Thrillers chasing skater streak at weekend b.o.

April 13, 2007 [...] right now, Hollywood is dropping a lot of movies with midrange hopes into the marketplace, gambling that a few of them will manage to hook up with audiences and hold theater screens for a couple of weeks before they are pushed aside by the big boys of summer. With "Blades of Glory," Paramount Pictures' release of the DreamWorks/MTV Films co-production, having already topped the winner's stand for the past two weekends, it could move down a notch or two, allowing one of this weekend's five new wide releases to claim the top spot. In the R-rated film directed by James Foley ("Glengarry Glen Ross"), Halle Berry plays a reporter who goes undercover to investigate an ad exec (Bruce Willis) whom she suspects is guilty of murder.

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