| 1 | Tropic Thunder | $751,881 |
| 2 | The Dark Knight | $536,323 |
| 3 | Babylon A.D. | $516,263 |
| 4 | Death Race | $469,345 |
| 5 | Traitor | $460,173 |
| 6 | The House Bunny | $416,420 |
| 7 | Mamma Mia! | $354,240 |
| 8 | Pineapple Express | $302,228 |
| 9 | Vicky Cristina Barcelona | $195,151 |
| 10 | Disaster Movie | $185,313 |
Once again, Tropic Thunder was able to fend off the competition on Wednesday to remain on top of the box office. Meanwhile, The Dark Knight was able to move into second place.
BOXOFFICE was able to catch up with Robert De Niro to discuss his two latest films, What Just Happened? and Righteous Kill.
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Friday, September 5
DVD Event of the Week: Is it the latest bunch of 40s noirs from the Fox vaults -- Moontide, Boomerang!, and Road House? Is it VCI's box set of Honey West: The Complete Series, starring bemoled beauty Anne Francis? Or is it Universal's The Office: Season Four, starring Steve Carell? All worthy, to be sure, but in the meantime here's a project for us all -- Best Looking Period Costume Film....
A planned third installment in the popular Ghostbusters franchise has now found a pair of writers. According to The Hollywood Reporter, Gene Stupnitsky and Lee Eisenberg (The Office) are going to take a stab at reinvigorating the series. The stars of the film, as well as director Ivan Reitman, are aware of the project but there is no word yet on which ones will become involved. Stupnitsky and Eisenberg recently penned Year One, which is directed by Harold Ramis.
Denzel Washington is joining forces with Albert and Allen Hughes (From Hell, Dead Presidents) for Book of Eli, according to Variety. The film is set in a post-apocalyptic world in which Washington's character must travel across America to provide the knowledge needed to achieve redemption. The actor recently finished shooting Taking of the Pelham 123 for director Tony Scott, which also stars John Travolta and James Gandolfini. Book will be distributed by Warner Bros. and it's being financed by Alcon Entertainment.
Paul Walker and Hayden Christensen are teaming up to star in the crime thriller Bone Deep, according to The Hollywood Reporter. The two young thesps join the already cast Matt Dillon, Chris Brown and T.I. in the film which is being directed by John Luessenhop (2000's Lockdown). Walker will be seen next summer alongside Vin Diesel in Fast and Furious, while Christensen is featured in both New York, I Love You and Beast of Bataan.
In his upcoming autobiography, titled "A Promise to Ourselves: A Journey Through Fatherhood and Divorce," Alec Baldwin reveals that he contemplated suicide after a tape was released in which he berated his 11-year-old daughter. According to Showbiz Spy, Baldwin decided to seek treatment instead of going down a darker path.
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Practically disowned by both its studio and energetic European director, Babylon A.D. is a huge mess of a film that has many ideas behind it, but finds only poor ways to execute them. More action than science fiction, this story of a dangerous transport from Russia to New York City...
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If Legally Blonde screenwriters Karen McCullah Kutz and Kirsten Smith have penned another sly send up of female roles, director Fred Wolf is too distracted by easy excuses for T&A shots of star Anna Faris’ ruffled panties wafting in the breeze to notice.
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Way back in 1975, mischief-minded director Paul Bartel (Eating Raoul), producer Roger Corman and screenwriters Robert Thom and the great Charles Griffith created a low-budget cult classic in Death Race 2000, a culture and media satire based on Ib Melchior’s...
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If you want to humanize the war on terror, you'd better cast a more complicated actor than Don Cheadle. Writer/director Jeffrey Nachmanoff's political drama Traitor puts its star and the audience through stress positions—now so familiar—but rarely makes us feel...
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