AP - LOS ANGELES (AP) Jack Black's Po the panda outgunned Adam Sandler's Zo the hairdresser. Black's cartoon comedy "Kung Fu Panda" pulled in $60 million in ticket sales to debut as the weekend's No. 1 movie, while Sandler's salon romp "You Don't Mess With the Zohan" opened in second place with $40 million, according to studio estimates Sunday.
Reuters - Moviegoers across North America
were in a fighting mood during the weekend, cheering the family
cartoon "Kung Fu Panda" to the top spot at a box office packed
with hits.
AP - Eleven college students received cash prizes and trophies Saturday for short films competing in the 35th annual Student Academy Awards. -- read full article
Sun, 08 Jun 2008 21:02:15 GMT - Yahoo! News: Movie News
AP - There was a moment near the end of "Kung Fu Panda" so satisfying, so achingly adorable, that I wished I'd been secretly taping so as to immediately put it up on YouTube for the world to see.
AP - About 300 people turned out Sunday night for the local premiere of a documentary film about how this tiny town was turned upside down by a new neighbor the president.
Reuters - "Sex and the City" edged
out "Indiana Jones and the Kingdom of the Crystal Skull" to
claim the No. 1 spot at the weekend box office overseas.
Reuters - Moviegoers across North America
were in a fighting mood during the weekend, cheering the family
cartoon "Kung Fu Panda" to the top spot at a box office packed
with hits.
AP - Leaders of Hollywood's second-largest actors union approved a new contract with studios that grants actors more money for Internet work an issue that sparked a crippling writers' strike this year. -- read full article
Sat, 07 Jun 2008 22:55:39 GMT - Yahoo! News: Movie News