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13. “The Karate Kid,” Sony, $1,100,315, 780 locations, $1,411 average, $171,713,173, seven weeks.

The top 20 movies at U.S. and Canadian theaters Friday through Sunday, followed by distribution studio, gross, number of theater locations, average receipts per location, total gross and number of weeks in release, as compiled Monday by Hollywood.com are:

3. “Despicable Me,” Universal, $23,689,060, 3,600 locations, $6,580 average, $161,289,905, three weeks.

15. “The Girl Who Played With Fire,” Music Box, $563,790, 156 locations, $3,614 average, $2,944,891, three weeks.

12. “Knight and Day,” Fox, $1,694,003, 1,265 locations, $1,339 average, $72,675,724, five weeks.

10. “Predators,” Fox, $3,120,656, 1,846 locations, $1,690 average, $46,839,081, three weeks.

8. “The Twilight Saga: Eclipse,” Summit, $7,186,170, 3,121 locations, $2,303 average, $279,827,262, four weeks.

6. “Ramona and Beezus,” Fox, $7,810,481, 2,719 locations, $2,873 average, $7,810,481, one week.

1. “Inception,” Warner Bros., $42,725,012, 3,792 locations, $11,267 average, $142,883,424, two weeks.

14. “Cyrus,” Fox Searchlight, $709,464, 454 locations, $1,563 average, $6,329,401, six weeks.

9. “The Last Airbender,Calvin Klein,” Paramount, $4,217,021, 2,127 locations, $1,983 average, $123,308,790, four weeks.

LOS ANGELES – Leonardo DiCaprio’s thriller “Inception” held on to the top berth at the weekend box office with $42.9 million, while Angelina Jolie’s spy caper “Salt” debuted a solid No. 2 with $36 million.

5. “Toy Story 3,” Disney, $8,917,512, 2,766 locations, $3,224 average, $379,416,551, six weeks.

2. “Salt,” Sony, $36,011,243, 3,612 locations, $9,970 average, $36,Juicy Couture tracksuits,011,243, one week.

4. “The Sorcerer’s Apprentice,” Disney, $9,651,495, 3,504 locations, $2,754 average, $42,609,020, two weeks.

7. “Grown Ups,” Sony, $7,428,742, 2,859 locations, $2,598 average, $142,240,828, five weeks.

16. “Iron Man 2,” Paramount, $438,975, 330 locations, $1,330 average, $310,840,824, 12 weeks.

17. “I Am Love,” Magnolia, $338,000, 166 locations, $2,036 average, $3,217,709, six weeks.

18. “Winter’s Bone,” Roadside Attractions, $322,661, 130 locations, $2,482 average, $3,556,647, seven weeks.

19. “Hubble 3D,” Warner Bros., $314,587, 53 locations, $5,936 average, $11,505,090, 19 weeks.

20. “The A-Team,” Fox, $289,198, 296 locations, $977 average, $75,737,628, seven weeks.

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11. “The Kids Are All Right,” Focus, $2,594,758, 201 locations, $12,909 average, $4,909,949, three weeks.

She was ordained just a month before she was appointed to head up Crystal Cathedral Ministries.

The senior Schuller first formulated his outreach to the unchurched in the mid-1950s when he opened a ministry at a drive-in theater in the suburbs of Orange County that catered to Southern California’s emerging car culture. He pulled people in with his sermons on the power of positive thinking.

“That was emotional for me, and I’m humbled and honored to be asked to take this responsibility,” Coleman said Sunday after being commissioned, wiping away tears as she addressed her congregation. “I truly know that God is here, he loves this ministry and my call is to help take the ministry into the future and to continue dad’s ministry.”

The 83-year-old Schuller told his congregation that Sheila Schuller Coleman will become sole lead pastor, after sharing that role with her father for the past year.

Crystal Cathedral also faces legal action from more than 100 vendors who are owed millions of dollars for their work on the church’s pageants and other projects.

Coleman previously served as principal of a private Christian school run by the cathedral and head of the Orange County church’s family ministries division.

“I’m very proud that Sheila has earned her doctorate at the University of California, Irvine, and that this university has declared her to (have earned) a distinguished alumnus award,Rock Republic,” Schuller told his congregation during the 9:30 a.m. service. “Congratulations, I’m very proud of her.”

