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Rachel Weisz, Agora Owen Wilson's MARMADUKE, Adrien Brody's SPLICE Flop; Bollywood's RAAJNEETI Surprises: Box Office Among the movies listed on the Box Office Mojo chart, Alejandro Amenabar's historical drama Agora, starring Rachel Weiz, had the highest per-theater gross, $10,875 at 4 venues. Agora, which has earned $93.5k in 10 days in North America, was a major box-office hit in its producing country, Spain. Internationally, the [...]

Juan Oliver, Luis Tosar in Cell 211 (top); Rachel Weisz in Agora (middle, upper); Lola Dueñas, Pablo Pineda in Me Too (middle, lower); Penélope Cruz in Pedro Almodóvar's Broken Embraces (bottom) Daniel Monzón's Celda 211 / Cell 211, a drama set during a prison riot, was the big winner at the 2010 Goya Awards ceremony held in Madrid on Sunday. Cell 211 won eight Goyas, [...]

Rachel Weisz in Agora (Mod Producciones) (top); Penélope Cruz in Broken Embraces (Emilio Pereda & Paola Ardizzoni / El Deseo / Sony Pictures Classics) (bottom) Daniel Monzón's prison drama Cell 211 and Alejandro Amenábar's historical blockbuster Ágora (aka Mists of Time), with respectively 16 and 13 nominations, are the two leaders in the race for the 2010 Premios Goya (or Goya Awards), the Spanish Academy [...]

Penélope Cruz in Broken Embraces (Emilio Pereda & Paola Ardizzoni / El Deseo / Sony Pictures Classics) (top); Rachel Weisz in Agora (Mod Producciones) (middle); Soledad Villamil, Ricardo Darin in The Secret in Their Eyes (Sony Pictures Classics) (bottom) The Spanish Academy's 2010 Goya Award nominations — that's Spain's Oscars — will be announced on Jan. 9. Among the potential nominees are Broken Embraces, director-screenwriter [...]