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“The Sex in the City girls made a real phenomenal weekend, ya know, no one can take that away from them but now it’s our time,” Black said. “Move over ladies, you’ve had your time in the sun. It’s time for the panda to play.”

Dressed in a gold puffer jacket, trackpants and a panda T-shirt, the star of Shallow Hal, The School Of Rock and comedic rock band Tenacious D indulged adoring fans by scribbling signatures and posing for photographs. He responded to cheers from the crowd with lightning reflexes, jumping on to the red carpet barrier to pose between interviews.

The US takings, collected over a three-day weekend, made Kung Fu Panda Dreamworks’ biggest non-sequel opener, and its third-biggest opening result after Shrek 2 and Shrek the Third.

The Australian premiere of the film, at Sydney’s State Theatre last night, included martial arts displays along the red carpet and a visit from a giant panda.

Cate Blanchett and Andrew Upton made a surprise appearance on the red strip with their children Dashiell and Roman. Rove McManus and his girlfriend Tasma Walton also walked the carpet, Rove dressed in his own panda T-shirt.

Director John Stevenson said he was thrilled with the film’s reception in the US and hoped for a similar reaction from Australian audiences.

“People respond to Po because he’s just a sweet character and we can all feel a bit vulnerable at times,” Stevenson said.

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Our Cate Blanchett is about to add to her status as the biggest box office-earning actress in cinema history with the worldwide release of Indiana Jones 4: The Kingdom of the Crystal Skull.

It sounds a bit like Monopoly money but Cate’s new film is tipped to earn close to $US1 billion in box office takings around the world, adding to the $US3 billion earned by the three Lord of the Rings films in which Cate played the royal elf, Galadriel.

In Indiana Jones 4: The Kingdom of the Crystal Skull, Cate plays a Russian spy, Irina Spalko, who embarks on a desperate race to find the “crystal skull” ahead of Professor Henry Walton Jones, Jr, better known, of course, as Indiana Jones played by Harrison Ford, the

character he played in three previous films and in a one-off appearance in a 1993 episode of the television series The Young Indiana Jones Chronicles.

The film also stars Shia LaBeouf, as Indi’s new side-kick, Mutt Williams, and brings back the character of Marion Ravenwood from 1981’s Raiders of the Lost Ark, played then and now by Karen Allen.

Allen is now 57, Harrison Ford 64. They shared adventures - and more! - in Nepal and Egypt in that 1981 film.

This time around? See the film - it adds up to great entertainment with lots of surprises unfolding on screen.

Beckham is actually just one of a dozen international football stars playing themselves.

In the first film, Santiago and his family had travelled from Mexico and were living in poverty in Los Angeles until Santiago, spotted by a talent scout, was invited to England to join Newcastle United.

Goal III, set around the FIFA world Championships in Germany, is now in post-production with a possible Australian release late this year.

It’s a film in which audiences may find it hard to believe Academy Award winner Javier Bardem, playing a love-struck romantic, is the same Javier Bardem who embarked on a killing spree in No Country for Old Men.

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They were two of about 1200 at the Indian Cultural and Sports Centre in Kemp St on Saturday to sample food, fashion, jewellery and entertainment.
There was plenty to buy, and large barbecues were piled high with the tastes of India.
Wellington Indian Association president Javer Naran said he was thrilled with the record takings and a strong turnout of non-Indians. He had special praise for those who braved the weather to cook for the crowd. %26quot;Those guys got a bit of a soaking out there.%26quot;