Robert A. Schuller is now part of Dallas-based American Life Network, a cable channel aiming to produce family-oriented programming.

Coleman, 59, lives in Orange with her husband, Jim, and has four grown children.

The “Hour of Power” telecast, filmed in the cathedral’s main sanctuary, at one point attracted 1.3 million viewers in 156 countries.

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Information from: The Orange County Register, http://www.ocregister.com

GARDEN GROVE, Calif. – The Rev. Robert H. Schuller, founder of Southern California’s Crystal Cathedral megachurch and host of the “Hour of Power” televangelism broadcast, announced Sunday he will retire after 55 years in the pulpit and his daughter will take over.

The 10,000-member all-glass church faces significant challenges under Coleman’s leadership.

The church also canceled this year’s “Glory of Easter” pageant, which attracts thousands of visitors and is a regional holiday staple along with the church’s “Glory of Christmas” show.

The elder Schuller will assume the newly created position of chairman of Crystal Cathedral’s consistory, which is the church’s board of directors, The Orange County Register reported.

Coleman’s appointment comes two years after Schuller’s son, the Rev. Robert A. Schuller, split from the church during a family rift that made headlines. The younger Schuller had been groomed to take over for his father.

Church leaders blamed the decline on the struggling U.S. economy. They sold 170 acres in southern Orange County,Abercrombie jackets, including a retreat and wedding center, laid off employees and cut “Hour of Power” from eight of the 45 domestic broadcast TV stations that air it.

Earlier this year the church said it saw revenue drop 27 percent from roughly $30 million in 2008 to $22 million in 2009.

The little church later grew into the Crystal Cathedral, a worship hall with a soaring glass spire that opened in 1970 and remains an architectural wonder and tourist destination.

Despite the undeniable technical proficiency of co-directors Jaume Balaguero and Paco Plaza — they also wrote the screenplay with Manu Diez — the ultimately repetitive " 2" doesn't add much to the original,Smet, and the ending that clearly sets the stage for a third entry in the series doesn't inspire much hope that things will be measurably different.

Although " 2" — the sequel to the Spanish hit of a couple of years ago that was faithfully remade on our shores as "Quarantine" — doesn't exactly bring anything new to the genre, it's no less effective than its predecessor in expertly conjuring an air of low-tech-style dread.

The all-too-familiar proceedings mostly comprise a series of gory surprise attacks by the zombies, though an effort is made to punch up the narrative via a priest (Jonathan Mellor) posing as a health ministry doctor who provides a cheesy, "Exorcist"-style demonic explanation for the events.

This sequel,BBC, opening Friday and set mere minutes after the first film, again is set in a rundown apartment building whose residents have all mysteriously been transformed into bloodthirsty zombies that have a nasty habit of popping up unexpectedly. Clearly inspired by vintage predecessors like "The Blair Witch Project," the film uses the conceit of having all the action depicted through shaky, first-person videocam images.

Revolving around the efforts of an increasingly spooked SWAT team to clear the building of its infected occupants, its footage supposedly is being shot by an unseen cameraman, helmet-cams on the soldiers' heads (is that a common police technique?), and a group of interloping teenagers who naturally document their every move.

NEW YORK (Hollywood Reporter) – It's nice to see that the Europeans aren't letting us get too far ahead in the vitally important cultural area of zombie movies.

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According to PCWorld, Sony is announcing that more than half a million Vaio notebook computers are prone to overheating due to a bug in the BIOS software. It’s unclear how severe the overheating could get — whether damage could occur to the machine or to its surroundings — but it’s not a warning to take lightly. To date the overheating has not caused any significant property damage beyond the laptop itself, with 39 cases of the problem now on record, PCWorld reports.

The news comes on the heels of a similar revelation by Dell, which became embroiled in a lawsuit over faulty computers that the company said had overheated because they were “overtaxed” by being made to “perform difficult math calculations,” the New York Times reports. Later that diagnosis was revised: Millions of computers had been sold in the 2000s “riddled with faulty electrical components that were leaking chemicals and causing the malfunctions.”

Those computers, sold as late as 2005, are probably all retired by now. But the Sony laptops are new,Baby Phat, all sold this year.

