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An Augusta native is playing the lead role in what is being called one of the top ten movies of the year.

Watching movies might sound like a sweet gig, but it isn't all fun and games. The long lunches with Keira Knightley are nice, but I didn't appreciate Nicholas Cage holding my cat Huggins for ransom after I came down on National Treasure 2 . Likewise, if Scorsese calls me at 10 a.m. for advice one more time, I am going to just lose it.

Fans have been mooning over all things "Twilight" since the vampire-romance film bowed so bloody well exactly a year ago.

Michael and Leigh Anne The Blind Side Directed and written by John Lee Hancock. Photographed by Alar Kivilo.

The film, which was released on 4,024 screens made an amazing $34,965 per screen for a record setting $140 million opening weekend total, putting it third in all time opening weekend tallies right behind The Dark Knight and Spider-Man 3 , respectively.

A great swath of American men might fall in love with Sandra Bullock in The Blind Side , the generously entertaining movie about, among other things, the sweeping cultural phenomenon that is football in the South.

The Blind Side: Haven't heard many folks talking about this upcoming football movie - except to make fun of Sandra Bullock , who really is a poor man's Julia Roberts, if that's how Hollywood is trying to peg her.

Rated PG-13, 130 minutes Following a nearly-fatal attack by a band of rogue vampires at the close of the first film, coupled with another dangerous assault by one of their own during Bella's 18th birthday party, Edward and the rest of the Cullens decide that the only way to keep Bella safe is for them to leave Forks, Wash.

The "Twilight" sequel scored the third-biggest opening weekend of all time at the North American box office on Sunday, as millions of young women swooned over the complex love triangle involving a high school girl, a vampire and a werewolf.

Oscar-winning thespian Kathy Bates Friday returned to the very place she first caught the acting bug.

In this film publicity image released by Warner Bros., Quint Aaron and Sandra Bullock are shown in a scene from, "The Blind Side." This redemption-minded sports flick serves its inspiration straight-up with no twist.

Left to right: Sean, Leigh Anne, Michael, Collins and S.J. It's a true story that inspired a best-selling book, which in turn inspired a feature film, The Blind Side .

"New Moon," the first sequel in the "Twilight" saga is only slightly better than the original, but it's also a moody, talky, sappy melodrama.

Cast: Sandra Bullock as Leigh Anne Touhy Tim McGraw as Sean Tuohy Quinton Aaron as Michael Oher Jae Head as S.J. Tuohy Lily Collins as Collins Tuohy Ray McKinnon as Coach Cotton Kim Dickens as Mrs.

Melissa Anderson, a writer for the Dallas Observer, wrote a review of the new Sandra Bullock movie, "The Blind Side." She condemned the movie, which tells the tale of a large mute African American who moves in with a white Christian family, as a racist story about white saviors who save downtrodden African Americans.

Sandra Bullock gathered her on- and off-screen families together in NYC last night for a screening of The Blind Side .

Tim McGraw's movie with Sandra Bullock, The Blind Side , opens nationwide today .

The Blind Side is the mainstream Precious. In this true story, a homeless black teenager turns his life around when an affluent family in Tennessee takes him in.

Born in Austin, Matthew left soon thereafter and finally made it back after years of paying his penance wandering the earth.

Facebook NEW ORLEANS, Louisiana - "The Blind Side" follows a Memphis teen's journey from the projects to professional football stardom.