1. Pirates of the Caribbean: Dead Man’s Chest (PG-13)
$35.0 Million
2. Monster House (PG)
$23.0 Million
3. Lady in the Water (PG-13)
$18.2 Million
4. You, Me and Dupree (PG-13)
$12.8 Million
5. Little Man (2006) (PG-13)
$11.0 Million

What the heck happened to Superman??!

Ingredients:
0.5 oz Blue Curacao

0.5 oz Raspberry Liqueur

Directions:
Pour both ingredients into a cocktail shaker with ice. Shake and strain into a shot glass, and serve.

1 oz peach schnapps

1 oz Jagermeister® herbal liqueur

cranberry juice

-Great shooter!! I love this stuff!! =)

1. Pirates of the Caribbean: Dead Man’s Chest (PG-13)
$62.2 Million

2. Little Man (PG-13)
$21.7 Million

3. You, Me, and Dupree (PG-13)
$21.3 Million

4. Superman Returns (PG-13)
$11.6 Million

5. The Devil Wears Prada (PG-13)
$10.5 Million

1. Pirates of the Caribbean: Dead Man’s Chest (PG-13)

2. Superman Returns (PG-13)

3. The Devil Wears Prada (PG-13)

4. A Scanner Darkly (R)

5. Click (PG-13)

I found this article on themeparkinsider.com. I must admit, I WILL be one pissed off girl if Magic Mountain closes down…

By Robert Niles:

Six Flags announced plans Thursday to sell or close six of its properties, including the chain’s once-flagship park, Magic Mountain, in Valencia, Calif.

In a press release issued after the U.S. stock market closed Thursday, Six Flags announced that it would sell the properties, to either a single buyer or multiple buyers, or that it might sell or redeploy the properties’ attractions, to clear the land for real estate sale.

The six parks on the block are Magic Mountain, Elitch Gardens in downtown Denver, Colorado, Darien Lake near Buffalo, New York, Wild Waves and Enchanted Village outside Seattle, Washington and the waterparks Six Flags Waterworld in Concord and Six Flags Splashdown in Houston.

Long-time TPI readers are familiar with our coverage of Six Flags’ financial struggles, and we predicted some of the parks would be going back in January. With Paramount Parks already selling out to Cedar Fair, one wonders what company will be able and willing to mount a bid to purchase the Six Flags parks. Real estate sales, alas, seem the most likely result for most of the parks. Magic Mountain, obviously, is the most viable park among the six, but Cedar Fair already has a Southern California park, in Buena Park’s Knott’s Berry Farm. The land underneath Magic Mountain would be worth many millions, even in SoCal’s stalled real estate market, if no theme park company is willing to add this roller coaster haven to its portfolio.

Six Flags shares plunged, losing nearly a fifth of their value in after-hours trading, following the announcement.

Update: A comment I’ve made in a couple TV interviews since the story broke: It’d be ironic if Magic Mountain were sold off for real estate development, given that real estate development is the reason the park was built in the first place.

Magic Mountain was not always a Six Flags park. Its builder and original owner was the Newhall Land Company, the developer that built many of the communities around the park. Newhall Land thought it needed a big attraction to lure families over the pass from the San Fernando Valley into the Santa Clarita. So it contracted SeaWorld’s designers and built Magic Mountain.

How ironic, now, that the park might fall victim to the success of the real estate market it was built to inspire.

NORTH HOLLYWOOD, Calif. — The “South Park” episode that poked fun of Tom Cruise and Scientology has apparently impressed voters at the Television Academy.

That’s because one of the Emmy nominees for Best Animated Program is the episode of “South Park” that’s said to have angered Tom Cruise and Isaac Hayes.

The episode called “Trapped in the Closet” implies that Cruise is gay and makes fun of Scientology.

Cruise’s fellow Scientologist Isaac Hayes reportedly quit because he was upset with the episode. And when it came time to rerun it, Cruise allegedly called Comedy Central and demanded that it be pulled.

It was, even though Cruise’s people denied he asked for it.

Hayes quit the show during the controversy — prompting “South Park” creators Trey Parker and Matt Stone to rip into Hayes and Scientology in their season opener.

Rapper Lil’ Kim was realeased from prison on July 3, after being detained there for nearly 10 months behind bars.

She was sent to prison for lying about a shootout outside of a New York radio station… ok I’m sorry, but really, was it worth it??

Lil’ Kim began serving her time in the detention center Sept. 19. She was sentenced to a year and a day in prison, but was released early for good behavior.

She will remain under house arrest for 30 days and be under supervised release for three years. Woohoo! now she’ll have some new “Bling Bling” on her ankles!

Her conviction for lying to a federal grand jury and in the subsequent trial stemmed from a gun battle in 2001 that erupted outside WQHT-FM, known as Hot 97. Lil’ Kim’s entourage had crossed paths with a rival rap group, Capone-N-Noreaga, whose song “Bang, Bang” contains an insult to her from rival Foxy Brown. One man was hurt in the shootout.

Lil’ Kim, who won a Grammy in 2001 for her part in the hit remake of “Lady Marmalade,” maintained she hadn’t noticed two of her close friends– who later pleaded guilty to gun charges– at the scene of the shootout.

Jurors at her trial saw radio station security photos of one of the two friends opening a door for her, and witnesses said they saw her at the station with both.

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