Most of the models are Japanese, but several were sold elsewhere, including 260,000 units sold in the U.S. The updates are limited to Vaio models F and C, which hit the market in January. If you have a laptop with the model number VPCCW25FG/B, VPCCW25FG/P, or VPCCW25FG/W, check this Web page for update instructions — although actually, if you have any laptop with a model number beginning with VPCF11 or VPCCW2, it’d be a good idea to check that page to make sure your machine is not affected. You’ll also find a toll-free number there to help walk you through the update process if you run into trouble.

The American Consumer Product Safety Commission has reportedly asked the company to recall the products, but Sony has so far balked, saying the issue can be fixed remotely.

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In October 2003, Rolling Stone published an article that quoted Kilmer as saying he lived in the “homicide capital of the Southwest” and 80 percent “of the people in my county are drunk.”

Well, some of Kilmer’s real-life northern New Mexico neighbors share Bailey’s sentiments. They’re upset with him, saying he made disparaging comments about San Miguel County and for chasing away people fishing on the Pecos River at his ranch.

The bitter feelings that have been brewing over the last several years have reached a boiling point. But unlike Holliday, Kilmer won’t be able to settle this with a knife or a pair of six-shooters.

An Army veteran, Tapia was offended. He said his cousin and friend from school had fought and died in Vietnam.

ALBUQUERQUE, N.M. – No words were minced when the character Ed Bailey jumped out of his seat in one of the early scenes of “Tombstone” and told the slick gambler and gunslinger Doc Holliday — played by actor Val Kilmer — to scram after their poker game went sour.

“He’s not a good neighbor. That’s all there is to it,” Tapia said in an interview with The Associated Press.

Kilmer has been asked to appear before county commissioners to explain himself during a meeting next Wednesday.

Despite Rolling Stone standing by the article, Kilmer denied the statements and said he had actually bragged about New Mexico during the interview. Days later, he took out an ad in the Santa Fe New Mexican, saying he loved New Mexico and Pecos.

He also accused Kilmer of being racist, claiming that the actor is trying to create “a segregated facility” at the ranch by charging people to stay at the guest houses. Tapia reasons that local Hispanics in the area would be excluded because they wouldn’t be able to afford a night at the ranch.

The flap started when Kilmer’s Pecos River Ranch sought to open three guest houses to paying customers. The county zoning and planning commission approved the proposal 3-2 in March, but Rowe resident Abran Tapia appealed to the commission.

Calls and e-mails to Kilmer and his publicist have not been returned, but commission chairman David Salazar said the actor has indicated he will show up.

“I’m not worried at all about the reaction because I just see it as an opportunity to bring people together,” he told the newspaper. “No one would make a false statement like this statement of racism if they knew what we were doing.”

The flap has caught the attention of everyone from the New Mexico chapter of the American Civil Liberties Union, which has offered to defend Kilmer’s 1st Amendment rights, to the California-based Committee on Chicano Rights and Gov. Bill Richardson, who is known for his diplomatic problem-solving skills.

Richardson, who is friends with Kilmer, said he has been pushing for all sides to meet.

“Val,Evisu, he’s got his rights,” the governor said. “The 1st Amendment protects him to say anything he wants, but those comments he made a long time ago were not good comments. So I think there’s a possibility of a gracious exit for both sides with the meeting coming up.”

The hope, Salazar said, is that something good — for Kilmer and the community — comes from the meeting.

“I think it’s a chance for him, an opportunity,Louis Vittion, to straighten out the record,” said Salazar. “I think if he goes ahead and explains what happened, if he was misquoted or if he said something and somebody took it the wrong way, I think it’s to his benefit to clear that up.”

“Take your money and get out ’cause I’m tired of listening to your mouth,” Bailey yelled.

Tapia has never met Kilmer, but he proceeded to tick off a list of reasons why the actor is on the bottom of his list. Included were the disparaging comments Kilmer allegedly made in two magazine articles years ago and the “no trespassing” signs posted around Kilmer’s sprawling ranch, which includes a few choice miles of the Pecos River.

Kilmer recently told the Albuquerque Journal that the accusations against him have been upsetting for his friends.

To make matters worse, Kilmer tried to explain for an Esquire writer two years later the emotional toll acting takes on an artist by talking about the soldiers who were shipped off to fight in Vietnam and how they were mentally unprepared for the horror of war. He ended up saying most of them were sent to the war because they were “borderline criminal or poor.”

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