In Theaters This Week 29th May

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Up
Copyright © 2009 Walt Disney Pictures

From the Academy Award®-nominated team of director Pete Docter (“Monsters, Inc.”) and co-director Bob Peterson comes "Up", a comedic adventure taking off (and lifting spirits) in summer 2009. Carl Fredricksen spent his entire life dreaming of exploring the globe and experiencing life to its fullest. But at age 78, life seems to have passed him by, until a twist of fate (and a persistent 8-year old Junior Wilderness Explorer named Russell) gives him a new lease on life. "Up" takes audiences on a thrilling journey where the unlikely pair encounter wild terrain, unexpected villains and jungle creatures. When seeking adventure next summer – look "Up".

	May 29th, 2009
	Pete Docter
	Bob Peterson
	Ed Asner, Christopher Plummer, John Ratzenberger, Delroy Lindo, Jordan Nagai
	Walt Disney Pictures, Pixar Animation Studios
	Adventure, Animation, Comedy
	disney.go.com/disneypictures/up, facebook.com/DisneyPixar, myspace.com/up
	PG some peril and action
	1 hour 36 minutes

Drag Me To Hell
Copyright © 2009 Universal Pictures

"Drag Me to Hell" tells the story of Christine Brown (Alison Lohman), an ambitious L.A. loan officer with a charming boyfriend, Professor Clay Dalton (Justin Long). Life is good until the mysterious Mrs. Ganush (Lorna Raver) enters their lives…and everything begins to unravel.

When her loan is denied and she loses her house, the shamed Mrs. Ganush places the powerful curse of the Lamia on Christine, transforming her life into a living hell. Christine is tortured and desperate to have her old life back, so she sets on a quest to reverse the spell. But as evil forces close in and threaten to drag her deep into hell, Christine must face the unthinkable: how far will she go to break free of the curse?

	May 29th, 2009
	Sam Raimi
	Sam Raimi, Ivan Raimi
	Alison Lohman, Justin Long, Jessica Lucas, Lorna Raver, David Paymer, Adriana Barraza, Fernanda Romero, Reggie Lee
	Universal Pictures
	Horror, Thriller
	dragmetohell.net, apps.new.facebook.com/drag_me_to_hell
	PG-13 sequences of horror violence, terror, disturbing images and language
	1 hour 39 minutes

Blu-ray Chart 23rd May

Top Blu-ray Sales 23rd May 2009
**All previous top sales will be announce on every Thursday
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Valkyrie [Blu-ray]

RANK	TITLE (LABEL/DISTRIBUTOR, SRP)
1	VALKYRIE (FOX, $39.99)
2	MY BLOODY VALENTINE 3D (LG, $39.99)
3	TAKEN (FOX, $39.99)
4	PAUL BLART: MALL COP (SONY, $35.95)
5	UNDERWORLD: RISE OF THE LYCANS (SONY, $39.95)
6	TRUE BLOOD: SEASON 1 (HBO/WB, $79.98)
7	THE CURIOUS CASE OF BENJAMIN BUTTON (PAR, $39.99)
8	TERMINATOR 2: JUDGMENT DAY (LG, $29.99)
9	THE TERMINATOR (MGM/FOX, $24.99)
10	STAR TREK: ORIGINAL MOTION PICTURE COLLECTION (PAR, $139.99)

DVD Chart 23rd May

Top DVD Sales 23rd May 2009
**All previous top sales will be announce on every Thursday
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Paul Blart: Mall Cop

