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Juno Was the Real No. 2 Movie Last Weekend, Not Legend

Jan 8 2008 - 2:29pm


Though the initial estimates [1] on Sunday put I Am Legend [2] as the No. 2 movie at the box office this past weekend with $16.4 million and Juno [3] in the No. 3 spot with $16.2, the actual numbers indicate that this order is really reversed! Thus, Juno is the No. 2 movie in the country [4], beating out the big Will Smith thriller I Am Legend at the box office. Hooray for Juno!

In related news, Juno screenwriter Diablo Cody just won the Critics' Choice Award [5] for her screenplay. She's currently working on her next project, a teenage horror movie called Jennifer's Body [6], starring Megan Fox and produced by Juno director Jason Reitman. Now there's the news that Girlfight writer/director Karyn Kusama has signed on [7] to direct.

Cody, whose favorite horror movie is apparently Rosemary's Baby, recently told the MTV Movies Blog [8] that Jennifer's Body is "a horror movie, and it’s also about teenagers...It’s a lot darker [than Juno], and it also has comedic elements. Horror is my favorite genre — and like Juno, I like horror movies." I can't wait to see the next project to come out of Cody's awesome imagination.

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