OPENING THIS WEEK  | During WWII, Lt. Raine (Pitt) organizes a group of Jewish soldiers, known to enemies as "The Basterds," to execute acts of retribution against the Nazis. Raine's squad soon joins undercover agent Bridget (Kruger) on a mission to take down the leaders of the Third Reich. |  | Ryden's (Bledel) big post-college plans didn't work out, and she's back at home. Though she likes spending time with her best friend Adam (Gilford) and flirting with her neighbor, Ryden realizes it may be time to come up with a new plan to survive life as a post grad. |  | Toe (Bennett) lives in a weird community where everyone's parents work for a weird company that makes a weird gadget. When a Rainbow Rock falls from the sky, which promises to grant a wish to whoever finds it, the neighborhood gets even weirder. | TOP BOX OFFICE  | In its debut week, District 9 invaded the #1 spot at the box office, taking in $37M. |  | G.I Joe: The Rise of Cobra, dropped to #2 with $22.5 million, and while it's not an overnight success, it has earned $98.8 in 10 days. |  | The Time Traveler's Wife opened to an estimated $19.2 million, one of the best showings ever for a romantic drama in any part of the year. Based on the bestselling book, the film placed No. 3. | FEATURED PREVIEW Opening Aug 28, 2009 Directed By Ang Lee In this true story set in 1969, Elliot (Martin) moves back from Greenwich Village to rural New York to help save his family's motel. Upon hearing that a huge concert had lost its permit from a neighboring town, Elliot offers the promoter, Woodstock Ventures, his motel. Soon the Woodstock staff moves in and half a million people are on their way to Elliot's neighbor Max's (Eugene Levy) farm. Elliot finds himself swept up in a generation-defining experience that would change his life, and American culture, forever. Flixster Voices  | Well done film that deftly balances sci-fi, action, drama and surprisingly, humor (albeit of the dark variety). Copley does a great job of playing the unlikely hero, the CG is fantastic and the sometimes unpredictable story moves along quickly. | |  | What can I say? I liked the movie despite it being a typical popcorn flick and the dubiousness of the affiliation the G.I. Joe team has (NATO or American). The characters were somewhat different from the cartoon but not as much as the Transformers were. | |  | Very romantic but also had that doomed love feel about it, a bit like Benjamin Button, because of the leading man's 'condition'. Beautiful but sad. | |  | The life of Julia Child was one of excellence and great virtue. Her culinary prowess was surpassed only by her exuberant personality and charm. In each of her recipes lay... | | | TOP QUIZ OF THE WEEK An easy one to start off. Who's this little psycho? Other Top Quizzes TOP NEWS Justin Hammer is the latest fly-by-night arms dealer to root himself in the Tony Stark world of IRON MAN 2. Tony doesn't have such a monopoly on the arms dealership anymore now that he's gone legit. More Robert Downey, Jr. won't be voicing the title character in DreamWorks Animation's Oobermind after all. Variety reports that Will Ferrell has replaced Downey Jr. in DWA's response to Pixar's The Incredibles. More Last month Sam Raimi hired Gary Ross to rewrite Rabbit Hole playwright David Lindsay-Abaire's draft of Spider-Man 4, original draft penned by James Vanderbilt. Tonight it has been revealed that Sony has hired another screenwriter to take on the webbed Marvel superhero. But not for the fourth film... Sony has hired Vanderbilt to pen the next two films in the Spider-Man franchise, Spider-Man 5 and Spider-Man 6. More |
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