Per Variety, Zak Penn (X-Men: The Last Stand, Elektra) is penning a remake of The Dirty Dozen for Warner Bros.... Paramount's plan to extend Angelina Jolie's current run in theaters involves cutting the number of screens showing A Mighty Heart in half, a tactic successfully employed with Borat last fall.... Hoping to quell accusations that the country has snubbed the production of Tom Cruise's Valkyrie due to his religious beliefs, the German Federal Film Fund has ponied up $6.5 million toward the drama's $80 million tab.
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Steve Carell's Evan Almighty, one of the most expensive comedies ever made, topped the weekend box office with a $32.1 million haul — less than half of what Bruce Almighty did in its own debut. The Stephen King adaptation 1408 (which I, frankly, feared would never end) placed second with $20.18 mil, just ahead of Fantastic Four: Silver Surfer ($20.15 mil).Rounding out the top five were Ocean's Thirteen ($11.3 mil) and Knocked Up ($10.6 mil), while Angelina Jolie's A Mighty Heart sneaked into the top 10 with a $4 million bow.
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