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THE winners and the losers at the movies have emerged from a
summer dominated by rain. While Cloverfield shook us up, the
biggest hit has been I Am Legend.
An estimated 2 million tickets have sold for the futuristic
vampire movie, racking up an impressive $23 million, which suggests
that Will Smith has overtaken Tom Cruise as Hollywood’s biggest
star for Australian audiences.
In a buoyant season in cinemas, takings have reached $190
million in the past eight weeks. Apart from I Am Legend, it
has been a season dominated by family movies, with strong audiences
for Alvin And The Chipmunks, Bee Movie and the comic
romances 27 Dresses and Juno.
The sleeper hit has been the British comedy Death At A
Funeral, which has run for 18 weeks and taken almost $16
million.
For a country that has loved fantasy epics at Christmas, The
Golden Compass did not capture anything like the interest of a
Lord Of The Rings or Chronicles Of Narnia. While it
performed better than in the US, the lavish-looking literary
adaptation struggled to break $15 million.
The strongest audience response was for Cloverfield,
which went from a bright start to becoming one of the summer’s
biggest fizzers. The heavily hyped monster movie was jokingly
dubbed Chunderfield after viewers became physically ill from
the hand-held camerawork.
Other box office disappointments included the comedy Walk
Hard, the comic Charlie Wilson’s War and Lust,
Caution, of the celebrated director Ang Lee.
The Bob Dylan biopic I’m Not There, despite starring Cate
Blanchett and the late Heath Ledger, is yet to reach $1
million.
“January has been particularly strong, partly due to the rain
and partly because there was a very strong and varied line-up of
films,” said Mike Selwyn, the managing director of Paramount
Pictures Australia.
But the weather has been a headache for open-air cinemas.
The managing director of the OpenAir Cinema at Mrs Macquaries
Point, Rob Bryant, said a thunderstorm had forced the first
cancelled screening in 11 years, of Waitress, and the rain
had kept attendance down.
The owner of Starlight Cinema, Jill Keyte, said five of 10
nights in Leichhardt and two early nights at North Sydney had been
washed out.

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THE winners and the losers at the movies have emerged from a
summer dominated by rain. While Cloverfield shook us up, the
biggest hit has been I Am Legend.
An estimated 2 million tickets have sold for the futuristic
vampire movie, racking up an impressive $23 million, which suggests
that Will Smith has overtaken Tom Cruise as Hollywood’s biggest
star for Australian audiences.
In a buoyant season in cinemas, takings have reached $190
million in the past eight weeks. Apart from I Am Legend, it
has been a season dominated by family movies, with strong audiences
for Alvin And The Chipmunks, Bee Movie and the comic
romances 27 Dresses and Juno.
The sleeper hit has been the British comedy Death At A
Funeral, which has run for 18 weeks and taken almost $16
million.
For a country that has loved fantasy epics at Christmas, The
Golden Compass did not capture anything like the interest of a
Lord Of The Rings or Chronicles Of Narnia. While it
performed better than in the US, the lavish-looking literary
adaptation struggled to break $15 million.
The strongest audience response was for Cloverfield,
which went from a bright start to becoming one of the summer’s
biggest fizzers. The heavily hyped monster movie was jokingly
dubbed Chunderfield after viewers became physically ill from
the hand-held camerawork.
Other box office disappointments included the comedy Walk
Hard, the comic Charlie Wilson’s War and Lust,
Caution, of the celebrated director Ang Lee.
The Bob Dylan biopic I’m Not There, despite starring Cate
Blanchett and the late Heath Ledger, is yet to reach $1
million.
“January has been particularly strong, partly due to the rain
and partly because there was a very strong and varied line-up of
films,” said Mike Selwyn, the managing director of Paramount
Pictures Australia.
But the weather has been a headache for open-air cinemas.
The managing director of the OpenAir Cinema at Mrs Macquaries
Point, Rob Bryant, said a thunderstorm had forced the first
cancelled screening in 11 years, of Waitress, and the rain
had kept attendance down.
The owner of Starlight Cinema, Jill Keyte, said five of 10
nights in Leichhardt and two early nights at North Sydney had been
washed out.

