1. Sex and the City: $77,958,978 ($65 million budget)
2. Indiana Jones 4: $59,339,836 ($185 million budget, second week)
3. The Strangers: $28,356,800 ($9 million budget)

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What is it with Leonardo DiCaprio and biopics? Obsession? Addiction? Or both? After about a dozen of fictionalized biographies, the $20 million a movie star has signed for another one. This time he will play Nolan Bushnell, who invented the Atari video game system in the seventies. As a pioneer, he later sold the company to Warner Communications for $28 million.

Leonardo DiCaprio’s production company Appian Way will produce the picture for Paramount, who bought the script just yesterday. DiCaprio is also still attached to a biopic about James Bond creator Ian Fleming and Wall Street mogul Jordan Belfort.

Another day of trailers. The new Kevin Smith movie, that DreamWorks animation we talked about, two veteran movie stars and one big red head.

• Madagascar: Escape 2 Africa
• Hellboy II: The Golden Army (TV spot)
• Righteous Kill
• Zack and Miri Make a Porno

Continue reading Today’s trailers: ‘Madagascar 2,’ ‘Hellboy II,’ ‘Righteous Kill’ and ‘Zack and Miri Make a Porno’