Arts, Briefly: âTreasureâ Still Jingling at the Box Office
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The Disney film âNational Treasure: Book of Secretsâ maintained its grip on the No. 1 spot at North American box offices for a third consecutive weekend.
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Late August generally is a time  when Hollywood's studios dump movies for which they have low  box office expectations, and this week continues that old  philosophy with four new films crowding theaters nationwide.
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Arts & entertainment: Joe Wright's adaptation of Ian McEwan's Atonement picks up seven nominations in Los Angeles
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Is the small subtle and strong cinema over? Not quite! If youÂve seen some of the non-mainstream nuggets lined up for the next couple of months, youÂd  have to agree, avant- garde cinema is alive and kicking.
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Alejandro Amenabar wins Spain's nomination for this year's foreign language film Oscar. Plus other entertainment news in brief.
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Part rockumentary, part howl of outrage, âScreamersâ is an invigorating and articulate film.
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Action flick "National Treasure" remained a box-office gem, taking in &#36;17 million to stay on top of the box-office chart for the third weekend in a row.
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Moviegoers are not following the  script written for them by the Hollywood studios. In a sign  that big-budget sequels may be losing their allure, North  American ticket sales for the first three big films of the  lucrative summer season have not kept pace with their  respective predecessors.
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âTrumpery,â a play that opened this month in New York, explores a period teeming with religiosity and controversy.
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The cartoon favorite makes a killing at the box office.
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Small-budget movies are making bigger hits than big-budget movies.
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The top five movies of the week as on August 28th, 2004.
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A look at the top movie stories this week.
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Movie-goers hold no grudges against Sarah Michelle Gellar, but they apparently have a beef with Ben Affleck. Gellar's fright flick "The Grudge" got a jump on Halloween with a &#36;40 million opening weekend to debut at No. 1, while Affleck delivered a holiday turkey with "Surviving Christmas," his critically drubbed comedy that came in No. 7 with just &#36;4.5 million.
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The ComingSoon.net Box Office Report has been updated with the studio estimates for the weekend. Be sure to stay tuned there for the final figures on Monday.
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So far 2008 has not been a good year for music sales. This week Alicia Keys, below, stays atop the Billboard chart with âAs I Amâ (J), but the number of copies that CD sold is barely above the historic low for a No. 1 album. Nielsen SoundScan reported that 61,000 copies of the album sold last week; the least number of weekly sales for No. 1 is 60,000, set by the âDreamgirlsâ soundtrack a year ago. (The numbers are rounded.) This week the âJunoâ soundtrack (Rhino) is at No. 2 with 58,000, Mary J. Bligeâs âGrowing Painsâ (Geffen) is No. 3 with 52,000, and Radioheadâs âIn Rainbowsâ (ATO) is next with 46,000. The R&B singer Raheem DeVaughn opens at No. 5 with 45,000 sales of âLove Behind the Melodyâ (J) and John Legendâs new âLive From Philadelphia,â available only through Target, reached No. 7 with 33,000.
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More on the murder of Theo Van Gogh, plus threats against another filmmaker. Plus: Michael Moore still in the news; Sith trailer now out; Colin Farrell the next Bond?