'Apes' tops Friday B.O.

'Rise from the Planet from the Apes'Close competish for that top just right Friday stored Fox's "Rise from the Planet from the Apes" within the lead because of its second weekend consecutively.InchIncreaseInch made $8.a million from three,691 locations in the domestic box office last evening. Close on its heels, Disney's "The AssistanceInch obtained $7.626 million from 2,534 locations and Warner Bros' "Final Destination 5" gained $7.34 million from three,155.B.O. experts anticipated holding energy for that Fox prequel, because it built strong word-of-mouth last weekend (its newcomer Friday-to-Saturday drop was a fantastic 1%), however the set of new openers could give "Rise" a run because of its profit its soph sesh. Pic has cumed $85.48 million to date.The Mouse's "Help," for instance, bowed Wednesday and makes its way into the weekend with positive critical reception and strong early buzz from Black and arthouse auds. Pic gained nearly $tens of millions of leading into Friday, modifying its three-day estimate in the mid-teens towards the low-$20 million range.Warner's latest "Final Destination" installment is searching to complete comparable this frame, although it will probably visit a bigger Friday-to-Saturday fall off than "Help" as the majority of the franchise's fans most likely caught the pic last evening. Though roughly 89% of their screens have been in three dimensional, and 217 have been in Imax, "Destination" is not likely to see a boost in the format given waning curiosity about three dimensional. Positive B.O. commentators possess the film topping out at $21 million through Sunday.A set of The new sony releases rounded out Friday's top 5. Era "half an hour or Less" made $4.85 million from 2,888 locations, while "The Smurfs" obtained $3.8 million from three,427. "half an hour,Inch the summer's seventh R-ranked laffer after last weekend's underperforming "The Modification-Up," is on the right track to land within the mid-teens through Sunday. "Smurfs" has cumed $91.8 million locally so far.Which week's wild card opener, Fox's "Glee the three dimensional Concert Movie," arrived sixth with $2.725 million from 2,040 screens, which have been in three dimensional. Fox and rival galleries expect the discharge to land within the high-single numbers for that weekend. Contact the range newsroom at news@variety.com

Icahn buys more Lionsgate shares

Is Carl Icahn back in the Lionsgate hunt? The maverick investor disclosed Friday that he and affiliates of his Icahn Associates Corp. have acquired more than 702,000 shares in the minimajor since Wednesday, swooping in amid the stock market's wild ride. News of Icahn's move came as Lionsgate released its proxy statement and set Sept. 13 as the date of its annual meeting in Toronto. Icahn bought about two-thirds of the shares on Wednesday and Thursday at price of about $6.70-$6.75 per share, with the remainder coming on Friday at a price of $6.90 per share. The purchase raises the specter of Icahn is making another run at exerting control over the company. At present Icahn is believed to control about 33% of the company. In 2009 and 2010, Icahn dogged Lionsgate with vocal criticism of management and strategic priorities as he sought to build up a controlling stake in the company and force a clearing out of its board of directors and top managers. But the slate of directors Icahn ran at Lionsgate's last annual meeting in December were handily defeated, after which the investor seemed to back away from the fight. Earlier this week, Lionsgate noted in its quarterly earnings report "decreased costs associated with shareholder activism" as a factor in its return to profit for the fiscal first quarter. A Lionsgate spokesman had no comment on Icahn's disclosure. Contact Variety Staff at news@variety.com

Fashion Slam: Hot Physiques Week - Pippas Valued Backside!