THIS WEEK			TITLE (LABEL/DISTRIBUTOR)			RATING	BOX OFFICE*
1			PAUL BLART: MALL COP			PG	146.1
2			TAKEN			PG-13	144.5
3			VALKYRIE			PG-13	83.1
4			MY BLOODY VALENTINE 3D			R	51.5
5			TRUE BLOOD: SEASON 1			NR	-
6			UNDERWORLD: RISE OF THE LYCANS			R	45.8
7			THE CURIOUS CASE OF BENJAMIN BUTTON			PG-13	127.5
8			24: SEASON 7			NR	-
9			FANBOYS			PG-13	0.7
10			HOTEL FOR DOGS			PG	72.8
11			TWILIGHT			PG-13	191.4
12			BOLT			PG	114.1
13			WWE: WRESTLEMANIA XXV			PG	-
14			BRIDE WARS			PG	58.7
15			SEVEN POUNDS			PG-13	70.0
16			THE DAY THE EARTH STOOD STILL			PG-13	79.4
17			BEVERLY HILLS CHIHUAHUA			PG	94.5
18			BEDTIME STORIES			PG	110.1
19			MARLEY & ME			PG	143.1
20			OUTLANDER			NR	0.2

Blu-ray 26th May Release

New in Town [Blu-ray]

Lionsgate Home Entertainment / 2009 / 97 Minutes / PG
Street Date: May 26, 2009

Genres: Romantic comedy
Starring: Renee Zellweger
Director: Siobhan Fallon Hogan

Plot Synopsis: Award-winning actress Renée Zellweger stars as Lucy Hill, a high-powered executive in love with her upscale Miami lifestyle. Seeking to snag a big promotion, Lucy agrees to move to a remote Minnesota town to oversee the restructuring of a blue-collar manufacturing plant. After enduring icy roads, freezing weather and a chilly reception from the locals, she soon warms up to the small town and its people – especially the town’s handsome union representative (Harry Connick, Jr.). What begins as a job assignment becomes the best thing ever to happen to her, in this heartwarming comedy that proves that the warmest people are often in the coldest places.

Powder Blue [Blu-ray]

IMAGE ENTERTAINMENT / 2009 / 106 Minutes / Rated R
Street Date: May 26, 2009

Genres: Thriller, drama

Starring: Jessica Biel, Ray Liotta, Forest Whitaker, and Patrick Swayze
Director: Timothy Lin Bhui

Plot Synopsis: On the gritty streets of LA, the destinies of four people desperate for connection and redemption are about to collide. Jessica Biel, Ray Liotta, Forest Whitaker and Eddie Redmayne lead a top-notch cast in this powerful thriller about an overwhelmed erotic dancer, a grieving husband who has lost his will to live, a terminally ill ex-con and a pathologically shy mortician. With Kris Kristofferson, Lisa Kudrow and Patrick Swayze in unforgettable supporting roles, this film movingly chronicles the imperfect lives of people teetering on the edge of despair and the miracles that bring them back.






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Terminator Wages War with Smithsonian

LOS ANGELES (Reuters) - Ben Stiller beat Christian Bale in the North American weekend box office duel between their respective "Night at the Museum" and "Terminator" sequels, according to studio estimates issued on Sunday.

Reigning champ Tom Hanks fell to No. 4 with "Angels & Demons," although the Vatican thriller remained the top choice internationally.

"Night at the Museum: Battle of the Smithsonian" sold $53.5 million worth of tickets across the United States and Canada during the three days beginning Friday, said 20th Century Fox, a unit of News Corp.

The comedy far exceeded the $30.4 million debut of its 2006 predecessor, "Night at the Museum," and also set a new live-action record for Stiller, one of Hollywood's most reliable box office performers.

Stiller, 43, reprises his role as a night security guard, this time at the center of a battle involving historical figures at the massive Smithsonian Institution in Washington, D.C. The cast includes Robin Williams as former U.S. President Theodore Roosevelt and Amy Adams as aviatrix Amelia Earhart. The film cost about $125 million to make, Fox said.

It also enjoyed a strong foreign debut, earning $50.5 million from 93 markets, bested only by the $60.4 million haul for "Angels & Demons" from a similar number of territories.

"Terminator Salvation," meanwhile, earned $43.0 million in North America. The film failed to beat the $44 million start for the previous entry in the cyborg series, 2003's "Terminator 3: Rise of the Machines," the swan song of franchise star Arnold Schwarzenegger.

