BERLIN – "Twilight"-star Robert Pattinson says the highlight of his role in the movie "Water for Elephants" was co-starring with Tai the elephant, but if he could be a circus animal it would be a bear, like the cinnamon roll-fed, vegetarian bear on set.
Pattinson told reporters on Wednesday that "I like the idea of sitting around all day, being a bear and then eating pastries."
The 24-year-old actor joined Academy Award-winner Christoph Waltz and director Francis Lawrence in Berlin to present his latest movie, based on a 2006 best-seller about a traveling circus in the 1930s. The film opened last week the U.S.
Pattinson plays veterinary student Jacob Jankowski. He said he hadn't read the book before accepting the part, but that he is fascinated by the Great Depression era.

LOS ANGELES – "Rio" topped the international box office chart for the third consecutive weekend with $32.1 million in 41 territories and a worldwide total of $239.3 million, but "Fast Five" is coming on quickly with a tally of $12.6 million in just three territories in advance of its turbocharged U.S. debut this weekend.
As the most action-packed and visually stunning film of the "Fast" franchise, look for Vin Diesel and Dwayne "The Rock" Johnson to dominate the worldwide market in the weeks to come.
Moving up to third place overseas is "Red Riding Hood," which increased to 29 territories and a weekend international gross of $8 million, giving this re-boot of the classic fairy tale worldwide appeal to the tune of $70.3 million.
Here are the top 20 movies at international theaters last weekend, followed by international gross for the weekend (excluding North America), number of theater locations, number of territories, worldwide gross to date (including North America), and number of weeks in release as compiled Wednesday by Rentrak Theatrical and provided by Hollywood.com:
1. "Rio," $32,150,926, 9,202 locations, 41 territories, $239,303,489, three weeks.
2. "Fast Five," $12,580,556, 437 locations, three territories, $15,433,907, one week.
3. "Red Riding Hood," $7,997,087, 2,472 locations, 29 territories, $70,348,573, seven weeks.
4. "Hop," $7,048,707, 7,016 locations, 34 territories, $145,789,417, four weeks.
5. "Gantz Perfect Answer," $6,740,684, locations NA, one territory, $6,740,684, one week.
6. "Scream 4," $6,581,238, 5,689 locations, 25 territories, $68,010,127, two weeks.
7. "Limitless," $5,374,170, 2,976 locations, 19 territories, $123,416,869, six weeks.
8. "Detective Conan Quarter of Silence," $4,390,868, locations NA, one territory, $13,824,346, two weeks.
9. "Source Code," $3,590,751, 3,512 locations, 18 territories, $70,382,808, four weeks.
10. "Battle: Los Angeles," $3,142,793, 1,639 locations, 38 territories, $99,156,577, seven weeks.
11. "Just Go With It," $3,099,466, 1,486 locations, 43 territories, $137,756,283, 11 weeks.
12. "Hall Pass," $2,453,622, 1,410 locations, 23 territories, $73,512,290, nine weeks.
13. "New Kids Turbo!," $2,275,605, 175 locations, one territory, $15,009,607, one week.
14. "Paul," $1,978,413, 886 locations, 11 territories, $80,660,844, 10 weeks.
15. "Gulliver's Travels," $1,967,788, 49 locations, five territories, $224,137,072, 17 weeks.
16. "Crayon Shin Chan 2011," $1,954,767, locations NA, one territory, $4,781,849, two weeks.
17. "Arthur," $1,876,519, 3,292 locations, five territories, $32,178,439, three weeks.
18. "Aguila Roja, La Pelicula," $1,766,310, 393 locations, one territory, $2,527,611, one week.
19. "Suspiscious Customers," $1,705,550, locations NA, one territory, $4,923,185, two weeks.
20. "The King's Speech," $1,538,799, 1,290 locations, 23 territories, $401,666,237, 22 weeks.

