by Matt Raub, Aug 29 2011 // 7:00 AM
So it turns out America is a huge fan of heartwarming tales about maids, as indie comedy The Help managed to steal the show once again, claiming the #1 spot for the second time in 3 weeks.
The film has grossed nearly $100 million domestically, and is still growing in popularity, as it beat out Colombiana, Guillermo del Toro’s Don’t Be Afraid Of the Dark and Paul Rudd’s attempt at a quirky indie comedy with Our Idiot Brother, bringing in a total of $14.3 million this weekend.
Coming in second is Luc Besson’s Colombiana, which only managed to bring in $10 million (a quarter of the film’s budget) in the domestic box office this weekend.
Just after that film, the first big horror film of the late summer/early fall season, Don’t Be Afraid of the Dark, was unable to open big enough to scare the masses, as the film barely managed to break $10 million this weekend, coming in just shy of $9 million.
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by Chris Ullrich, May 5 2011 // 1:15 PM
When you think of hot female assassins/badasses, who comes to mind? For me it’s a cross between Anne Parillaud in the original La Femme Nikita, Uma Thurman’s The Bride in Kill Bill, Devon Aoki as Miho in Sin City and Yvonne Strahovski as Sarah in Chuck.
Put all those together and that would be a potent mix indeed. Now, it seems, we may be able to add Zoe Saldana to that mix.
Why? Well today, Sony Pictures has released a trailer for Colombiana, which stars Saldana as a stone-cold female assassin. To illustrate the point, we’ve got the trailer for the film to share with you.
Colombiana was written by Luc Besson and Robert Mark Kamen and directed by Olivier Megaton (who has a perfect name for an action director, don’t you think?) Check out the trailer after the jump.
And no, that pic above is not from the movie. It’s from The Losers, but I like it — and so should you.
Who’s your favorite female baddass?
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Tagged: Avatar, Chuck, Colombiana, Female Assassins, Luc Besson, Olivier Megaton, Robert Mark Kamen, Sony Pictures, Star Trek, Taken, Taken 2, The Losers, Trailers, Uma Thurman, Zoe Saldana
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