Hancock Makes Bank

No surprises at the box office this weekend Hancock made $107 million, smashing its competition. Hancock is now the third biggest July opener ever, after Transformers and Spider Man 2.

The superhero, with a twist, movie also makes this Will Smith’s eight consectuive movie to make over $100 million and his fourth July 4th movie to win at the box office, Independence Day, Men In Black and Men In Black 2 all opened at the top of the box office.

The other new movie out this weekend, Kit Kittredge: An American Girl, didn’t have a good opening. The movie opened at number 8 with 3.6 million. The top 10 looks like this:

1.Hancock $107 million
2.Wall-E - $33.4 million
3.Wanted - $20.6 million
4.Get Smart - $11.1M
5.Kung Fu Panda - $7.5 million
6.The Incredible Hulk - $4.98 million
7. Indiana Jones and the Kingdom of the Crystal Skull - $3.94 million
8.Kit Kittredge: An American Girl -$3.6 million
9.Sex And The city - $2.35 million
10.You Don’t Mess With The Zohan -$2 million

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Movies Out This Week

Superhero movie Hancock goes head to head with childrens adventure movie Kit Kittredge: An American Girl this week. Both are released this Wednesday (July 2nd).

It is also battle of the Smiths as Will Smith goes head to head with his daughter Willow Smith in the movies. On going up against each other, Will said he sat Willow down and he“just told her ‘sweetheart, daddy loves you but I’ve got to stop you at the box office.’ She was like, ‘Well daddy, you get us a lot of nice things, so you do what you have to do.’” Hancock is expected to make over $100 million on opening weekend.

Hancock is about an apathetic, hard-living superhero (Smith) who has fallen out of favor with the public is approached by a public relations professional (Jason Bateman) who has ideas as to how he can repair his client’s image. It also stars Charlize Theron.

Kit Kittredge is about a young living in the struggles of the Great Depression. 10 year old Kit (Abigail Breslin) lives in a boarding house her parents own in Cincinnati, Ohio. She has a passion for writing, & dreams of having something of hers put in the local paper someday. With the help of her friends, Sterling & Ruthie, will her dream finally come true?

Also released on limited release is Mary-Kate Olsen’s indie movie, The Wackness.

Filed under: Charlize Theron, Movies, Will Smith

Hancock L.A. Premiere

The cast of the upcoming movie Hancock came out in full force for the Hollywood premiere at the Grauman’s Chinese Theatre on Monday evening (June 30th).

This is second premiere in two days for Charlize Theron, on Sunday (June 29) she showed up to the premiere of Battle In Seattle (click for photos), which her boyfriend Stuart Townsend directed and just like Charlize supported Stuart, he gave his arm for the actress at the Hancock premiere.

Also in attendance was star of the movie, Will Smith with his wife Jada Pinkett Smith and last but certainly not least, Jason Bateman.

Hancock opens this Wednesday, July 2nd. Tell us, are you going to see Hancock?
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Will Smith : Party On

Will Smith kicked of the Nelson Mandela concert in London on Friday (June 27th), the Hancock star came out on stage and “The party stars now” to a cheering crowd. Accompanied by his wife, Jada Pinkett Smith.

Will then quoted Peter Gabriel, he said “Peter Gabriel once said, ‘if the world could have one father the man who we could choose to be our father would be Nelson Mandela’,” Smith told a cheering crowd.

The concert which took place at Hyde Park in London, England had an attendance of 46, 664people and will have all of its proceeds from the event go to the 46664 charity, which is currently campaigning to raise awareness for AIDS.

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Naomi Got The Boot

Nelson Mandela’s 90th birthday bash concert is happening in a couple of days, so that means they have to have a nice dinner for the former South African president, some stars stepped out for fundraising dinner at London’s Hyde Park on Wednesday afternoon (June 25).

Leona Lewis looked pretty in her pink dress will be performing at the event so she made sure to show up to the dinner, also in attendance were Sex and The City star Kim Cattrall, Uma Thurman and boyfriend Arpad Busson, Lewis Hamilton and his new girlfriend, Nicole Scherzinger.

