For the box office, it was a four-day weekend (Friday is included) and despite 45 days after being released, the Dark Knight claimed #3 raking in over $11 million. The movie has broken record after record and this weekend crossed its 14th one: highest grossing movie, a half billion, in 45 days. For the other movies in the top 5, the controversial Tropic Thunder stayed at the top with over $14 million. while newcomer Babylon......

Photo courtesy of DreamWorks It's been more than a month since The Dark Knight hit screens, yet it remained in the top five at number four grossing movies raking in $10.3 million dollars. Still at the top of their game, the offending-to-some Tropic Thunder came in first at $16.1 million with House Bunny trailing behind at $15.1 million. Death Race at number three did a decent $12.3 million, but rounding out the top five......

Photo courtesy of Warner Brothers Talk about a super blockbuster, The Dark Knight continues to come in at number one in weekend box office returns ($43.8 million) after its third weekend, but The Mummy: Tomb of the Dragon Emperor came in close at second ($42.4 million). Rounding out the top five are Step Brothers ($16.2 million), Mamma Mia! ($13.1 million) and Journey to the Center of the Earth ($6.9 million). Making the bottom five......

To one's surprise, The Chronicles of Narnia: Prince Caspian zoomed to the top of the weekend box office. Early estimates of an $80M haul, however, proved far too optimistic as Prince Caspian settled for what can only be considered a disappointing $56.5M. Mega-blockbuster Iron Man had another great weekend, pulling in $31.2M and surging past the $200M mark ($222.4M). Despite not being any good, What Happens in Vegas had an above-average second frame ($13.8M/$40.3M).......

Let's go over the ground rules. Rule number 1: No touching of the hair or face... AND THAT'S IT! | Photo courtesy of Lionsgate As expected (due to its wussy PG-13 rating and higher theater count) The Forbidden Kingdom ($20.8M) knocked off the R-rated Forgetting Sarah Marshall ($17.3M) in the opening weekend for both films. Last week's dreary winner Prom Night endured the typical precipitous drop (-56%) but still managed to hold onto third......

Photo courtesy of Mike Schmid via Flickr Not since 1992 when Billy Ray Cyrus sparked an ill-advised cultural revolution with his tuneless "Achy Breaky Heart" has the Cyrus family experienced a moment of such undeserved triumph. Defying all logic and good taste, Hannah Montana/Miley Cyrus: Best of Both Worlds Concert Tour crushed all comers at the box-office this weekend. In only 683 theaters, it amassed a staggering $29M and will likely continue playing despite......

In its first weekend of wide release, The Bucket List charged to the top of the box office. Its tally of $19.54 million ($20.9M) just edged Ice Cube's First Sunday which debuted with an even $19M. There was some talk that upstart Juno might win the weekend crown, but it had to settle for a still healthy $14M ($71.2M). It now seems certain to reach $100M while holiday stalwarts National Treasure: Book of Secrets......

National Treasure: Book of Secrets ($20.2M/$171M) and I Am Legend ($16.3M/$228.6M) continued to rule the box office, but the weekend's big news belonged to Juno. In its first weekend of wide release, the sly comedy raked in $16.2M ($52M) and has now eclipsed the gross of last year's indie-ish* hit Little Miss Sunshine (*both films were produced by major studios). Alvin and the Chipmunks was a hair behind at $16M ($176.7M). Crappy newcomer One......

In a show of good will that we don't even think the firefighters got, the world famous Roxy on the Sunset Strip will be opening its doors to the WGA writers throughout the strike, LAist has just learned. In support of the writer’s strike, The Roxy Theatre in West Hollywood is opening its legendary doors to all members of the Writers Guild of America. Simply presenting a membership card will allow all guild members......

