This week's box weekend results for August 28, 2005. Looks like The 40-Year-Old Virgin stays at the top of the box office. Surprising to me, since the commercial doesn't really look all that funny. The Brothers Grimm comes in at number two. I would have thought it would be number one this weekend.

It's been reported that Hugh Jackman has turned down the role of James Bond 007 after talking to his wife. He felt he didn't need it to boost his already high profile career.

X-men 3 casting includes Olivia Williams as Dr. Moira MacTaggert, the Nobel Prize-winning Moira was a former lover of Professor X's who ran a mutant research center on Muir Island in her native Scotland. She also the mother of the mutant known as Proteus. It's rumored that Bill Duke from the Predator, Payback, National Security and Red Dragon has been cast as well.

This weeks box office sees the Duke boys drop to 3, and Mark Wahlberg taking the top spot. Suprisingly, "The Great Raid" debuted way down at number 10.

1 - Four Brothers Paramount Pictures $20,700,000

The new movie "The Great Raid" comes out today. It's a historical piece set in World War II, 1945, in the Philippines. It's a true story of the 6th Ranger Battalion who take on a daring rescue mission thirty miles behind enemy lines. It stars James Franco aka Harry Osborne from Spiderman.

The Fantastic Four movie is due out on DVD December 13 with wide screen and full screen versions.

Big Screen Releases

On August 12, Mark Wahlberg is back with a interesting looking movie called "Four Brothers". It's a revenge action movie. Haven't seen one of those in a while. Wahlberg is one of four adopted brothers who seeks revenge of their adoptive mother's death.

This week the Dukes of Hazzard rule the box office.
1. The Dukes of Hazzard $30,575,000
2. Wedding Crashers $16,500,000
3. Charlie and the Chocolate Factory $10,565,000
4. Sky High $9,048,000

Newlyweds Jennifer Garner and Ben Affleck would like to star in their first movie as husband and wife. The dynamic duo married this summer. They first met during the filming of Daredevil in 2003. Jennifer of course played Elektra, Daredevil's movie and comic book love interest. Jennifer Garner said, "Ben says it's in the early stages." All super hero activities will have to wait though until their new baby is born this autumn.

Another remake of the 1950's Invasion of the Body Snatchers is on the way. This is the third remake so far. The first was in 1978 with Donald Sutherland. The second was in 1993, and the latest will begin filming in late September on location in Baltimore, New York and D.C. It is targeted for release sometime in 2006 to coincide with the 50th anniversary of the original. This one is going to star Bewitched actress Nicole Kidman. The new Invasion is being produced by Joel Silver and Vertigo Entertainment, the company behind the The Grudge, and is being directed by Oliver Hirschbiegel.

The top movies stayed about the same this week. Charlie and the Chocolate Factory was number one $28.3 million, the wedding crashers were number two with $26.2 million, ,and the Fantastic Four stayed at number three with a little over 12 million dollars. New movies, The Island, starring Ewan McGregor and Scarlett Johansson as clones on the run from a facility that has raised them as spare body parts, took in $12.1 million, and the Bad News Bears only took in $11.5 million dollars. I was actually surprised it took in that much.

Looks like from the list of movies out this weekend that the "Island" is probably the best bet. It stars Ewan McGregor and Scarlett Johansson who learn they are clones bred for their organs and they have to escape before they are harvested. You know Ewan McGregor from Star Wars as Obi-Wan Kenobi.