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	BOX OFFICE ITALIA. 26 - 28 agosto: 14 ELVIS HAS LEFT THE BUILDING WARNER BR 3gg 27.393,09 0 62 27.393,09. 2 - 4 settembre: 22 ELVIS HAS LEFT THE BUILDING WARNER BR 2 5.536,00 -81 8 47.854,84. August 26-28: 1 4 Herbie: Fully Loaded BVI $1,142,555 365% 354 $3,228 $1,581,387 1 2 - The Island WB $1,140,983 - 309 $3,693 $1,322,699 1 3 6 Mindhunters Eagle $674,044 201% 228 $2,956 $1,033,275 1 4 1 The Amityville Horror BVI $316,204 -43% 197 $1,605 $1,442,944 2 5 - Deuce Bigalow: European Gigolo Sony $211,643 - 10 $21,164 $211,643 1 6 - A Lot Like Love Italian $192,625 - 141 $1,366 $243,083 1 7 3 Raise Your Voice Eagle $136,283 -51% 179 $761 $698,960 2 8 2 War of the Worlds UIP $127,467 -56% 88 $1,448 $16,069,885 9 9 5 Guess Who Fox $124,013 -49% 111 $1,117 $547,763 2 10 - Les Temps qui changent Mikado $91,816 - 34 $2,700 $91,816 1 11 - 20 centímetros Lady Film $42,240 - 30 $1,408 $42,631 1 12 7 Batman Begins WB $38,818 -72% 36 $1,078 $8,366,802 11 13 - Concorso di colpa Istituto $37,598 - 48 $783 $37,598 1 14 - Elvis Has Left the Building WB $33,611 - 62 $542 $33,611 1 15 8 The Life and Death of Peter Sellers Lucky Red $33,325 -63% 72 $463 $226,163 2 16 - Riding Giants Fandango $21,660 - 30 $722 $40,653 1 17 9 Things to Do Before You're 30 WB $18,885 -74% 21 $899 $504,719 6 18 15 The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy BVI $11,724 -60% 8 $1,466 $123,279 3 19 - Brodeuses Bim $11,090 - 13 $853 $399,994 14 20 - Being Julia Mikado $10,094 - 9 $1,122 $683,734 12
	Elvis Has Left the Building (2004) Every so often, a movie that ought to have received notice passes beneath the radar. Okay, it happens fairly often, but you'd think with a cast that includes Kim Basinger, Sean Astin, Denise Richards, John Corbett, Annie Potts, Richard Kind (Spin City), David Leisure, Angie Dickinson, Billy Ray Cyrus, and Tom Hanks (albeit in a one-shot cameo), Elvis Has Left the Building would've gotten some sort of attention. Nope. It's gone straight to DVD. Harmony Jones (Basinger) is a single, successful cosmetics saleswoman who grew up a few blocks over from Elvis Presley (Gil McKinney). On the road from Texas to Nevada, she begins encountering more and more Elvis impersonators—each of whom meets an untimely demise when in her company. So when she meets a potential Mr. Right in Miles (Corbett), she runs away, believing him to be an impersonator and therefore in danger. (The audience knows the truth: Miles's bee-atch of a soon-to-be-ex wife (Richards) is the impersonator in the family.) Meanwhile, two FBI agents (Mike Starr, who has to be the busiest character actor working today, and newcomer Phill Lewis) are assigned the case of the mysteriously dying impersonators. Starr and Lewis are the classic odd couple—big and messy, small and fastidious, and the actors have great chemistry. "Romp" is a good word to describe this movie. "Campy" is another. "Over-the-top" doesn't begin to do it justice. "Goofy" is good. Get the picture? Don't think too hard—it's just screwball comedy. And as such, it works. Joel Zwick (My Big Fat Greek Wedding) managed to round up this cast with only $11 million. He did it, he explains on the commentary, by calling in favors and talking to friends—the Hollywood networking machine at work. He also offered actors a chance to play against type—Kind, for example, finally gets to play a different kind of loser; Corbett gives maybe his best performance since his Northern Exposure days. His disillusioned ad exec is far more interesting than his Greek Wedding character, his Sex and the City role, or the bland pastor from Raising Helen. Not that some actors didn't embrace their type: Leisure, best known as the pathologically lying