WEEKEND WRAP UP: HOP HOPS TO NUMBER ONE, DID I TAKE THAT PICTURE, APPLEBEES SERVING DRINKS TO KIDS NOW, COOL ASTON MARTIN

Hop jumps to number one this weekend with $21 million. Those kid movies always do decent numbers. Well here are the rest of the totals.

Weekend Box Office Actuals (U.S.)
Apr 8 - 10 weekend

1 1 Hop Universal Pictures $21,298,240 $67,754,545 2 3616
2 - Hanna Focus Features $12,370,549 $12,370,549 1 2535
3 - Arthur Warner Bros. Pictures Distribution $12,222,756 $12,222,756 1 3276
4 - Soul Surfer Enticing Entertainment, TriStar Pictures, FilmDistrict $10,601,862 $10,601,862 1 2214
5 3 Insidious FilmDistrict $9,371,769 $26,728,357 2 2419
6 - Your Highness Universal Pictures $9,360,020 $9,360,020 1 2769
7 2 Source Code Summit Entertainment, LLC $8,650,238 $28,218,871 2 2971
8 5 Limitless Relativity Media $5,461,378 $64,149,608 4 2655
9 4 Diary of a Wimpy Kid 2: Rodrick Rules 20th Century Fox Distribution $4,770,987 $45,348,247 3 2881
10 6 The Lincoln Lawyer Lionsgate $4,281,598 $46,136,408 4 2420

The rest after the jump

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Some funny camera pranking. But they should have done it the opposite starting off with two guys and ending up with hot girls.

The company that owns the Applebee's restaurant chain said on Monday it was immediately retraining its workers nationwide after a server at a suburban Detroit location accidentally served alcohol to a toddler.

The company, California-based DineEquity Inc, said it would also change the way it serves juice to youngsters to eliminate the chance of any mixups that could result in any more toddlers receiving mixed drinks.
On Friday, Taylor Dill-Reese went to an Applebee's in Madison Heights, Michigan, where -- among other things -- she ordered her 15-month-old son Dominick an apple juice.
What the little boy apparently got instead was a margarita. His mom told WDIV-TV that she only realized something was wrong when Dominick "kind of laid his head on the table and dozed off a little bit and woke up and got real happy."
The little boy reportedly began hailing strangers, too.
Applebee's released a statement on Monday saying it was relieved that Dominick was "not seriously injured as a result of accidentally receiving the wrong beverage" and apologizing to his family "for the stress and worry this caused them."
It said it would begin to serve apple juice to children only from single-serve containers at the table and would "retrain all severs on our beverage pouring policy, emphasizing that non-alcoholic and alcoholic beverages must be stored in completely separate and identified containers."
And in other news after the kid got drunk he got laid too.

The Aston Martin DBS receives a Superior Black Edition makeover from the folks at Anderson Germany. On the exterior, the car sees a matte black paint job, bright red brake calipers and a set of 21″ rims. The interior matches the outside with carbon fibre elements, black leather and red trim – a bit much to be honest. The guts were treated to an exhaust system upgrade, bumping the HP from 510 to 560 at 6500 rpm.
Very cool.

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Apple's busy upgrading their desktops and laptops, starting with the new Apple MacBook Pro Thunderbolt ($1,200-$2,500). Available in 13-, 15-, and 17-inch varieties, these new laptops feature dual- or quad-core Intel Core i5 or i7 processors, plenty of RAM, FaceTime HD webcams, AMD Radeon HD graphics processors with up to 1GB of video memory, and the unibody aluminum enclosure we've come to know and love. New this time around is Thunderbolt I/O technology, developed by Intel, which provides a replacement for all sorts of ports while promising transfer speeds of up to 10Gbps. I know I hate Apple because I still think all of their products arew overpriced, but I still have to blog about it for all you Apple lovers out there. Idiots.

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YET ANOTHER REASON I DON'T BUY APPLE PRODUCTS

Anonymus Apple employee spills some company seccrets and yet still my theory that Apple product while they are cool, they are way overpriced.

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RARE APPLE COMPUTER SOLD AT AUCTION

A rare Apple I computer assembled by Steve Wozniak -- of which only around 50 are thought to exist -- has sold at Christie's auction house for £133,250 ($213,600), slightly below what the company had seen as the high end of its estimate but nonetheless a record price for any personal computer. Wozniak himself was on hand to autograph the machine for the winning bidder, and called the original Apple "an important step" that put "the whole formula [for how personal computer
work] out there for the world to see."
The particular copy up for auction (#82) included a signed letter from Jobs suggesting monitors that could be used with the machine, and all the original support materials, including the optional cassette interface card and the original bill of sale ($741.66), including the cassette adapter and tax. The operation manual is also notable for having the original Apple logo on it, depicting Sir Issac Newton under the apple tree.
Why would you buy this when you can get an iphone for $200 bucks I do not know.

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