LOS ANGELES (Hollywood Reporter) – While Hollywood scrambles to figure out ways to exploit the death of Osama bin Laden on screen, the first movie that could actually benefit from the news is likely to be the final Harry Potter movie, "Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows: Part 2," which comes out on July 15.
While distributor Warner Bros has never pushed the comparison, the entire Potter saga -- both the books and the movies -- have an inevitable subtext, colored by the events of 9/11.
While the first volume in J.K. Rowling's seven-book series was originally published in England in 1997, the first movie, "Harry Potter and the Sorcerer's Stone," was released in November 2001, just months after 9/11.
It set up the ongoing conflict between Harry, the young, orphaned wizard, who gradually discovers his powers, and the malignant force of evil, Lord Voldemort, who is bent on destroying him. First referred to only as "He Who Must Not Be Named," Voldemort is introduced as something of a formless boogie-man -- not unlike the mysterious Osama -- but then, over the course of the series, takes on more and more of a physical presence until in the last volume he and Harry go head-to-head in a final, cataclysmic battle.
For a generation of kids who grew up reading Rowling's books and watching Hollywood's big-screen adaptations in the shadows of 9/11, there have been inevitable echoes of the real world in Harry's sometimes reluctant quest to defeat Voldemort.
Back in 2004, a poster on mugglenet.com made some of it explicit, comparing the Death Eaters to Al Queda and noting of that "just as Voldemort was shaped by his mother's death and his father's abandonment, Osama was shaped by his personal struggle between Western pleasures and Islamic discipline."
And just as Harry is known in the books as "the anointed one," a number of President Obama's critics like Rush Limbaugh have frequently dismissed the president by disparagingly referring to him as "the anointed one" as well -- though on Monday, even Limbaugh had praise for how Obama orchestrated Osama's demise.
Mild spoiler ahead, so stop reading if you don't know the outcome of the final book...
Meanwhile, in the wake of bin Laden's death in a mansion near Islamabad, a meme has already popped up on the web, noting the weird coincidence that Osama and Voldemort both died on the same day, May 1. But true Potter fans have been quick to point out that's not quite true: When Harry and Voldemort actually finally come face-to-face in the Battle of Hogwarts, in the books' chronology the date is really May 2, 1998.
Of course, even without an end to bin Laden, the final Potter movie is already on track to be one of the biggest movies of the summer. The franchise has already grossed more than $6.3 billion at the worldwide box office.
But bin Laden's death is now likely to give the movie an extra emotional resonance for the Potter generation, and that could translate into an even bigger box office bonanza.

If you want to relive the royal wedding of William and Kate you can watch one of these 10 outstanding films with themes on royalty and marriage. One features an animated film while some are musical and comedies, but most are based on historical royal couples.

Royal Wedding
Here is a musical starring Fred Astaire about a brother and sister dance team in London during the height of Princess Elizabeth (current Queen Elizabeth II) and Prince Philip's Royal Wedding in 1947. One of the actors, Peter Lawford, whose father Lord Sydney was a decorated British general and his mother Lady Lawford were knighted. Peter was married into the Kennedy family. The Kennedy's are considered America's Royal Family

The Queen's Sister
Before there was Princess Diana there was the younger sister of the present Queen of England, Princess Margaret. She was constant fodder for the British tabloids with her wild partying and hedonistic lifestyle. The film focuses substantially on her love relationship with Anthony Armstrong-Jones, a photographer. Their wedding is televised, but eventually the marriage self destructs whereby ultimately ending in divorce.

Marie Antoinette
This biopic is a prime example of royal marriages being arranged. You get to know this infamous royal couple from their courtship, marriage and tragic death. The costumes from this time period are absolutely stunning.
The Young Victoria
The film focuses on the early years of Queen Victoria's 63-year reign. Much of the film is about her legendary romance and marriage to Prince Albert. Emily Blunt stars as Queen Victoria.

Bertie & Elizabeth
An excellent TV movie on one of the greatest royal love stories, the Duke of York who is also known by his nickname, Bertie, and the Duchess of York who was the former Elizabeth Bowes-Lyon. It opens with them meeting at a dance. They marry in 1923, but their lives change forever when Bertie's older brother abdicates the throne. The actors who portray Bertie and Elizabeth are absolutely brilliant. This is a superb precursor to the Oscar-winning film "The King's Speech."

Coming to America
An African prince poses as a commoner in the U.S. to meet a girl who likes him for who he is, not what he is. Eddie Murphy stars in this hilarious comedy as an heir to throne who is expected to marry his betrothed. She ends up being a programmed robot liking everything he does. That's when he decides to go to Queens, New York to live in the worst neighborhood. He works in a fast food burger joint and falls in love with the owner's daughter.

The Princess Bride
It's an adventurous romantic comedy about a beautiful girl named Buttercup, played by Robin Wright, who is expected to marry a nasty prince, but loves someone else who treats her like a lady and a princess. This fairy tale-like story will keep you interested from start to finish.

Cinderella
Just about all royal romances from Grace Kelly, Princess Diana and Kate Middleton have been heavily compared to this Disney animated classic. The story and film itself is timeless and hopelessly romantic.

