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August 7th, 2011

Those apes don’t monkey around!

“Rise of the Planet of the Apes,” starring James Franco and Freida Pinto, exceeded expectations at the box office and raked in $54 million.

“The Smurfs” took second with $21 million, while “Cowboys & Aliens” nabbed third place with $16.8 million.

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July 31st, 2011

“The Smurfs” has tied “Cowboys & Aliens” for first place in a weekend box office upset.

The official winner won’t be declared until tomorrow morning.

Those little blue animated buggers and the Daniel Craig-Harrison Ford sci-fi western both banked $36.2 million.

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July 17th, 2011

In a fitting finale, Harry Potter’s magic is making box office records disappear.

‘Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows: Part 2′ made $168.6 million in its opening weekend, which was the biggest Friday-Sunday in movie history. ‘The Dark Knight’ earned $158.4 million in its debut.

The staggering sum comes after Harry made nearly $100 million on its first day, which is just plain ridiculous.

To put the wizardry in perspective, the movie earned roughly eight times what (second place) ‘Transformers: Dark of the Moon’ – the year’s biggest movie – banked this weekend.

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July 10th, 2011

Special effects sequel spectacular ‘Transformers: Dark of the Moon’ once again beat the competition, earning $47 million in its second weekend at the box office.

Meanwhile, ‘Horrible Bosses’ had wonderful ticket sales.

The employer-employee revenge comedy, starring an ensemble including Jennifer Aniston and Jason Bateman, came in second with a strong $28.1 million haul.

The Kevin James animal romp ‘Zookeeper’ secured third place with $21 million. What did you see this weekend?

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July 4th, 2011

‘Transformers: Dark of the Moon’ made a lot of green this red, white, and blue holiday weekend.

The latest film in the franchise had the biggest Fourth of July opening ever, raking in $116.4 million for the four-day weekend, and easily secured the #1 spot at the box office.

Shia LaBeouf’s and his robot car buddies smashed the animated ‘Cars 2,’ which fell to #2 with a four-day weekend total of $33 million.

The Cameron Diaz-Justin Timberlake comedy ‘Bad Teacher’ came in third with $17.5 million, followed by ‘Larry Crowne,’ starring Tom Hanks and Julia Roberts, which earned just $16 million.

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July 1st, 2011

Shia LaBeouf had to pull a great escape on the streets of New York this week while being pursued by paparazzi.

On Wednesday afternoon, the ‘Transformers: Dark of the Moon’ star and his girlfriend, Karolyn Pho, dashed into Delicatessen in the city’s SoHo neighborhood to evade the pesky photographers.

One of the restaurant’s employees took the couple downstairs and out through a service exit, where a taxi ultimately picked up LaBeouf and Pho and whisked them away.

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June 28th, 2011

Shia LaBeouf’s difficulties with ‘Transformers: Dark of the Moon’ director Michael Bay might not be as dramatic as former co-star Megan Fox’s, but he agrees that Bay can be a tough boss.

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June 20th, 2011

Steven Spielberg directed Michael Bay to fire Megan Fox from the ‘Transformers’ franchise after she compared Bay to Hitler in a magazine interview, a new book reveals.

In an excerpt from “Blow-Up: An Oral History of the Most Explosive Director of All Time” published in GQ, Bay says Fox’s comment to British publication Wonderland that he “wants to be like Hitler on his sets, and he is” was the final straw.