• Genre: Comedy
  • Release Date: 10/03/2008
  • Running Time: 110 mins
  • Director: Robert B. Weide
  • Cast: Simon Pegg, Kirsten Dunst, Danny Huston, Gillian Anderson, Megan Fox, Max Minghella, Jeff Bridges, Margo Stilley, Kimberly Magness, Eliezer Meyer
  • Producer: Stephen Woolley, Elizabeth Karlsen
  • Writer: Peter Straughan, Toby Young
  • Distributor: MGM
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Box Office

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  2. Twilight, 69.6 million, 69.6 million
  3. Quantum of Solace, 26.7 million, 108.8 million
  4. Pineapple Express, 23.2 million, 41.3 million
  5. Bolt, 26.2 million, 26.2 million
  6. The Mummy: Tomb of the Dragon Emperor, 16.5 million, 71.0 million
  7. Madagascar: Escape 2 Africa, 15.7 million, 137.1 million
  8. The Sisterhood of the Traveling Pants 2, 10.7 million, 19.6 million
  9. Role Models, 7.3 million, 48.1 million
  10. Step Brothers, 9.1 million, 81.1 million
  11. Changeling, 2.7 million, 31.7 million
  12. Mamma Mia!, 8.2 million, 104.1 million
  13. High School Musical 3: Senior Year, 2.0 million, 86.9 million
  14. Journey to the Center of the Earth, 4.9 million, 81.8 million
  15. Hancock, 3.3 million, 221.7 million
  16. The Boy in the Striped Pajamas, 1.6 million, 2.6 million
  17. WALL-E, 3.1 million, 210.2 million
  18. Zack and Miri, 1.6 million, 29.3 million
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Movie Title, Weekly Earnings, Total Earnings

How to Lose Friends & Alienate People

Based on Toby Young’s tome about his spectacular fuck-ups and flame-out at Vanity Fair, Robert Weide’s big-screen version is sitcom-drab. Simon Pegg plays Young, reducing the writer—in the book version, a narcissistic twat who aspired to be Cary Grant in His Girl Friday, sans the looks or talent—to nothing more than a barely functioning idiot, a cretin clad in a “Young, Dumb and Full of Come” T-shirt whose loutishness is outmatched only by his inability to function as a human being. Worse, the story's been turned into a romantic comedy, in which Simon woos his considerably smarter though no less self-absorbed superior, Alison Olsen (Kirsten Dunst), who’s fucking an editor (Danny Huston) who seems to be speaking in four different accents at once, none of them quite of the English variety. It plays like a made-for-CBS redo of The Devil Wears Prada, which was likewise set at a Manhattan glossy, but also happened to contain some of the most insightful observations about the perils of workplace success. — Robert Wilonsky