CLOUDY WITH A CHANCE OF MEATBALLS Tops Box Office

Sony Pictures Animation’s Cloudy with a Chance of Meatballs stormed the North American box office this weekend with a solid $30.1 million in ticket sales, according to studio estimates Sunday.
Playing in both 3D and standard format, Phil Lord and Chris Miller’s animated adventure scored an average of $9,651 per theater at 3,119 locations. The film follows an inventor who faces the consequences of his latest invention: a device that converts water into food.

Debuting in second place with a decent three-day gross of $10.5 million was Steven Soderbergh’s The Informant!, which stars Matt Damon as an exec helping the FBI uncover his company’s price-fixing scheme. The film is showing [...]

Jennifer Aniston in LOVE HAPPENS Photos

Aaron Eckhart, Jennifer Aniston in Love Happens

Directed by first-timer Brandon Camp, and written by Camp and Mike Thompson, the romantic drama Love Happens stars Aaron Eckhart as a widower whose book about coping with the loss of a loved one turns him into a self-help guru. Jennifer Aniston plays a woman our widower meets — and falls in love with — at one of his seminars in Seattle.
The catch is that the man who teaches about coping with loss hasn’t actually gotten over the death of his own wife.
Also in the Love Happens cast: Martin Sheen, Joe Anderson, Judy Greer, John Carroll Lynch, Dan Fogler, and Frances Conroy.
Love Happens opens in the US on Sept. 18.
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Aaron Eckhart in LOVE HAPPENS Photos

Aaron Eckhart

Aaron Eckhart, Jennifer Aniston

Aaron Eckhart, Brandon Camp
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Martin Sheen, Judy Greer in LOVE HAPPENS Photos

GRAN TORINO at the Top of the Box Office

Clint Eastwood’s Gran Torino raced to the top of the North American box office this weekend with $29 million in ticket sales, according to studio estimates Sunday.
The film, which stars Eastwood as a war veteran who bonds with a Hmong teenager, easily shook off its competition after expanding into 2,808 theaters. Its domestic total currently stands at $40 million.

Debuting at No. 2 with $21.5 million was Gary Winick’s latest comedy, Bride Wars, starring Anne Hathaway and Kate Hudson (above) as best friends who become the worst enemies after their weddings are accidentally booked on the same day.

Meanwhile, new entry The Unborn finished third with $21 million. The David [...]

MARLEY & ME Again Tops Box Office

Marley & Me topped the North American box office for the second consecutive weekend with $24 million in ticket sales, according to studio estimates Sunday.
David Frankel’s comedy starring Owen Wilson and Jennifer Aniston easily dominated the competition all week long, bringing its domestic total to an impressive $106.5 million after barely two weeks in release.

At No. 2, Adam Sandler’s latest comedy, Bedtime Stories, picked up another $20.3 million, reaching a total haul of $85.3 million. In the film, Sandler plays a hotel handyman whose bedtime stories become true the next day.

Meanwhile, David Fincher’s The Curious Case of Benjamin Button picked up $18.4 million in third place, lifting its cumulative [...]

Marley Beats Brad Pitt, Adam Sandler, and Tom Cruise

David Frankel’s comedy Marley & Me raced to the top of the North American box office this weekend with $37 million in ticket sales, according to studio estimates Sunday.
Starring Owen Wilson and Jennifer Aniston as a couple struggling to keep their dog in check, Marley & Me lifted its domestic total to an impressive $51.6 million after only four days in release.

At No. 2, Adam Sandler’s latest comedy Bedtime Stories took home $28 million, reaching a cumulative gross of $38.5 million. The Adam Shankman-directed effort follows a hotel handyman whose bedtime stories come true the next day.

Meanwhile, David Fincher’s acclaimed drama The Curious Case of Benjamin Button, starring Brad Pitt [...]

Jennifer Aniston, Drew Barrymore in HE’S JUST NOT THAT INTO YOU Trailer

 
In the romantic comedy He’s Just Not That into You young and attractive women fall for guys who don’t seem (I guess seem is the key here) to care all that much about them. Or at least not the way they (the women) want them (the guys) to.
Directed by Ken Kwapis (best known for his work on the TV series The Office), and adapted by Abby Kohn and Marc Silverstein from Greg Behrendt and Liz Tuccillo’s bestseller, He’s Just Not That into You stars Jennifer Aniston, Jennifer Connelly, Drew Barrymore (who’s also one of the film’s executive producers), Scarlett Johansson, Ben Affleck, Kevin Connolly, Bradley Cooper, Ginnifer Goodwin, Kris Kristofferson, and Justin Long.
He’s [...]