The Swan
Grace Kelly, whose own wedding dress inspired Kate Middleton's, starred in what would be her last film before her royal marriage to Prince Rainier III of Monaco. It is an ironic film in which Kelly stars as a princess who is expected to marry her betrothed, but falls in love with someone else. Kate Middleton was the lead in a school play where she was predicted to marry a prince name William.

The Sound of Music
One of the best family films of all time. It is the true story of Maria who is studying to become a nun. Her freewheeling nature concerns the Mother Superior and her staff. Maria is sent off into the secular world to work as a governess for seven children who belong to a widower Baron. Eventually Maria and the Baron Von Trapp fall in love and get married. Kate's dress has also been compared in the press to similarities of Maria Von Trapp's wedding dress when she marries the Baron.

Royal wedding fever will get to a fervent pitch while watching some or even all of these great films. It's the perfect way to spend a weeknight or weekend no matter the royal occasion. Grab one of these DVD titles, put your tiara or hat on and have a royally good time.

Emma Watson, the British actress who plays Hermione Granger in the "Harry Potter" series, on Friday denied reports that she was bullied out of Brown University — an assertion backed up by fellow students who said that, if anything, she was shielded from being singled out.
"The reason I took a semester off from Brown had nothing to do with bullying," Watson wrote on her website. "I have never been bullied in my life and certainly never at Brown."
Watson said she is not sure what her plans are for the fall semester, the beginning of her third year. Like many of her "fellow Brown students," she wrote, she is considering studying abroad.
Brown has not commented on media reports this month citing an anonymous Brown "insider" who claimed Watson was bullied out of school.
A New York Daily News article posted online April 21 claimed that when Watson responded correctly to questions in class, her classmates would shout, "Three points for Gryffindor!" — a reference to the "Harry Potter" films, in which students' dormitory houses are awarded points for questions they answer correctly. Watson's character lives in Gryffindor.
"This '10 points to Gryffindor' incident never even happened," wrote Watson, who has denied that rumor before. "Accusing Brown students of something as serious as bullying and this causing me to leave seems beyond unfair."
The rumor that a student had once exclaimed "10 points for Gryffindor" after Watson answered a question correctly became widespread on campus in spring 2010, the semester during which it was alleged to have happened, according to several current and recent Brown students interviewed by The Associated Press.
But, they said, it was viewed as part of Brown folklore, and students were, if anything, protective of Watson.
"We try to take care of our own at Brown, and I think we try to make sure she feels like anybody else," said Megan Estes, a Brown junior who said she doesn't know Watson but worked on the production of a campus theater production in which the "Harry Potter" star acted.
Apart from the Gryffindor comment, there was little sense on campus that Brown students heckled or antagonized Watson, said Estes and other students.
In class, students were respectful of Watson, said Bianca Dahl, a visiting professor who teaches a course on global humanitarian aid that Watson attended briefly at the start of the spring 2010 semester.
"There was an awareness of her, but in a protective way," Dahl said. "I can't fathom that faculty or students would allow bullying to happen."
Some students went so far as to approach Dahl to caution her that the actress was taking the course after she made reference in lectures to the "Harry Potter" books and to a humanitarian fashion line created by U2 singer Bono, she said. Watson is involved with a similar fashion line.
Allison Zimmer, who graduated last year and was an editor on the Brown campus newspaper's weekly culture magazine during Watson's freshman year, said she often encountered Watson with friends at Brown's dining hall, its bookstore and other normal campus locations.
"At the beginning there was a little bit of an aura around her. People would say, 'Oh, I just had my first Emma Watson spotting.' But that faded after the first few weeks," Zimmer said. "It was almost uncool to mention it."
The newspaper consciously decided to cover Watson as a normal student and not to give her presence extra attention, Zimmer and other current and former editors at the newspaper said.
Watson's comments Friday come a week after Vanessa Davies, her spokeswoman, told The Associated Press that the actress would transfer to another university in the fall because she "has decided to pursue a different course which sadly Brown does not offer."
Still, it's "possible and likely she may return to Brown in her final year," Davies told the AP.
Davies did not identify the university to which Watson will be transferring, but said it was "affiliated to Brown." She did not elaborate on what that might mean.
Brown declined to comment on Watson's plans.