But the race between the two new sequels was closer than it appeared because Warner Bros. got a head start on the U.S. Memorial Day holiday weekend by opening "Terminator" on Thursday, when it earned about $13.4 million. Much of those ticket sales would have been pushed over to the weekend if it had opened on Friday. Its four-day total was $56.4 million.

"TERMINATOR" BATTLES "TREK"

The studios generally try to avoid each other when they roll out their big movies. In this case, "Night at the Museum" played to a broad audience, while "Terminator" was more targeted at male moviegoers.

Time Warner Inc-owned Warner Bros. said "Terminator" was likely more affected by competition from the similarly-skewing "Star Trek," which slipped one place to No. 3 in its third weekend with $22 million. The National Basketball Association playoffs also appeared to siphon off older men in cities such as Los Angeles.

Warner Bros. paid $50 million for domestic distribution rights. The post-apocalyptic film, in which "Batman" star Bale takes on the freedom-fighter role of John Connor, cost about $180 million to make, the studio said.

"Angels & Demons," sequel to 2006 film "The Da Vinci Code," earned $21.4 million, taking the 10-day total for the Columbia Pictures release to $81.5 million. By contrast, "The Da Vinci Code" had earned $136.5 million after the same period.

But the Sony Corp unit has said it never expected the second film to be as big. As was the case with "The Da Vinci Code," the film is a much bigger international draw. Its overseas total now stands at $198.3 million.

Paramount Pictures' youth-oriented reboot of the "Star Trek" sci-fi franchise has earned $183.5 million after three weekends.

The Viacom Inc unit also claimed the No. 5 spot with "Dance Flick," a comedy spoof from the Wayans family. It earned a modest $11 million.

#	Title	May 22 - 24				Weeks		Cumulative	Distributor
1	Night at the Museum: Battle of the Smithsonian	$ 53,500,000				1		$ 53,500,000	Fox
2	Terminator Salvation	43,010,000				1		56,382,000	Warner Bros.
3	Star Trek	21,951,000				3		183,585,000	Paramount
4	Angels & Demons	21,400,000				2		81,511,000	Sony
5	Dance Flick	11,113,000				1		11,113,000	Paramount
6	X-Men Origins: Wolverine	7,800,000				4		163,054,000	Fox
7	Ghosts of Girlfriends Past	3,720,000				4		45,858,000	Warner Bros.
8	Obsessed	2,000,000				5		65,900,000	Sony
9	Monsters vs. Aliens	1,345,000				9		192,991,000	Paramount
10	17 Again	1,005,000				6		60,314,000	Warner Bros.

New "Terminator" opens well without Schwarzenegger

LOS ANGELES (Reuters) - Judging from its first full day in North American movie theaters, the latest chapter in the "Terminator" film franchise will do just fine without cyborg-in-chief Arnold Schwarzenegger.

"Terminator Salvation," the fourth in the big-screen sci-fi series about humans battling powerful, blood-thirsty robots from the future, grossed a hefty $13.4 million from its debut on Thursday in some 3,480 U.S. and Canadian theaters, according to studio estimates on Friday.

Marking the first "Terminator" film in nearly six years, and the only one lacking Schwarzenegger, now starring in real life as California's governor, the movie is distributed by Time Warner Inc's Warner Bros. studio. It cost a reported $200 million to make.

The robust opening puts the film, starring Christian Bale as leader of the human resistance against a post-Apocalyptic takeover by cyborgs, on track to gross roughly $70 million through Monday's Memorial Day holiday, as forecast by box office analysts.

Dan Fellman, head of distribution for Warner Bros., said the first-day figure exceeded his expectations -- "I would have been happy to do $9 or $10 million" -- and proves that "Terminator's" fan base remains very much intact.

Fifty more domestic theaters are being added for the weekend.

By comparison, "Indiana Jones and the Kingdom of the Crystal Skull," another fourth installment of a blockbuster franchise, opened the same day last year and grossed nearly twice as much, $25 million, on its first Thursday.

"Crystal Skull" went on to ring up $152 million in domestic ticket sales during its first five days and $317 million through its entire domestic run. But it launched in about 730 more theaters than "Terminator."