By Ryan PattersonLOS ANGELES, Calif. -- It appears only fitting to finish our Hot Physiques week using the part of the body much around the globe continues to be speaking about - Pippa Middletons booty! Since her well developed backside snapped up the head lines at sister Kates Royal wedding, individuals have become so enthusiastic about her tush, it even features its own Facebook Fan page (The Pippa Middleton A*# Appreciation Page) and also the Pippa Butt Lift has turned into a large trend in cosmetic surgery. You do not have to endure the knife though to appear great, because of tips from superstar trainer Joe Dowdell, that has labored with Natalie Portman, Avoi Mendes, Hathaway As Catwoman and Claire Danes. My butt emphasizing program helps melt away body body fat through proper dietary habits and sculpts the type of derriere that's the envy of other ladies and the prospective of male lovers, Jim states. First of all, you have to understand that you cannot out train an undesirable diet and ultimately, leanness is 80% diet. But, we should also make certain that after we train we select the best exercises and lay them out in ways thats likely to produce the greatest results. Perform each sequence then relaxation the recommended period of time, noted below. When you is capable of doing all 3 teams of the exercises for that most of recommended repetitions after which increase weight by 2.5-5 pounds. for the following workout. A1) Romanian Dumbbell DeadliftSet Up: Stand together with your ft shoulder width apart, knees slightly bent and holding a set of hand weights before your upper upper thighs, palms facing inward. Movement: Start by pushing your sides back so far as you are able to while bending forward in the sides and keeping a small arch inside your back. While pushing your sides back, still bend the knees until there's about 15-20 degree bend inside them. Decrease your torso so far as you are able to while keeping a small arch inside your back. For most of us, a torso position of parallel or slightly above parallel is excellent flexibility. Take 3 seconds to reduce yourself, no stop and 1 second revisit the beginning position. Repeat for that recommended quantity of repetitions. Tips: You need to feel a substantial stretch inside your hamstrings at the end from the movement. Make certain you actually squeeze your butt together while you turn back movement and rise support. Keep your hand weights as near for your body as possible. Also, make certain you retain your neck attracted together through the movement. The Particulars:Sets: 3Reps: 10-12Rest Period: Wk 1 - 60 secs, Wk 2 - 45 secs, Wk 3 - 30 secs, Wk 4 - 15 secs A2) Single Straight Leg Glute BridgeSet Up: Lie face on the ground together with your arms at the sides at in regards to a 45-degree position out of your torso as well as your palms facing up toward the ceiling. Bend your left knee place your heel on the ground together with your toes drawn back toward your shins as well as your right leg is straight. Enhance the right leg until its consistent with your left leg. Movement: Push lower using your left heel raising your sides upward and keep your right leg straight. Take one second to increase up pause for just one second at the very top after which take two seconds revisit the beginning position. Repeat for that recommended quantity of repetitions on one for reds then perform the other. Tips: The body should form a straight line from shoulders to knees. Your right leg should remain in line together with your left leg while you lift up your sides. Make certain your sides stay parallel towards the floor through the movement. The Particulars:Sets: 3Reps: 10-12/sideRest Period: Wk 1 - 60 secs, Wk 2 - 45 secs, Wk 3 - 30 secs, Wk 4 - 15 secs A3) Lateral Small-Band WalksSet Up: Wrap a small-band (note: eco-friendly or blue ought to be enough tension) around your legs just beneath the knees. Stand together with your ft about shoulder-width apart bend the knees slightly and lean slightly forward in the sides (i.e., an sports ready position). Movement: Step 8-10 inches by helping cover their your left leg and gradually bring your right leg in 8-10 inches. Repeat for any total of 12-15 steps each way. Tips: Maintain good spine alignment through the exercise (i.e. keep the shoulders rotor blades attracted lower and back and gaze after a small arch within the back). Make certain you lead together with your knee instead of your ft. Quite simply, think about pushing by helping cover their the knee instead of just walking using the ft because it will engage your outer stylish muscles (i.e. gluteus medius & minimus) more. Your shoulder should remain parallel towards the floor through the movement. Don't let your torso dip right or left while walking. The Particulars:Sets: 3Reps: 10-12/sideRest Period: Wk 1 - 60 secs, Wk 2 - 60 secs, Wk 3 - 60 secs, Wk 4 - 60 secs Relaxation Periods: Every week you need to do the circuits, lessen your seconds of relaxation in between each exercise. For instance: Week 1: Relaxation a minute in between each exercise. Week 2: Relaxation 45 seconds in between each exercise. Week 3: Relaxation thirty seconds in between each exercise. Week 4: Relaxation just a few seconds in between each exercise. Days 1-4: Relaxation a minute after each circuit. Copyright 2011 by NBC Universal, Corporation. 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Lifetime Turning The Client List Into TV Series Starring Jennifer Love Hewitt

Jennifer Love Hewitt, The Client List Lifetime is adapting its 2010 film The Client List into a TV series starring and produced by Jennifer Love Hewitt, Deadline reports. The network has ordered 10 episodes of the series, which will launch sometime next year. Watch clips from The Client List In the TV movie, based on a true story, Hewitt played a Texas housewife whose husband injures his knee and can't work. To support the family, she begins work at a day spa only to learn the business offers much more than just massages. She soon partners with the spa's disorganized owner to run the business. It looks like the series will turn Hewitt's character into a single mom who enters the "spa" biz only after her husband abandons her. She will struggle to balance duties as a single mom in a conservative town and her career as a determined businesswoman who must hold together a group of fiery and unpredictable employees. Lifetime has also signed a development deal for both potential series and movies with Hewitt's production company, Fedora Films, which also include Hewitt directing an upcoming Lifetime movie. "Beloved by viewers, Jennifer Love Hewitt is an amazing talent on and off the screen and we are very excited about continuing our relationship with her on The Client List," said Lifetime Networks' president and general manager, Nancy Dubuc, told the site. "This project falls in line with our strategy to expand Lifetime's slate with unapologetic programming that will surprise audiences." Jennifer Love Hewitt welcomes your judgment of mom-turned-hooker in The Client List Jordan Budde (Beverly Hills, 90210) adapted the film to series, and the film's producers Dannielle Thomas, Howard Braunstein, Michael Jaffe and AJ Rinella will also executive-produce the series alongside Hewitt. "Jordan Budde has written a show that truly reflects the spirit of the movie and I am looking forward to an amazing partnership with Lifetime as both a producer and actress," Hewitt said. This will be Hewitt's first series since Ghost Whisperer, which was canceled by CBS in 2010 after five seasons. She most recently guest-starred on Law & Order: SVU last season and starred in the CBS TV movie The Lost Valentine. Hewitt earned her first Golden Globe nomination for her performance in The Client List, which drew 3.9 million viewers when it premiered in July 2010. Will you watch The Client List series?