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THE winners and the losers at the movies have emerged from a
summer dominated by rain. While Cloverfield shook us up, the
biggest hit has been I Am Legend.
An estimated 2 million tickets have sold for the futuristic
vampire movie, racking up an impressive $23 million, which suggests
that Will Smith has overtaken Tom Cruise as Hollywood’s biggest
star for Australian audiences.
In a buoyant season in cinemas, takings have reached $190
million in the past eight weeks. Apart from I Am Legend, it
has been a season dominated by family movies, with strong audiences
for Alvin And The Chipmunks, Bee Movie and the comic
romances 27 Dresses and Juno.
The sleeper hit has been the British comedy Death At A
Funeral, which has run for 18 weeks and taken almost $16
million.
For a country that has loved fantasy epics at Christmas, The
Golden Compass did not capture anything like the interest of a
Lord Of The Rings or Chronicles Of Narnia. While it
performed better than in the US, the lavish-looking literary
adaptation struggled to break $15 million.
The strongest audience response was for Cloverfield,
which went from a bright start to becoming one of the summer’s
biggest fizzers. The heavily hyped monster movie was jokingly
dubbed Chunderfield after viewers became physically ill from
the hand-held camerawork.
Other box office disappointments included the comedy Walk
Hard, the comic Charlie Wilson’s War and Lust,
Caution, of the celebrated director Ang Lee.
The Bob Dylan biopic I’m Not There, despite starring Cate
Blanchett and the late Heath Ledger, is yet to reach $1
million.
“January has been particularly strong, partly due to the rain
and partly because there was a very strong and varied line-up of
films,” said Mike Selwyn, the managing director of Paramount
Pictures Australia.
But the weather has been a headache for open-air cinemas.
The managing director of the OpenAir Cinema at Mrs Macquaries
Point, Rob Bryant, said a thunderstorm had forced the first
cancelled screening in 11 years, of Waitress, and the rain
had kept attendance down.
The owner of Starlight Cinema, Jill Keyte, said five of 10
nights in Leichhardt and two early nights at North Sydney had been
washed out.

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THE winners and the losers at the movies have emerged from a
summer dominated by rain. While Cloverfield shook us up, the
biggest hit has been I Am Legend.
An estimated 2 million tickets have sold for the futuristic
vampire movie, racking up an impressive $23 million, which suggests
that Will Smith has overtaken Tom Cruise as Hollywood’s biggest
star for Australian audiences.
In a buoyant season in cinemas, takings have reached $190
million in the past eight weeks. Apart from I Am Legend, it
has been a season dominated by family movies, with strong audiences
for Alvin And The Chipmunks, Bee Movie and the comic
romances 27 Dresses and Juno.
The sleeper hit has been the British comedy Death At A
Funeral, which has run for 18 weeks and taken almost $16
million.
For a country that has loved fantasy epics at Christmas, The
Golden Compass did not capture anything like the interest of a
Lord Of The Rings or Chronicles Of Narnia. While it
performed better than in the US, the lavish-looking literary
adaptation struggled to break $15 million.
The strongest audience response was for Cloverfield,
which went from a bright start to becoming one of the summer’s
biggest fizzers. The heavily hyped monster movie was jokingly
dubbed Chunderfield after viewers became physically ill from
the hand-held camerawork.
Other box office disappointments included the comedy Walk
Hard, the comic Charlie Wilson’s War and Lust,
Caution, of the celebrated director Ang Lee.
The Bob Dylan biopic I’m Not There, despite starring Cate
Blanchett and the late Heath Ledger, is yet to reach $1
million.
“January has been particularly strong, partly due to the rain
and partly because there was a very strong and varied line-up of
films,” said Mike Selwyn, the managing director of Paramount
Pictures Australia.
But the weather has been a headache for open-air cinemas.
The managing director of the OpenAir Cinema at Mrs Macquaries
Point, Rob Bryant, said a thunderstorm had forced the first
cancelled screening in 11 years, of Waitress, and the rain
had kept attendance down.
The owner of Starlight Cinema, Jill Keyte, said five of 10
nights in Leichhardt and two early nights at North Sydney had been
washed out.

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