Musical takes No. 1 spot afterwards nine weeks
In a traditional down period following the deluge of summer blockbusters, the surprisal musical hit "Mamma Mia!" hurdled into first situation overseas, leading an raiment of seasonal worker holdovers that held truehearted against a batch of new bush league contenders.
The film based on the music of Swedish kill group ABBA took in $16.2 million from 3,384 sites in 37 territories for a foreign porcine of $281.4 trillion, with distributor Universal Pictures International predicting it will top $300 million this week. The film is set to open in 16 more markets over the following two months, with France, Belgium, Brazil, Mexico, Hong Kong and India approach aboard this weekend.
Universal's "The Mummy: Tomb of the Dragon Emperor" edged into second place thanks to a striking $8.9 million opening in China, earning $12.4 million from 4,345 screens (with China unequaled providing 1,158) for an international cume to date of $257 one thousand thousand.
Although Warner Bros.' "The Dark Knight" barely slipped to third place after three straight weeks in first -- its fourth week on top came earlier in its prevail -- it remained a formidable force in the international food market, tallying $12.3 one thousand thousand from 5,175 screens in 62 territories and raising its overseas gross to $438 million.
Animated hits "Kung Fu Panda" (Paramount) and "WALL-E" (Disney/Pixar), both on extended rollouts, tied in the weekend's top 5 with $6.7 one thousand thousand each, with "Panda" arrival an international gross of $397.3 million and "WALL-E" hit $184.5 million. "Panda" completed its overseas execute last weekend in Greece, while "WALL-E" is soundless awaiting key market dates.
As the Jan.1-Aug. 31 boxoffice span came to an end, it's estimated that films from the captain Hicks major companies brought in $6.95 billion during the period, about 1% less than last year's record $7 billion.
While Paramount, Fox, Universal and Warner Bros. have each tallied more than $1 billion during that period, Disney and Sony are gearing up to transcend that mark as the year-end season comes into play. Disney is relying on October's "High School Musical 3: Senior Year," with cooccurring openings in 30 markets. Sony's bountiful gun, meanwhile, is newfangled James Bond entry "Quantum of Solace," which volition reach overseas markets before its Nov. 14 domestic rollout. That date was shifted when Warner Bros. pushed the release of "Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince" to summer 2009. "Solace" will kick off in the U.K., France and Sweden on Oct. 31 and strike most of the stay of the world Nov. 17 before winding up in January.
In the meantime, the market is glutted with lesser lights, split-rights opportunists and local films, many of which are distributed in their home countries by a major-company distributor.
The flow state of the market is maybe best illustrated by the U.K., where new films usually catch a tender welcome by see-everything regulars. This past tense weekend's entrant, Warner Bros.' "RocknRolla," hit the top of the charts with $2.9 million from 362 screens. Holding second place in its ninth weekend was "Mamma Mia!," which has taken in a noteworthy $101.6 million to date. Opening at No. 3 was British offering "The Duchess," which bowing via Pathe to $2.5 meg from 426 screens. "Bangkok Dangerous" barely made it to No. 10 with $541,487 from 281 screens.
The critically rapped split-rights offering "Babylon A.D." took in $2.5 million from 914 screens in 12 markets handled by Fox, reaching a cume to date of $4.6 million. The film, however, arrived No. 2 in Mexico and No. 3 in France.
In Mexico, Disney claimed No. 1 with "HSM El Desafsio," the Mexican version of "High School Musical" ($2 million from 361 locations), and Fox reached the top in Spain with "Che, El Ar the Argentine," which took in $2.7 million from 336 screens.
More weekend action mechanism: "Tropic Thunder," $2.4 million (cume: $17.8 million); "Wanted," $5.9 million (cume: $147.5 million); "You Don't Mess With the Zohan," $5.4 1000000 (cume: $78.3 billion); "Hancock," $4 million (cume: $362.7 million); "Star Wars: The Clone Wars," $2.4 million (cume: $26.2 million); and "Journey to the Center of the Earth," $3.7 billion (cume: $56.7 million).
