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‘Burn’ Blazes To Top Of North American Box Office
LOS ANGELES: “Burn After Reading,” the newest dark comedy by sibling directors Ethan and Joel Coen, was the top weekend movie draw in the United States and Canada, preliminary industry figures showed Sunday.
The film, starring George Clooney and Brad Pitt, debuted with US$19.4 million in North American ticket sales, according to industry tracking company Exhibitor Relations.
In second place was the melodrama “The Family that Preys” by playwright-turned-filmmaker Tyler Perry with US$18 million, followed by police drama “Righteous Kill” starring Robert DeNiro and Al Pacino, with US$16.5 million.
The modern update of the classic film “The Women,” starring Hollywood sweetheart Meg Ryan, was in fourth place with US$10 million.
In fifth was “The House Bunny,” about an ousted Playboy bunny who becomes a college sorority house mother, with US$4.3 million.
The spoof “Tropic Thunder” - Ben Stiller’s movie-within-a-movie about filming a war flick in the middle of a real-life conflict zone - came in sixth place with US$4.1 million in receipts.
“Batman” sequel “The Dark Knight” was seventh with US$4 million. The blockbuster film also claimed the title of second all-time box office champion with US$512 million in ticket sales since its release.
Last week’s box office winner “Bangkok Dangerous,” starring Nicolas Cage as a ruthless hitman on assignment in Thailand, fell to eighth this week with just US$2.4 million in sales.
“Traitor,” a war-on-terror epic featuring Don Cheadle as a former US Special Ops officer and potential international conspirator, was ninth, pocketing US$2.4 million.
In 10th place was “Death Race,” an action-adventure flick about an ex-convict competing against prison inmates in a freedom-or-death car race, with US$2 million in ticket sales.
- AFP/yb
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Ben Stiller Pertahan Tropic Thunder
BEN STILLER
PELAKON komedi juga seorang pengarah terkemuka, Ben Stiller tidak pernah putus-asa untuk mempertahankan filem terbarunya, Tropic Thunder.
Ketika tayangan perdana filem terbarunya baru-baru ini, sekumpulan kecil golongan kurang upaya mengadakan protes bahawa filem berkenaan telah merendah-rendahkan golongan berkenaan.
Walau bagaimanapun, Ben Stiller mahu mengambil satu tindakan yang lebih serius untuk mengatasi tekanan itu.
“Itu cuma salah satu tentangan daripada masyarakat umum. Mereka mungkin tidak suka kepada watak yang kami tonjolkan. Kami sebenarnya prihatin dengan masalah mereka, cuma ia digambarkan dalam situasi komedi,” kata Ben Stiller dalam satu temu bual bersama media antarabangsa.
Filem berkenaan turut dilakonkan oleh Jack Black dan Robert Downey Jr.
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Cruise Buat Penampilan Mengejutkan
E! Online Photo: © 2008, Merie Weismiller W, Dreamworks PicturesNampaknya tidak ada ruang yang cukup untuk Tom Cruise dalam poster-poster filem Tropic Thunder yang dilakonnnya bersama Ben Stiller, Jack Black and Robert Downey Jr.
Namun Cruise tetap mencuri perhatian dengan watak mengejutkan dalam filem itu sebagai eksekutif studio yang gemuk dan botak.
Stiller, yang juga pengarah filem itu, memuji usaha dan lakonan Cruise yang muncul dengan imej itu.
“Dia yang mahukan karetor itu selepas membawa skripnya,” ujar Stiller.
“Selepas bersetuju kami pun membuat solekan khas yang menjadikan dia botak,” kata pengarah itu lagi. Kerana terlalu seronok dan teruja, Cruise terus menari-nari dalam bilik solekan.
Stiller menyambung: “Cruise berkata, tentu lebih menarik kalau lelaki botak itu menari. Bila melihat dia menari, saya terus suka. Kemudian kami pulang dan menambahkan idea untuk watak lelaki lakonan Cruise itu iaitu suka menari.”
Bagi peminat semua, tunggulah kredit filem itu sehingga akhir untuk melihat Cruise menari dengan caranya.
“Saya menyuruh dia menari pada babak penghujung kredit filem itu dan dia berkata, “Ya, mari kita buat babak itu,” kata Stiller lagi. Filem Tropic Thunder akan mula ditayangkan pada 13 Ogos ini.
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