entertainment - "movies"

The Summer of Downey?On Friday, Iron Man - easily one of the smartest, most satisfying comic-book superhero movies since Tim Burton's first Batman - opens across America. And Robert Downey Jr.'s the guy: As playboy industrialist Tony Stark, a billionaire inventor who transforms himself into an awesome armor-plated crimefighter, Downey puts the iron in irony. He's cool, he's tough, he's weird.

The summer of 2007 was loaded with sequels, but this year's batch of action and comedy movies - with just a few exceptions - aren't following in the paths of...

Baby Mama won the weekend with a solid $18.27 million opening, according to studio estimates released on Sunday.That's a little above expectations, and contributed to a strong weekend overall, with a projected total gross for all movies of $91 million -- 17% up from the same weekend last year.Harold and Kumar Escape from Guantanamo Bay also made a good start with an estimated $14.57 million, which is almost as much as Harold & Kumar Go to White Castle made in its entire theatrical run.

Doing what it couldn't do during its theatrical run, Juno finished first during its opening week on the rental charts. It led all movies with $8.38 million in rentals.