Are you ready for some football 'tween pop? Hannah Montana & Miley Cyrus: Best of Both Worlds Concert Tour delivered the biggest payday of any film (Titanic included!) playing over Super Bowl weekend, grossing $29 million on just 683 screens. As a result, Disney is extending the film's one-week run. (Sorry, moms and dads. Hey, maybe Penny's folks can drive next weekend...?)Hannah Montana also claimed the highest opening for a film playing on fewer than 1,000 screens, trumping the $26.4 mil collected by Borat.Playing also-ran to Hannah Montana was Jessica Alba's The Eye, which opened with $13 million. Rounding out the weekend's top five were 27 Dresses ($8.4 mil), Juno ($7.4 mil) and last week's champ Meet the Spartans ($7.1 mil).Among other new releases, Eva Longoria Parker's Over Her Dead Body was practically DOA, coming in at No. 11 with a scant $4.6 mil.What's your take on Best of Both Worlds, those who hunted down a ticket?
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It was a Desperate Housewives reunion on the red carpet of Eva Longoria's new flick, Over Her Dead Body, in Hollywood Tuesday night as her television family came out to support her. Longoria, looking stunning in a dusty-rose J. Mendel cocktail dress, posed for photos with fellow Housewives Nicollette Sheridan, Felicity Huffman and Brenda Strong. Sheridan and Huffman also brought their own support in the forms of their other halves, Michael Bolton and William H. Macy. Longoria's costars in the film, Kali Rocha (aka Grey's Anatomy's Dr. Sydney Heron) and Jason Biggs, had big announcements to make to TV Guide. "I'm pregnant!" said a glowing Rocha, patting her barely there bump. She also mentioned that she will "absolutely" be coming back to Grey's in the future, noting, "I like that I was able to dump Patrick Dempsey['s Derek]. I enjoy that I get to bop in and out." Biggs, on the other hand, was glued to his date, actress Jenny Mollen, and for good reason: The two recently got engaged....
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