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Anne Hathaway didn't hide from personal troubles. Her new film didn't hide from audiences.

Hathaway's Rachel Getting Married stood out in a limited-release debut, grossing $275,000 at only nine theaters, Exhibitor Relations estimates said today. No weekend film made more money per screen—a whopping $30,556—than the indie-minded family drama.

Overall, Beverly Hills Chihuahua ($29 million) topped the box office, while Nick and Nora's Infinite Playlist ($12 million) scored with young women.

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There will definitely be plenty of shots of Angelina Jolie after she walks the red carpet Saturday for the premiere of her new Clint Eastwood drama, Changeling, but that's still more than 24 hours away!

Fortunately, the nice folks at Universal Pictures were kind enough to send over a couple of production stills to help us all get through this temporary dry spell. (Sure, there are snaps of her arriving in New York yesterday, but it feels like forever, right?)

So gaze as long as you like at the above picture, and when you're ready for another, feel free to jump to the next page…

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Big doings on the casting couch, what with Hayden Christensen remaining gainfully employed, 90210's Shenae Grimes getting a little extra cigarette money and somebody finally getting Yogi and Boo-Boo a film deal.

But that's nothing compared to this: Scorsese and De Niro are back in the crime biz.

The Oscar-owning buddies are joining cinematic forces for the ninth time—but their first collaboration since 1995's Casino—for Paramount's I Heard You Paint Houses, about the mob hitman believed to have 86'd Jimmy Hoffa.

Scorsese will helm the project and De Niro will play contract killer Frank "the Irishman" Sheeran, according to Variety. Sheeran murdered more than two dozen people at the behest of his Mafia bosses.

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Hide the almond cookies, Kung Fu Panda is coming back for seconds.

DreamWorks Animation's hugely successful 'toon—think $626 million in worldwide bank—is getting sequelized, the studio announced Wednesday.

Jack Black will be back to voice the unlikely ursine hero, along with his partners in martial arts: Angelina Jolie, Jackie Chan, Seth Rogen, Lucy Liu and David Cross.

Panda part deux is due in theaters in 2011.

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• Sounds like it's time for Hilary Swank to start working on another Oscar speech. The actress is on the case in Betty Anne Waters, an Erin Brockovich-like drama based on a true story about a woman who fights to clear her brother of a murder he didn't commit. The flick will be helmed by director Tony Goldwyn (best known as the bad guy in Ghost), according to Variety.

• Jack Black will be kickin' it in an untitled action-comedy for Universal. Taking a cue from The Bourne Identity, Black will play an American who awakes on a beach in Cuba with no idea who he is and how he got there and then mistakenly decides he's a superspy.

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Shia LaBeouf held. Kirk Cameron soared.

LaBeouf scored his fourth straight No. 1 movie with a $29.2 million debut from Eagle Eye, per studio estimates compiled today by Exhibitor Relations.

Cameron's Fireproof, a Christian-themed movie that motivated its Christian base to gobble up advance tickets, bowed in fourth with a strong $6.5 million.

The Dark Knight, meanwhile, finished out of the top 10 for the first time in more than two months. Hollywood's No. 2 movie of all time still managed to take in another $1.7 million, per Box Office Mojo, and push its overall haul to $524.5 million.

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It's a good time to be a fanboy...or girl.

Tuesday sees the release of the two-disc Iron Man DVD, chock full of goodies like deleted and extended scenes and a history of the metalheaded hero. (Paramount, $40.)

Meanwhile, Warners just announced that The Dark Knight will be disc-ified on Dec. 9, just in time to stuff your favorite Caped Crusader's stocking. The two-disc special-edition DVD includes a half-dozen scenes shot specificially for IMAX and plenty of behind-the-scenes action. (Warner Bros., $35.)

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Samuel Goldwyn Films

Shia LaBeouf has starred in three straight No. 1 movies. Kirk Cameron hasn't seen his face on a multiplex screen in seven years. Guess who's the hottest ticket heading into the weekend?

Sure about that?

In terms of advance sales, Cameron's Fireproof, an ultra-low-budget marriage-minded family drama opening on about 800 screens, has smoked LaBeouf's $105 million, opening-everywhere thriller Eagle Eye.

Surprisingly perhaps, box-office experts are not surprised...

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