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...the picture was selected unanimously because Matteo Garrone's Cannes Grand Prix winner is more accessible with its exploratory organized crime narrative over what was most likely the frontrunner in Paolo Sorrentino's Cannes Jury Prize winner Il Divo.

For many of us, we just walk right past them. They fill the cracks of our peripherals as we hurry down busy city streets and, like a great deal of the world’s unexpected beauty, these too go unnoticed.

Weekend Top 10 # Title GROSS % Chg. Theaters Weeks AVG Total Distributor 1 Burn After Reading $19.4M NEW 2,651 1 7,319 $19.4M Focus 2 Tyler Perry's The Family That Preys $18.0M  NEW 2,070 1 8,705 $18.0M Lionsgate 3 Righteous Kill $16.5M NEW 3,152 1 5,234 $16.5M Overture 4 The Women $10.1M NEW 2,962 1 3,405 $10.1M PictureHouse 5 The House Bunny $4.3M -22.0 2,763 4 1,556 $42.2M Sony 6 Tropic Thunder $4.2M -42.2 2,927 5 1,428 $103.0M Dreamworks 7 The Dark Knight $4.0M -27.2 2,191 9 1,832 $517.7M Warner Bros. 8 Bangkok...

Among the films I was curious to catch was the Dublin-set escapist drama of Kylie and Dylan.

Weekend Top 10 # Title GROSS % Chg. Theaters Weeks AVG Total Distributor 1 Tropic Thunder $11.5M -29.3 3,473 3 3,311 $83.8M Dreamworks 2 Babylon A.D. $9.7M  NEW 3,390 1 2,861 $9.7M Fox 3 The Dark Knight $8.8M -17.0 2,750 7 3,181 $502.4M Warner Bros. 4 The House Bunny $8.3M -42.9 2,714 2 3,058 $27.9M Sony 5 Traitor $7.9M NEW 2,054 1 3,846 $9.4M Overture 6 Death Race $6.2M -50.7 2,537 2 2,454 $23.1M Universal 7 Disaster Movie $6.2M NEW 2,642 1 2,335 $6.2M Lionsgate 8 Mamma Mia! $4.4M +2.4 1,968 7 2,244 $131.5M Universal 9 Pineapple Express $3.4M -37.8 2,047 4 1,656 $79.8M Sony 10 Vicky Cristina Barcelona $3.0M -0.1 692 3 4,339 $12.8M MGM What a wimpy...