez caused a tabloid frenzy , leading to over - vulnerability in the media - result Affleck to shun the limelight in favor of corroborate roles in smaller mental picture . He made his directorial first appearance with the excellentGone Baby Goneand while that moving-picture show did n’t set the box place on fire , it did show his skill behind the camera . The Town(read our review ) is his return to headlining a major studio apartment film ( as well as directing ) and it seems that the universal public have forgive him for any cinematic untimely conduct – let ’s hope he stays on top !
Teen filmEasy Awas in second seat after bagging just over $ 18 million on its debut . Meanwhile the M.Night Shyamalan produced , Devil(read our review ) had to go under for third place with a dissatisfactory $ 12.7 million gross . The fright photographic film was n’t directed by theSixth Sensedirector , but put out under hisNight Chroniclesshingle . succeeding prospects are n’t take care good , since most horror films fall firmly on their 2d hebdomad .
Last weekend ’s championResident Evil : Afterlifedropped to fourth post after bringing in another $ 10 million . The sum for the film now tolerate at $ 44 million , demo that there ’s life left in this snake god franchise .
Animated filmAlpha and Omegaentered the top ten in the fifth position after bag $ 9 million . The surprise hitTakersbrought in another $ 3 million for a $ 52 million total .
George Clooney’sThe Americanbrought in $ 2.8 million , up its cume to a smidgen under $ 33 million .
The Other Guysraised its sum to $ 115 million , after grossing another $ 2 million . LeggyInceptionwas 9th after steal just under $ 2 million from moviegoer ' wallets . The Leonardo DiCaprio film has now banked $ 285 million .
Julia Roberts’Eat Pray Loverounded out the top ten after bringing in $ 1.7 million . The chick motion-picture show has a aggregate of $ 77 million and should finish its run with over $ 80 million .
Movie News
1 . Paramount Pictures and Spike TV are place to bringDeadliest Warriorto the heavy screenland .
Shawn Levy and Dan Levine are set to produce , with the possibility that Levy might orchestrate the film .
The manager is currently bossing Hugh Jackman around on the set ofReal sword .
Source : Deadline
2 . Steven Soderbergh just keeps add names to the mould - lean of his forthcoming virus thrillerContagion . Not content with his already star - fill hurl which includes : Matt Damon , Kate Winslet , Marion Cotillard , Gwyneth Paltrow , Jude Law and Laurence Fishaburne – the director has now snagged Demetri Martin , Jennifer Ehle , Bryan Cranston and 70s icon Elliott Gould for hisTraffic - esqe feature film .
Contagionis prepare to spread on October 21 , 2011
root : The Playlist
3 . Sony Pictures has pick up the North American distribution rights to James Wan’sInsidious .
The horror film was written by Leigh Whannell who antecedently worked with Wan on theSawmovies .
Insidiousstars Patrick Wilson and Rose Byrne .
4 . B - movie staple fiber Ron Perlman is rig to join Ryan Gosling , Christina Hendricks , and Carey Mulligan inDrive . The plastic film check Gosling star as a stuntman who moonlights as a pickup driver for outlaw . However , when a job goes horribly faulty Gosling ’s character has toDrive .
I can only imagine that Perlman will play some sort of badass .
Source : Screen Daily
5 . Warner Bros. is set to bring the Al Capone fib to the enceinte sieve inCicero .
According to Variety :
Walon Green write the screenplay which is said to be similar in tone to the mobster pic that Warner Bros. let go in their thirties blossom .
Source : diversity
6 . Oren Moverman is set to address a very impressive cast inRampart . The film which was written by master crime novelist James Ellroy will star Woody Harrelson , Ben Foster , Ice Cube , Steve Buscemi , Anne Heche , Cynthia Nixon , Sigourney Weaver , and Robin Wright .
“ Rampartis set against the background of the real - life scandal involve the LAPD anti - gang team , in which over 70 officers were implicate . ”
Source : The drama List
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That ’s it for now . See you at the movies .
