Elizabeth Taylor will mark her 74th birthday on Monday by donating a mobile medical unit worth several hundred thousand dollars to the New Orleans AIDS Task Force.... Sandra Bernhard is back on off-Broadway with Sandra Bernhard: Everything Bad and Beautiful. Previews begin March 29; the limited run ends May 28.... Lifetime Television, which earlier this week inked a deal to adapt several of Nora Roberts' acclaimed novels into TV-movies, has since snatched up broadcast rights to Shall We Dance, Beauty Shop, Derailed and Prime.
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Conjuring up $101.4 million, Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire enjoyed the best opening weekend performance yet for the franchise and the fourth-best three-day opening weekend ever, ranking behind Spider-Man, Star Wars: Episode III — Revenge of the Sith and Shrek 2. Rounding out the weekend's Top 5 were Walk the Line (bowing with $22.4 million), Chicken Little ($14.8 mil), Derailed ($6.5 mil) and Zathura ($5.1 mil).
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Chicken Little fended off a string of newcomers — including the new Jennifer Aniston thriller, Derailed — to hold on to the top spot at the box office for the second consecutive weekend. Dipping a minuscule 20 percent, Chicken grossed $32 million to bring its cumulative haul to $80.8 million. The sci-fi fantasy Zathura debuted at No. 2 with $14 million, followed by Derailed (No. 3 with $12.8 million) and 50 Cent's semiautobiographical drama Get Rich or Die Tryin' (No. 4 with $12.5 million). Overall receipts were down 15 percent from the same weekend last year.
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