'Finding Nemo' tops week's box office
HOLLYWOOD, June 15 (UPI) -- Disney's "Finding Nemo" won the week's estimated weekend box office Sunday adding $29 million to its total of $192 million.
The next most popular movie was Universal's "2 FAST 2 FURIOUS," adding $19 million to its box office total of $84 million.
In its fourth week, Universal's "Bruce Almighty" brought in an additional $14 million to is $193 box office total.
Among new releases, Paramount's "Rugrats Go Wild," an animated film from Nickelodeon Movies and Klasky-Csupo Inc. came in fourth bringing in $12.5 million.
Another new release, "Hollywood Homicide," by Revolution Studios starring Harrison Ford and Josh Hartnett, came in fifth for the week, raking in almost $12 million.
"Dumb and Dumberer, When Harry Met Lloyd," the prequel to the 1994 movie, introduces Derek Richardson and Eric Christian Olsen as younger versions of Lloyd Christmas and Harry Dunne. It came in sixth at $11 million.
Human Rights Watch film festival to open
NEW YORK, June 15 (UPI) -- The movie "Rana's Wedding" will open the Human Rights Watch International Film Festival Monday at Lincoln Center in New York City.
The featured films will cover subjects from AIDS to poverty to the aftermath of war and genocide.
The festival, which runs through June 26, will include films shot in Brazil, India, South Africa, Cuba and the Kurdish region of Iraq.
"Rana's Wedding," a film about a young Palestinian woman who resists her father's attempts to marry her to a man of his choosing, was filmed in the West Bank area and shot in 2001, when Israeli-Palestinian violence was growing.
At times, director Hany Abu-Assad and his crew had guns aimed at them while they were working, The New York Times reported.
Abu-Assad will receive the Nestor Almendros Prize for courage and commitment in filmmaking, named after a festival founder, a Spanish cinematographer who died in 1992.
Columbia releases Knowles' album early
NEW YORK, June 15 (UPI) -- Columbia Records, worried about Internet piracy, has moved up the release date of Beyonce Knowles' debut solo album.
Instead of being released on July 8, "Dangerously in Love" will be available starting June 24.
Columbia president Will Botwin said the company was "concerned with the threat of the album getting leaked," the British Broadcasting Corp. reported Sunday. He said the company was responding also to market demand.
The first single from the album, "Crazy in Love," reached number seven in the Billboard Hot 100. It also made number five in the Hot R&B/Hip-Hop Singles and Tracks chart.
Knowles is better known, however, as a member of Destiny's Child. The group announced late in 2001 that they were taking a break. The two other members, Michelle Williams and Kelly Rowland, released solo debuts in 2002.
