July 29, 2002 |
YEAH, BABY
Talk about a groovy opening weekend: Austin Powers in Goldmember debuted at No. 1 with a shagadelic $71.5 million — the best bow ever for a comedy. Mike Myers's third go-around in bell bottoms also ranked as the best July opening ever and beat the $54.9 million opening tally of 1999's Austin Powers: The Spy Who Shagged Me. Last week's No. 1, Road To Perdition, fell to second with a still-solid $11 million. Its three-week total stands at $65.6 million. Rounding out the top five: Stuart Little 2 (No. 3 with $10.7 million), Men In Black II (No. 4 with $8.7) and K-19: The Widowmaker (No. 5 with $7.3 million). Disney's theme park ride-turned-movie The Country Bears debuted in sixth place with a less-than-bullish $5.2 million. The Mouse House better hold off on that Liberty Belle Riverboat feature. |
ALL OR NOTHING?
Regis Philbin may soon have Kelly Ripa all to himself. According to today's New York Post, the soap star-turned-Live spitfire will quit All My Children when her contract expires in December. Ripa reportedly will make sporadic appearances on the sudser. |
PAGING DR. PHIL...
Britney Spears apparently still hasn't recovered from her split with Justin Timberlake. Shortly after arriving in Mexico City last week for the final stop of her world tour, the pop diva was caught flipping the bird to a crowd gathered at a local airport. However, Spears insists the gesture was meant for the intrusive paparazzi — not her Mexican fans. "I'm human too," she later said. "I get mad like everyone else." There's medicine for that, darlin'. |
FAMILY MATTERS
Ozzy Osbourne is taking a three-week break from Ozzfest to be with his wife, Sharon, as she begins chemotherapy treatment for colon cancer. He'll rejoin the tour in Denver on Aug. 22. "This has been one of the hardest decisions I've had to make, and I'm hoping that my fans will understand," Osbourne said. Meanwhile, an MTV rep tells Reuters that the second season of The Osbournes is still slated to debut in the fall, but "our primary concern is for Sharon's well-being, and we're going to take it one step at a time." |
BRIDGET JONES'S DIGS
Here's the real value of an Oscar nod: Renée Zellweger — who received her first Academy Award nomination this year for Bridget Jones's Diary — has traded in her $1.8 million Hollywood Hills pad for a $6.8 million Bel-Air mansion, the Los Angeles Times reports. And the 33-year-old onetime Olive Garden greeter got herself a bargain: The 6,400-square-foot, 1930s-era estate was originally listed for $8.9 million! Her new home boasts seven bedrooms, eight baths, a master suite and a guest house. |
KILLER MOVIE
Sean Penn will star in The Assassination of Richard Nixon, a fact-based feature about a desperate salesman's attempts to make his mark on history, Variety reports. Shooting starts in April. |
COUP FOR II
President Bush will give an exclusive interview to CBS's 60 Minutes II to air on the first anniversary of the Sept. 11 attacks. Correspondent Scott Pelley will conduct the interview, which will compete with NBC's Concert for America. |
SHORT CUTS
Dick Van Dyke and Mary Tyler Moore will reunite for PBS's upcoming production of the Pulitzer Prize-winning play The Gin Game... Rosie O'Donnell is in talks to bring Boy George's campy London musical Taboo to Broadway, the New York Daily News reports. |
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