It happens every year: Memorial Day kicks off the summer with a box office bang, and Labor Day ends it with a whimper.
In the first truly shocking box office result of the year, "Fast & Furious" sped away from expectations to gross a humongous $72.5 million, according to early estimates from Media by Numbers.
Hydrogen and electric vehicles might be leading the charge, so to speak, towards cleaner transport, but will cars powered by air and the sun ever surpass the sales figures of gasoline cars?
The action star says his newborn daughter makes everything else seem "insignificant"
The actor and girlfriend Paloma Jimenez have a baby girl, his rep tells PEOPLE
With "Drillbit Taylor," the Brat Pack meets the Frat Pack, courtesy of the House of Apatow.
The package claims that the three-disc set includes ''Our National Anthem sung in 4-correspondent harmony.''
Sometimes good computer games fall through the cracks because of weak marketing, too many other titles coming out at the same time or lack of consumer interest because the games aren't from a hot genre.
Halfway through the so-called comedy "The Pacifier," Vin Diesel -- in an ill-conceived effort to save one of his young charges -- jumps into a sewer and becomes covered, head to toe, in human excrement. This scene could be a metaphor for the entire film.
As movies prepare to go from fast-paced and gas-guzzling this summer to introspective and Oscar-aspiring in the fall, let's have a look at films that might be picking moviegoers' pockets a scant 10 months from now.
It happens every year: Memorial Day kicks off the summer with a box office bang, and Labor Day ends it with a whimper.
In the first truly shocking box office result of the year, "Fast & Furious" sped away from expectations to gross a humongous $72.5 million, according to early estimates from Media by Numbers.
Hydrogen and electric vehicles might be leading the charge, so to speak, towards cleaner transport, but will cars powered by air and the sun ever surpass the sales figures of gasoline cars?
The action star says his newborn daughter makes everything else seem "insignificant"
The actor and girlfriend Paloma Jimenez have a baby girl, his rep tells PEOPLE
With "Drillbit Taylor," the Brat Pack meets the Frat Pack, courtesy of the House of Apatow.
The package claims that the three-disc set includes ''Our National Anthem sung in 4-correspondent harmony.''
Sometimes good computer games fall through the cracks because of weak marketing, too many other titles coming out at the same time or lack of consumer interest because the games aren't from a hot genre.
Halfway through the so-called comedy "The Pacifier," Vin Diesel -- in an ill-conceived effort to save one of his young charges -- jumps into a sewer and becomes covered, head to toe, in human excrement. This scene could be a metaphor for the entire film.
As movies prepare to go from fast-paced and gas-guzzling this summer to introspective and Oscar-aspiring in the fall, let's have a look at films that might be picking moviegoers' pockets a scant 10 months from now.
OK, it's summer. Befitting the blockbuster season, Hollywood has already destroyed most of the world in "The Day After Tomorrow." What could be next?
Before there was Stephen King, there was Ira Levin.
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