Monday, April 17, 2006

According to a BBC source



The BBC is working on a new TV series entitled Great British Menu. In it, top TV chefs slug it out to win the chance to cook for the Queen's 80th Birthday. But HRH has decreed that she only wants to eat Gary Rhodes' food and that he should be the winner regardless.

Stop Complaining Alba


Despite being voted the sexiest woman in showbiz by Playboy magazine, 'Sin City' actress Jessica Alba confessed that she is fed up of being the ‘slutty girl’.

She said that she is tired of being offered the same kind of roles and looking forward to getting more challenging roles in the future. She wants to act in romantic comedy films.

"I'll leave the slutty girl to other people and I'll play the sweet, moral girlfriend who believes in love.

That's where I want to go next - a romantic comedy or something like that", Femalefirst quoted her saying.

She added that she is more of a tomboy girl who loves to play ‘dress-up’ for a living.

"I'm a tomboy at heart. I'm a pretty traditional, domestic, boring person - l like to take my dog for walks. That's why I play dress-up for a living”, she added.

Miramax Comeback

Bob and Harvey Weinstein returned to the box-office lead as Scary Movie 4 made its debut with $41 million, the first No. 1 opening for the new company founded by the former Miramax bosses.

It set a record for best Easter weekend debut, beating the $30.1 million of Panic Room in 2002, according to studio estimates yesterday.

The animated hit Ice Age: The Meltdown, which had been No. 1 the previous two weekends, slipped to second place with $20 million, raising its total to $147.2 million.

Hollywood’s overall revenues rose for the fourth straight weekend, with the top 12 movies grossing $110 million.

That was up 23 percent from 2005’s Easter weekend, which came three weeks earlier last year. It was up about 45 percent compared with the mid-April weekend last year.

Estimated ticket sales for Friday through yesterday at North American theaters, according to Exhibitor Relations Co. Inc., with final figures to be released today:

1. Scary Movie 4, $41 million

2. Ice Age: The Meltdown, $20 million

3. The Benchwarmers, $10 million

4. The Wild, $9.6 million 5. Take the Lead, $6.7 million 6. Inside Man, $6.3 million 7. Lucky Number Slevin, $4.6 million 8. Thank You for Smoking, $4.45 million 9. Failure to Launch, $2.6 million 10. V for Vendetta, $2.2 million