The outlook for Sunny Mabrey looks, yes, clear and bright. The model-turned-actress whose previous credits included Lonestar and Limp Bizkit videos, guest-spots on CSI: Miami and House, and the big-screen actioner XXX: State of the Union, now can be seen in One Last Thing (now playing on HDNet, then hitting DVD Tuesday) as Nikki, the pinup-worthy object of a dying teen's affections. And come August, you can catch her as Tiffany, a flight atte
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A remake of The Fog smoked the box-office competition over the weekend, but only barely: Minus Adrienne Barbeau, the thriller earned just $12.2 million, narrowly defeating last week's top pic, Wallace & Gromit: The Curse of the Were-Rabbit, which scared up an additional $11.7 million. Rounding out the Top 5 are Cameron Crowe's Elizabethtown in third place with $11 million; Flightplan in fourth with $6.5 million and In Her Shoes in fifth with $6.1 million.
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Clay-animated family pic Wallace & Gromit: The Curse of the Were-Rabbit topped the weekend box office with a decent $16.1 million. After two weekends at No. 1, Jodie Foster's Flightplan slid to No. 2 with $10.8 million, followed by the Cameron Diaz-Toni Collette chick flick, In Her Shoes (No. 3 with $10 million); the Al Pacino-Matthew McConaughey man movie, Two for the Money (No. 4 with $8.4 million), and the Boris Kodjoe-Idris Elba, um, unisex musical (yeah, that's it), The Gospel (No. 5 with $8 million).
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Jodie Foster's Flightplan, which is being boycotted by flight attendants' unions, ruled the box office for a second week by scoring another $15 million, besting buzzed-about sci-fi newcomer Serenity (with $10.1 million), Tim Burton's Corpse Bride ($9.8 million) and the crime drama A History of Violence ($8.2 million). Into the Blue, meanwhile, having placed fifth with a scant $7 mil, wants to remind pirating unions that it paints an awfully unflattering picture of treasure hunters.
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Last week's box-office champ, Flightplan, is feeling a bit of turbulence. Three flight attendant organizations have called for a boycott of the Jodie Foster thriller, claiming that it puts airline personnel in an unflattering and suspicious light. "Should there be another 9/11, it would be critical for the cabin crew to have the support of their passengers, not the distrust that this movie may engender," says the president of the Association of Professional Flight Attendants. Sounds to me like somebody didn't read the nice things Erika Christensen, one of Flightplan's sky girls, had to say about the profession in our Insider Q&A. (Just skip over that first comment of min
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