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HARRY POTTER AND THE HALF-BLOOD PRINCE Tops Box Office

Daniel Radcliffe in Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince

David Yates‘ Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince stormed to the top of the North American box office this weekend with a solid $79.4 million in ticket sales, according to studio estimates Sunday.
Since its opening Wednesday, the sixth installment in the popular series has collected a stunning $159.6 million at 4,325 locations. Daniel Radcliffe returns as Harry Potter, who explores the dark past of Voldemort while the forces of the Dark Lord create further terror at Hogwarts and in the world of muggles.

At a distant No. 2, Ice Age: Dawn of the Dinosaurs picked up $17.7 million, reaching a domestic total of $152 million after three weeks.

Following in third place with [...]

BRÜNO Tops Box Office

Sacha Baron Cohen’s Brüno jumped to the top spot at the North American box office with a solid $30.4 million in ticket sales, according to studio estimates Sunday.
The Larry Charles-directed comedy debuted at 2,756 locations Friday, beating the opening weekend gross of Borat by $4 million. (It should be noted that Borat opened in considerably fewer theaters.) In Brüno, Cohen plays a flamboyant gay Austrian fashionista heading to Los Angeles to become the biggest Austrian celebrity since Hitler.

This week’s second wide release, the comedy I Love You, Beth Cooper, debuted at No. 7 with only $5 million. Directed by Chris Columbus, I Love You, Beth Cooper stars Hayden Panettiere as [...]

Lauren Polizzi: Behind the Scenes Filmmaker Series

Art director Lauren Polizzi, whose credits include Transformers: Revenge of the Fallen, Indiana Jones and the Kingdom of the Crystal Skull, and Knocked Up, will be the next guest at the Palm Springs International Film Society’s "Behind the Scenes Filmmaker" series. Polizzi will be present on July 14 at 7 pm at the Rancho Mirage Public Library (71-100 Hwy. 111).
Polizzi received an Art Director’s Guild award and Emmy Nomination for her work on season six of The X-Files, an ADG and Oscar nomination for How the Grinch Stole Christmas, an ADG nomination for Indiana Jones and the Kingdom of the Crystal Skull, and an ADG nomination as Asst. Art Director on Amistad.
She is currently working on Date Night, a [...]

TRANSFORMERS / ICE AGE Tie at the Box Office?

Transformers: Revenge of the Fallen (above, top photo) and Ice Age: Dawn of the Dinosaurs (above, lower photo) tied for the No. 1 spot at the North American box office this weekend with $42.5 million each, according to studio estimates Sunday.
While Michael Bay’s sequel lifted its domestic total to an impressive $293.4 million after only a little more than a week in release, the third installment in the Ice Age series brought its total to $67.5 million.
Playing at 4,099 locations, Dawn of the Dinosaurs scored an average of $10,360 per theater, while Revenge of the Fallen pulled $10,038 per theater at a total of 4,234 locations.

Michael Mann’s [...]

TRANSFORMERS: REVENGE OF THE FALLEN Tops Box Office

Though massacred by critics, Michael Bay’s Transformers: Revenge of the Fallen crushed the North American box office this week with an impressive $201.2 million in ticket sales, according to studio estimates Sunday.
Starring Shia LaBeouf, Megan Fox, and Josh Duhamel, the anticipated sequel to Transformers opened at 4,234 locations Wednesday and scored a daily gross of $60.6 million, the highest ever for a Wednesday. The film brought in another $28 million Thursday and $36.7 million on Friday.

At a distant No. 2, last week’s winner The Proposal collected $18.4 million, reaching a domestic gross of $69 million. Starring Sandra Bullock and Ryan Reynolds, the film follows an overbearing book editor who [...]

Megan Fox, Shia LaBeouf, Josh Duhamel at TRANSFORMERS: REVENGE OF THE FALLEN London Premiere

Megan Fox, Shia LaBeouf, Michael Bay
Images from the UK Premiere of Transformers: Revenge of the Fallen on June 15 at Odeon Leicester Square in London.
Photos: Tim Whitby / 2009 Getty Images
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Josh Duhamel

Kate Walsh, Philip Taylor

Megan Fox, Ramon Rodriguez, Shia LaBeouf at TRANSFORMERS: REVENGE OF THE FALLEN London Premiere

Megan Fox
Images from the UK Premiere of Transformers: Revenge of the Fallen on June 15 at Odeon Leicester Square in London.
Photos: Tim Whitby / 2009 Getty Images
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Shia LaBeouf

Ramon Rodriguez

Shia LaBeouf, Megan Fox, Josh Duhamel at the London Premiere of TRANSFORMERS: REVENGE OF THE FALLEN

Megan Fox, Shia LaBeouf
Images from the UK Premiere of Transformers: Revenge of the Fallen on June 15 at Odeon Leicester Square in London.
Photos: Tim Whitby / 2009 Getty Images
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Josh Duhamel

John Turturro

Danielle Lloyd

Shia LaBeouf, Josh Duhamel, Megan Fox at TRANSFORMERS: REVENGE OF THE FALLEN Premiere

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(Front L-R) Megan Fox, Michael Bay, Shia LaBeouf, (Back L-R) Ramon Rodriguez, Josh Duhamel, Tyrese Gibson, Isabel Lucas

Shia LaBeouf

Josh Duhamel

Megan Fox

Michael Bay, Shia LaBeouf, Megan Fox

Shia LaBeouf, Josh Duhamel, Michael Bay at TRANSFORMERS: REVENGE OF THE FALLEN Premiere

Michael Bay, Shia LaBeouf, Megan Fox, Josh Duhamel, Isabel Lucas, Ramon Rodriguez and Tyrese Gibson at the Transformers: Revenge of the Fallen world premiere at Roppongi Hills in Tokyo on June 8.
Photos: Kiyoshi Ota/ Getty Images for Paramount Pictures
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Michael Bay, Shia LaBeouf

Josh Duhamel

Megan Fox

Shia LaBeouf, Megan Fox, Isabel Lucas at TRANSFORMERS: REVENGE OF THE FALLEN Premiere

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Shia LaBeouf, Megan Fox

Isabel Lucas

Ramon Rodriguez

Michael Bay

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