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12 April 2001 | WENN | See recent WENN news »

Hollywood heart-throb Ryan Phillippe insists he and wife Reese Witherspoon are like any normal couple. The couple are the proud parents of baby Ava, who was born a few months after their summer wedding in June 1999 - and reckon they're no different from any other young family. Ryan says, "If you saw us at home you wouldn't know we were actors, except we're young and we have a nice house." The 26-year-old says he and his star spouse make career decision based around their daughter's welfare. "Me and Reese don't want to be working in different places at the same time. Before Christmas she was finishing a movie while I staying at home taking care of Ava, " he explains. When Ryan was making his new film Antitrust, for which he got paid $1 million, Reese and their daughter would visit him on set in Vancouver, Canada. The hunky Ryan is now hoping to branch out into directing and hopes to make his wife "the next Julia Roberts." »

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15 January 2001 | Studio Briefing - Film News | See recent Studio Briefing - Film News news »

Although garnering so-so-to-poor notices from critics on Friday, Save the Last Dance pirouetted all the way to first place at the box office over the weekend and seemed certain to set a record for the four-day Martin Luther King holiday. The Paramount/MTV film, which reportedly cost only about $13 million to make, earned an estimated $24 million between Friday and Sunday. Playing at 2, 230 theaters, it averaged a startling $10, 762 per location, second only to the $11, 851 average for Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon, which widened its release to 693 theaters and came in ninth overall. Entertainment analyst Art Rockwell told Bloomberg News that the performance of Last Dance was "incredibly strong, " adding: "I don't think anybody really expected it to open as number one." Sliding into second place was the Tom Hanks drama Cast Away, which earned $17.2 million, to bring its total to $165.2 million. Traffic, Stephen Soderbergh's critically praised film, remained in third place with $11.2 million, while the Mel Gibson comedy What Women Want dropped to fourth with $10.5 million, bringing its total after one month to $152.4 million. Going wide for the first time, Thirteen Days from New Line and Finding Forrester from Sony-Columbia, each took in about $10.2 million to tie for fifth in the estimates. Disney-Touchstone's urban comedy Double Take opened in seventh place with $10 million. Another new release, MGM's Antitrust, flopped with just $5.2 million and did not make the top-ten list.

The top ten films for the weekend, according to studio estimates compiled by Exhibitor Relations: 1. Save the Last Dance, $24 million; 2. Cast Away, $17.1 million; 3. Traffic, $11.2 million; 4. What Women Want, $10.5 million; 5. Thirteen Days, $10.2 million; 5. (tie) Finding Forrester, $10.2 million; 7. Double Take, $10 million; 8. Miss Congeniality, $9.4 million; 9. Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon, $8.2 million; 10. The Family Man $5.9 million. »

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12 January 2001 | Studio Briefing - Film News | See recent Studio Briefing - Film News news »

Three new films opening this weekend appear to pose little threat to several of the movies now in current wide release and others that are expanding. AntiTrust takes a drubbing from virtually every major critic, but surprisingly -- given its subject matter -- not from The Wall Street Journal's Joe Morgenstern, who calls it a "clever paranoid thriller" and "a lament, in comic-book terms, for the fate of intellectual property in an age of corporate megavores." On the other hand, Jonathan Foreman in the New York Post calls the movie, "an inferior factory product, cranked out with little care and less imagination, that seems all the dumber because it's pretending to be smart and topical." Rita Kempley in the Washington Post refers to it as "a cliché-riddled, techno-babbly psycho-thriller." A.O. Scott in the New York Times says that it's "overloaded with twists and not very jolting surprises." And The Toronto Star's review, written by Peter Howell, says it all in its headline: "This flick needs a reboot." »

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