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HollywoodNews.com: Summer must be over, as grownups as seemingly returning to the marketplace. In what was always going to be a light moviegoing holiday weekend, the low-key adult thriller (on 1,826 screens) defeated the more heavily advertised and wider-playing genre entries. First of all, The Help once again topped the box office for the third weekend in a row ($18 million for its four-day holiday weekend, with a $14.2 million Fri-Sun total, dipping just 2.3% from last weekend).
I’m not sure what the record is for the most consecutive weekends at number one for a movie that did not debut in first place, but the crowd-pleasing period drama has to be high on the would-be list. With $122 million in a month come tomorrow, the film now sits as the eighth-highest grossing drama of all-time released in the summer, a list that becomes even shorter when you discount war-themed action pictures (Saving Private Ryan, Pearl Harbor, Gladiator). It is still outpacing Bridesmaids by a significant margin ($106 million after four weekends) and could very well flirt with $180 million if it can hold onto screens and fend off adult-skewing pictures (Warrior, Contagion, Moneyball) in the next month.
The somewhat surprising story of the weekend was the excellent performance of Focus Features’ The Debt. The relatively well-reviewed film stars Helen Mirren, Sam Worthington, Jessica Chastain, Ciarán Hinds, Marton Csokas, and Tom Wilkinson in a time-jumping thriller (a remake of an Israeli film from 2007) about the hunt for a Nazi war criminal. The film opened with $9.7 million over Fri-Sun and about $12 million for the four-day holiday, and a $14 million total since opening on Wednesday. To be honest, I genuinely disliked the picture, finding it poorly paced and relatively unengaging after the first half.
Plus, minor note, it was a bit confusing. Sam Worthington looked more like a young Tom Wilkinson than a young Ciarán Hinds, and Marton Csokas looked EXACTLY like a young Ciarán Hinds, yet he played the young Tom Wilkinson, leaving me waiting for a climactic twist that never came. Having said that, this is just the kind of movie I like to see the studios releasing: adult-skewing, adult-starring, and R-rated purely because it is a film for adults with adult sensibilities (why that is a rare thing since 2001 – HERE). So this opening, [...]

The Cannes Film Festival has just announced the closing film of the festival. In a press release they stated the following:
Julie Bertucelli ’s film, “The Tree”, with Charlotte Gainsbourg, Marton Csokas and Aden Young, will be presented at the Closing Ceremony of the 63rd Festival de Cannes. Shot in Australia, the film is an adaptation of Judy Pascoe’s novel, “Our Father Who Art in the Tree”.
The film will be screened on Sunday May 23rd once the Award ceremony, presided by the American filmmaker Tim Burton, is over. The Festival de Cannes opens on Wednesday May 12th with Robin Hood, by Ridley Scott.