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Image Credit: Murray Close Two new wide releases couldn’t dethrone box office champion The Hunger Games on Friday. The blockbuster dropped by 72 percent from its first Friday to $18.9 million, which should lead to a three-day gross above $60 million and an easy weekend win. (A hefty drop was all but guaranteed after scoring the third-best opening of all time.) Over ten days, The Hunger Games ‘ total will likely sit at about $250 million. In second place, Wrath of the Titans got off to a decidedly more sluggish start. In its first day, the sequel, which stars Sam Worthington (whose vehicle Man on a Ledge flopped in January) and Liam Neeson, took in $12.4 million. That figure points to a $36 million debut, a huge dropoff from the $61.3 million that 2010's Clash of the Titans earned in its first weekend. The Warner Brothers film will need strong international results to justify its $150 million price tag. The first of this year’s Snow White adaptations, Relativity’s $85 million ...

Divorce almost always involves one party changing residences. In some cases, splits can even cause a former spouse to move to another state, but with Jennie Garth and Peter Facinelli, it appears the opposite might actually happen. For the past year and a half, Garth and her three daughters have lived on a ranch in Santa Ynez Valley while her soon to be ex-husband Facinelli has spent a lot of time in Los Angeles working. Now, to make the break-up easier on the children, Garth is contemplating moving her and the family back to the city to allow the kids greater access to their dad. According to People , Garth thinks her and Facinelli were always great at parenting together during their relationship, and she?d like to see that same spirit continue. That?s why she?s told the children they will never have to pick sides and will be able to spend time wherever they?d like. That?s a big reason why she?s considering moving. ?I like him to be able to pick them up from school. I just want everyon...

Keith Olbermann is taking his story to late night. The outspoken ex-Current TV talk show host is expected to discuss his departure from the network on the "Late Show with David Letterman" on Tuesday, CBS announced on Twitter late Friday. But don't expect him to stay silent before then. Olbermann, who hosted a one-hour prime time talk show on Current each weeknight, took to Twitter after Al Gore and Joel Hyatt, Current's founders, announced Olbermann's dismissal in a letter posted on Current's website. "I'm putting out my statement in two ways: 140 characters at a time, and then in one fell swoop via Twitlonger," tweeted Olbermann, who fired off a series of tweets in which he blasted Gore and Hyatt for failing to uphold their promises and to invest "in a quality news program." "Current's statements are untrue and will be proved so in the legal actions I will be filing against them presently," he added. Olbermann was repo...

E.L. James, the author of the erotic e-book “Fifty Shades of Grey,” created a stir when Universal Pictures and Focus Features acquired the film rights to her trilogy of explicit books earlier this week. The series tells of a chaste college graduate named Anastasia Steele and the S&M-inflected romance she finds herself in with dashing billionaire Christian Grey. “Shades” was a hot property in more ways than one, having already sold gazillions of copies to discreet, Kindle-carrying women all over the English-speaking world. But now begins a more arduous process: attaching a filmmaker. Given the provocative nature of the subject matter, finding the right helmer won’t be easy. Allow us to offer a few suggestions: Michael Bay. Sure, James’ book had plenty of raunchy sex. But where were the things moviegoers really care about, like secret government-created alien-fighting machines? “Grey” will be jazzed up considerably with the addition of Autobots and Decepticons, a true story of oppos...

Potter stars attend tour launch(UKPA) – 2 hours ago  Harry Potter stars have turned out at the red carpet opening of a studio tour which gives fans a spell-binding behind-the-scenes glimpse of the blockbuster film series. Rupert Grint, Tom Felton and Bonnie Wright were among the actors at the grand opening of the Warner Brothers Studio Tour - The Making of Harry Potter. Hundreds of screaming Potter fans lined up outside the studios in Leavesden, near Watford, Hertfordshire, where all eight of the multimillion pound-grossing films inspired by JK Rowling's magical stories were shot. Local boy Grint - Ron Weasley in the Potter films - said: "This is the most glamorous I have ever seen Watford. It's exciting for everyone to see. "There are so many memories from in there and to share them with everyone is great. There are so many highlights but the model of the castle is out of this world." The 23-year-old added that he had sneaked out some mementos for himself, incl...

As appealing as Sam Worthington is as Greek hero Perseus, there are far more eye-catching creatures in “Wrath of the Titans.” The mythical monsters in the movie opening Friday are as gory and scary as the Aussie actor is sexy. And it was no easy task creating them. “The design process probably started even six months before we started shooting,” says director Jonathan Liebesman . “In mythical lore, creatures were described in a certain way. And a lot of us have interpreted them with certain bells and whistles. And we wanted to take them back to basics. “Storytellers, like Homer, describe them a certain way,” he adds. “So we just wanted to take the tactic of, ‘What did these things really look like?’” Among the monsters is the Minotaur, who in Greek mythology is said to be a creature with the head of a bull on the body of a man. In the film, the Minotaur’s face is not quite all beast. “It was a warrior who had been stuck down in a labyrinth for so long that his hair, kind of like a rh...

By Laura Schreffler PUBLISHED: 18:29 EST, 30 March 2012 | UPDATED: 18:29 EST, 30 March 2012 They've just returned from a romantic trip to Mexico, and Ben Flajnik and Courtney Robertson are still keeping up the illusion that all is well in paradise. The Sonoma-based winemaker and his model fianc?e couldn't resist smooching one another for show last night at Svedka's annual Night of a Billion Reality Stars bash in Los Angeles. But despite their public displays of affection, which were of course caught on camera, neither could give a concrete answer about where their relationship was headed. Kissing for the cameras: Bachelor Ben Flanjik and fiancee Courtney Robertson kissed for the cameras last night at Supperclub in Hollywood, CA In fact, Ben, 28, seems to have coined a new term for their status - and it doesn't sound like he's as head over heels as he appeared on The Bachelor this season. He told Access Hollywood: 'We're taking it slow. We're en-datin...