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I’m pleased by some of the names and film titles that were nominated in the fifteen categories and especially glad to see that Lance Hammer’s Ballast grabbed six nominations but I’m perplexed by one of the two films it shares a total of six nominations with.

Weekend Top 10 # Title GROSS % Chg. Theaters Weeks AVG Total Distributor 1 Beverly Hills Chihuahua $29.0M NEW 3,215 1 9,020 $29.0M Buena Vista 2 Eagle Eye $17.7M  -39.3 3,516 2 5.034 $54.6M Dreamworks 3 Nick & Norah's Infinite Playlist $12.0M NEW 2,421 1 4,957 $12.0M Sony 4 Nights in Rodanthe $7.4M -45.2 2,702 2 2,722 $25.1M Warner Bros. 5 Appaloosa $5.0M +3,321.6 1,045 3 4,799 $5.6M New Line 6 Lakeview Terrace $4.5M -35.4 2,574 3 1,748 $32.1M Screen Gems 7 Burn After...

Weekend Top 10 # Title GROSS % Chg. Theaters Weeks AVG Total Distributor 1 Eagle Eye $29.2M NEW 3,510 1 8,319 $29.2M Dreamworks 2 Nights in Rodanthe $13.6M  NEW 2,704 1 5,018 $13.6M Warner Bros. 3 Lakeview Terrace $7.0M -53.3 2,467 2 2,837 $25.7M Screen Gems 4 Fireproof $6.5M NEW 839 1 7,764 $6.5M Samuel Goldwyn 5 Burn After Reading $6.2M -44.1 2,649 3 2,329 $45.5M Focus 6 Igor $5.5M -29.5 2,341 2 2,349 $14.3M MGM 7 Righteous Kill $3.8M -48.8 3.011 3 1,263 $34.8M Overture 8 My Best Friend's Girl $3.8M -54.0 2,636 2 1,442 $14.5M Lionsgate 9 Miracle at St....

Who breaks a butterfly upon a wheel? Martin Scorsese, that's who' PLUS! Dick Cavett predicts the future! Ooooo...

Danny Boyle's Slumdog Millionaire may have walked away with TIFF's top prize of the People's Choice Award, but the critics are championing the latest effort from Hirokazu Kore-Eda instead and a pair of films among my tops of the festival in Ramin Bahrani's Goodbye,Solo and Darren Aronofsky's The Wrestler are tied for second in a survey conducted by Eugene Hernandez over at indieWIRE.