Watch Movieline Fave Bob Stephenson Bust Paul Rudd in New Our Idiot Brother Clip

If the hideous sweater, disgusting mane, and title didn’t tip you off, Paul Rudd’s character in Our Idiot Brother is supposed to be an idiot. Though the first trailer gave us a good idea of the dunderheadedness we can expect, this glimpse at a scene between Paul Rudd and Movieline pal Bob Stephenson indicates that the titular dude’s stupidity knows no bounds. Fortunately, he’ll have Emily Mortimer, Elizabeth Banks, and Zooey Deschanel to set him straight. Maybe they can help him evolve into a Kris Kristofferson tribute artist? [via Yahoo!]

National Treasure: Book of Secrets

Benjamin Gates (Nicolas Cage) is a historian and amateur cryptologist, and the youngest descendant of a long line of treasure hunters. Though Ben's father, Patrick Gates (Jon Voight), tries to discourage Ben from following in the family line, as he had spent over 20 years looking for it and never found a thing, young Ben (Hunter Gomez) is encouraged on by a clue from his grandfather (Christopher Plummer) that could lead to a fabled treasure hidden by the Founding Fathers of the United States.

With an expedition funded and led by Ian Howe (Sean Bean), Ben and his friend and computer expert Riley Poole (Justin Bartha) track down a Colonial ship, the Charlotte, trapped in the ice in the Arctic. Aboard the ship they discover a meerschaum pipe engraved with a riddle that Ben connects to the Declaration of Independence. When Ian reveals he will go to any lengths to find this treasure including stealing the Declaration, Ben takes a stand against him. A fight ensues, during which spilled gunpowder is ignited. Ian escapes the ship, leaving it to explode before departing with his team. Ben and Riley are trapped inside but survive the explosion by hiding in a smugglers hold, and return to the United States determined to stop Ian.

When Ben tries to tell various authorities, including Agent Peter Sadusky (Harvey Keitel) of the FBI, and Dr. Abigail Chase (Diane Kruger) at the National Archives, they dismiss his claims, considering the Declaration impossible to steal. Ben and Riley concoct their own plan to steal the document during a gala event, and execute it just before Ian and his own team arrive. Abigail, suspicious of Ben's presence at the gala, becomes caught up with Ben and Riley as they escape from Ian and the authorities. Ben's identity is tracked to the theft, and they are forced to go to his father's home, much to Patrick's surprise and dismay. Ben and Abigail find an Ottendorf cipher on the back of the Declaration which, using the riddle from the pipe on the Charlotte, they connect to the Silence Dogood letters, written by Benjamin Franklin, at the Franklin Institute in Philadelphia. Decoding the message, they then head to Independence Hall where the trio find a pair of spectacles with multiple coloured lenses created by Franklin that reveal additional clues on the back on the Declaration. The group is caught by Ian, and even though they split up, Riley and Abigail and the Declaration are caught by Ian, while Agent Sadusky captures Ben, still with the glasses.

Ian, under the guise of a prisoner exchange, lures the FBI into a trap aboard the USS Intrepid, allowing them to grab Ben. Holding Riley, Abigail, and Patrick hostage, Ian forces Ben to use the bifocals and find the next clue, which leads the group to Trinity Church in New York City. Beneath the church they find an enormous shaft with an elevator system. At the bottom of the shaft, they find a room lit only by a lantern, which Ben and Patrick trick Ian into thinking that it refers to Paul Revere's ride, and indicates the treasure to be at the Old North Church in Boston. Ian and his men strand Ben, Riley, Abigail, and Patrick as they ascend to the surface, unaware that Ben has purposely tricked them. Ben uses the pipe from the Charlotte to open a secret door that reveals the vast treasure stash he has been searching for, as well as a route to the surface.


A film set for the underground chambers beneath Trinity ChurchWhen the four ascend, they are met by Agent Sadusky, who reveals he is part of the Freemasons. Ben and Sadusky arrange a deal. With the safe return of the Declaration and identifying where Ian and his men can be found, Sadusky will clear all of their names and allow them to sell the treasure to collections across the world. Ian is captured by the FBI, for tresspassing, and attempted murder but not before he realizes he has been tricked when he sees a grinning Ben nearby.

The film ends showing that Ben kept only a small fraction of the sales, still making his friends quite wealthy, and has begun a romantic relationship with Abigail.