pitchman Joe Isuzu, is still deliciously smarmy here. Potts returns to her wisecracking Designing Women roots; Pat Morita gets a cameo that becomes a bit The Karate Kid Meets Elvis; Philip Charles MacKenzie, now a successful sitcom director, essentially reprises the queeny role he played in the 1984 sitcom Brothers. Basinger is solid at comedy, a genre she hasn't tackled since Wayne's World 2 (she was even better in My Stepmother is an Alien). Because she's on the run both from the cops and from Miles, she carries her part of the film alone; that's a pretty hefty job, even for a woman with talented co-stars. Zwick received complete cooperation from Elvis Presley's estate—not an easy task except, perhaps, when one is making a movie that lambastes Elvis impersonators. Conversely, he had so much trouble with the Mary Kay legalese that he eventually created a fictional counterpart: Pink Lady Cosmetics. The DVD has only one extra feature: Zwick's commentary. Unless you want to know exactly how he landed each one of these actors, or how he made a movie on a relatively small budget, or the benefits of filming in New Mexico, skip it. The soundtrack is phenomenal, assuming you like classic Elvis songs. Some are sung by the King himself; others are covers. All fit beautifully—lyrically—into the plot, and some plot quirks hang on different songs (Harmony's mother, a mechanic, sings different songs depending on what part she's fixing). This movie doesn't get a good rating because it's a fantastic work of art (there is one major continuity error, but it's over with soon enough); it simply does what it sets out to do: be silly and make viewers laugh. You definitely have to be in the right frame of mind, though, and you have to have an appreciation for quirky indie comedies that have no particular social value (aside, of course, from killing Elvis impersonators). The key to enjoying Elvis Has Left the Building is to just roll with it, have fun, and don't expect Great Artistic Cinema. You might even consider a theme night—say, with Honeymoon in Vegas and 3000 Miles to Graceland. Who knows? Elvis might even join you.
	DVD review: Elvis has left the building Sometimes, when I'm watching a movie, I try to imagine the creative meeting from which the film was born. My fantastical scenario for ``Elvis Has Left the Building''? Director Joel Zwick, fresh off the wild success of ``My Big Fat Greek Wedding,'' is surrounded by toady agents, producers and other Hollywood heavyweights. Zwick leans back in his chair and, through a cloud of heavy smoke, says something like: ``I'm thinking about a comedy/murder mystery with Elvis impersonators. We'll get Kim Basinger!'' And voila, a movie, albeit lousy and not so funny, is made. ``Elvis Has Left the Building'' stars Basinger as Harmony Jones, a traveling cosmetics saleswoman whose onetime meeting with The King has shaped her very small world. Jones is nearing Las Vegas when she happens upon a string of Elvis impersonators, all of whom end up dead. Meanwhile, ``Sex and the City'' star John Corbett is on his way to Vegas to deliver an Elvis costume to his soon-to-be-ex-wife. Along the way, the two meet and part several times, all the while being tailed by the FBI. Sound ludicrous? Maybe that's why this movie is simply the type you might watch if you're sick in bed and somewhat delirious. Basinger is her ditzy self in the film, reminiscent of her turns as dingy blonde in ``Nadine'' and ``The Marrying Man.'' It was hard to believe this was the same woman who wowed audiences most recently in ``The Door in the Floor.'' This is a regression. Corbett, as usual, is glib and sexy and par for the course. There are some interesting cameos, which make for a little fun, but not much.
