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The Avengers has earned $1 billion worldwide. The movie’s first week domestic was $207 million actual. Its second week is $103.2 million estimated, which would outshine the second weeks for Avatar ($75.6 million) and The Dark Knight ($75.1 million). It’s earned $1.002 billion worldwide and by next week the movie will be fourth biggest of all time behind Avatar, Titanic and Deathly Hallows Part 2. Since I found it over the weekend, here’s the cast before they were Avengers. Although whomever made this used a random photo of Chris Hemsworth in his late teens/ early 20s whereas the remaining cast were in their early teens.

Robert Pattinson is on the promotional trail for something post-Twilight which is probably why I’d not heard of David Cronenberg’s movie Cosmopolis until about 10-minutes ago (I know, I know). But Pattinson’s shilling, and of course the franchise is brought up as the benchmark for his acting skills. To which he takes umbrage, because he ‘tried’ with what he was given. Told by Premiere he was good in the Twilight movies, he responded: ‘In some scenes maybe. I tried anyway.’ Asked about people’s surprised he’s not terrible in Cosmopolis, he replied: ‘I’d like to ask a question to those people who think I just started acting well: What do you think I was doing in Twilight? Do they think it’s how I act naturally? No, I had to take decisions as an actor. I find it funny when I read stuff like ’Will Cosmopolis finally prove that he can act?’ What does that even mean?’

Below is Pattinson’s Premiere Magazine shoot dedicate to Cronenberg’s movies.

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The Avengers made all the monies at the box office this weekend, thanks to Black Widow’s reluctant jiggle, Iron Man’s quips, Thor’s weave, Captain America’s helmet, Loki’s bone structure, Hawkeye going sleeveless, and Hulk SMASH. I just watched the movie this weekend, and it’s a good thing. It’s exactly what you’d expect, since the trailers and shooting on open sets gave the game away. There were really no surprises at all. But it was still good. It looked good, and it was paced pretty well (by the time you got bored, it moved onto something else). It’s a no-brainer. And apparently everyone else agrees because everyone saw it, breaking box office records. It didn’t break the record for opening day, Friday, that still belongs to Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows: Part Two. But its opening weekend is the highest ever, taking $200.3 million, beating last Summer’s record of $169.2 million set by Deathly Hallows: Part Two. The Avengers is the fastest ever movie to reach $200 million, and it set Saturday and Sunday records. The superhero movie has taken over $330 million international, and it’ll end on $500 million domestic according to estimates.

Here’s Amanda Seyfried in the role of Linda Lovelace for Lovelace, not to be confused with Inferno which is a tandem biopic about the same person in a project nearly tanked by Lindsay Lohan’s crack hijinks back in 2009. Here’s the first poster for Lovelace, with Seyfried trying too hard to look sexy; the arched back, hands on hips, the lips slightly ajar, the willing jiggle. Pretty, not sexy.