By: Vickie J. Rubinson
Movie audiences accepted a proposal from Sandra Bullock and Ryan Reynolds, who scored the summer's first big romantic comedy hit.
Bullock and Reynold's "The Proposal" took in $34.1 million to open as the weekend's No. 1 movie according to studio estimates today. The Disney flick delivered the biggest opening ever for Bullock nearly double that of her previous best of $17.6 million for the 2007 paranormal thriller "Premonition."
Bullock stars as a ruthless publicist executive who coerces her put-upon assistant into a fake marriage so she can avoid deportation back to her native Canada.
"June is officially comedy month at the theaters. Comedy is really ruling things," said Paul Dergarabedian, box-office analyst for Hollywood.com.
Woody Allan's latest comedy, "Whatever Works," had a strong start in limited release, hauling in $280,720 in nine theaters for an average of $31,191 a cinema. Released by Sony Pictures Classics, "Whatever Works" stars Larry David as a misanthropic New Yorker who forgest unlikely relationships with a conservative Southern family (Evan Rachel Wood, Patricia Clarkson and Ed Begley Jr).
Movie audiences accepted a proposal from Sandra Bullock and Ryan Reynolds, who scored the summer's first big romantic comedy hit.
Bullock and Reynold's "The Proposal" took in $34.1 million to open as the weekend's No. 1 movie according to studio estimates today. The Disney flick delivered the biggest opening ever for Bullock nearly double that of her previous best of $17.6 million for the 2007 paranormal thriller "Premonition."
Bullock stars as a ruthless publicist executive who coerces her put-upon assistant into a fake marriage so she can avoid deportation back to her native Canada.
"June is officially comedy month at the theaters. Comedy is really ruling things," said Paul Dergarabedian, box-office analyst for Hollywood.com.
Woody Allan's latest comedy, "Whatever Works," had a strong start in limited release, hauling in $280,720 in nine theaters for an average of $31,191 a cinema. Released by Sony Pictures Classics, "Whatever Works" stars Larry David as a misanthropic New Yorker who forgest unlikely relationships with a conservative Southern family (Evan Rachel Wood, Patricia Clarkson and Ed Begley Jr).
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