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Comedies continued to drawin the crowds over the weekend as Universal s R-rated The 40-Year-Old Virgin opened at number one on an estimated $20.6m.Launching in second placewas DreamWorks thriller Red Eyeon $16.5m, while the British CG-animated family adventure Valiant opened through Disney in seventh place on adisappointing $6.1m. Fox s action romp Supercross flopped outside the top 10 on $1.3m.Overall there was littlechange in the box office landscape, as, yet again, the weekend trailed thecomparable period from last year. The top 12 pictures combined for $98.8m, down3% against the same weekend in 2004.The table-topping debut of The40-Year-Old Virgin proves SteveCarell, a Saturday Night Livealumnus and longtime comedy support to Will Ferrell, can carry a picture.The critics generally likedthe story of an affable nerd who finally gets the chance to lose his virginity,and the picture averaged a strong $7,224 on 2,845 screens. Catherine Keener andPaul Rudd also star and Judd Apatow, who produced Ferrel <a href=https://www.stanleywebsite.us>stanley cup</a> l vehicles Anchormanand Kicking And Screaming, directed.Wes Craven s firstnon-horror thriller Red Eye alsoreceived strong reviews. It stars the ubiquitous Rachel McAd <a href=https://www.stanleycup.cz>stanley cup</a> ams as a planepassenger who is blackmailed by the man sitting next to her played by CillianMurphy to help in an assassination plot. The picture averaged $5,358 on <a href=https://www.stanleywebsite.us>stanley website</a> 3,079screens.McAdams also stars in NewLine s Wedding Crashers, whichstayed in fourth place and has amassed $177.9m after six weekends; she willnext be se Kmgw Albarn, Losey to develop The Boy In The Oak into feature
EXCLUSIVE: LA-based sales company founders James Andrew Felts and Matthew Shreder head to the Croisette with a slate that includes <a href=https://www.stanley-cup.us>stanley cup</a> drama Noble and dark comedy Friended To Death.Noble stars Deirdre OKane, Brendan Coyle, Liam Cunningham and Sarah Greene in the story of philanthropist Christina Noble, who rose from humble origins to establish a charity in Saigon helping street children.The film won the Panavision Grand Prize award at the Santa Barbara International Film Festival earlier in the year and recently scooped the audience award at the Dallas International Film Festival.Stephen Bradley directed the UK-Ireland co-production and Melanie Go <a href=https://www.stanleyusa.us>stanley usa</a> re-Grimes produced. Michael J Hunt served as executive producer. Market screenings are May 18 and 20.Continental Medias dark comedy Friended To Death centres on a parking attendant who fakes his own demise in a bid to prove his Facebook popula <a href=https://www.cup-stanley-cup.pl>stanley cup</a> rity after he learns he is widely despised around the city where he works.Sarah Smick directed from a screenplay she co-wrote with Ian Michaels. Ryan Hansen, Zach McGowan, Richard Riehle and Angela Bullock star.Action thriller Tension s stars Louis Mandylor in the story of a former Boston police negotiator who finds himself at the centre of a political conspiracy when he is taken hostage. Vincent Lecrocq directed and Francois Mequer and Sean Moussavi produced.Breakaway centres on a doctor who awakens in a room with an LED countdown on the wall and must solve the mystery to escape with her life. Bry
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