LOS ANGELES (AFP) – The first big budget film of the summer season, "Fast Five," broke new records as it stormed to the head of the box office in its first weekend in theaters, industry data showed Monday.
Ticket sales of $86.2 million for the fifth volume in the high-speed car chase series, in which Paul Walker and Vin Diesel reunite with fellow "Fast" veterans, marked the biggest premiere for any film so far this year.
Tropical bird comedy "Rio," which had roosted atop the box office for two consecutive weeks, was knocked down to second place with $14.8 million, according to tracker company Exhibitor Relations.
In third place was the latest comedic offering from Tyler Perry, the critically-panned "Madea's Big Happy Family," which raked in $9.9 million in its second weekend.
Depression-era romance "Water for Elephants," starring British heartthrob Robert Pattinson and Oscar-winner Reese Witherspoon, took in $9.3 million to land in fourth.
In fifth place was coming-of-age flick "Prom," which earned $4.7 million for its cast of largely unknown actors, while moviegoers were similarly unimpressed by "Hoodwinked Too! Hood vs. Evil," a 3-D cartoon with ticket sales at $4.1 million.
The weekend box office hit list put "Soul Surfer" in the seventh spot with $3.4 million, telling the true story of church-going teen surfer Bethany Hamilton, who returned to the ocean after losing an arm in a shark attack.
Horror flick "Insidious," about a family in a haunted house, picked up nearly $2.7 million in eighth, followed by "Hop," a real-action-animation hybrid about the wayward son of the Easter Bunny, with a whisker less that also brought in $2.7 million.
Rounding out the top 10 for a second week in a row was Jake Gyllenhaal's acclaimed sci-fi thriller "Source Code," about a government experiment to find the bomber of a commuter train, which took $2.5 million.

LOS ANGELES (Reuters) – "Fast Five," the fifth entry in the "Fast and the Furious" street-racing franchise, raced to the biggest opening of the year at the North American box office, while "Thor" was the top choice overseas.
According to studio estimates issued on Sunday, "Fast Five" earned about $83.6 million during its first three days of release across the United States and Canada, proving the appeal of car chases in exotic locales for young male moviegoers.
Industry prognosticators had expected the film to edge past the $71 million start for the previous film, "Fast and Furious" in 2009. The opening also boosted the flagging fortunes of both its distributor, Universal Pictures, and the overall industry.
"Thor" pulled in $83 million from 56 foreign markets, a week before the Marvel comic book adaptation opens in North America. Top-ranked openings included Britain ($9 million), France ($8.1 million) and South Korea ($5.7 million). Its foreign total stands at $93 million after the Paramount Pictures release got an early start in Australia last weekend.
"Fast Five" earned $45.3 million internationally after expanding to 14 markets from four last weekend. It opened at No. 1 in each of the 10 new markets, including Russia ($11.5 million), Germany ($10.2 million) and Spain ($6.3 million). Its foreign total stands at $81.4 million.
The strong performances of the two action films suggest a strong summer for the Hollywood studios, which have suffered a dismal year so far. Ticket sales in North America are off 17 percent and attendance is down 18 percent from 2010. Universal, newly controlled by Comcast Corp, had the smallest market share of the six major studios last year. It has enjoyed a decent 2011 because it distributed the hit cartoon "Hop."
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Boasting a price tag of about $125 million, "Fast Five" reunites franchise stars Vin Diesel and Paul Walker in a high-octane series of car chases set in the slums of Rio De Janeiro. It easily crushed the old mark for the best opening of the year -- $39.2 million -- set two weekends ago by "Rio," a cartoon also set in the Brazilian city. "Fast Five" is actually the strongest new release since "Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows Part I" opened to $125 million last November.
Universal said "Fast Five" set a new company record, surpassing the $72.1 million bow of "The Lost World: Jurassic Park" in 1997. Figures are not adjusted for inflation.
The franchise originated in 2001 as "The Fast and the Furious," and hit top gear with the 2009 installment, which earned $353 million worldwide.
Two other new releases crashed in North America during the weekend. The Walt Disney Co teen comedy "Prom" came in at No. 5 with $5 million, and Weinstein Co's animated sequel "Hoodwinked Too! Hood Vs. Evil" at No. 6 with $4.1 million. They had been expected to open in the $7 million to $9 million range.
"Prom" marks the first film given the green light by Walt Disney Studios Chairman Rich Ross after he was given the job during a restructuring in October 2009. It cost about $8 million to make. Disney hopes to do better when its fourth "Pirates of the Caribbean" film opens on May 20.
Weinstein, the closely held studio behind best picture Oscar winner "The King's Speech," said it was disappointed by the opening for its Hansel and Gretel story, but it had limited financial exposure. The company received a distribution fee from the film's producer, a firm run by vodka mogul Maurice Kanbar. The Hollywood Reporter described "Hoodwinked" as "one of the most obnoxious and least necessary animated films of the century thus far."
After two weeks at No. 1, "Rio" fell to No. 2 with $14.4 million; the total for the Fox cartoon rose to $103.6 million. Fox is a unit of News Corp.