Kick-Ass tops US box office After All
4/21/2010 12:37:00 AM
kenmouse
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British superhero movie Kick-Ass, which stars Nicolas Cage, has debuted at the top of the North American box office, figures show.Initial estimates suggested that 3D animation adventure How to Train Your Dragon had claimed the top spot.
In a closely fought battle, Kick-Ass took $19.8m (£12.8m), while the family adventure took $19.6m (£12.7m).
Date Night followed in third place, with Death At A Funeral at four and Clash Of The Titans at number five.
Slapstick comedy Date Night dropped from last week's number two spot, taking $16.7m (£10.8m).
In the film, Tina Fey and Steve Carell play a married couple who land in a series of explosive situations after a rare romantic evening without their children.
Someone won't be joining Adam Lambert and Clay Aiken in the American Idol gay runners-up club anytime soon.
Google CEO Eric Schmidt has revealed new details regarding the upcoming Chrome OS based netbooks, including some of the thought processes behind the development of the web-centric platform and what price tags he expects to see hardware land with. According to Schmidt, “the price points you should think about are the current netbook pricings which are 300 dollar, 400 dollar price points,” figures he points out that are led by manufacturers and are predominantly derived from the cost of processors, glass and other components.
Facebook has closed Lite, the stripped-down version of its site aimed at users who wanted a simpler experience than the main site offers.
JOE Jonas is set to buy girlfriend Demi Lovato a promise ring.
Here we go again, the iPad hasn’t even launched globally, and already speculation about the next version mounts. A new rumor floating around claims that Apple is looking to an OLED screen for the next generation iPad.
Apple’s iPad is on the market (in the US at least), rivals from Notion Ink, Toshiba, HP and others are expected sometime this year; if you’re a manufacturer and want a tablet of your own then you need all the shortcuts you can get. SoC manufacturer Socle Technology have pitched up with GlobalFoundries 65nm chipset, an ARM Mali 3D GPU and full 1080p HD hardware decoding in their sPad A11 Design and Development platform. More complete and more powerful than Apple’s A4, so Socle say, the sPad A11 supports Android and other Linux platforms complete with 3D graphics and multitasking.
When Apple announced the international launch of the iPad would be delayed, many cried foul. At the time Apple announced that the iPad would be delayed in shipping outside the US it only said demand was higher than expected.
