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    “Guardians” Scores $22M Over Labor Day Weekend

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    This image released by Disney - Marvel shows Chris Pratt in a scene from "Guardians Of The Galaxy." (AP Photo/Disney - Marvel)

    By Sandy Cohen, Entertainment Writer

    LOS ANGELES (AP) --

    The intergalactic misfits of "Guardians of the Galaxy" are the summer's box-office superheroes.

    Marvel's cosmic romp topped the Labor Day box office with a three-day take of $22 million — its third time in first place since its release five weeks ago, according to studio estimates Monday. With North American ticket sales of more than $280 million so far, "Guardians" is also the summer's — and the year's — top-grossing film to date domestically.

    Still, summer box-office totals are down almost 15 percent from last year, said Paul Dergarabedian, senior media analyst for box-office tracker Rentrak.

    "This is the lowest summer since 2006 in terms of revenue," he said. "Before 'Guardians,' we were sitting on a 20 percent deficit compared to last year."

    "Transformers: Age of Extinction," which opened in late June, also boosted the summer box office with $1 billion in global ticket sales. "Maleficent" was another hit, bringing in more than $230 million domestically.

    "This was never expected to be a record-breaking summer," Dergarabedian said, "but it maybe came in under expectations."

    The World Cup may have distracted moviegoers, he said. Also, the death of Paul Walker caused the seventh installment of "Fast & Furious" — which might have added around $200 million to the summer box office — to be postponed until next year.

    Last summer broke box-office records with the success of "Iron Man 3," ''Star Trek," ''The Heat" and "Despicable Me 2." Next summer is expected to make history again with hotly anticipated releases including "Star Wars," ''Avengers: Age of Ultron" and Pixar's "Inside Out."

    "Summer of 2014 is a transitional summer between two record-breaking years," Dergarabedian said.

    The top movies over the lackluster Labor Day holiday were the same as the previous weekend. Paramount's "Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles" followed "Guardians" with $15.7 million, while Warner Bros.' young-adult drama, "If I Stay" took third place with $11.6 million.

    "We went out with a whimper," Dergarabedian said. "We wound up a very exasperating summer on a very quiet note."

    Estimated ticket sales for Friday through Monday at U.S. and Canadian theaters, according to Rentrak. Where available, the latest international numbers (through Sunday) are also included. Final domestic figures will be released on Tuesday.

    1. "Guardians of the Galaxy," $22.2 million ($19.7 million international).

    2. "Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles," $15.7 million ($13 million international).

    3. "If I Stay," $11.6 million ($4.6 million international).

    4. "Let's Be Cops," $10.5 million ($6.6 million international).

    5. "As Above, So Below," $10.3 million ($1.4 million international).

    6. "The November Man," $10.2 million.

    7. "When the Game Stands Tall," $8 million.

    8. "The Giver," $6.9 million.

    9. "The Hundred-Foot Journey," $6.3 million.

    10. "The Expendables 3," $4.5 million ($8.8 million international).

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    Estimated ticket sales for Friday through Sunday at international theaters (excluding the U.S. and Canada), according to Rentrak:

    1. "Dawn of the Planet of the Apes," $51.2 million.

    2. "Lucy," $31.2 million.

    3. "Guardians of the Galaxy," $19.7 million.

    4. "Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles," $13 million.

    5. "Into the Storm," $12.9 million.

    6. "How to Train Your Dragon 2," $10.5 million.

    7. "Hercules," $9.8 million.

    8. "The Expendables 3," $8.8 million.

    9. "Let's Be Cops," $6.6 million.

    10. "The Pirates," $5.5 million.

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    Harris Dickinson Toys With Ambiguity In “Babygirl” While Keeping a Secret From Nicole Kidman

    Tuesday, December 24, 2024

    Harris Dickinson was nervous to approach Nicole Kidman.

    This would not necessarily be notable under normal circumstances, but the English actor had already been cast to star opposite her in the erotic drama "Babygirl," as the intern who initiates an affair with Kidman's buttoned-up CEO. They'd had a zoom with the writer-director Halina Reijn, who was excited by their playful banter and sure that Dickinson would hold his own. And yet when he found himself at the same event as Kidman, shyness took over. He admitted as much to Margaret Qualley, who took things into her own hands and introduced them.

    "She helped me break the ice a bit," Dickinson said in a recent interview.

    On set would be an entirely different story. Dickinson might not be nearly as "puckishly audacious" as his character Samuel but in the making of "Babygirl," he, Kidman and Reijn had no choice but to dive fearlessly into this exploration of sexual power dynamics, going to intimate, awkward, exhilarating and meme-able places. It's made the film, in theaters Christmas Day, one of the year's must-sees.

    "There was an unspoken thing that we adhered to," Dickinson said. "We weren't getting to know each other's personal lives. When we were working and we were the characters, we didn't veer away from the material. I never tried to attach all of the history of Nicole Kidman. Otherwise it probably would have been a bit of a mess."

    His is a performance that reconfirms what many in the film world have suspected since his debut seven years ago as a Brooklyn tough questioning his sexuality in Eliza Hittman's "Beach Rats": Dickinson is one of the most exciting young talents around.

    Dickinson, 28, grew up in Leytonstone, in East London — the same neck of the woods as... Read More

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