	Hey, Hollywood: 'Older' women still sexy Women over 30 need not apply. That, at least, seems to be true in Tinseltown, where just this month, Lynda Carter herself declared Sandra Bullock, 41, and Catherine Zeta- Jones, 35, too old to play Wonder Woman. (I'm assuming no doors have ever closed in Carter's face because of her age - 54.) But in the past year, there has been ample on-screen evidence that the 40s and 50s, and sexy are not mutually exclusive. So tune up Fountains of Wayne's "Stacy's Mom (Has Got It Going On)," and consider these "older" women. Diane Lane, 40: Two years ago, she outshone the landscape of Tuscany, no small feat, in "Under the Tuscan Sun." Now she's romancing John Cusack in "Must Love Dogs." Much is made of recently divorced Sarah's over- 40 status in the movie, but are you going to hold that against her? She had enough suitors and exuded a magical combination of sexiness and smarts. Twenty-three years after she made it, Lane still fits the title of her 1982 made-for-TV melodrama "Miss All-American Beauty." Jane Seymour, 54: Most of us know her as "Dr. Quinn, Medicine Woman," but moviegoers are seeing a different side of the British beauty in "Wedding Crashers." And they see a lot of her, as the onetime Bond girl (Solitaire in 1973's "Live and Let Die") appears topless with Owen Wilson, 36. It's a wacky scene in which Seymour's mother-of- the-bride character tries to seduce Wilson's crasher, but some reviews and Internet postings have commented that a bit of the humor was lost because Seymour is still quite tempting. Susan Sarandon, 58: She was already over 40 when Crash Davis (Kevin Costner) and Nuke LaLoosh (Tim Robbins) competed for her affections in "Bull Durham" (1988). Since then, Sarandon has mixed fetching roles such as Louise in "Thelma & Louise" (1990) with intelligent parts such as her Academy Award- winning turn in "Dead Man Walking" (1995). But just last year, in "Alfie," she turned 32- year-old Jude Law's head, as well as many moviegoers'. Halle Berry, 38: She's strutting toward 40 in a full, sexy stride. We hated "Catwoman" (2004), but she could teach Jessica Simpson, 25, a few things about walking around in next to nothing. It was only a few years ago that she recreated Ursula Andress's unforgettable entrance in "Die Another Day" (2002) - Andress was 25 when she did it in "Dr. No" (1962) - and Halle's the only Bond girl who's ever been considered for a spinoff. Consider this: When "Foxy Brown" comes out, she'll be near 40. Kim Basinger, 51: In "Cellular" (2004), she was a mom who had it going on. Her character was supposed to be a high school biology teacher, though it's easy to believe her male students might have had a hard time concentrating. Basinger didn't register in the national consciousness until she was nearly 30. Since then, her beauty has been enhanced by intelligent roles such as her Oscar-winning turn in "L.A. Confidential" (1997) and the terminally mourning mom in last summer's "The Door in the Floor."
	Sharon, è sua la scena più sexy Un sondaggio premia Basic Istinct Proprio mentre l'inossidabile Sharon Stone sta lavorando al sequel di "Basic Instinct", arriva la classifica delle scene più sexy del cinema. E guarda caso in vetta c'è proprio quella sequenza cult del film originale nella quale la star accavallava le gambe mostrandosi senza slip. Un'altra splendida 50enne poteva aspirare al primato: Kim Basinger. Ma la scena del frigo di "9 settimane e mezzo" è solo quarta in classifica. La seconda piazza delle scene più piccanti del grande schermo è andata al "Laureato", quando Anne Bancroft seduce un giovane Dustin Hoffman. Si entra nel mito con il bikini di Ursula Andress che esce giunonica dalle acque in "Agente 007 licenza d’uccidere", il film del '62 di Terence Young che lanciò l'attrice svizzera come sex symbol mondiale. Dicevamo della quarta posizione guadagnata da Kim Basinger grazie allo strip tease di "9 settimane e mezzo" di fronte a un plaudente, e ancora in piena forma, Mickey Rourke. Il sondaggio, promosso da Sony Ericsson, ha coinvolto 1200 cinefili che hanno espresso le loro preferenze sulle sequenze cult del cinema suddivise per genere. La scena del gel di Cameron Diaz in "Tutti pazzi per May" è stata giudicatala più divertente in assoluto, quella più terrificante l'accoltellamento della povera Janet Leigh sotto la doccia di "Psycho" che ha avuto la meglio sulla performance di Anthony Hopkins ne "Il silenzio degli innocenti" e di Jack Nicholson in "The Shining". La migliore scena d'azione? Quando Harrison Ford uccide con una pistolettata l'uomo con la spada ne "I perdatori dell'arca perduta". Oscar del romanticismo alla coppia Patrick Swayze-Jennifer Gray di "Dirty Dancing". Ecco la classifica delle 5 scene più sexy: 1 - Basic Instinct - Sharon Stone che accavalla le gambe 2 - Il Laureato - Dustin Hoffman: "Mrs Robinson, sta cercando di sedurmi?" 