Vicky Cristina Barcelona

It’s a sad day in Gotham—The Dark Knight has finally fallen. After an unprecedented nine weeks in Manhattan’s box office top ten, Christopher Nolan’s landmark film fell from seventh place to the hinterlands beyond the tenth spot. Though the film did manage to hang on nationally, dropping from seventh to ninth place while pulling in $2.95 million for a $521.9 million gross.

The heir to Batman’s thrown, at least locally, seems to be Woody Allen’s Vicky Cristina Barcelona (if such a thing can be imagined). During its sixth weekend in theaters, Vicky pulled in a respectable $95,509, which dropped it from fifth to seventh place.  read more »

There's been lots of chatter lately over Penelope Cruz's steamy kiss with Scarlet Johansson in the new Woody Allen film, Vicky Cristina Barcelona, which opened in New York last Friday—enough chatter that we almost missed the following tidbit yesterday in The Hollywood Reporter: Ms. Cruz, who's also enjoying critical praise for her role in Elegy, Isabel Coixet's adaptation of an acclaimed Philip Roth novel, will receive a Gotham Award Tribute at the 18th Annual Gotham Awards at Cipriani Wall Street on Dec. 2.

"Penelope's body of work embodies what is exciting and vibrant about filmmaking today, in particular independent filmmaking," said Michelle Byrd, executive director of IFP, the national independent filmmakers organization that presents the awards, in a statement.  read more »