Sean Connery may have been voted by fans as the all time favorite James Bond, but blondie Daniel Craig is breaking all US box office records with his incarnation of the 007 British Agent. Craig’s film “Quantum of Solace” opened on Friday and went on to score a $70.4 million weekend.

The leaner, blonder, more brooding Bond as played by Craig has proven to be a hit with the fans, despite early predictions that the actor would “ruin” the Bond brand. Looks now like he revived the tired franchise and gave it new life.

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Kiddie fans of the bloodsucker Vampire series “Twilight” waited hours to see hunky actor Robert Pattinson in San Francisco’s Stonestown Galleria yesterday, but when things got ugly cops came in to clear out the developing mosh pit.

The rough crowd of 3,000 tweens and teenage girls had turned out hoping for an autograph or a glimpse of Pattinson at the meet and greet. But when the large mob all tried to get into the mall at the same time, hilarity ensued.

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“I want to do a superhero movie and what would be better than Wonder Woman?” Beyonce Knowles told LA Times blog Hero Complex. “It would be great.”

Whoa. Didn’t Beyonce see Halle Barry in that awful Catwoman flick? The whole chick-in-a-costume kicking ass is tough to pull off, but Beyonce is convinced it will work for her. Why you ask? Because she’s totally in love with the costume. Not the role — the COSTUME.

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Whoever though Madonna directing a major motion picture was a brilliant idea needs to have their head examined. Oh wait. That would be Madge herself. The Kaballah inspired material girl released her directorial debut film “Filth and Wisdom” on October 17 but it’s been a bomb at the box office.

She got the usual adoring reviews from critics who have been in love with Madonna during her entire career, but average theater goers could not have ignored this film more and film critics have dismissed it as a vanity project.

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A new teaser trailer has been released on the web for the upcoming Tom Hanks movie ‘Angels and Demons.” The sequel to the 2007 flick ‘The Da Vinci Code’ sees the return of Robert Langdon, Professor of Religious Symbology, who will follow more clues written on and around dead bodies (cardinals this time), cryptic messages, car chases, and groups with a vendetta against the Catholic Church.

By the looks of the trailer, what won’t be back in this sequel is Hanks’ bad hair days.

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“High School Musical 3″ had a record opening for a song-and-dance flick with a $42 million haul, despite the fact that it’s star, Zac Efron, is anything but a dancer.

Efron recently told Heat magazine that he’s rhythm-challenged: “I’m definitely not a dancer, in any way. I’m the last one to get any move correctly. It’s something to do with rhythm.”

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It came as a surprise announced last week that Terrence Howard was being replaced in the role of James “Rhodey” Rhodes in “Iron Man 2″ by Don Cheadle. Naturally, everyone thought it was because Howard has priced himself out of the job but Howard says it isn’t so.

Hee is as bewildered as everyone else as to why he lost the plumb role. “It was the surprise of a lifetime. There was no explanation, [it] just up and vanished,” he says.

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Strictly third hand gossip, and the script isn’t even written, but fans are abuzz about the new rumor that Rhona Mitra is being considered to play a major villain in the future ‘Batman 3′ film.

The latest juicy tidbit comes from Batman-On-Film, which is saying that the “Underworld” actress could be a leading candidate for the role of Catwoman – that is, IF that character were to appear in the film even though no one involved in the production has even hinted at such a thing. But who doesn’t love a good rumor?

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Finally, a scary movie worth seeing this weekend! If you like “Cloverfield” you may like “Quarantine” which opens in wide release today. With a no big name cast, the film, written and directed by John Erick Dowdle, is a handheld cam horror flick that delivers big for an early Halloween fright fest.

The story follows a female TV host, played by Jennifer Carpenter (“The Exorcism of Emily Rose”), who does feature stories on people and their jobs. Who knew that tagging along with cops and firemen on a medical 911 call could be so bloody terrifying!

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According to Alicia Keys, she’s taken a short break from music to launch an acting career, as well as record a song for the new James Bond film. She manages to steal a few scenes in her new movie, “The Secret Life Of Bees,” which opens this week.

Keys told the Sun Times that she can’t think about music just yet: “Damn! I can only do one thing at a time. I will soon [work on a new album]. I also love acting. My mom [Terria Joseph] is an actress and I grew up in the theater.”

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