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Johnny Depp was on some Florida radio station talking about his upcoming Kids reunion Shiela Benefit show. The Kids was Johnny Depp’s rock band that he played guitar in before moving out to LA and becoming an actor.

One of the radio hosts, after talking more about The Kids and what charities their show will benefit, asks Johnny if he’s heard anything about himself being The Riddler. Depp says that he’s not as far as he know, but “It seems like it’d be a fun gig for a while, yeah.” That conversation happens around 3:43 in the below YouTube recording.

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Despite five new wide releases opening in theaters over Labor Day weekend, Ben Stiller’s comedy Tropic Thunder (DreamWorks) held its ground, remaining at #1 for the third weekend in a row, Stiller’s second movie to achieve that rare honor after Night at the Museum in 2007. It grossed another estimated $14.3 million, down just 12% from last weekend, and brought its total gross to $86.6 million.

Projected by some to take the top spot this weekend, Vin Diesel’s sci-fi action flick Babylon A.D. (20th Century Fox) instead grossed just $12 million in 3,390 theaters (the weekend’s widest new release) with a weak average of $3,500 per site.

After four weeks at #1 before dropping down to fourth place last week, Christopher Nolan’s action-thriller The Dark Knight (Warner Bros.) not only crossed the $500 million mark domestically yesterday, a feat only accomplished once before by James Cameron’s Titanic, but it also moved back up a notch to third place with $11 million over the extended weekend for a total of $504.7 million. Internationally, The Dark Knight added $19.2 million for an overseas gross of $417 million. Combined, it has earned a massive $921.7 million worldwide and has climbed to the 9th spot on the all-time worldwide blockbuster list.

The Dark Knight pulled ahead of last week’s #2, the Sony comedy The House Bunny with Anna Farris, which dropped to fourth place with an estimated $10.2 million and an 11-day gross of $29.7 million.

Opening on Wednesday and grossing $1.5 million before Friday, the political thriller Traitor (Overture Films) starring Don Cheadle added another $10 million over the four-day weekend in just over 2,000 theaters, claiming the best per-site average for a new wide release. With a reported production budget of just $22 million (compared to $70 million for Babylon A.D.), it’s quite a victory for Overture and first-time director Jeffrey Nachmanoff.

Univeral’s remake of Death Race starring Jason Statham dropped 35% from its opening weekend, settling for sixth place with $8.2 million and a total gross of $25 million.

The last nail in the coffin of the spoof movie trend was pounded home with the awful opening for Disaster Movie (Lionsgate), making just $6.8 million in its first four days, compared to the $19 million opening for Meet the Spartans just six months back.

With the help of a new Sing-A-Long version released for one week only into 299 theaters, Universal’s hit musical Mamma Mia! grossed $5.8 million over the holiday weekend, up 34% from last weekend despite losing 358 theaters. Apparently, the Sing-A-Long did 20% of the movie’s weekend business, as it brought its box office total to $133.9 million.

The top 10 was rounded out by Seth Rogen’s action-comedy Pineapple Express (Sony) with $4.5 million and a total gross of $80 million, while Woody Allen’s Vicky Cristina Barcelona (MGM/Weinstein Co.), starring Javier Bardem and Scarlett Johansson, moved up a notch with $3.5 million and $13.3 million total while still playing in less than 700 theaters. With the best per-theater average in the Top 10, it looks like Allen is on his way to another hit, his first since Match Point.

Opening well outside the Top 10 at #14, MGM’s long-delayed College, picked up when Lionsgate dropped it, grossed just $2.6 million in 2,123 theaters. After opening in limited release last week, Focus Features’ R-rated comedy Hamlet 2, starring Steve Coogan, expanded wider into 1,597 theaters on Wednesday, but only grossed $2.1 million, enough for 17th place.

The Top 10 grossed an estimated $86.4 million over the four-day holiday weekend, down a whopping 26% from last Labor Day when Rob Zombie’s Halloween remake set a new box office record for the holiday with $31 million in its first four days.

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The ComingSoon.net Box Office Report has been updated with studio estimates for the weekend. Click here for the full box office estimates of the top 12 films and then check back on Monday for the final figures based on actual box office.