1. Disturbia - $23 million - Paramount/Dreamworks 2. Blades of Glory - $14.1 million - Paramount/Dreamworks 3. Meet the Robinsons - $12 million - Disney 4. Perfect Stranger - $11 million - Sony/Columbia 5. Are We Done Yet? - $9.2 million - Sony/Columbia 6. Pathfinder - $4.8 million - Fox 7. Wild Hogs - $4.6 million - Buena Vista 8. The Reaping - $4.5 million - Warner Bros. 9. 300 - $4.3 million -......

Good morning LAist readers, are you already taking a break from working? Sounds good to us! Here is what you missed over the Holiday weekend. Enjoy! News & Community A look into Metro's internal newsletter. We read the weeklies so you don't have to. What do you think of the NoHo Arts District new crosswalks? New owner of the LA Times, Sam Zell, doesn't know much about newspapers or the internet. Extra Extra: Entourage,......

I am in shock. Despite a ton of promotion, great reviews and legions of Quentin Tarantino fans, Grindhouse opened in only fourth place. That would be $3.4 million behind the "former ghetto rapper heads to the burbs" comedy Are We Done Yet? and only $1.5 million ahead of the "I'm Hilary Swank, and I've won two Oscars, so I can star in whatever piece of poorly conceived commercial dreck I want to" horror film......

A few years back you might remember when the Pixies did a "secret" show at Pomona's Glass House the night before their big performance at Coachella. Well this year the reformed Jesus and Mary Chain are the special guests at the Glass House on Thursday, April 26. Tickets were made available a few hours ago and LAist picked up a pair just to make sure everything was kosher. And hey it's the real deal,......

- How To Shock People Without a Lousy Taser - phrets - Cop Tasered in the Family Jewels - Rescue Humor - Fuck Ashton Kutcher and his courtside Laker seats. Please taser him - AP - Amount of douchebags with more than one cell phone increasing - ZD Net - Render upon the Iraqis what is Iraqi: Bring Back Saddam - LA Times - Black Friday sales increased 6% to $8.96 ba-ba-ba Billion, still......

- George Bush cuts n' runs from "Stay The Course" - The Australian - Tan Nguyen stays the course in his controversial race for Congress - NBC4 - Warner Bros. cut n run from their plan to provide limbs to Africans - Defamer - Get an 80 hour Tivo with 1 year of service for just $125 - zatznotfunny - Set your Tivo to record Madonna on Oprah this Wednesday - People - Bush......

What's a brotha gotta do to get a decent rickshaw ride these days? - AP Americans trust Dems over GOP on moral values and the war on terror for the first time since 2001 - Newsweek Jack, Leonardo crime thriller "The Departed" tops the movie charts this weekend with $27 mil - Box Office Mojo Mayor Tony goes to China, loses luggage, insults fellow travelers, gets offerred bootlegged dvds - LA Times Sen. Barbara......

Chirac sez that Turkey shouldn't be allowed in the EU unless it admits to killing 1.5 million Armenians back in the day. - LA Daily News Dude who got mugged for $20,000 after leaving Washington Mutual in Palmdale blames new bank design. - LAT UCLA scientist gets $3.8 million to study a radical new approach to pinpoint schizophrenia. For $380 we would have just given them our Little Black Book. - CBS2 "Open Season"......

L to R: Janet Dulin Jones and her dog Warren, Charles Dickens, and Paul Lazarus. Writer Janet Dulin Jones has been working on a screenplay, now a play, about the life of Charles Dickens since 1990. Director and co-writer Paul Lazarus has worked with her for the past 3 years. Now they've collaborated with the Antaeus Company, Los Angeles's classical theatre ensemble (Pera Palas, Mother Courage, Chekhov x 4) to bring Dickens to the......

Aside from the Vice Presidential debates, there are some events going on around town. If you decide to go out rather than remain home, glued to the TV as Cheney and Edwards duke it out, you can always catch the highlights on the radio while on your way to one of these fine events. At UCLA, "Where's My Democracy?" comes to Royce Hall. Downtown For Democracy has brought together a group of writers who......