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Box Office Hits & Misses

The fans have spoken and the box office tells their story! Nic Cage's new movie Knowing sits at the top of the box office bringing in $24.6 million in the opening weekend. The anticipated film, directed by Alex Proyas (The Crow, Dark City) is all ready half-way to budget and still has plenty of time in theaters. Following another dismal weekend for a movie that was so highly anticipated, it seems that word-of-mouth has failed The Watchmen. The movie brought in a mere $6.8 million this weekend bringing it's gross box office to $98.1 million... still significantly short of the $130 million it cost to make. Meanwhile in comparison, the movie Taken which cost 30 million Euros ($40.6 million) has grossed $133 million in seven weeks out and Tim Burton's Coraline has grossed $73 million in six weeks for a movie that cost $35 million to make.

"In a world..." without Don LaFontaine

Best known as the "Voice-over guy" from movie trailers, and most predominately known for the phrase "In a world where...." Don LaFontaine passed away Monday of complications from a lung-related illness. While the industry now uses others to imitate LaFontaine's work... none will ever quite be as well remembered as Don.

30 Days of Night the series

Ted Raimi, Ken Foree and Shawnee Smith are starring in the new series "30 Days of Night: Dust to Dust"; a spin off from the 2007 movie "30 Days of Night" with Josh Hartnett and a continuation of the straight to video "30 Days of Night: Blood Trails".

The Return of the Saints?

Source: /film
If Writer/Director Troy Duffy is to be believed, "All Saints Day" the long awaited sequel to "The Boondock Saints" will begin filming this August barring a strike by the Screen Actors Guild. This news, first broken on Troy's own website about 4 months ago has since confirmed by him in a wjfk radio interview part1 &  Part2  where he went as far as to reveal the movie's plot which can be read over at /film. A video production diary can be seen over at geeksofdoom.com. If this is all on the up and up, it'll be interesting to see whether or not the popularity of the original film will lead to a legitimate theatrical release or just as a way to capitalize on the cult fandom by going straight to DVD.