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What to Netflix: New DVD Tuesday
All of the new DVD releases hit stores (and Netflix) on Tuesdays. So each week in What to Netflix: New DVD Tuesday, I sort through the best of the batch and tell you what to add to your queue. In addition to my selections below you can now add Bottle Shock and Madagascar: Escape 2 Africa to your queue.
Box Office: Twilight Drains the Competition
Anticipating Twilight might just be this weekend's big box office winner, I asked you guys to ring in with some possible box office headline puns for the news this morning. Well, briggs313's suggestion in the post was awesome, so I went ahead and used it — thanks briggs313!
Twilight's debut on the big screen was a smash success, earning $70.6 million over the weekend and breaking several records.
Box Office: Quantum Leaps Into First
The new James Bond film, Quantum of Solace, leaped to box office success in its opening weekend, coming in at No. 1 with an estimated $70.4 million. This was a record breaker, in fact: According to Variety, it was "the biggest opening ever for a James Bond title and a major victory for a film franchise nearly half a century old."
Sugar Bits — Madagascar Sequel Tops Box Office
- Madagascar: Escape 2 Africa scored the top spot at the box office this weekend, earning $63.5 million and winning the record for best opening of the year for a family cartoon. Role Models came in second with $19.3 million. — BuzzSugar
- William Balfour, the main suspect in Jennifer Hudson's family slaying, will remain in custody as the investigation continues.
Box Office: Madagascar Wins Lion's Share of the Bucks
The animated sequel Madagascar: Escape 2 Africa was a big hit with audiences over the weekend, earning a whopping $63.5 million. In fact, it set some records and "narrowly scored the best opening of the year for a family toon, as well as the seventh best bow of all time." Madagascar 2 just barely surpassed Wall-E which brought in $63 million its opening weekend.
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Ben, Jada and Chris Escape To London
Ben Stiller, Jada Pinkett-Smith and Chris Rock were out in force on a rainy red carpet last night in London's Leicester Square for the Madagascar: Escape 2 Africa premiere! The three big Hollywood stars mixed in with their animal characters' on the red carpet as well as a flurry of British celebs and their children including lovely Richard Hammond who arrived with his wife and children. Ben had this to say on the red carpet:
Will and Jada Escape to LA With Ben and Fergie
Will Smith brought his kids Jaden and Willow to support their mom Jada at the LA premiere of her Madagascar: Escape 2 Africa yesterday. The happy foursome posed for photos while Ben Stiller and his wife Christine made it a date and left their kids at home. Fergie was also on hand to walk the green carpet, though her big smile may have more to do with her wedding than the movie.
Sugar Bits — Take That Won't Perform on X Factor Final
- Take That have reportedly pulled out of The X Factor final after hearing that old rivals Boyzone are on the bill. Other artists reported to be performing on the live final include Westlife, Beyonce, Seal and Duffy. — The Sun
- Keira Knightley has made a short film for Amnesty calling for the true meaning of "human rights" to be acknowledged on the 60th anniversary of the UN declaration today, in support of Amnesty International's Protect the Human campaign.
24/11/2008 Madagascar 2 Premiere
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Madagascar Escape 2 Africa
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