Max Payne topped the Oct. 17 weekend US box office, taking in an estimated $18 million from 3,376 runs, Variety reported.
Beverly Hills Chihuahua, meanwhile, declined just 37 percent in its third weekend to gross an estimated $11.2 million for a total of $69 million.
Max Payne scored the third-best opening of the fall after Chihuahua ($29.3 million) and Eagle Eye ($29.2 million).
Doubts diminished Monday that The Dark Knight is a viable contender for a best-picture Oscar as the Producers Guild of America nominated it for the coveted Darryl F. Zanuck Producer of the Year Award, its best-picture prize.
Composer Andrew Lloyd Webber says the long awaited sequel to Phantom of the Opera should be ready at the end of 2009, with a possible simultaneous opening on three continents, the Associated Press reported.
An attorney for 20th Century Fox says the studio will continue to seek an order delaying the release of Watchmen, the Associated Press reported.
Reelz has posted a video about the battle to preserve Fanboys, the Star Wars - themed comedy film, in its original form.
Welcome to SCI FI's list of the top twenty sexiest male actors in the genre - ever! Each of the studly hunks was selected on a combination of factors, including the significance of the characters they portrayed, and of course sheer swoonsome gorgeousness...
When Forbidden Planet was released in 1956, it suddenly became the mother of all sci-fi flicks. Often described as 'the Star Wars of its time' by modern-day critics...
Ed Quinn, co-star of the SCI FI Channel's original series Eureka, told SCI FI Wire that he's excited about the upcoming third season and added that he's been particularly pleased by the show's colorblindness.
It's a tough list to assemble, and sure to provoke some controversy, but we at SCI FI have come up with a list of 20 authors who helped make science fiction (and of course fantasy, horror etc) the genres they are today.
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