BBC News reports here: Iron Man has proved its mettle and exceeded box office expectations by taking an estimated $101m (£51m) in its opening weekend in the US and Canada.
The Top Ten North American Box Office Hits This Weekend:
1. Spider-Man 3 - $151m
2. Pirates of the Caribbean: Dead Man’s Chest - $136m
3. Shrek the Third - $122m
4. Spider-Man - $115m
5. Pirates of the Caribbean: At World’s End - $115m
6. Star Wars: Episode III - $108m
7. Shrek 2 - $108m
8. X-Men: The Last Stand - $103m
9. Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire - $103m
10. Iron Man - $101m
Reuters reports here at Yahoo News: LOS ANGELES - Amid the push by filmmakers to deny photo reality in favor of animated impressionism comes the Wachowski brothers’ “Speed Racer,” a movie that gives the sensation of being trapped inside a 3-D video game.
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AP writes here at Yahoo News: It’s impossible to walk into "Shine a Light," Martin Scorsese’s Rolling Stones concert film, without decades’ worth of expectations. We simply know too much about the filmmaker and the rock stars and their previous music-doc outings.
Reuters Hollywood Reporter reports here at Yahoo News: NEW YORK - The only surprising thing about "Superhero Movie" is that, in an era when big-screen parodies are released seemingly every other week, it took this long for the venerable comic book genre to receive the treatment.
The Top Ten Movies on DVD from Amazon are:
• Enchanted (Widescreen Edition)
• I Am Legend [Blu-ray]
• No Country for Old Men
• Stargate - The Ark of Truth
• Battlestar Galactica - Season Three
• Jillian Michaels: 30 Day Shred
• Atonement (Widescreen Edition)
• 101 Dalmatians (Two-Disc Platinum Edition)
• Sweeney Todd - The Demon Barber of Fleet Street
• Planet Earth - The Complete BBC Series
Reuters Hollywood Reporter reports here at Yahoo News: NEW YORK - The latest disappointing Hollywood redo of a J-horror film — in this case, Thai — "Shutter" demonstrates that the subject of spirit photography, which has been a point of speculation for more than a century, might have passed its peak. After all, once we’ve seen ghosts emerge via videotapes, cell phones, computers and nearly every other technological device known to man, seeing them appear through Polaroids feels a bit retro.
