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It was a big weekend for foreign films such as Uncle Boonmee Who Can Recall His Past Lives that picked up a promising $8,036 average in three locations. “Boonmee” is a drama from Thailand and took home last year’s Best Foreign Language Film award from the Toronto Film Critics Association and of course, won the top prize in Cannes.

After slowly emerging from bankruptcy under the leadership of Spyglass partners Roger Birnbaum and Gary Barber and converting it’s enormous debt of $4.25 billion into equity, MGM is now looking to be make it’s first major franchise play with a remake of an old cashcow: Robo Cop. Deadline is reporting the studio is in talks with Brazilian director Jose Padilha to revitalize the futuristic 1987 film originally directed by Paul Verhoeven that spawned two sequels, a variety of television adaptations, video games and a great deal of merchandising.

Here's our LIVE Oscar Blog for what was a fairly predictable and uneventful night that will go down in the books as the failed "Franco and Hathaway" experiment. ABC might want to start planning the format for the 84th sometime next week.

"people think it was a rather unlikely success story but I found it a perfect storm of ingredients when I read the story. A man with a stammer forced to become a king right at a time when the radio was taking over as a mass medium, right before second world war who's saved by a failed Australian Shakespeare actor who has become a speech therapist. You can't make this stuff up."

In a relatively quiet weekend for specialty debuts, its holdovers like “The King’s Speech” and “Black Swan” making all the news. Both passed the $100 million mark, but it’s “Speech” that overtook “Swan” on its way to $6.5 million in its 13th weekend. Amidst an overall decline at the box office, Tom Hooper’s drama experienced only a 9.9% decline despite withdrawing from 177 locations.