3 - 007 Dr No - Ursula Andress in bikini che esce dall'acqua 4 - 9 settimane e mezzo - Mickey Rourke e Kim Basinger davanti al frigo 5 - Sex Crimes - Sesso a tre con Matt Dillon, Denise Richards and Neve Campbell La Top 5 delle scene più comiche: 1 - Tutti pazzi per Mary - Cameron Diaz e il gel sui capelli 2 - Il mondo di Wayne - Mike Myers e Dana Carvey cantano Bohemian Rhapsody 3 - American Pie - Jason Biggs "testa" la torta di mele 4 - Ti presento i miei - Ben Stiller fa cadere l' urna con le ceneri del nonno 5 - Scemo e più scemo - Jeff Daniels rimane con la lingua incollata allo skilift La Top 5 delle scene più horror: 1 - Psycho - la scena della doccia 2 - Alien - l'alieno esce fuori dallo stomaco di John Hurt 3 - Il silenzio degli innocenti - Hopkins: "Mangiai il suo fegato e lo innaffiai con un buon Chianti" 4 - Shining - Jack Nicholson: "Ciao Johnny!" 5 - L'esorcista - Linda Blair indemoniata gira la testa di 360 gradi Scene da thriller e film gialli... ecco la top 5: 1 - Dirty Harry - Clint Eastwood: "Dimmi, ti credi fortunato?" 2 - Thelma and Louise - Davis e Sarandon in auto che si lanciano nel vuoto 3 - Il padrino - la testa del cavallo nel letto 4 - Intrigo ingternazionale: Cary Grant inseguito dall'aereo 5 - Heat: Robert de Niro e Al Pacino che parlano in un bar La Top 5 delle scene d'azione: 1 - I predatori dell'Arca perduta - Harrison Ford spara all'uomo con due sciabole 2 - Speed - Keanu Reeves scopre la bomba sull'autobus 3 - Matrix - la scena del limbo 4 - Bullitt - l'inseguimento di auto a San Francisco 5 - Superman - Christopher Reeves salva Lois Lane che cade da un palazzo La Top 5 delle scene più romantiche: 1 - Dirty Dancing - Patrick Swayze solleva Jennifer Gray fuori dall'acqua 2 - Via col vento: Clark Gable - "Francamente mia cara, me ne infischio!" 3 - Ufficiale e gentiluomo - scena finale del film con Richard Gere che prende in braccio la Winger 4 - A qualcuno piace caldo - La gonna bianca di Marilyn Monroe sollevata dal vento 5 - Da qui all'eternità - Burt Lancaster e Deborah Kerr che si baciano sulla spiaggia
	Lots Of Release Date Changes Some major release date shifts have happened in the last few days, here's a breakdown of the big shifts and announcements: - The much anticipated Val Kilmer/Robert Downey Jr. action comedy "Kiss, Kiss, Bang, Bang" has finally been set for a US release on September 16th 2005. - The Keira Knightley led adaptation of Jane Austen's "Pride and Prejudice" has been delayed two months to November 18th 2005. - The Charlize Theron sci-fi actioneer "Aeon Flux" is aiming for a December 2nd 2005 release. - The George Clooney Middle East drama "Syriana" has been delayed two months til November 23rd 2005. - The Jennifer Aniston and Kevin Costner comedy "Rumour Has It" has been pushed back from early December to Xmas. - Miramax has pushed back "Underclassmen" by a month to September 2nd, leaving "Dukes of Hazzard" the only new film getting a wide release next week. - "North Country", the Charlize Theron film formerly titled "Class Action", has been pushed back to October 14th 2005. - Kiddie flick "Little Manhattan" has finally set a release date of September 30th 2005. - The Michael Douglas and Kim Basinger drama "The Sentinel" has set an April 21st 2006 release. - Josh Hartnett drama "The Squid and The Whale" will hit cinemas on October 7th 2005. - George Clooney's film take on Edward R. Murrow's infamous McCarthy interviews has been moved up several months to a October 7th 2005 release date. - Nic Cage arms drama "Lord of War" has been moved up a few weeks to September 16th 2005. - The Diane Lane, Donald Sutherland & Chris Evans drama "Fierce People" has been pushed back several months to April 2006. - The Russian thriller "Night Watch" has been pulled from its release this week and is now headed for a fourth quarter release. - The Weinstein Co. CG animated "Hoodwinked" has set an Xmas 2005 release. - The Jay Hernandez led "Carlito's Way: Rise to Power" prequel will not go theatrical, rather heading straight to DVD on September 27th.

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