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<br>Director Lasse Hallstrom’s **Salmon Fishing In Yemen ** cracked the top ten, despite playing in less than 500 locations. Ewan McGregor stars in the film which grossed $1.2 million over the weekend, taking its gross to $3.1 million, a number which should swell in the coming we<br><br> <br>CW president Mike Pedowitz has been working to get a military drama on the network for several years now, and the choice to make Valor , a drama about U.S. Army helicopter pilots who find themselves embroiled in a conspiracy following a mission that went completely awry, the network's first foray into the subgenre an interesting one. For one thing, Valor is late to the party; NBC already launched The Brave and CBS SEAL Team , meaning The CW is entering into a marketplace that may already be saturated with military dramas. And Valor is airing the same night as The Brave , which even with the lead-in of Supergirl might not be a match for NBC's The Voice in terms of bringing in viewers. There's a good chance those who are looking forward to seeing the Girl of Steel return for season 3 will stick around for the premiere of Valor , after all, it also features a strong female lead with Christina Ochoa, who was most recently seen in SYFY's one-and-done grindhouse series Blood Drive . But it seems questionable whether or not that audience will stick around after the somewhat disappointing and muddled pilot epis<br><br> <br>McCoy and Waugh will produce the new Act of Valor movie installment, but the screenwriting and directing responsibilities are going to be handled by Scott Wiper instead. The latter has made such films as the small-town vigilante feature Captain Jack , the police/Mafia thriller A Better Way to Die and the "death match as televised entertainment" action-thriller The Condemned (which was released well-after The Running Man , but before The Hunger Game movie). If you have never heard of, much less seen , any of these films, well... that's may be because most of them were box office duds and critical misfi<br><br> <br>Julia Roberts’ turn in **Mirror Mirror ** failed to find much of an audience, scoring a mediocre $19 million. The $85 million fairy tale’s launch was a far cry from the $116 million that Tim Burton’s Alice In Wonderland had in 2010 and  [https://valorantfocus.com/ Valorant beginner guide|Https://valorantfocus.com/] Mirror Mirror ’s debut was also below the $32 million that Immortals banked on its debut. That was the last feature from visualist director Tarsem, but Mirror Mirror ( read our review ) has the potential to have legs – if mothers and daughters decide to show up in the coming we<br><br> <br>Valor fulfills The CW's president Mark Pedowitz's wish for a military drama, and marks the network's third attempt at bringing such content to the lineup. Meanwhile, the reboot of Dynasty is the next in a long line of re-imaginings of television properties for a new generation. The CW is aiming for the 90210 and The OC crowd with the show, making its pairing with the genre-straddling Riverdale on Wednesday nights a smart choice. Life Sentence is also a departure from the network's superhero side of things, as the show centers on a young woman (played by Pretty Little Liars star Lucy Hale) who discovers she's no longer dying of cancer and now has to live with the consequences of certain decisions she made when under the impression there was no tomorrow (sorry, charming but canceled CW sh<br><br> <br>In all, __ The CW has a fairly limited new crop of shows, which speaks to the success of its current lineup and the way the network seems to make midseason premieres work so well. Time will tell if any of the above shows will make it through their first seas<br><br> <br>**The Hunger Games ** held off competition from Sam Worthington and Julia Roberts and retained the top spot at the box office . The Jennifer Lawrence starrer grossed $61.1 million over the weekend, a number that ups its cume to a fantastic $251 million. The production budget for the film is a reported $78 million, so this is a major success for Lionsgate, especially considering that The Hunger Games has crossed $364 million worldw<br><br> <br>When The CW announced that it would fall in line with NBC and CBS and deliver a military drama for the 2017 fall TV season with **Valor ** it heralded a potential change for the network that has been associated mainly with DC Comics over the last few years. Shows like Arrow , The Flash , Legends of Tomorrow , and Supergirl have become The CW's identity to a certain degree, while the long-running Supernatural and critical darlings/award-winners (Golden Globes, but still) Crazy Ex-Girlfriend and Jane the Virgin are still around to service the interests of those who are maybe only tangentially interested in the geek-friendly line up the network has been offering. As such, the move to offer a military drama is a notable departure, one that makes even the Dynasty reboot seem less risky by compari<br><br> <br>Disney bomb **John Carter ** banked $2 million, upping its cume to just over $66 million. The $250 million film has just about covered its production budget globally, but it still won’t turn a pro<br>