BOX OFFICE BUZZ JODIE FOSTER FAMILY FLICK A CONTENDER.Byline: GREG HERNANDEZ Academy Award winners Jodie Foster Alicia Christian Foster (born November 19 1962), better known as Jodie Foster, is a two-time Academy Award-winning American actress, director, and producer. She has also won two Golden Globes, 3 BAFTA awards and a Screen Actors Guild Award, making her one of the few select and George Clooney George Timothy Clooney (May 6, 1961) is an American actor, director, producer and screenwriter who gained fame as the lead doctor in the long-running television drama, ER arrive today in multiplexes, with movies targeting very different audiences, battling for box office supremacy. Foster, who earned Best Actress Oscars for her roles in "The Accused" and "Silence of the Lambs," stars with Abigail Breslin and Gerard Butler in the family adventure film "Nim's Island." Although Foster is coming off a rare box office misfire ("The Brave One"), "Nim's" should eke out eke out Verb [eking, eked] 1. to make (a supply) last for a long time by using as little as possible 2. a win since it's playing in nearly 3,500 theaters. In addition, the only other family film in wide release is "Horton Hears A Who." "Nim's" should finish in the $15 million range, just ahead of the Clooney-directed "Leatherheads," a period football flick in which Clooney co-stars with Renee Zellweger and John Krasinski. Clooney has fared best with the "Ocean's" franchise and is questionable in other genres. Even his Oscar-nominated performance in last year's "Michael Clayton" couldn't propel that film past $49 million domestically. ALSO NEW: Horror fans have a new offering to jump out of their seats for. "The Ruins," about a group of young Americans in Cancun, opens in 2,500 theaters and could scare up as much as $10 million on opening weekend. LIMITED RELEASE: The Rolling Stones Rolling Stones, English rock music group that rose to prominence in the mid-1960s and continues to exert great influence. Members have included singer Mick Jagger (Michael Phillip Jagger), 1943–; guitarists Brian Jones and Martin Scorsese Noun 1. Martin Scorsese - United States filmmaker (born in 1942) Scorsese ? I'm so there! The concert film "Shine A Light" is playing in 270 theaters, including 93 giant-screen Imax venues This is a list of all IMAX venues worldwide listed alphabetically by city within each sovereign state. As of 2006, there were 280 IMAX theatres in 40 countries (60 percent of these are located in the U.S. and Canada). . I think this movie is going to have a lot of sellouts and earn more than $2million this weekend -- a nice sum given the number of locations. Opening in just 25 theaters is the comedy-drama "Meet Bill," with a cast that includes Aaron Eckhart and Jessica Alba Jessica Marie Alba (born April 28, 1981) is an American actress. She is known for her roles in Honey, Dark Angel, Sin City, Fantastic Four, Into the Blue and Idle Hands. . The drama "My Blueberry blueberry, plant of the large genus Vaccinium, widely distributed shrubs (occasionally small trees) of the family Ericaceae (heath family), usually found on acid soil. They are often confused with the related huckleberry. Nights" is out in just five theaters, but if one of them is near you, the film features the acting debut of Grammy winner Norah Jones and also stars Jude Law, David Strathairn, Natalie Portman and Oscar winner Rachel Weisz. HOLDOVERS: Last week's No.1 movie, "21," did far better than I expected, with a $24 million debut. I predict it will dip just enough to finish in the $13 million range and take third place for the weekend. Harder to call is "Horton," which has had only modest week-to-week drops and took in $17 million last weekend. I'm thinking "Horton" takes in at least $10 million to contend with "Ruins" for fourth place." greg.hernandez@dailynews.com 818-713-3758 |
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