In the battle of the sexes at the box office over Memorial Day weekend, both lost out to a big green ogre.

“Sex and the City 2,” which had been expected to draw big crowds of women this weekend, ended up grossing less in five days than the first “Sex and the City” film did in its first three, while male-skewing video-game adaptation “Prince of Persia” landed with a thud as the biggest flop of the summer so far.

“Shrek Forever After” easily topped the box office chart, dropping a relatively modest 39% on its second weekend as it sold a studio-estimated $55.7 million in tickets from Friday through Monday in the U.S. and Canada. That’s significantly better than the 56% drop for “Shrek the Third” on Memorial Day weekend in 2007. However, after the new film’s disappointing $70-million start, it’s still well behind its predecessor, which had collected $217.3 million by Memorial Day. DreamWorks Animation’s “Shrek Forever After,” distributed by Paramount Pictures, has taken in $145.5 million domestically so far.

“Sex and the City 2″ had been poised to win the weekend based on pre-release polling. Perhaps hurt by uniformly awful reviews, however, it came in lower than expected, grossing $37.1 million for the four-day holiday weekend and $51.4 million including its opening Thursday. That’s not bad given its production budget of about $95 million, co-financed by Warner Bros.’ New Line Cinema unit and Village Roadshow Pictures. However, it’s less than the $57 million that the first movie based on the long-running HBO series starring Sarah Jessica Parker made on its opening three-day weekend in 2008.

Walt Disney Studios’ big-budget “Prince of Persia,” which starred Jake Gyllenhaal, opened to $37.8 million from Friday through Monday, a dismal start given its huge budget of $200 million.

“Persia,” which was produced by Jerry Bruckheimer, did better internationally, though it was far from a huge hit. After opening to $18 million in 19 foreign countries the previous weekend, the action-adventure played in every major foreign country this weekend and took in a solid $59 million through Sunday.

“Sex and the City 2″ played in 17 foreign countries, including Great Britain and Germany, and matched or exceeded its predecessor in most of them, grossing $27.6 million through Sunday.

“Shrek Forever After” is playing in only 15 foreign markets, with most set to open in late June or July after the World Cup. It collected $18.5 million this weekend, with particularly strong results in Russia, increasing its international total to $53.5 million.

source: latimesblogs.latimes.com

Actress Cameron Diaz has said that she wants to “offend everyone” with her latest film role.

According to Vogue, the actress said that she hopes her role as a foul-mouthed teacher in new movie ‘Bad Teacher’ will cause a stir.

Diaz said: “I’m having the best time playing her. The women I play, you know, I usually like to take care of them.”

“I want to make sure they’re moral people, even if they’re not doing their best. I like them to come across as human beings.”

“But this one? I don’t feel any responsibility for her. She doesn’t give a s**t about anyone but herself.”

“I’m sure we’ll offend everyone with it, which is great, because if you offend everyone, you don’t have to apologise to anyone, right?”

source: www.rte.ie

I’ve updated the gallery with scans from the July, 2010 issue of Vogue. I really like the casual photoshoot of cameron in this issue! Click the image or gallery link to view more!

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Magazine Scans > Magazine Scans – 2010 > Vogue UK – July 2010 (Credit: Fashion Forums)

Cameron is on the cover and featured in the July issue of UK Vogue.. Here’s a peek at the cover. I’ll have the scans as soon as the issue is available!

Tom Cruise and Cameron Díaz will be in Seville on June 16th to attend the opening night of their latest movie “Knight & Day”, part of which was filmed in the city last autumn.

In the movie, directed by James Mangold, Miller (Cruise) is a secret agent who goes on a blind date with unlucky-in-love June Havens (Diaz), and ends up pulling her into a serious yet comedic journey to protect a powerful battery that holds the key to an infinite power source.

Their adventure together takes them all over the world and into a succession of surprise encounters, persecutions and false identities, which bring them to realise that they can really only trust each other.

An action-comedy centered on a fugitive couple on a glamorous and sometimes deadly adventure where nothing and no one – even themselves – are what they seem. Amid shifting alliances and unexpected betrayals, they race across the globe, with their survival ultimately hinging on the battle of truth vs. trust

The movie, which also features Peter Sarsgaard, Viola Davis, Paul Dano, Maggie Grace and Marc Blucas, with a script by Patrick O’Neill and James Mangold, based on a novel by Patrick O’Neill, will open in Spain on July 16th.

View the trailer:

source: thereader.es

I’ve updated the gallery with the July cover of Total Film magazine featuring Cameron and Tom. Hopefully, I’ll have scans of the article too!

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Magazine Scans > Magazine Scans – 2010 > Total Film – July 2010

The summer movie season continued to heat up this weekend with the highly anticipated release of the forth installment of DreamWorks Animation’s phenomenally successful Shrek series, Shrek Forever After. The film, which stars the returning voice talents of Mike Myers, Cameron Diaz, Antonio Banderas and Eddie Murphy, debuted at number one on the box office charts this weekend with $71.2 million, knocking off reigning champ Iron Man 2 from the top position for the first time since it debuted. While most people assumed that the film would open at number one, it did end up earning less than it’s predicted $100 million total. The film managed to earn $16,354 on each of the 4,359 screens that it opened on, however it still has a way to go if in order to earn back it’s purported $165 million budget cost.

source: MovieWeb.com

I’ve uploaded a video of Cameron on ‘Live with Regis and Kelly’ on May 21st to the video archives! Enjoy!