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Midnight in Paris is poised to become Woody Allen’s biggest hit in 25 years. Though it only recently reached more than 1,000 movie theaters, the Owen Wilson comedy has grossed an impressive $22.7 million, in addition to near-universal critical praise. When it passes Match Point ($23.1 million) and Vicky Cristina Barcelona ($23.2 million) later this week, it will be the director’s most successful film since the Oscar-winning Hannah and Her Sisters in 1986.
Well, technically… but not really. As impressive as Midnight in Paris has been — especially following duds You Will Meet a Tall Dark Stranger and Whatever Works — no box-office nerd would attempt to rank it among Allen’s biggest hits. Films simply cost more today; and so do tickets. So when adjusted for inflation (courtesy of BoxOfficeMojo.com), Midnight in Paris‘s grosses rank only 20th among Allen’s films, trailing movies like The Purple Rose of Cairo and Small Time Crooks. A more comprehensive ranking of Allen’s films at the box office is after the jump: READ FULL STORY »
Playing the smoking hot vampire Eric Northman is humbling, to say the least, for Swedish actor Alexander Skarsgard. So to say that he’s used to the adoration from female fans of True Blood, the subject of this week’s Entertainment Weekly cover story, would be a bit of an understatement. (For proof, consider this little detail that EW dug up from Charlaine Harris, the author of the extremely popular Sookie Stackhouse novels that serve as the inspiration for True Blood: She says that fans often ask her to autograph the tomes to “Mrs. Alexander Skarsgard.”)
