Twilight drops drastic 62% in second weekend despite holiday.
Thanksgiving weekend movie crowds gobbled up the Reese Witherspoon-Vince Vaughn holiday comedy "Four Christmases," which premiered at No. 1 with $31.7 million, according to studio estimates Sunday.
The film raised its total to $46.7 million since opening Wednesday.
"Twilight," which had a huge No. 1 opening the previous weekend, took a steep 62 percent decline from its $69.6 million premiere.
Based on Sunday's estimates, Disney's animated "Bolt" had a slight lead on second place with $26.6 million for the weekend, to $26.4 million for "Twilight."
In San Francisco, Focus Features' film "Milk," directed by Gus Van Sant and starring Sean Penn as slain Supervisor Harvey Milk, set a box-office record at the Castro Theatre. From Wednesday through Friday, the single-screen theater grossed $109,440 on "Milk," breaking the previous three-day record of $50,584 set in May by "Indiana Jones and the Kingdom of the Crystal Skull," according to film promoters Terry Hines and Associates.
The film opened nationally on 36 screens, two of which, the Sundance Kabuki and the Embarcadero, didn't begin showing the film until Friday. "Milk" opened at No. 10 nationwide with $1.4 million in just 36 theaters. The film had a strong average of $38,375 a cinema, compared with $9,571 in 3,310 theaters for "Four Christmases."
The weekend's other new wide release, "Australia," opened at No. 5 with $14.8 million for the weekend and $20 million since premiering Wednesday.
(Ed note: The article doesn't even mention Transporter 3 which also opened on Wednesday. It's made 18.5 million since opening on Wednesday.)
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RiffTrax has a new riffing machine
It still doesn't work perfectly. But here's what I came up with before it broke. Labels: television, vampires
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Bad Blood
So I've given True Blood three episodes. Naturally a hard-R vampire series starring Anna Paquin would be something that appealed to me. And for the initial set up, things were running pretty smoothly. It was a terrible show that somehow managed to tug a bit towards the guilty pleasure range. Labels: television, vampires
But by episode 3, I'm thinking to myself, this isn't really that pleasurable. It's just bad. A majority of the characters are not likable in the least, pretty odd vampire lore, and unfunny exploitations of southern stereotypes are just the beginnings of what plague this fang baring show.
Has anyone else out there seen the show and have an opinion?
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True Blood begins tonight on HBO.
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(Sadly I don't have HBO, but I'll be finding other ways to get into this series if you know what I mean.)
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"Twillight" takes a stab at Potter's old date.
Summit Entertainment's highly anticipated adaptation of the Stephenie Meyer teen vampire romance novel "Twilight" has moved from its Dec. 12 perch to Nov. 21, the date just vacated by Warner Bros.' "Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince."
"When Warner Bros. decided to move 'Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince' to the summer of 2009, we saw a unique opportunity to slot in our film which has been gaining tremendous awareness and momentum over the past several months," Summit's Rob Friedman said.
Striking a respectful tone, Friedman added, "We by no means are trying to fill the shoes of the incredible Potter franchise for 2008, rather we are just looking to bring the fans of Stephenie Meyer's incredible book series the film as soon possible from a programming perspective."
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Labor Day Weekend is sooner than you think.
