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Provided by: comingsoon.net332010-09-06 21:00:00entertainment / comingsoon.net /: Greetings and welcome back to the Weekend Warrior, your weekly guide to the weekend's new movies. Tune in every Tuesday for the latest look at the upcoming weekend, and then check back on Thursday night for final projections based on actual theatre counts. If you aren't doing so already, you can follow The Weekend Warrior on Twitter where he talks about box office, movies, music, comic books and all sorts of random things. Predictions and Comparisons - 1. Resident Evil: Afterlife (Sony/Screen Gems) - $28.4 million N/A 2. The American (Focus Features) - $6.5 million -51% 3. Takers (Screen Gems) - $5.7 million -48% 4. Machete (20th Century Fox) - $5.1 million -55% 5. Going the Distance (New Line/WB) - $3.7 million -47% 6. The Expendables...

Provided by: variety.com342010-09-07 14:22:36entertainment / variety.com /: Top News: McCartney, Winfrey, Haggard to be feted -- Country singer/songwriter Merle Haggard, dancer/choreographer Bill T. Jones, composer/lyricist Jerry Herman, ex-Beatle Paul McCartney, and TV host/actor/producer Oprah Winfrey have been selected to receive this year's Kennedy Center Honors, the Center said Monday.

Provided by: wired.com351970-01-01 00:00:00entertainment / wired.com /: Image: http://evavhost.com/i/news/Transformers WFC.jpg For $9.99 (800 Microsoft points) you can grab the new Transformers: War for Cybertron Map and Character Pack 2. Included in the pack is 5 new multiplayer maps, including 2 new Escalation mode maps and 3 new competitive multiplayer maps.... Hollywood meets Silicon Valley. Footage from seven ongoing NASA space missions provide hyper-realistic scenery for the 3-D animated film, while the voices of multiple Captain Kirks and Darth Vaders play the parts of space explorers.

Provided by: variety.com362010-09-07 13:57:29entertainment / variety.com /: International News: Deals announced at TVFI Rendez-Vous -- Franco-German net Arte has inked a raft of sales on Gallic helmer Loic Prigent's "The Day Before," a lifestyle mag co-produced by the Sundance Channel.

Provided by: joblo.com372010-09-07 16:18:27entertainment / joblo.com /: Before JUDGE DREDD was a horrible Sylvester Stallone movie, it was a rather awesome comic with the potential for greatness. The remake of the film is trying to realize that, and in an attempt to further distance themselves from the original film, they've now retitled their version DREDD, which if I didn't know any better, might sound like the tale of a pirate ship with a crew who didn't know how to spell. The film stars... Read More...

Provided by: variety.com382010-09-07 13:25:13entertainment / variety.com /: International News: Star Ananda, Star Majha news channels to air -- Media Content & Communications Services India announced Tuesday the launch of its Bengali-language Star Ananda and Marathi-language Star Majha news channels in the U.S. and Canada.

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Provided by: variety.com402010-09-07 13:05:58entertainment / variety.com /: International News: Frammartino pic screened at Telluride -- Lorber Films has picked up U.S. rights to Michelangelo Frammartino's Italian pic "Le Quattro Volte," currently making the rounds of North American film fests.

Provided by: variety.com412010-09-07 12:54:46entertainment / variety.com /: International News: Sweden, Romania, S. Korea enter titles -- A further three countries -- Sweden, Romania and South Korea -- have selected their entries for the foreign-language Oscar race.

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Provided by: joblo.com442010-09-07 14:50:26entertainment / joblo.com /: Call me a heretic, call me what you will. Say I'm old fashioned, say I'm over the hill. But THE GIRL WITH THE DRAGON TATTOO was a total bore. Like everyone else, I got the book and read it, but unlike everyone else, I mostly hated it. I haven't felt this out of the loop since the LORD OF THE RINGS debacle of the early 2000s. So I'm not sure I really care whether or not Rooney Mara is a dead ringer for Lisbeth... Read More...

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