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THE UNIVERSITY DAILY KANSAN
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TUFSDAY SEPTEMBER 2, 2008
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SEARCH FOR THE AGGRO CRAG
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Nick McMullen
MOVIES
'Thunder stays No.1, The Dark Knight'breaks another record
LOS ANGELES — "Tropic Thunder" hauled in $14.3 million to stay on top of the box office as Hollywood's solid summer wound down sleepily, with Hurricane Gustav contributing to a slow Labor Day weekend at theaters.
The DreamWorks-Paramount comedy was the No.1 flick for the third-straight weekend, raising its total to $86.6 million, according to studio estimates Monday.
Debuting at No. 2 with $12 million over the four-day weekend was 20th Century Fox's sci-fi thriller "Babylon A.D.", starring Vin Diesel as a mercenary smugging a woman into New York City in a post-apocalyptic future.
With coastal Louisiana nearly deserted because of Gustav, Hollywood business was virtually nonexistent in that region.
"The theaters are closed. There is just no business at all down there," said Dan Fellman, head of distribution at Warner Bros., whose "The Dark Knight" was No. 3 with $11 million.
Still, Hollywood finished a fraction ahead of 2007's record summer revenue. From the first weekend in May through Labor Day, business totaled $4.2 billion, up from $4.18 billion during summer 2007, according to box-office tracker Media By Numbers.
Gustav made a slow weekend even quieter. The top 12 movies pulled in $93.4 million, down 23 percent from the same weekend a year ago.
But accounting for higher ticket prices, attendance was down 3.5 percent.
"It's record revenue, but barely. Kind of an underwhelming end to a great summer,' said Paul Dergarabedian, president of Media By Numbers.
Amid a rush of weak newcomers, "The Dark Knight" held up well, rising a notch from its fourth-place rank the previous weekend. The Batman sequel became the second movie in Hollywood history to top half a billion dollars domestically, climbing to $504.7 million, trailing only "Titanic" at $600.8 million.
Though "The Dark Knight" crossed the $500 million mark in record time of six weeks and three days — half the time it took "Titanic" to reach that level — the studio expects it to top out at about $300 million.
"Titanic" had a much slower climb up the charts but it maintained momentum, holding on to the No. 1 box-office slot for months.
Factoring in inflation, "The Dark Knight" lags far behind "Titanic" in terms of actual admissions. "The Dark Knight" would need to take in about $900 million to match the number of tickets sold by "Titanic."
These are the estimated ticket sales for Friday through Monday at U.S. and Canadian theaters, according to Media By Numbers LLC. Final figures will be released Tuesday.
1. "Tropic Thunder," $14.3 million.
2. "Babylon A.D." $12 million.
3. "The Dark Knight," $11 million.
4. "The House Bunny," $10.2 million.
5. "Traitor," $10 million.
ASSOCIATED PRESS
9. "Pineapple Express," $4.5 million.
7. "Disaster Movie," $6.9 million.
6. "Death Race." $8.2 million.
8. "Mamma Mia!", $5.8 million.
10. "Vicky Cristina Barcelona," $3.5 million.
Associated Press
'The Man' explodes during the Burning Man festival in the Black Rock Desert near Gerlach, Nev., Saturday.
ART AND MUSIC Burning Man ends, enjoys record attendance
Participants in the eclectic art and music event had planned to burn more artwork Sunday night before its Labor Day conclusion.
RENO, Nev. — The party is drawing to a close at the annual Burning Man festival on the northern Nevada desert.
The celebration of radical self-expression climaxed late Saturday night with the torching of its 40-foot signature effigy. A dust storm prompted many participants to leave the Black Rock Desert before the finale.
The crowd for the week long celebration peaked Saturday at a record 49,599,up from 47,097 last year.
U. S. Bureau of Land Management officials said the festival ran smoothly and no major problems were reported. They made 11 arrests and issued 175 citations to participants, most for drug violations, BLM officials said.
Burning Man began in 1986 at San Francisco's Baker Beach and was moved in 1990 to the Black Rock Desert, about 110 miles north of Reno.
Associated Press
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ACROSS
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5 Dandling locale
9 Clothing protector
12 Tom
Joad,
e.g.
13 Silithery
14 Big fuss
15 Its partici-
pants
must form
a line
17 Fresh
18 A deadly
sin
19 Within the
rules
21 Cavalry
sword
24 Golf
legend
Tony
25 Advertise
26 Burger
flippers
30 A billion
years
31 Casual
pants
32 Keatsian
poem
33 Paris
airport,
familiarly
35 Met
melody
36 King of Siam's employee
37 Concerning
38 Untrue
40 Othello's toe
42 Judge Lance
43 It was beat by beatiks
48 Solemn promise
49 Incite
50 Modern-day money
51 Type squares
52 The Bee —
53 Faxed
2 Tackle the slopes
3 rose
4 Pirate-costume feature
5 Small barrels
6 In good order
7 Shade source
8 Shoe-laces go through them
9 City of India
10 Notion
11 Cereal container
16 "Days of Lives"
10 Ostrich's cousin
21 Raced
Yesterday's answer
22 Lotion additive
23 One-story houses
24 Highway division
26 Actress Ward
27 Chum
28 Tennis situation
29 Member-ship
31 Late-spring beetle
34 Response (Abbr.)
35 Battery terminals
37 See 41-Down
38 Basketball team
39 Tiny particle
40 "Bus Stop" play-wright
41 With 37-Down, way back when
44 Raw rock
45 Regret
46 Samovar
47 Witticism
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