There were a number of close calls this weekend but the success of Anna Faris’ new comedy The House Bunny (Sony) on Friday, winning the top spot with $5.8 million, wasn’t enough to keep it from losing the weekend to Ben Stiller’s war comedy Tropic Thunder (DreamWorks), co-starring Jack Black and Robert Downey Jr. The ensemble comedy remained at #1 for its 2nd weekend in a row, grossing $16.1 million and bringing its total to $65.7 million. The House Bunny ended up with an estimated $15.1 million in 2,714 theaters, averaging $5,500 per site, the best per-theater average for any movie playing this weekend.

Jason Statham and Tyrese Gibson starred in Universal’s fourth action movie of the summer, Paul W.S. Anderson’s remake of Roger Corman’s Death Race, projected to win the weekend but having to settle for third place with an estimated $12.3 million in 2,532 theaters.

Dropping to fourth place, Christopher Nolan’s mega-blockbuster The Dark Knight (Warner Bros.) continues to thrive with $10.3 million in its sixth weekend, the first time since opening where it’s not in the Top 5 for its respective weekend compared to other movies. (See the corresponding comparisons here.) Even so, its running total domestically is up to $489 million, which means it could hit that elusive $500 million mark by Labor Day. That amount has only been seen once before domestically, by James Cameron’s Titanic, which made more than twice “Dark Knight’s” weekend gross in its own sixth weekend.

Internationally, The Dark Knight added another $34 million from 7,700 theaters in 62 markets. The overseas total has hit $381.2 million and the film has reached $870.4 million worldwide, climbing to 15th on the all-time worldwide blockbuster list.

The top 5 was rounded out by George Lucas’ animated Star Wars: The Clone Wars (Warner Bros.) with $5.6 million, nearly a 60% drop from its disappointing opening weekend, having amassed just $25 million. It came out just ahead of Sony’s stoner comedy Pineapple Express, starring Seth Rogen and James Franco, which has grossed $73.9 million to date, a considerable success compared to its cost. The 20th Century Fox horror movie Mirrors with Keifer Sutherland, followed at #7 with $4.9 million, a sizable drop from its opening weekend with a total gross of $20 million.

The other two new movies in wide release, Ice Cube’s family football drama The Longshots (MGM/Dimension) and Rainn Wilson’s rock comedy The Rocker (20th Century Fox) both bombed. The former opened in eighth place with $4.3 million (less than $1,000 more than the hit musical Mamma Mia!) while the latter opened outside the Top 10 at #12 with $2.7 million, averaging less than a million per site in the widest release of the new movies.

This weekend, Universal Pictures’ two movies reversed order as the musical Mamma Mia! came out ahead of The Mummy: Tomb of the Dragon Emperor, both grossing just over $4 million on the weekend. The Meryl Streep musical brings its box office total to $124 million while the Brendan Fraser action flick has grossed just $93.8 million after four weeks, compared to its reported production budget of $145 million.

Opening in limited release in 103 theaters, the weekend’s third comedy Hamlet 2 (Focus Features) starring Steve Coogan (also in Tropic Thunder), opened with a disappointing $435 thousand, averaging just $4,223 per site. Focus still plans on expanding the movie nationwide on Wednesday in hopes of bringing in some word-of-mouth business over the extended Labor Day weekend next week.

The Top 10 grossed an estimated $82.6 million, down just 2% from the same period last year.

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Veteran singer Cher has become the latest star tipped to take on the role of Catwoman in a forthcoming Batman movie.

Angelina Jolie is also rumoured to be in the running for the part, if The Dark Knight director Christopher Nolan decides to resurrect the legendary comic book character.

And the moviemaker is reportedly now turning his eye to older actresses, including 62-year-old Cher – in a bid to portray Catwoman as an ageing femme fatale.

A source tells British newspaper the Sunday Mirror, “Cher is Nolan’s first choice to play Catwoman. He wants to portray her like a vamp in her twilight years. The new Catwoman will be the absolute opposite of Michelle Pfeiffer and Halle Berry‘s creations.”

Julie Newmar was the first actress to take on the role in the 1960s Batman television series. The supervillainess has also been played by Eartha Kitt, Lee Meriwether, Michelle Pfeiffer and Halle Berry.

A psychic from from Dearborn, Michigan claims to have been in contact with Heath Ledger recently.

”Sometimes when I’m having a session and engaged with an entity, another one will appear for no reason. That’s what happened this time. It was Heath Ledger, clear as day, looking just like he did in A Knight’s Tale only he was wearing street clothes. He looked very confident and young.”

