01 Marvel’s The Avengers
02 Battleship
03 The Dictator
04 Dark Shadows
05 What To Expect When You’re Expecting
06 The Best Exotic Marigold Hotel
07 The Hunger Games
08 Think Like A Man
09 The Lucky One
10 The Pirates! Band of Misfits
‘Star Wars’: Its modest opening day 35 years ago
By Michael Krumboltz
Thirty-five years ago, Hollywood changed forever. “Star Wars” hit cinemas on May 25, 1977. But, while the film went on to be one of the biggest blockbusters of all time and launched sequels, prequels, TV shows, action figures, LEGO sets, and more, you may be surprised to learn that on its opening day, only a modest number of folks got to see it.
That’s because the film opened in just 32 theaters across the nation. It opened on a Wednesday. By Friday, it had expanded to a whopping 43 theaters. Contrast that to Marvel’s “The Avengers,” which opened in 4,349 theaters, according to Box Office Mojo.
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What To Expect When You’re Expecting
Best Selling Books – Week of May 24, 2012
Source: USA Today
1. Fifty Shades of Grey – by E L James
2. Fifty Shades Darker – by E L James
3. Fifty Shades Freed – by E L James
4. Mockingjay – by Suzanne Collins
5. Catching Fire – by Suzanne Collins
6. The Hunger Games – by Suzanne Collins
7. Stolen Prey – by John Sandford
8. 11th Hour – by James Patterson, Maxine Paetro
9. The Lucky One – by Nicholas Sparks
10.The Last Boyfriend – by Nora Roberts
AMD’s CEO catches Intel’s wave of sleek laptops
By Noel Randewich
SAN FRANCISCO (Reuters) – PC chipmaker AMD’s chief executive is betting that its larger rival Intel has overestimated consumers’ willingness to pay top dollar for a new category of premium laptops.
Riding the coat-tails of Intel’s most expensive marketing push in a decade, new processors from AMD have been chosen for a handful of upcoming laptops in a wave of sleek personal computers with features like “instant on” made popular by tablets.
Targeting mainstream shoppers, thin laptops with AMD’s chips, previously code named Trinity, are set to sell in the $600 range, similar to many of the bulkier laptops now on the market and significantly cheaper than the high-end, Intel-powered ones increasingly appearing in stores.
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Promo posters for Machete Kills and Sin City: A Dame To Kill For
Machete Kills promo poster
Robert Rodriguez have not one, but two movies coming in out in the coming year, And with production underway, we now have teaser posters for both films.
First comes the sequel to Machete, Machete Kills, which the original cast back on-screen including Jessica Alba, Michelle Rodriguez and a new villain played by Mel Gibson, and new cast members Amber Heard and Sofia Vergara. All stars appear on the poster, except for Jessica Alba who played Sartana in the original movie, now mysteriously absent on the poster.
Sin City: A Dame to Kill for is also underway, Rodriguez’s follow-up to the 2005 cult-classic, which reportedly will begian production sometime this summer. Casting is currently underway, but Miller’s graphic novel A Dame to Kill For features Clive Own’s character Dwight so it is presumed that will return. We should hear more about this movie as well in the coming weeks.
Apple given go-ahead to seek Samsung tablet ban in U.S.
Summary: A U.S. appeals court gives Apple an opportunity to see Samsung’s Galaxy Tab 10.1 tablet banned from store shelves. If Apple proceeds, it could shape next week’s settlement talks.
Apple has been given the go-ahead to seek a sales injunction on Samsung’s Galaxy Tab 10.1, which would see the tablet banned from U.S. stores.
The two companies are set to attend settlement talks next week. Apple’s next move could shape whether the settlement talks will succeed or fail.
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Intel Windows 8 tablets to hit retail stores in November
Windows 8 should available by November when Intel-based devices hit retail stores.
The first wave of Intel-based Windows 8 tablets are expected to land in retail stores in November, a source familiar with device makers’ plans told CNET.
“The schedule is tight,” said the source. “Looking at what Windows is trying to achieve not only with a new OS, but a new OS that needs to run four to five architectures — three ARM, Intel, and AMD,” according to the source.
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The Avengers smashes $1bn barrier at global box office
Simon Brew
The Avengers smashes past Dark Shadows, and the $1bn mark at the global box office. It’s really doing quite well.
We suspect that it’s safe to call Marvel and Joss Whedon’s The Avengers movie a hit now. This past weekend, it topped the American box office for the second week running, bringing in a staggering $103.1m in the US alone. It comfortably edged out the week’s big new release, Tim Burton’s Dark Shadows, which had to be content with $28.8m.
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