DragonCon 2007 big named guests that I recognize. (full list at link) Labels: celebrity news, dragoncon, epic, harry potter, local news, movies, music, personal, television, vampires
Sean Astin -- Lord of the Rings
Tory Belleci -- Mythbusters
Terry Brooks -- Shannara Series of books
Kari Byron -- Mythbusters
Crüxshadows -- Goth band
Peter David -- Star Trek, among others
John de Lancie -- Star Trek
Emerald Rose -- Celtic Band
Erik Estrada -- SeaLab 2021
Fat Mama -- Who Wants to be a Superhero
David Faustino -- Married with Children
Lou Ferrigno -- Hulk
Bill Fogarty -- Netherworld Haunted House
Jonathan Frakes -- Star Trek
Gil Gerard -- Buck Rodgers
Louis Gossett Jr. -- Stargate
Richard Hatch -- Battlestar Galactica
Virginia Hey -- Farscape
Grant Imahara -- Mythbusters
Sherrilyn Kenyon -- Dark-Hunters series of books
Gail Kim -- former WWE now TNA Wrestler
James Marsters -- Buffy/Angel
Todd McCaffrey -- Pern series of books
Gates McFadden -- Star Trek
James & Oliver Phelps -- Harry Potter
Katee Sackhoff -- Battlestar Galactica
Michael Shanks -- Stargate
Marc Singer -- Beastmaster
Kevin Sorbo -- Andromeda
Brent Spiner -- Star Trek
Voltaire -- Goth one man band
Margaret Weis -- Dragonlance series of books
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Kill it your way.
NEW YORK -- A peacock that roamed into the parking lot of a fast-food restaurant was attacked by a man who vilified the bird as a vampire, animal-control authorities said. Labels: animal news, bizzare news, murder, new york city, vampires
Beaten so fiercely that most of his tail feathers fell out, the bird was euthanized, said Richard Gentles, a spokesman for the city's Center for Animal Care and Control.
"It's just unbelievable that someone would do something to a poor, defenseless animal and do it in such a cruel fashion," he said.
The peacock, a male several years old, wandered into a Burger King parking lot in the New York borough of Staten Island and perched on a car hood Thursday morning. Charmed employees were feeding him bread when the man appeared.
He seized the iridescent bird by the neck, hurled it to the ground and started kicking and stomping the creature, said worker Felicia Finnegan, 19.
"He was going crazy," she said.
Asked what he was doing, she said, the attacker explained, "'I'm killing a vampire!'"
Employees called police, but the man ran when he saw them. Authorities were looking for the attacker, described as in his teens or early 20s.
It was not clear how the bird made his way to the Burger King, but a Staten Island resident who raises peacocks said he had given some to a person who lives near the restaurant.
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Vampiures?
CALGARY - A court will begin hearing grisly details today about the slaying of a local family that was linked to rumours of vampirism. Labels: bizzare news, murder, vampires
The preliminary hearing for accused triple-killer Jeremy Allen Steinke is scheduled to run until Thursday in provincial court.
Steinke, 24, faces three counts of first-degree murder after Marc and Debra Richardson and their eight-year-old son Jacob were found slain inside their home April 23, 2006.
A co-accused, a girl who was 12 at the time, faces the same charges. She has pleaded not guilty for her trial in June.
For the slain family's grieving relatives, who say they are being kept in the dark, the start of court proceedings is a relief. "The sooner we get this behind us and the court is settled, it will get easier," said Marc's father, Art Richardson.
The Richardson family was the picture of middle-class suburbia in southern Alberta's heartland.
The disturbing age disparity of the two accused, who friends say were dating, and odd claims that Steinke believed he was a 300-year-old werewolf made headlines around the world.
The revelation of the couple's personal Internet profiles on Nexopia and vampirefreaks -- which featured Steinke's gruesome poetry and a photo of the girl posing with a pistol -- added more twists to the story.
This week's preliminary hearing -- which will determine if there is enough evidence to proceed to trial -- is sure to stir up painful memories in the city of 56,000, police said.
"It's going to be pretty traumatic, especially for the families," said Staff Sgt. Rick Wigle of the Police Service.
Even seasoned investigators tasked with collecting evidence from the triple homicide inside the otherwise tidy house were not immune to the horror.
"It was a pretty gruesome crime scene," said Wigle, adding counselling was provided to officers.
Nearly a year later, the city of Medicine Hat's mayor said the community has rallied.
"I truly believe it was a tragic aberration. A family destroyed like that and the people left behind. We were in the media spotlight for quite a little while," said Mayor Garth Vallely.
"I think the community has accepted it now and wants to let the justice system take its course."
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