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#1 Inception from Warner Brothers holds at #1 with a weekend gross of $42.7 million (-32.0%) in 3792 theaters (no change). Total gross to date is $142.8 million. Budget was $160 million. #2 Salt from Sony debuts at #2 with an opening weekend gross of $36.0 million in 3612 theaters. Budget was $110 million. #3 [...]

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A woman named Evelyn Salt is held captive in North Korea. The North Koreans believe her to be a spy and even under extreme torture, Salt denies it (though it is true), maintaining that she’s an executive with a petroleum company. Eventually though she’s released in a spy exchange. It was something that she hadn’t [...]

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#1 Inception from Warner Brothers debuts at #1 with an opening weekend gross of $62.7 million in 3792 theaters. Budget was $160 million. #2 Despicable Me from Universal drops from #1 to #2 with a weekend gross of $32.8 million (-41.8%) in 3501 theaters (+25). Total gross to date is $118.4 million. Budget was $69 [...]

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Dom Cobb specializes in the world of corporate espionage. He has a reputation for being the best in the business for finding the deepest of corporate secrets. He does this through the infiltration of dreams and using a specialized technology that lets him and his associates construct a shared dream world. Once their target is [...]

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#1 Despicable Me from Universal debuts at #1 with an opening weekend gross of $56.3 million in 3476 theaters. Budget was $69 million. #2 The Twilight Saga: Eclipse from Summit drops from #1 to #2 with a weekend gross of $31.7 million (-51.1%) in 4468 theaters (no change). Total gross to date is $235.3 million. [...]

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When you see the logo for Robert Rodriguez’s Troublemaker Studios, you can pretty much bet that if you enjoy genre entertainment, you’re in for a good time. Producer Robert Rodriguez was pretty much given carte blanche from 20th Century Fox to do something with the Predator franchise. And I think that he and director Nimrod [...]

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M. Night Shyamalan, I really was rooting for you. After making a big splash with movies like The Sixth Sense, Unbreakable and Signs, an M. Night Shyamalan movie was something like a mini-event when it would come along. These were nice movies that embraced genre filmmaking and all punctuated with a twist of some sort, [...]

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