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Weekend Receipts: Act of Valor Blows Away Competition

Weekend Receipts: Act of Valor Blows Away Competition

Hollywood's biggest winners this weekend weren't confined just to the Kodak Theater (or whatever they call it now). A new-release frame well-known for its particularly aromatic qualities nevertheless had its success stories, led by an elite squad of Navy SEALs and our old friend Tyler Perry. Naturally. Your Weekend Receipts are here.
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President's Day Weekend Receipts: Safe House Leads Lucrative Holiday

President's Day Weekend Receipts: Safe House Leads Lucrative Holiday

It was indeed a very happy President's Day Weekend in Hollywood, where studios enjoyed the rare treat of five wide February releases raking in $20 million or more. The bad news? The two newest ones brought up the rear. Sorry, Nicolas Cage and Reese Witherspoon — your Holiday Weekend Receipts are here.
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The Only Illustrated Review of The Vow You Will Ever Need

The Only Illustrated Review of The Vow You Will Ever Need

From the brilliant mind that brought you the only illustrated War Horse review you will ever need: "I give The Vow two out of five kisses. On the way home from the theater, I saw a rat who found a churro and it was more romantic than the entire movie." [Vanity Fair]

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Weekend Receipts: Wow, Pretty Much Everyone Went to the Movies

Weekend Receipts: Wow, Pretty Much Everyone Went to the Movies

Congratulations to Hollywood for taking back the weekend from pop stars extant, dead or otherwise and shattering the record for Valentine's Day weekend movie attendance. What a great time to be alive! Ahem. Your Weekend Receipts are here.
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REVIEW: The Vow Barely Gets By With Rachel McAdams (and One Very Handsome Steak)

REVIEW: The Vow Barely Gets By With Rachel McAdams (and One Very Handsome Steak)

In The Vow, Rachel McAdams plays Paige, a Chicago sculptor who's wife to Leo (Channing Tatum), the owner of a recording studio. The two are talking about starting a family, clearly giddily in love, when they get into a car accident that results in Paige taking a slow-motion header through the windshield. She sustains a brain injury that leaves her with amnesia, losing all memory of meeting and having a relationship with Leo. He finds himself having to convince the woman he married of the depth and strength of their connection when to her he might as well be a stranger.
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This Means War Scared Back to Feb. 17 Date by The Vow

This Means War Scared Back to Feb. 17 Date by The Vow

Anticipating total Valentine's Day box office domination by competitor The Vow -- the Rachel McAdams-has-amnesia-and-can't-remember-she's-married-to-Channing Tatum weepie -- Fox has shifted their McG-helmed spy love triangle action rom-com This Means War again back to Friday, Feb. 17 to avoid being slaughtered. The Reese Witherspoon/Chris Pine/Tom Hardy romp is still sneaking into theaters on Feb. 14 for a limited pre-opening run, but who are we kidding: Channing Tatum + tears + pining is the way to go, especially if there's no shot at Hardy and Pine running off together in each others' arms. [Deadline]

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Do We Need to Stage a Career Intervention For Rachel McAdams?

Do We Need to Stage a Career Intervention For Rachel McAdams?

Way back in June, Spyglass Entertainment debuted the first trailer for The Vow, the latest Rachel McAdams romance film involving memory loss. It was depressing to see our former Notebook sweetheart diving headfirst into another melodramatic title. Like McAdams's Vow character though -- who is struck with amnesia after a parked car accident involving an overplayed Meatloaf single -- I forgot about the former starlet's downwardly spiraling filmography...until today's new preview for The Vow reminded me, it's about time someone stages a career intervention for Rachel McAdams.

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