"Pirates of the Caribbean: At World's End," holds the record for the biggest Memorial Day weekend opening, grossing nearly $140 million in 2007 on its first Friday-through-Monday frame.

"Terminator Salvation" also is expected to best the openings of its three Schwarzenegger-starring predecessors, though exact comparisons are difficult because they were released so long ago and opened on different days of the week.

The last two, "Terminator 3: Rise of the Machines," and "Terminator 2: Judgment Day," grossed $44 million and nearly $32 million, respectively, in their first Friday-through-Sunday periods over the July 4th weekends of 2003 and 1991, according to Hollywood.com Box-Office.

Together, the three previous films have amassed more than $1 billion worldwide since Schwarzenegger first promised, "I'll be back" in 1984's "The Terminator," according to the website boxofficemojo.com.

The biggest competition for the newest "Terminator" is likely to come from the Ben Stiller comedy sequel "Night at the Museum: Battle of the Smithsonian," which opens Friday and is expected to gross at least $50 million through Monday. [Source from: reuters.com]

In Theaters This Week 22nd May

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Terminator Salvation
Copyright © 2009 Warner Bros Pictures

In the highly anticipated new installment of "The Terminator" film franchise, set in post-apocalyptic 2018, Christian Bale stars as John Connor, the man fated to lead the human resistance against Skynet and its army of Terminators. But the future Connor was raised to believe in is altered in part by the appearance of Marcus Wright (Sam Worthington), a stranger whose last memory is of being on death row. Connor must decide whether Marcus has been sent from the future, or rescued from the past. As Skynet prepares its final onslaught, Connor and Marcus both embark on an odyssey that takes them into the heart of Skynet's operations, where they uncover the terrible secret behind the possible annihilation of mankind.

	May 21st, 2009
	McG
	Michael Ferris, John Brancato, Paul Haggis, Jonathan Nolan, Shaun Ryan, Anthony Zuiker
	Christian Bale, Sam Worthington, Anton Yelchin, Bryce Dallas Howard, Moon Bloodgood, Common, Jadagrace, Helena Bonham Carter
	Warner Bros. Pictures
	Action, Adventure, Sci-Fi, Thriller
	terminatorsalvation.warnerbros.com, sonypictures.net/movies/terminatorsalvation
	PG-13 intense sequences of sci-fi violence and action, and language
	2 hours 10 minutes

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Night At The Museum 2
Copyright © 2009 20th Century Fox

In the sequel, the Museum of Natural History is closed down for upgrading and the exhibits are put into storage at the Federal Archives in Washington, D.C. Amy Adams will play an undetermined historical figure who has a crush on security guard Larry (Stiller).

	May 22nd, 2009
	Shawn Levy
	Robert Ben Garant, Thomas Lennon, Scott Frank
	Ben Stiller, Amy Adams, Hank Azaria, Robin Williams, Ricky Gervais, Owen Wilson, Ed Helms, Christopher Guest, Jon Bernthal, Bill Hader, Alain Chabat, Robert Ben Garant, Thomas Lennon
	20th Century Fox
	Comedy, Family, Fantasy
	nightatthemuseummovie.com
	PG mild action and brief language
	1 hour 40 minutes

Dance Flick
Copyright © 2009 Paramount Pictures

“Dance Flick” is a satirical jab at musical/dance films focusing on a naive girl who uses dance to achieve her dreams, and the street smart guy who helps her along the way. A rich, white girl from the suburbs finds herself on a series of misadventures when she moves to the mean streets of the inner-city.

	May 22nd, 2009
	Damien Dante Wayans
	Keenen Ivory Wayans, Shawn Wayans, Marlon Wayans, Damien Dante Wayans
	Damon Wayans Jr., Craig Wayans, Shoshana Bush, Essence Atkins, Affion Crockett
	Paramount Pictures, Marvel Studios
	Action, Comedy
	thedanceflick.com
	PG-13 crude and sexual content throughout, and language
	1 hour 23 minutes