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From cinemablend, From the moment critics started seeing it and admitting it was way, way funnier than they were expecting, 21 Jump Street seemed destined to be a hit. But even Sony might not have let themselves hope for quite this big a hit. According to the weekend numbers at Deadline, the R-rated comedy earned $35 million over the weekend, coming very close to making up its $45 million production budget. That doesn't quite make it the biggest opening R-rated film of the year-- that honor goes to Safe House-- but it's nothing to sneeze at, particularly with rave reviews and a B CinemaScore indicating it'll keep doing well down the line.

If it's not enough of a surprise to hear that 21 Jump Street did so well, how about this-- Will Ferrell's Casa de mi Padre, an absurdist comedy that's entirely in Spanish, did so well in limited release that it cracked the nationwide top 10, making $2.2 million from just 382 theaters. Given that the movie just cost $6 million to make, that's a really nice sum, especially for a movie so strange with such a seemingly limited appeal.

John Carter, be warned: it didn't get much better this weekend. The movie took what's usually the standard 55% drop between first and second weekends, making $13.5 million over the weekend to bring it to $53.1 million total domestic. It continues to get creamed by The Lorax, which added another $22.8 million to its gross this weekend, and is now at $158.4 millions domestic.

Let us know in the comments what you saw this weekend, and prepare for a box office bonanza next weekend-- The Hunger Games is imminent!

Abraham Lincoln Vampire Hunter trailer

Holy shit, check out the new Prometheus trailer!

[Octo adds: I don't regret watching that, but I don't recommend it for those who want to avoid spoilers with this movie. It seemed like the quick-cut montage part at the end gave away some stuff. Looks freaking amazing, though.]

Nerdy Knitting -- R2D2 knit hat

 When I read the subject line "R2D2 Intarsia" in my email inbox this afternoon I nearly leapt out of my seat.




Sitting in a coffee shop in a major city where the streets today have been littered with just as much trash as they have with scantily-clad green teenaged girls "celebrating" remnants of a holiday that many don't understand (I include myself in that category), I hope you all can imagine my glee in uncovering yet another way in which nerds unite their affinity for science fiction and crafts.

Intarsia is a knitting technique where you simultaneously knit more than one color of yarn in any given row. The "right side" of the work looks neat and orderly but the "wrong side" looks like a tangle of stranded colorful fibers, as if a rainbow had diarrhea on your garments.

See what I mean?

Anyway the full Interweave Knits article is here. A Google search for "R2D2 knit hat also yielded Vulcan-ear hats and Death Star hats, among others (such as a baby hat with giant Yoda ears).

S.H.I.E.L.D. Helicarrier

Man oh man, did I love that S.H.I.E.L.D. "helicarrier" when I was a kid. Top image is the very first time it was ever shown, in a splash page from Strange Tales #165, which is Nick Fury's 1963 origin story (written by Stan Lee and drawn by Jack Kirby, of course). ("Origin" isn't quite right, since the Fury character existed in a successful WWII series Marvel had going already.) Below that is Bill Sienkiewicz' wonderful watercolor rendition of the helicarrier silhouetted against the haze of a Washington D.C. sunrise, from Frank Miller's mind-blowing Elektra Assassin (1986), one of my favorite S.H.I.E.L.D. stories (just because Fury is presented as a "boy scout" figurehead who's got no idea what evil things the agency's up to).

Below that are shots from the Japanese Avengers trailer which reveal the delightful information that the helicarrier is in the movie. That must be the new helicarrier: Cal posted about this and sounded drily nonplussed and excited about the design, so maybe it looks like that now. Who cares! It's still totally wicked.

The helicarrier is such an exuberant example of comic book elements that don't make any real sense at all but get lovingly created and presented anyway. Notwithstanding the usual George Lucas/Roland Emmerich/Robert Zemeckis problem of "how the hell does it get off the ground" (little round fans in the corners aren't going to cut it), can you imagine how much fuel that thing must use up? Just to get some aircraft into a tactical launch position? I mean, the whole point of an aircraft carrier is that you can't fly that far... Never mind; it's a comic book. I get it. I wish we actually could make building-sized machines just float around like that (as in so much great sci-fi imagery).

Jurassic Park to be re-released in 3D

From darkhorizons, Universal Pictures has confirmed a 3D re-release is in the works for Steven Spielberg’s original "Jurassic Park" with a July 19th 2013 release date set - a little over twenty years after the original opened in June 1993.

Tim Burton's 'Dark Shadows' trailer looks awful

Lots of new footage in the Japanese trailer for The Avengers!

Comedian Gallagher suffers heart attack at Texas club

(CNN) -- The comic Gallagher, known for smashing watermelons, is "slowly recovering" from a heart attack suffered just before he was to perform at a Texas club, his promotional manager said Thursday.

"We will not know the outcome until sometime tomorrow," said Christine Scherrer.

Gallagher, 65, is listed in stable condition at an undisclosed Dallas-area hospital, Scherrer said.

He was about to go on stage Wednesday at Hat Tricks, a Lewisville, Texas, club, when he fell ill and was taken to a hospital by paramedics, she said.

"His family is with him and Hat Tricks has been unbelievable with the help and support with everything," Scherrer said.

His shows in Texas, Oklahama and Oregon scheduled through next week have been postponed, she said.

Craig Marquardo, who said he manages Gallagher's "bigger deals," said this is the comedian's third heart attack.

"He's weak," Marquardo said. "He's having difficulty."

Scherrer, however, told CNN any information from Marquardo is "100 percent inaccurate," saying he is not Gallagher's manager.

Gallagher's family is "fuming" over reports quoting Marquardo, she said.

More really cool home videos from Roddy McDowell

Spinning off of JPX's post below - here is one of a slew of videos that Roddy McDowell took of a whole bunch of famous people hanging out at his beach house. Hellllooooooo Paul Newman!! And a very beautiful Natalie Wood...



Here is a link with all of them.  Cool stuff!