Great to hear! Now i have "Inside Man" and "V for Vendetta" on my list of
movies to see. Oh: and "The Constant Gardener", "Good Night and Good Luck", and
"Capote", all on pay-per-view or DVD.
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From: "Cat Corley" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
I loved it. It's the best movie I've seen in awhile. I dare say that
everyone on this list might like it.
Cat
On 3/19/06, Keith Johnson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> Looking forward to seeing this. Anyone catch it? My wife was a little
> under the weather, so I didn't get to go. I did see "16 Blocks" this
> weekend, which had good actors but a plot that was a little basic.
> Still, any chance to see Mos Def, Bruce Willis, and David Morse is fun.
>
> "V" stands for victory at box office
>
> Sun Mar 19, 1:58 PM ET
>
> The futuristic terrorist thriller "V For Vendetta" blew up its rivals at
> the weekend box office in North America, according to studio estimates
> released on Sunday. The film, based on a comic book about a masked man
> who destroys landmark buildings in a fascist England, sold about tickets
> worth some $26.1 million across the United States and Canada in the
> three days beginning March 17.
>
> The film's distributor Time Warner Inc.-owned Warner Bros. Pictures,
> said the opening was broadly in line with expectations. Hugo Weaving
> stars as the masked man, V, and Natalie Portman as his sidekick. It was
> produced by Larry and Andy Wachowski, the brothers who directed the
> "Matrix" movies, in which Weaving co-starred.
>
> Last weekend's champion, "Failure to Launch," a romantic comedy starring
> Matthew McConaughey and Sarah Jessica Parker, slipped to No. 2 with
> $15.8 million, taking the 10-day haul for the Paramount Pictures release
> to $48.5 million. It was followed by the Tim Allen comedy "The Shaggy
> Dog," with $13.6 million, also down one in its second weekend; the total
> for the Walt Disney Co. remake rose to $35.9 million.
>
> The top-10 contained one other new entry, Paramount's teen comedy "She's
> the Man," which opened at No. 4 with $11 million, in line with the
> studio's expectations. Amanda Bynes stars as a schoolgirl who poses as
> her twin brother to play on the boys' soccer team, The Viacom Inc.-owned
> studio inherited the project as part of its recent purchase of
> DreamWorks SKG. The cannibal thriller "The Hills Have Eyes" fell two
> places to No. 5 with $8.1 million, taking its 10-day total to $28.8
> million. The film was released by Fox Searchlight Pictures, a unit of
> News Corp.
>
> The art-house division also opened the acclaimed satire "Thank You For
> Smoking" in limited release. It earned an impressive $260,000 from five
> theaters in New York, Los Angeles and Washington D.C. It will add cities
> over the next two weeks before opening nationally on April 7.
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