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Bytes: Borat No. 1 Again
- BORAT is still the king of the box office. The comedy, starring Sacha Baron Cohen as the crude Kazakh journalist, earned $29 million to remain the top movie for a second straight weekend. Its 10-day total is at $67.8 million.
- Spider-Man’s a daddy! Tobey Maguire and fiancée Jennifer Meyer welcomed their first child, a baby girl, on Saturday. Maguire stars in SPIDER-MAN 3, which opens May 4, 2007. [Link]
- Jonathan Mostow (TERMINATOR 3) has signed on to direct a Fox pilot called THEM, based on the graphic novel SIX.
- Chris Palmer is attached to direct A SPELL FOR CHAMELEON, based on the first book of the long-running Xanth series by Piers Anthony, for Warner Bros. Pictures. [Link]
- SUPERMAN RETURNS director Bryan Singer will produce a horror movie called TRICK ‘R TREAT, starring Brian Cox and Anna Paquin.
- Here come the holidays. CBS will air the classic animated holiday movies RUDOLPH THE RED-NOSED REINDEER and FROSTY THE SNOWMAN on December 8.
- NPR has a discussion of the lasting appeal of the 1937 Carl Orff classical piece Carmina Burana, which has been a pop culture staple for decades finding its way into modern music and movies, particularly as the score for movie trailers. [Link]
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