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US: Women Throw Grinch From TopTagline: He has the power to hear everything women are thinking. Finally… someone is listening.Nick Marshall, Mel Gibson is a chauvinistic ad exec whose efforts to undermine his demanding new boss Darcy Maguire, Helen Hunt are complicated when a bathtub blow-dryer accident mysteriously gives him the ability to hear women's thoughts. With a little practice, he's able to get inside the heads of female coworkers and even communicate with his teenage daughter Alex, Ashley Jonhnson for the first time. Other females he gets to ‘probe’ are Lola, Marisa Tomei, Gigi, Lauren Holly and Bette Midler, who plays Gibson’s shrink. This Romance/Comedy also stars Mark Feuerstein as Morgan, Valerie Perrine as Margo, Delta Burke as Eve, Alan Alda as Dan Wanamaker and many more. It was directed by Nancy Meyers, Produced by Bruce A. Block and written by Josh Goldsmith and Cathy Yuspa. The film also includes an Original Music Score by Alan Silvestri. It was released by Paramount. In it’s debut week, the film made a whopping $34,400,000. This number also places the film at a record breaking spot for debut films this year! This movie runs for 2 hours and 7 minutes. Official Website: www.whatwomenwantmovie.com. – 8d317b.com. Syrian TV to Produce Five TV SeriesSyrian TV is preparing to produce five TV series. The new series are considered a continuity of the boom witnessed by Syrian drama during the month of Ramdan last yearIsabel Allende’s ‘The House of the Spirits’ to Become Syrian TV SeriesSyrian screenwriter Qamar Al Zaman Aloush has recently adapted Isabel Allende’s novel The House of the Spirits into a drama entitled Al Arwah Al Muhajira (Emigrated Spirits)Jordanian Film Distributors Refuse Buying ‘Ayyam Assadat’Despite the approval of the Jordanian authorities on screening the film Ayyam Assadat (Sadat Days), the Jordanian distributors decided not to buy itHany Ramzy’s ‘Itfarag Ya Salam’ Top Billing Irks Co-StarsNot everyone is happy with how the names of the stars of the new Egyptian film Itfarag Ya Salam (Wow, Look!) are arranged on the film's billboards and credits.Mohammed Riyad, a Mounted Mamluke, Fears His HorseFear of falling to his death from a horse has prompted Egyptian actor Mohammed Riyadh to refuse to perform in a scene in the TV series Al Amira Wal MamlukLebanese Film Depicts Palestinian Children ResistanceThe Lebanese director Eliane Raheb screened her documentary film al Bae’ed al Qareeb (So Near, Yet So far) at the 25 Gothenburg festival.French Film Magazine Re-Trains Spotlight on Shahin’s Masterpiece ‘Al Asfour’On the 50th anniversary of the release of its first issue in 1951, a French cinema magazine organized a ceremony that included the screening of 50 films |
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