Weekend Theater Counts
Iron Man (Paramount) 4,111 (+6)
Speed Racer (Warner Bros.) 3,606
What Happens in Vegas (Fox) 3,215
Made of Honor (Sony) 2,734 (+5)
Baby Mama (Universal) 2,627 (+79)
Forgetting Sarah Marshall (Universal) 2,379 (-493)
Harold and Kumar 2 (New Line) 2,264 (-281)
The Forbidden Kingdom (Lionsgate) 1,724 (-1236)
Nim’s Island (Fox) 1,601 (-877)
Prom Night (2008) (Screen Gems) 1,465 (-969)
Redbelt (Sony Classics) 1,301 (+1295)
21 (Sony / Columbia) / 978 (-1264)
Horton Hears a Who! (Fox) / 770 (-693)
88 Minutes (Sony / Columbia) 625 (-1140)
Leatherheads (Universal) 423 (-599)
Data source: Box Office Mojo
Weekend Theater Counts: Iron Man Tops Speed Racer
Top 25 Male Actors of All Time: American Film Institute
Top 25 Male Actors of All Time: American Film Institute
- Humphrey Bogart
- Cary Grant
- James Stewart
- Marlon Brando
- Fred Astaire
- Henry Fonda
- Clark Gable
- James Cagney
- Spencer Tracy
- Charles Chaplin
- Gary Cooper
- Gregory Peck
- John Wayne
- Laurence Olivier
- Gene Kelly
- Orson Welles
- Kirk Douglas
- James Dean
- Burt Lancaster
- The Marx Brothers
- Buster Keaton
- Sidney Poitier
- Robert Mitchum
- Edward G. Robinson
- William Holden
Top 25 Women Actors of All Time: American Film Institute
Top 25 Women Actors of All Time: American Film Institute
- Katharine Hepburn
- Bette Davis
- Audrey Hepburn
- Ingrid Bergman
- Greta Garbo
- Marilyn Monroe
- Elizabeth Taylor
- Judy Garland
- Marlene Dietrich
- Joan Crawford
- Barbara Stanwyck
- Claudette Colbert
- Grace Kelly
- Ginger Rogers
- Mae West
- Vivien Leigh
- Lillian Gish
- Shirley Temple
- Rita Hayworth
- Lauren Bacall
- Sophia Loren
- Jean Harlow
- Carole Lombard
- Mary Pickford
- Ava Gardner
Iron Man Movie Review: Redemption?
Review: Iron Man: Redemption?
I saw Iron Man.
Tony Stark, played by Robert Downey Jr., owns a weapons manufacturer. On a trip to demonstrate a new missile, the Jericho, which knocks out a wall of defenses with many small bombs deployed from a single shot, he is captured. His captors are essentially killers Al-Qaeda. They want him to build this device.
In a cave, he realizes he cannot escape on his own. He'll build the bomb, and then, they'll kill him. Bad deal. He secretly builds the Iron Man suit and gets back home. Fellow captive and engineering genius Dr. Yinsen cautions him, "Don't Waste Your Life." Yinsen gives his life to save Tony's.
While in captivity, he sees that his weapons are used by the enemy. Why? How?
He had been a sleazy, rich, indulgent womanizer. Now, he sees more
Moses Will See The Promised Land - Film legend Charlton Heston dead at 84
Charlton Heston is dead. He was no car crash like screen tramps Lindsay Lohan and camp. He was a star.
http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20080406/ap_on_en_mo/obit_heston
By BOB THOMAS, Associated Press Writersee Top Movies of All Time: Top 100 - http://topmoviesofalltime.blogspot.com
LOS ANGELES - Charlton Heston, who won the 1959 best actor Oscar as the chariot-racing "Ben-Hur" and portrayed Moses, Michelangelo, El Cid and other heroic figures in movie epics of the '50s and '60s, has died. He was 84.
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Heston lent his strong presence to some of the most acclaimed and successful films of the midcentury. "Ben-Hur" won 11 Academy Awards, tying it for the record with the more recent "Titanic" (1997) and "The Lord of the Rings: The Return of the King" (2003). Heston's other hits include: "The Ten Commandments," "El Cid," "55 Days at Peking," "Planet of the Apes" and "Earthquake."
He liked to the cite the number of historical figures he had portrayed:
Andrew Jackson ("The President's Lady," "The Buccaneer"), Moses ("The Ten Commandments"), title role of "El Cid," John the Baptist ("The Greatest Story Ever Told"), Michelangelo ("The Agony and the Ecstasy"), General Gordon ("Khartoum"), Marc Antony ("Julius Caesar," "Antony and Cleopatra"), Cardinal Richelieu ("The Three Musketeers"), Henry VIII ("The Prince and the Pauper").
Ten Commandments trailer
Planet of the Apes final scene
Ben Hur trailer
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