Last but certainly not least is Will Smith with his wife Jada Pinkett Smith. The Hancock star will be hosting the concert this Saturday, so expect lets of self promotion during the event.

Never one to shy away from a bit controversy, Naomi Campbell also showed up the dinner with boyfriend Marcus Elias, despite being kicked from the event. Mandela personally intervened to make sure she does not appear on stage at the concert.

A source told the Mail Online, “The man himself intervened and she was pulled off the list. He was disappointed with her recent arrest - particularly as she was wearing a 46664 baseball cap at the time, Naomi was slated to introduce some of the acts on stage as she has done with 46664 concerts in the past, but she has been informed that this time she can only sit in the grandstand.”

A rep for model said “Naomi had never planned to go to the concert but she has been invited as a guest to his dinner tonight.”

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Filed under: Leona Lewis, Naomi Campbell, Pussycat Dolls, Uma Thurman, Will Smith

Hancock For TRL

The cast of Hancock appeared on MTV’s TRL on Tuesday afternoon (June 24th). Will Smith, Charlize Theron and Jason Bateman all appeared on the show, this is one of the first appearances that all three have done together.

They joked around backstage and while the show was broadcasting. Charlize also appeared on NBC’s the Today show before heading over to the MTV studios in New York City.

Hancock is released July 2, Charlize recently sat down The Dish Rag, here are some snipits from the interview:

On what superpowers she would like in real life:
I don’t know. Somebody told me that Will [Smith] wanted to read minds. That would probably be my least favorite one to have. That would scare me. It would be like, “Wow, they really think that?” I think it would be fun to see people naked. That could be scary as well, but I think that would have a sense of humor about it.

On if there is any one person she would like to see naked:
No, I just think it would be fun to walk down the street and see people nude and them not knowing.  I guess that’s the element that makes a difference, them just not knowing. Because when we’re nude we tend to suck it in and just to see some dude taking the garbage out [laughs]. I don’t know.

On being voted Esquire magazine’s Sexiest Woman alive last year:
I think everything in life has to be taken with giant heaps of salt. I think you have to –- especially in this industry. Look, it’s a great compliment. It’s really sweet, but there is no such thing as “the sexiest woman alive.” So it’s a compliment that they thought that, but I don’t walk around aiming to live up by any means to some standard that you just couldn’t.

On how she stays in shape:
There’s this pill that you take [laughs].   It’s not a mystery. You have to be healthy, and you have to work out and eat good and you have to drink water. I don’t necessarily do that every day, and I was a smoker for many years, and I’m sure all of those things will one day show on my face, and I hope I can welcome them gracefully because, boy, it’s been a great life.

On picking serious films or fun films:
No, and I think Will might be the person who can actually change this (perception) in our industry.  We have been so compartmentalized as actors. We go in and do the really small independent films that are critically acclaimed and award-winning, and then I think people think you go and sell out and you do this big movie because you need to get a big paycheck and the material is not so great, and it’s evident you’re doing it for the money.

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Hancock Busts Moscow

Continuing their world premiere tour for their new movie Hancock, Will Smith and Charlize Theron were on hand to walk the red carpet at the Moscow International Film Festival.

Like with the Paris, Berlin and London premiere’s for the movie, the stars of the upcoming movie joked and posed together, Charlize even strutted her stuff like a supermodel.

Hancock which opens in the States on July 2nd and is expected to make over $100 million on opening weekend. This will be Will Smith’s eight consecutive movie to gross more than $100 million, setting a new record.

The movie is also going up against his daughter, Willow Smith’s,movie Kit Kittrege: An American Girl. Will said he sat his daughter down to speak about going head to head. “I just told her ‘sweetheart, daddy loves you but I’ve got to stop you at the box office.’ She was like, ‘Well daddy, you get us a lot of nice things, so you do what you have to do.’”

Filed under: Charlize Theron, Movies, Will Smith