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With its star-studded cast and romantic comedy potential, He’s Just Not That Into You topped this weekend’s box office by pulling in $27.5 million.  It took the top of the box office from Liam Neeson’s Taken.

In my opinion, the cast and the comprehensive marketing of the film put it over the top.  I mean, just look at the following names in the movie: Jennifer Aniston, Ben Affleck, Drew Barrymore, Jennifer Connelly, Kevin Connolly, Scarlett Johansson, Bradley Cooper, Ginnifer Goodwin and Justin Long.  I probably missed someone, but that is a monster cast.

For He’s Just Not That Into You‘s relationship-intensive genre, that cast is like the Nicholson-DiCaprio-Wahlberg-Damon-Sheen-Baldwin cast on The Departed.  So don’t be too shocked by HJNTIY‘s performance this weekend.

The thing that surprised me about this weekend’s box office was the strong performance from Taken, which took down $20.3 million.  I’ve heard nothing but good things about the movie – Liam Neeson allegedly punches every person in the movie, besides his wife and daughters, three times in the head.  Which is gold in my book.

But is Liam Neeson still a box office action star?  I didn’t think so, but it appears I’m wrong.

That’s the movie out right now that I really want to see.

gossip of the day: dunst dating hartnett

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This is a bit trashy, but interesting none-the-less.

It seems to myself, a complete Hollywood outsider, that Kirsten Dunst is passed around more frequently than the collection basket at church.

(That was probably really mean, but absolutely true)

The Spider-Man actress has recently been romantically linked to Justin Long, Jacob Soboroff, Fabrizio Moretti and Ryan Gentles, the manager of The Strokes.  Dunst also dated Jake Gyllenhaal for two years.

And now, the New York Post‘s gossip column – Page Six – reports that Dunst has a new flame; Josh Hartnett. An insider tells the publication…

“They were whispering and smiling at each other. At times it looked like she wanted to grab his hand, but stopped. She was especially smitten with him.”

I feel kind of bad for Dunst because she’s consistently labeled in the tabloids and on the Internet as a slut.  I mean, how did the Post take looking like your going to grab someone’s and flip it into Kirsten Dunst hooking up with Josh Hartnett (which they did today).

And now, let’s say that Dunst and Hartnett are indeed going out.  The dynamic of their relationship completely changes with this article on Page Six.

It’s too bad, really, because the relationship is doomed by being in the public forum.