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So far, the Twilight glow hasn’t quite materialized for Taylor Lautner and Robert Pattinson outside of the blockbuster franchise, at least at the domestic box office. Over the weekend, Lautner starrer Abduction opened to $11.2 million in North America. While hardly a disaster, most box office observers thought the Lionsgate action pic—Lautner’s first solo outing--would open in the mid-teens. Abduction did appeal heavily to younger females, Lautner’s Twilight fanbase, but needed more males, the natural audience for action fare. According to exit polling, 68 percent of those going to see Abduction were females, while 56 percent were under the age of 25. Abduction wasn’t helped by poor reviews, although moviegoers seemed to like it more than critics, giving it a so-so B- CinemaScore (females under 18 gave it an A- CinemaScore). In Abduction, directed by John Singleton, Lautner plays a teenager who learns his parents aren’t who they say they are when he sees his picture on a

Looks like the combined power of Tyler Perry in a fat suit, the draw of Robert Pattinson and a group of big cats wasn’t enough to challenge animated birds as Rio has continued its box office domination across the world and in the US this Easter weekend. Across the pond, the feathered friends from Fox and Blue Sky earned $26.8 million, bringing the movie’s US total to $81.2 million. Somewhere, we’re pretty certain executives and about to ask what other ideas the Blue Sky team have for Blu and company. Still, Perry won’t be too upset as Madea’s Big Happy Family locked down second place easily with $25.7 million.  Who really watches these movies? Bet he digs the suit and wig out of the closet again soon enough. R.Pattz/Reese Witherspoon romance Water for Elephants , meanwhile, did decent business, taking in $17.5 million for third place. In fourth we find Hop hanging on to a solid level of ticket business, earning $12.4 million after four weeks on release. After that we see Scre

Today we have the new Water for Elephants trailer. The film is based on Sara Gruen's novel of the same name, directed by Francis Lawrence ( I Am Legend ) and starring Robert Pattinson as Jacob Jankowski, Reese Witherspoon as Marlena and Christoph Waltz as August. Hal Holbrook will play the older Jacob Jankowski. The film is due out on April 15, 2011. Watch the trailer after the Jump... As a young man, Jacob Jankowski (Robert Pattinson) was tossed by fate onto a rickety train that was home to the Benzini Brothers Most Spectacular Show on Earth. It was the early part of the great Depression, and for Jacob, now ninety, the circus world he remembers was both his salvation and a living hell. A veterinary student just shy of a degree, he was put in charge of caring for the circus menagerie. It was there that he met Marlena (Reese Witherspoon), the beautiful equestrian star married to August (Christoph Waltz), the charismatic but twisted animal trainer. And he met Rosie, an

Not Just A Pretty Face Anymore Robert Pattinson has booked his first major lead for when he completes The Twilight Saga . Pattinson will star in Cosmopolis , the Don DeLillo novel adaptation that David Cronenberg wrote and will direct. Pattinson, who just starred with Reese Witherspoon and Christoph Waltz in Fox 2000's Francis Lawrence-directed adaptation of the Sara Gruen novel Water For Elephants . Pattinson will play Eric Packer . A financial wunderkind, Packer risks his entire fortune to bet against the yen on a tumultuous day. His deed puts him in the crosshairs for assassination in a drama that is a study of capitalism in a slightly futuristic metropolis. Most of the scenes in the book take place in the limousine that transports Packer from place to place. Marion Cotillard and Paul Giamatti are also reportedly doing the film, but those same reports had Colin Farrell poised to take the lead role. As Pattinson and his Twilight Saga castmates plan their careers a

This Ain't No Ringling Bros Circus Water for Elephants trailer has been sign sealed and delivered tonight and we have it for you. The film is based on Sara Gruen's novel of the same name, directed by Francis Lawrence (I Am Legend) and starring Robert Pattinson as Jacob Jankowski, Reese Witherspoon as Marlena and Christoph Waltz as August. Hal Holbrook  will play the older Jacob Jankowski. The film is due out on  April 15, 2011. Watch the trailer after the Jump.. As a young man, Jacob Jankowski ( Robert Pattinson ) was tossed by fate onto a rickety train that was home to the Benzini Brothers Most Spectacular Show on Earth. It was the early part of the great Depression, and for Jacob, now ninety, the circus world he remembers was both his salvation and a living hell. A veterinary student just shy of a degree, he was put in charge of caring for the circus menagerie. It was there that he met Marlena ( Reese Witherspoon ), the beautiful equestrian star married to Augus

Christoph Waltz Playing A Circus Freak Hollywood is always looking for great villains. Now I’m told that Christoph Waltz, a frontrunner in the Best Supporting Actor race for his portrayal of the charmingly sadistic Col Hans Landa, will make a deal to star with Reese Witherspoon and Robert Pattinson in "Water for Elephants,"the Richard LaGravanese-scripted adaptation of the Sara Gruen novel for Fox 2000. Francis Lawrence is directing. The role at first appeared to belong to Sean Penn who's been on a self-imposed big screen sabbatical, but the deal went south. Instead, Waltz will play the heavy in the Depression Era romantic triangle involving a veterinary medicine student (Pattinson) who joins a 2nd-rate travelling circus and falls for the star performer (Witherspoon). Waltz will play her husband, a dangerous paranoid schizophrenic animal trainer who is as mean to his wife as he is to the circus creatures. Waltz was a journeyman German TV actor when Quentin Tarantino cast