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New Line Cinema’s The Final Destination slashed its competition at the North American box office, as the horror sequel took the No. 1 spot with a solid $28.3 million in ticket sales, according to studio estimates Sunday. The David R. Ellis-directed fourth installment in the popular series delivered a better opening weekend than its predecessors, scoring an average of $9,079 per theater at 3,121 locations. [...]

Derek Elley on Looking for Eric (above, Ken Loach and Eric Cantona) in Variety: "… helmer Ken Loach and writer Paul Laverty's ninth feature together is a curious hybrid: Three movies — boilerplate, socially aware Loach; personal fantasy; romantic comedy — wrap around a central core of a hopeless soccer fanatic who's given a second chance to sort out his life. As in many of [...]