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...started calling once a week, sometimes twice a week, and we'd talk about my weekend. And then I would tell funny stories about my weekend or what he thought were funny stories and I thought were normal. And he started asking if I had pictures from my weekend and so I showed pictures. It kind of gradually became different things at different times." - Discussing in an interview how she became an on-air personality on the show (Fort Worth Star Telegram, March...
...race between a bunch of zombies and three stars who are also directors - Ricky Gervais, Michael Moore and Drew Barrymore - the humans never stood a chance. The horror-comedy Zombieland won the weekend in North American theaters by scaring up $25 million, according to early studio estimates, which is more than the $23.6 million it cost to shoot the thing. This spawn of Shaun of the Dead helped Hollywood rebound from a lethargic frame a week ago; the industry's total take was nearly as burly as the same weekend last year, when the multiplex was ruled by Beverly Hills...
Lying, Capitalism and Whip It were bested not only by the zombies but also by a CGI barrage of flying food and kids' playthings. Cloudy With a Chance of Meatballs continued its robust run, passing the $80 million mark on its third weekend. It came in second, immediately followed by Disney's 3-D release of those seminal Pixar buddy films, the 1995 Toy Story and the 1999 Toy Story 2. Playing at jacked-up prices on 1,745 screens, the Toy tandem earned $12.5 million to add to the $847 million (about $1.1 billion today) the two movies amassed...
Here are the official studio estimates for this weekend's top 10 movies at the North American box office...
...Zombieland, $25 million, first weekend 2. Cloudy With a Chance of Meatballs, $16.7 million; $82.4 million, third week 3. Toy Story 3-D and Toy Story 2 3-D, $12.5 million, first weekend 4. The Invention of Lying, $7.350 million, first weekend 5. Surrogates, $7.344 million; $26.4 million, second week 7. Capitalism: A Love Story, $4.850 million; $5.2 million, second week 6. Whip It, $4.850 million, first weekend 8. Fame, $4.754 million; $16.6 million, second week 9. The Informant!, $3.8 million; $26.6 million, third week 10. Love Happens, $2.8 million; $18.9 million, third week...