Thor pounded the box office making 66 million dollars over the weekend. I still trying to go see Fast Five. I need to catch up on my movies. Here are the rest of the totals.
Weekend Box Office Estimates (U.S.)
May 6 - 8 weekend
1 - Thor Paramount Pictures $66,000,000 TOTAL: $66,000,000
2 1 Fast Five N/A $32,518,560 TOTAL: $139,852,525
3 - Jumping the Broom Columbia TriStar Motion Picture Group $13,700,000 TOTAL: $13,700,000
4 - Something Borrowed Warner Bros. Pictures $13,155,000 TOTAL: $13,155,000
5 2 Rio 20th Century Fox Distribution $8,200,000 TOTAL: $114,902,068
6 4 Water for Elephants Fox 2000 $5,600,000 TOTAL: $41,613,617
7 3 Tyler Perry's Madea's Big Happy Family Lionsgate, The Tyler Perry Company $3,900,000 TOTAL: $46,806,332
8 5 Prom Walt Disney Pictures $2,425,000 TOTAL: $7,800,000
9 7 Soul Surfer Enticing Entertainment, TriStar Pictures, FilmDistrict $2,100,000 TOTAL: $36,679,000
10 6 Hoodwinked Too! Hood vs. Evil The Weinstein Company $1,880,000 TOTAL: $6,714,000
Westwood High track coach Tom Davis was fired last week because one of his runners decided to whip off a shirt during training on a 75-degree day. This wasn't a girl, by the way. It was a boy.
And the Westwood High athletic director, Karl Fogel, was so irate about it that Davis thought he was going to lay him out.
"I fully 100 percent was expecting to be swung at," the coach told NECN TV
The team was doing quite well this year under the second-year coach: one of the relay teams went to nationals less than two months ago and the outdoor team started off 5-0 this spring. But there was an undercurrent of tension at the school as Fogel told Davis that some members of the girls team felt uncomfortable when the boys ran without shirts. Davis even warned his team about possible punishment for not wearing a shirt. I'm sorry but of these girls felt uncomforable with someone a boy not wearing a shirt they need to get a grip and grow some balls.
Atlanta-based music producer Jermaine Dupri is known for racking up hit after and hit.
But he's also racked up a lot of debt in recent years.
Channel 2 Action News has learned that Dupri's mansion on Mount Paran Road in northwest Atlanta was in foreclosure and set to be auctioned on the courthouse steps last week, but the sale was canceled at the last minute.
The law firm handling the foreclosure would not say why the sale was stopped.
Suntrust Bank had started foreclosure on an original loan amount of more than $2.5 million.
According to records Channel 2 obtained from the Georgia Department of Revenue, Jermaine Dupri Mauldin owes the state $493,768.75 in back taxes for 2007.
Channel 2's Tom Regan also spoke with a contractor who has a filed a lien against Dupri's property.
Shane Cox of Design Logistics said Dupri still owes him $12,000 for managing the star's mansion. His services included renovation and design.
"We would bring everything in, assemble, set up. Hang all the art. The art hanging in the house. Things along those lines. I feel he's a pretty nice guy. I hope he will come forward and take care of the debt we have," Cox told Regan.
Regan also spoke with Fayette County Tax Commissioner George Wingo. Wingo sent Regan documents showing Dupri owes $14,024.67 in unpaid property taxes, fees and penalties in connection with another home Dupri owns.
Regan went to Dupri's home and rang the intercom at the security gate in hopes of getting a comment from the music producer, but got no answer.
See instead of balling out of control all these rappers need to be paying the bills. Now I know why he has benn djing to make some of that money back.
-AL
