(This is gonna be a hell of a bris)

Inglourious Basterds predictably took the top spot with $37.6 million, but unpredictably took in quite a bit more than expected and earned Quentin Tarantino his biggest international opening weekend so far, according to Nikke Finke.  The film has already earned back approximately half of it’s budget.  I kind of wish I didn’t want to see this movie, so I could recycle my own joke and say, “I can’t wait to nazi this.”

District 9 dropped almost 50% in it’s second week, earning $18.9 million.  It has now grossed 2.5 times its original budget. G.I. Joe dropped 44% in its third week, taking in $12.5 million.  It’s now earned back almost 70% of its budget.  I kind of want to see this in the cheap theater so I can feel like Luke Wilson in Idiocracy.  I’ll just feast my eyes at the human panoply surrounding me and then raise my fists and yell, “I am the king of the windowlickers!  Bring me shiny things and gobstoppers, peasants!”

Among the other films opening last weekend, Shorts opened at #6 with $6.6 million, Post Grad was #10 with $2.8 million, and My One and Only opened on four screens with a per screen average of $15,175.  IFC sent Five Minutes of Heaven to only one theater last weekend, where it earned $5,200.  Liam Neeson reportedly called IFC’s receptionist to leave a message:  If you send my film to more screens next weekend, that’ll be the end of it. I will not look for you, I will not pursue you. But if you don’t, I will look for you, I will find you, and I will kill you.

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Opening this weekend:

Inglourious Basterds — If I have to explain to you what this movie is about, then I’m sorry about that coma you just recovered from.  Welcome back.  Now take off that hypercolor t-shirt; you look like a damn hipster.

Post Grad (trailer) — “This summer . . . look for a job . . . look for love . . . find yourself.”  . . . F–k yourself.
Oh hello there, Michael Keaton.  I didn’t know you were still alive.

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CinemaBlend and TrailerAddict posted eight new clips from Inglourious Basterds.  I’ve embedded a few below.  The first two clips feature Christoph Waltz’s creepily charismatic performance as a Nazi detective nicknamed “Jew Hunter”.  He won Best Actor (or “Bestest Acter” as Tarantino would say) at Cannes for this role.  And on the other end of the potential-Oscar-winner spectrum, we have Mike Myers in prosthetic makeup doing a British accent in the third clip.  I just can’t get enough of Mike Myers in prosthetic makup doing an accent.  He should have played Virginia Woolfe in The Hours, not Nicole Kidman.

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Tarantino went on Stern earlier today, and, as usual, frankly revealed a veritable line of facts, many kilo bytes of information.  And after the bump — er, jump — you can watch a video that’s making the rounds today of Tarantino’s favorite 20 movies of the past 17 years.  He picked some movies that really rock.

Anyway, here’s one of the items Quentin told Stern:

Pitt recently told Bill Maher he no longer smokes weed, for the kids’ sake. Was he telling the truth?
“Quentin said that things eventually ended and he went to his hotel. He said that Brad had this big brick of hash and he was going to give him some for the night. He said that Brad whipped out a knife and cut up a big sliver for him and the stuff was pretty good. He said that he asked for a pipe to go with it and Brad handed him a Coke can to use instead. Quentin said that would make for a great scene in a movie and he may have to use that.”

Oooo, well look at Mr. Fancy Shmancy with his brand name soda can bong.  Back in my day we had to settle for a Dr. Thunder bong out of the quarter pop machine at Walmart.

Here’s a quick summary of some of the other things Tarantino revealed on today’s episode of TMI, with Quentin:

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Slashfilm reports:

Gamervision has put together a funny movie trailer parody of Quentin Tarantino’s Inglourious Basterds, set in the world of the Mushroom Kingdom. That’s right, a Super Mario Bros related parody.

The surprise ending is that when they finally storm the Wolves’ Den, a secret dwarf hooker tells them, “Sorry, Mario.  Hitler’s in another bunker.”  For real.  Rachel McAdams told me.

~ robopanda