entertainment - "movies"

IT BROUGHT two of the world's hottest young actresses to Scotland, attracted hundreds of film fans and generated a huge amount of publicity. The only problem was the movie

'I loved the idea of an alcoholic, nihilistic, subversive superhero, fighting crime drunk,' says Peter Berg about Hancock - a screenplay that's been kicking around Hollywood for a dozen years or so, and that had, at various points, Michael Mann and Tony Scott among the folks attached to direct.

Two new movies, Wall-E and Wanted, debuted 1-2 in U.S. theaters this weekend, Box Office Mojo reported....

When economic times are tough, people go to the movies - and this weekend, they hit the box office in droves. People had good reason to go, as two shining examples of summer movie gold were on display in the form of Pixar's WALL-E and its demographic opposite, the graphic-novel based Wanted from Universal, lords of the summer box office.

Moviegoers showed themselves to be a little more sophisticated than the pundits predicted over the weekend by crowning WALL-E box office champion with a very healthy $62.5 million opening weekend, according to Disney's Sunday estimate.That's a huge start for a supposedley hard-to-sell movie -- on par with the debut of Monsters, Inc. -- and likely to end up the third or fourth best opening in Pixar's history (see complete list of Pixar movies).But that might not even be the biggest story of the weekend.