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HOLLYWOOD (Box Office Mojo)—The Matrix Revolutions raked in $232,189,926 in its first week at virtually every market in the world, enough to already rank as the 195th highest grossing picture of all time.

Moviegoers spread some early holiday cheer to New Line's Elf. Will FerrellAdam SandlerOrlando Bloom

HOLLYWOOD (Box Office Mojo)—Love Actually wooed $6,886,080 from just 576 theaters, averaging a potent $11,955 per site - only The Matrix Revolutions's $13,842 was higher for the weekend. Hugh Grant

HOLLYWOOD (Box Office Mojo)—The world revolved around The Matrix Revolutions, thanks to the record-breaking global assault Warner Bros. mounted for the cyber-epic.

HOLLYWOOD (Box Office Mojo)—The Matrix Revolutions fended off a festive debut for Elf on Friday to remain firmly entrenched in the top spot. Will FerrellAdam SandlerHugh Grant

Combining British humor with light romance as he did so effectively in Four Weddings and a Funeral and Notting Hill, writer and first time director Richard Curtis gives full scope to his philosophy in Love Actually. Though the tenderness of his previous movies comes in patches, Love Actually is too modern, too long and too much.

HOLLYWOOD (Box Office Mojo)—The Matrix Revolutions raked in $28 million worldwide on Thursday, down 35% from its opening day and propelling its global total to $71.1 million in two days.

HOLLYWOOD (Box Office Mojo)—The Matrix Revolutions entered 18,000 screens at 10,013 theaters in 109 markets on Wednesday in a massive, simultaneous global assault and emerged with a $43.1 million opening day worldwide, according to distributor Warner Bros.

Instead of being a satisfying and rousing ending to the Matrix trilogy, The Matrix Revolutions raises more questions than it answers, while veering dangerously away from what made the original movie cool to begin with.

You've probably heard Rachel Portman's melodies in movie theaters: the haunting piano theme for The Cider House Rules, the festive music in Chocolat and the scores for Beloved, Hart's War, The Truth About Charlie, Marvin's Room, Sirens, The Legend of Bagger Vance and Emma, for which she won an Oscar.

The Truth About Charlie is that it has all the ingredients to be a top-notch romantic caper, but just can never get it together enough to deliver. Based on 1963's Charade, which starred Cary Grant and Audrey Hepburn, the new version by director Jonathan Demme (The Silence of the Lambs) has given the classic a contemporary, stylish sheen while using the framework of the original as inspiration. Call it a "reimagining" of the source material.

Secondhand Lions has delivered a solid roar at the box office. Speaking from his ranch in central Texas, writer-director Tim McCanlies tells Box Office Mojo about how and why he made the picture and the business sense behind it. Jackie ChanRobert DuvallClint EastwoodPaul NewmanJosh LucasMichael CainePeter JacksonCameron CroweAlbert BrooksQuentin TarantinoJames CameronSteven SoderberghRobert RodriguezBrad Bird

Almost without exception, the obituaries of Elia Kazan—while praising his enormous talent as a director—are critical of his testimony against Hollywood communists. According to some, Kazan, a former member of the Communist Party, should never be forgiven for naming names of fellow party-members before the House Un-American Activities Committee.

Director Len Wiseman's freshman effort Underworld is long on style and short on substance, playing more like a combination music video and first person shooter game than a movie. The strong visual style is no accident, according to production notes, Wiseman cut his cinematic teeth working in the art departments for Godzilla, Independence Day and Men in Black, as well as being involved in the art direction for numerous music videos. And it shows here in Underworld. Its gothic noir look is cool and sexy. Unfortunately, the story is a muddle that art direction has little power to save.

Molly Gunn is an impulsive Manhattan heiress who spends money like there's no tomorrow—until tomorrow comes, and Molly discovers she's broke. In order to make money and support herself, Molly Gunn has to get a job.

Once Upon a Time in Mexico is one long, bloody jeer at the universe. The final picture in Robert Rodriguez' Mariachi trilogy, which includes 1992's El Mariachi and 1995's Desperado, undercuts its own charisma.

Director Ridley Scott's caper flick Matchstick Men about two con artists and their latest score is somewhat of a con itself. That's because the movie is not really about the caper or any of the duo's criminal activities. It's about the redemptive power of personal values.

If writer/director Sofia Coppola isn't careful she could become one of the best filmmakers working today. Her newest mini-masterpiece Lost in Translation mines the same territory as her stunning, albeit flawed debut The Virgin Suicides—namely the price and burden of unconventional loneliness in the midst of a conventional society.

Having survived the breast cancer she was diagnosed with over ten years ago, Olivia Newton-John is still making music and movies —- possibly a sequel to the popular 1978 musical Grease. Grease 3, Newton-John confirmed to Box Office Mojo, is in the works.