Jason lives! Friday the 13th took the top box office spot with a whopping $42.2 million, meaning we can look forward to eventual remakes of Friday the 13th Part 3-D, Jason Takes Manhattan and Jason Goes to Hell. He’s Just Not That Into You slipped to second with $19.6 million, followed by Taken and Confessions of a Shopaholic. Coraline rounded out the top five, while Paul Blart: Mall Cop crossed the $100 million dollar mark, which should ensure Blart a promotion, perhaps to Homeland Security.
Whatever happened to The Hardy Men, the comical update of the Hardy Boys with Tom Cruise and Ben Stiller? Well, the stars are still attached to the project, which has a new writer, Ed Solomon (Men in Black). “The Hardy Boys adventures revolved around the mystery-solving efforts of teenagers Frank and Joe Hardy, amateur detectives who often helped their father, a private investigator,” The Hollywood Reporter reminds you. “The film adaptation would explore the reunion of the estranged, grown-up brothers, who work together to solve a new mystery.”
It’s impossible to even make jokes anymore about the onslaught of Hasbro adaptations. Last week we told you about the movie version of Candyland, and now Steve Oedekerk (Bruce Almighty) has signed on to write Stretch Armstrong, based on the pliable action figure. “The toy, a 13-inch, blond-haired muscled figure whose limbs could be stretched to nearly four feet, was launched by Kenner in the '70s. He had a dog named Fetch Armstrong, and a sibling, Evil X-Ray Wretch Armstrong,” Variety reports.
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