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‘Inglourious Basterds’ Rules The Weekend Box Office

Score best actor at the box office this weekend to Quentin Tarantino. In the film Inglourious Basterds, his revisionist take WWIIstarring Brad Pitt, earned about $ 37,600,000 "WOW", in government offices champDistrict box 9, and gave beleaguered studio The Weinstein Co. relieved with the financial situation dancsedikit thinning. opening far exceeded the opening Basterds' previous best Tarantino, Kill Bill Vol. 2, which brought U.S. $ 25 million in April 2004. 

What who repent now is how Basterds will be valid for the next few weeks. Since Weinstein only has domestic rights to the film-Universal Pictures International in the United States holds large-dirty is mandatory for the company as a whole. Warner Bros. has a more difficult time with the release Shorts auteur Robert Rodriguez. Opening movie for children is only $ 6.6 million or PG-rated land on a weak finish 6 for its opening frame Only new release to reach the top ten are post-college film Fox Searchlight's Post Grad starring Alexis Bledel, Although in 1959 the opening of the classic film that is only about $ 2,800,000 during the three days. Among holdovers. District 9 is very good considering the arrest Basterds wages directly to the male audience. $ 30,000,000 sci-fi film from newcomer Neil Blomkamp dropping% 49 slightly to $ 18,900,000 gross total of ten days at an impressive $ 73 million.

GI Joe is also dependent on the third week in theaters. The high-octane actioner is only down 44% to $ 12.5 million. Now the three-week cume is $ 120 million. Female moviegoers helped push The Time Traveler's Wife and Julie & Julia in the top five. Time Traveler is only down 46% to $ 10 million in the second week of placing the ten-day gross $ 37,400,000 while Julie & Julia is only down 25% this is a very tight competition, and extraordinary refractive considering the film in the third week of release. Grossing $ 9,000,000 for three days, Meryl Streep, Amy Adams, two-hander now obtained a total of $ 59,000,000. turned out to god to give thanks to the opening of a movie Basterds incumbent is a strong and solid hold, box office increased by 26% over the same period last year. This is the third week in a row the box office go up after four weeks of the results are not impressive. Next weekend's horror mash-up Halloween II and The Final Destination 3-D, and a big horror movie.

'Vampire Diaries' Star Ian Somerhalder Talks Green Summit In D.C.

Although Ian Somerhalder is in the thick of a busy filming schedule for season two of his obsessed-over CW show "The Vampire Diaries," he's taking a day off — and for a good cause. Somerhalder is heading to Washington, D.C. where he's attending the Washington Energy Summit on Thursday. 

Somerhalder will meet with members of both houses of Congress to discuss the importance of green/alternative energy and technology. The actor has been vocal about the effect of the BP oil spill and recently partnered up with the portable energy company Go Green Mobile Power. When we caught up with him on the eve of his big trip, Somerhalder was brimming with excitement over getting to be a part of the conversation at a national level.

"It's really, really cool," he told MTV News about his participation in the summit. "I think there's a lot of anger and frustration and fear and determination in this exact moment in our country in the wake of this huge oil spill. But the government, they know enough to figure it out and they're taking steps to do that, so I'm really honored to be invited to go and speak with these people. I'll try not to screw up," he joked. "I can't wait to put my thinking cap on and get to Washington and have really structured and really inspiring conversations with people and hopefully something comes out of it.

As for his partnership with Go green Mobile Power Somerhalder said the company has generated much attention and he hopes to have one of their green-energy generators on the "Vampire Diaries" set soon.

"Warner Bros. [loves them] and the network are figuring out right now how to get that thing on set," he explained. "There has been a lot of interest from the city of Los Angeles, Mayor Villaraigosa; there's a lot going on. It's really exciting stuff, we're going to go full bore and get these things out there producing green power." 

Somerhalder is a man with a plan. For information on how you can get involved, visit WashingtonEnergySummit.com. But don't think we cornered the star and didn't get any "Diaries" dish. Stay with MTVNews.com for more on what's next for Damon.

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