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This year's Starz sitcom Party Down (gearing up for a second season next year), about aspiring showbiz types working for a catering company in L.A., perfectly captures the Apatow vibe of improv-like, conversational comedy. Likewise, HBO's Bored to Death, a literary slacker-com about a writer (Jason Schwartzman) posing as a detective, has a voice and offbeat style that recall indie-film comedies - the kind, like Rushmore, that star Jason Schwartzman...
...with con artist Emma Stone and her kid sister Abigail Breslin, the movie was sold as a splatter movie with laughs, which certainly brought in the intended demographic of lonely young males. But since it is also a buddy movie with a healthy slice of teen romance, the zom-com may eventually attract a more disparate crowd. That should be helped by an enthusiastic A- rating from the CinemaScore poll of exiting moviegoers and by a sheaf of favorable reviews. One dissenter in the critical community, Manohla Dargis of the New York Times, wrote that "the piles of bodies...
...female audiences in an unusually crowded marketplace for femme films. Four of the top 10 films were romances, as couples could also choose the love-of-food bio-pic Julie & Julia, in fourth place; Katherine Heigl's The Ugly Truth, in eighth; and the she-loves-me-not rom-com (500) Days of Summer, in tenth. Kids could see G-Force (fifth), Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince (seventh) and the Disney-released Ponyo (ninth). (Check out TIME's Time Traveler's Wife review...
...indie action, the rom-com (500) Days of Summer picked up $2.8 million and, at 266 venues, had the weekend's highest per-screen average among the top 60 releases, for a cume of $6,821,000. The bomb-squad thriller The Hurt Locker was right behind, with a five-week total of $6,757,000. The weekend's most highly acclaimed newbies - the save-the-dolphins doc The Cove and the South Korean vampire-priest horror movie Thirst - opened well, with about $55,000 each at four theaters...
...saying that The Ugly Truth is a career ender for Heigl. Indeed, as the first romantic comedy in wide release since Sandra Bullock's The Proposal five weeks ago, the movie will attract its share of dating couples and single women. But if you're looking for a rom-com with a higher IQ and an almost obsessive aim to charm its audience, you'd do better with (500) Days of Summer, which should soon get to a theater near you, than this (500) ways of abasing Katherine Heigl...