“He looked me right in the eye and said ‘Life is too fucking short. You got to enjoy your life.’”

“Heath said he would have given up the fame and fortune just to spend more time with Matilda. Looking back at his life he realized that being driven towards having a great acting career also carried its’ share of high costs. But he didn’t seem sad at all.”

“Heath said he couldn’t have been more pleased at how the The Dark Knight turned out. He said he was extremely happy for all of his castmates. He even said he was looking out for Morgan Freeman on the night of his accident and he sent positive vibes to Christian Bale when he ran into his family troubles. He told me he would continue to act as sort of Guardian Angel for all of his friends and family. With that he smiled and disappeared.”

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The reign of Warner Bros.’ The Dark Knight may finally be over as six new movies made it difficult to sustain the top spot after four weeks in residence there. Even so, yesterday it passed the unadjusted gross of George Lucas’ 1977 sci-fi classic Star Wars to become the second-highest grossing movie domestically with an astounding five-week box office gross of $471.5 million. (Star Wars’ unadjusted gross was $461 million including a number of re-releases since its debut thirty years ago.)

It was replaced at the top by Ben Stiller’s war comedy Tropic Thunder (DreamWorks), co-starring Jack Black and Robert Downey Jr., which grossed $11 million on Wednesday and Thursday, then picked up strong word-of-mouth business over the weekend with an additional $26 million, making more in five days than Stiller’s last movie The Heartbreak Kid made in its entire theatrical run.

Although The Dark Knight dropped to second place with $16.8 million this weekend, it remained just ahead of George Lucas’ latest Jedi adventure, the animated Star Wars: The Clone Wars (Warner Bros.), which opened in over 3,400 theaters (more than Tropic Thunder) but delivered a disappointing $15.5 million, an average of $4,500 per site. The poor showing might be blamed on the mostly negative reviews and feelings among the fanbase that it’s essentially a television cartoon that didn’t necessarily need to be seen in theaters.

Internationally, The Dark Knight topped the box office with $42.4 million from 7,700 theaters in 60 markets. The movie has reached $328.6 million overseas for a combined worldwide total of $800.1 million, climbing to the 19th spot on the all-time worldwide blockbuster chart.

Alexandre (The Hills Have Eyes) Aja’s latest horror film Mirrors (20th Century Fox), starring Keifer Sutherland, opened in 4th place with $11.1 million in 2,664 theaters, while Sony’s stoner comedy Pineapple Express, starring Seth Rogen and James Franco, dropped from second to fifth place with $10 million in its second weekend to bring its total to $63 million.

Universal Pictures took the next two spots with their returning movies The Mummy: Tomb of the Dragon Emperor and the musical Mamma Mia! with $8.6 million and $6.5 million, respectively. The Brendan Fraser action flick has grossed roughly $87 million while the Meryl Streep musical has $116.4 million under its belt. It’s just a couple million behind passing last year’s Hairspray as the third-highest grossing movie musical.

“The Mummy” took second place internationally with $32.6 million from 6,853 theaters in 56 markets. It has earned a total of $196.6 million overseas for a worldwide total of $283 million.

The Warner Bros. sequel The Sisterhood of the Traveling Pants 2 dropped to 8th place with $5.9 million and a total gross of $32.1 million, followed by the Will Ferrell-John C. Reilly comedy Step Brothers (Sony) with $5 million and a total gross of just under $91 million.

Opening in just under 700 theaters, Woody Allen’s romantic comedy Vicky Cristina Barcelona (MGM/Weinstein), starring Scarlett Johansson, Javier Bardem and Penelope Cruz, rounded out the Top 10 with $3.7 million, becoming Allen’s biggest opening movie since 2000′s Small Time Crooks as well as the second-biggest opening of his 35-year career.

Opening in 452 digital 3D capable theaters, Summit Entertainment’s G-rated animated movie Fly Me to the Moon grossed $2 million to open in 12th place, averaging $4,400 per site. Also opening moderately in 527 theaters, the Sundance pick-up Henry Poole is Here (Overture) starring Luke Wilson grossed just $800,000, averaging a pitiful $1,500 per site.

The Top 10 grossed an estimated $110 million, which is just slightly more than the Top 10 grossed in the same weekend period last year.

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