The company attributed the decline to delayed release of new titles and weaker box office titles in current release.
I have no idea how the original version played but the scene in current release is cavalierly oblivious.
"The kind of films I've been watching recently are 'Blind Spot,'RussianArk'rk' and 'City of God,' " Mr. Friedkin said from his home in Los Angeles, referring to three of the most favorably reviewed foreign-language films in current release.
First-rate films about our Vietnam experience are in good supply; Joel Schumacher's "Tigerland" opened last year, and Francis Ford Coppola's stunning re-cut of "Apocalypse Now" ("Apocalypse Now Redux") is in current release.
Box office for "Bowling for Columbine," already the longest-running commercial movie in current release and the highest-grossing documentary in history, was up by more than 100percentt on the Monday after Oscar night.
"Moonlight Mile" casts the hardworking young actor (who has two other films in current release, "The Good Girl" and "Lovely and Amazing") as Joe Nast, an obliging young man whose fiancée was killed just days before their scheduled wedding.
P.S. Zhang Yimou, the director of the 2008 Beijing Olympics' opening pageantry (which Anthony Lane, who was there, aptly likened, in the magazine, to Leni Riefenstahl's Nazi-era films), has a movie in current release, "A Woman, a Gun and a Noodle Shop".
"I am part of the landscape of New York, that's for sure," said Antonio Banderas, who, in addition to starring in the musical "Nine" on Broadway, has a television movie ("And Starring Pancho Villa as Himself") and two theatrical films ("Spy Kids 3-D" and the new "Once Upon a Time in Mexico") in current release.
