'Disturbia' No. 1 for 3rd week LOS ANGELES, April 29 (UPI) -- The suspense thriller "Disturbia" stayed on top of the U.S.
box office rankings for the third straight week, raking in $9.1 million in weekend receipts. Two new films debuted at No.
2 and No. 3. "The Invisible," about a slain high school student who tries to communicate with the living, took in $7.
6 million. "Next," a Nicolas Cage sci-fi thriller, was right behind at $7.2 million.
The suspense film "Fracture" slipped from No.2 to No. 4 in its second week with $7.
04 million. "Meet the Robinsons" was No. 6 at $4.
84 million after coming in fifth last week. "Hot Fuzz" was right behind at No. 7 with $4.
78 million. Completing the Top 10 were "Vacancy," a thriller that slipped four places with $4.2 million; "The Condemned," a new violence-laden film about a TV producer who forces murderers to battle to the death that banked $4 million; and "Are We Done Yet?
", which took in $3.4 million while slipping to No. 10.
"In the Land of Women," "Perfect Stranger" and "Wild Hogs" left the Top 10 this week. INDIO, Calif., April 29 (UPI) -- Actress Scarlett Johansson got up on stage at the Coachella music festival in Indio, Calif.
, and proved her singing prowess with the band Jesus and Mary Chain. On Friday, she joined the Scottish band, who did the soundtrack for her breakthrough film, "Lost in Translation," to sing vocals on the track "Just Like Honey," Access Hollywood reported. Wearing a dress, a fedora and red high heels, Johansson jumped on stage three-quarters through the bands set.
Singer Jim Reid did not reveal who their special guest was until she got on stage, but hugged her at the end of the song. Johansson is the only actress that has been seen on stage so far at Coachella, but dozens of celebrities have been spotted in the crowd, including Danny DeVito, Drew Barrymore and Cameron Diaz. The annual event will have attracted nearly 100,000 people when it wraps up Sunday night.
NEW ORLEANS, April 29 (UPI) -- Shell Oil says it will remain a sponsor of the New Orleans Jazz and Heritage Festival until at least 2010. The announcement came Saturday as the festival opened up for the second of six days filled with good music and good food, The New Orleans Times-Picayune reported. Shell has now committed to fund the Jazzfest's nonprofit foundation for at least three more years, just 15 months after it signed on to ensure the festival would still take place after Hurricane Katrina in 2006.
"In our darkest hour, it was the Shell Co.," said Quint Davis, producer and director of the festival that brings in about 350,000 tourists each year and has an economic impact of $300 million. "We were the goldfish on the kitchen floor.
They put us back in the bowl so we could swim." LOS ANGELES, April 29 (UPI) -- Los Angeles hotel heiress Paris Hilton has inspired a statue meant to combat "the disturbingly glamorized trend of Hollywood's girls gone wild." Artist Daniel Edwards unveiled the life-size clay sculpture of Hilton naked, complete with a model of her dog, Tinkerbell, Teen Hollywood reported Sunday.
Hilton was sentenced to 36 months probation, alcohol education and $1,500 in fines in January after pleading no contest to alcohol-related reckless driving. Starlets Nicole Richie and Michelle Rodriguez also were arrested in Los Angeles recently for allegedly driving drunk.
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