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 Artist: Naked Eyes: mp3 download Genre(s): Pop Naked Eyes's discography:  The Best Of Naked Eyes Year: 1991 Tracks: 15  Compilado Year: Tracks: 8 A key presence in the synth pop motion of the early '80s, Naked Eyes formed in Britain in 1981. Comprised of one-time schoolmates Pete Byrne (vocals) and Rob Fisher (keyboards), the couple debuted in March 1983 with the LP Burning at the stake Bridges, reissued in the U.S. a calendar month subsequently (negative several tracks) as a self-titled cause. The lead-in unmarried, a royal hatch of the Burt Bacharach-Hal David repeated "Always Something There to Remind Me," emerged as a pip on both sides of the Atlantic, stretch the U.S. Top Ten on the potency of its television, which received heavy airplay on the fledgling MTV web. The American followup, "Promises, Promises" (non the Bacharach/David composition), was likewise a major attain, and Naked Eyes' future looked bright; however, 1984's Fuel for the Fire fared seedy, its alone single "(What) In the Name of Love" barely scraping into the Top 40. The pair disbanded soon afterwards, and in 1988 Fisher resurfaced as one half of the pop twosome Climie Fisher. He died August 25, 1999, of complications following stomach surgical process. |
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Anger at airlines is takeoff point for funny first novel
"Dear American Airlines"
by Jonathan Miles
Houghton Mifflin, 192 pp., $22
There could never be a debut novel more perfectly timed to enter the world than Jonathan Miles' "Dear American Airlines."
The book is a novel-length complaint letter written by one angry American Airlines passenger who has been stranded in Chicago's O'Hare International Airport and may miss his daughter's wedding in Los Angeles.
Sound familiar? Just a few months ago, hundreds of thousands of actual American Airlines customers were stranded in airports across the country when the airline was forced to cancel 3,100 flights to check or redo something called "wiring bundles." The universe, or at least the Federal Aviation Administration, has apparently gift-wrapped a marketing campaign just for this book.
So we can credit Miles, the cocktails columnist at The New York Times, with excellent timing. But we can also credit him with a sharp and funny first novel that will outlast the particular troubles of the modern airline industry.
Bennie Ford's letter begins as a request — check that, a profane demand — for a refund of his $392.68 ticket. He's desperately trying to get to Los Angeles for the wedding of his estranged daughter, whom he hasn't seen in years.
From the first paragraph, we hear Bennie's distinctive voice: angry and outraged, literate and funny. If the canceled flight weren't awful enough, he has to sit in a "maldesigned seat in this maldesigned airport," a limbo without clocks or cigarettes, where everyone seems to be playing sudoku, "the analgesic du jour of the traveling class."
It may seem like faint praise to call a novel "funny," as if laughter were a guilty pleasure in serious literature, something enjoyable but slightly disreputable. But what good is satire without humor? It shouldn't hurt Miles' reputation as a writer to point out a simple fact: This book will make you laugh. Out loud and repeatedly.
Bennie grew up in New Orleans, "where cirrhosis of the liver is listed as 'Natural Causes' on a death certificate." Holding his daughter in his arms for the first time, Bennie reflects, "She was so beautiful and small — a gorgeous pink speck of life. But I should also confess that I was drunk almost beyond recognition."
Later, in the middle of a domestic dispute, he finds himself locked out of his apartment in the rain. He screams his wife's name only once before it hits him: "You simply cannot shout the name Stella while standing under a window in New Orleans and hope for anything like an authentic or even mildly earnest moment."
Even in his despair, Bennie can't resist a good one-liner at his own expense.
Admittedly, whether you enjoy this novel may depend on your tolerance for a certain stock literary "guy": the brawling and boozy tough-guy poet, a little too sensitive for today's world, a little too broken inside to hold together a relationship. The template for Bennie Ford might be well-worn, but Miles never falls into the cliched traps of drunken sentimentality or self-pity.
Bennie's letter soon becomes something more, a sincere confession about his failures and regrets, charting the collapse from his early years as an aspiring poet and young father, to his divorce and estrangement from his family.
He's a bad father and a miserable husband, but he doesn't flinch from the truth of it. As readers, we admire his honesty and his righteous anger at modern life and modern airports. And in the end, Bennie is blessed with a moment of redemption, a touch of grace for a man stuck in O'Hare's interminable purgatory.
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