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Actually, we don't yet know who won the battle of Greek-myth fighting and rom-com fun. 20th Century Fox posted a weekend total for Date Night of $27.1 million at the North American box office, while Warner Bros. said that Clash of the Titans had earned $26,875,000. That's a difference of just $225,000, or less than 1%. The final, actual grosses will come out on Monday afternoon...
...minus CinemaScore rating, and that the geekosphere was vexed that Clash was converted at the last minute from 2-D to fake 3-D. (Call it faux-D.) Costing $125 million to make (compared with Date Night's $55 million), the movie has already earned $110 million in North America and another $45 million abroad. Action movies almost always do better in foreign markets than comedies. Baby Mama, for example, took in $60.5 million at home and only $3.7 million in the rest of the world. (See pictures of Steve Carell...
Here are the weekend's top-grossing pictures in North American theaters, as reported by Box Office Mojo...
...picture was different in the 70s, when every young man's dream was to fly across the roads with his sweetheart on a Bajaj scooter. In north India, marriages meant a Bajaj scooter as dowry, Bajaj has said. Tejinder Singh, a retired brigadier in the Indian army, remembers his first Bajaj scooter that he bought with a loan of $70 in 1973. In those days of bicycles, a scooter felt like a royal luxury. "Riding in the night, with my wife at the back, her hands gently holding me was the most romantic feeling," he says...
...Afghanistan, "we obviously have other options," Air Force General Duncan McNabb, chief of the U.S. Transportation Command, said last December. While most U.S. troops arrive in Afghanistan via Manas, only about 20% of their cargo does; roughly half travels overland through Pakistan, and the rest arrives from the north via rail and truck lines, largely through Tajikistan and Uzbekistan. If the U.S. were to lose Manas, U.S. officials would likely seek a replacement base in the vicinity and explore options in Azerbaijan, Georgia or Uzbekistan. But U.S. officials believe that Kyrgyzstan's poverty - rioting over increased utility prices played...