The comedians of "Funny People" had the last laugh this weekend, taking the top spot at the North American box office, according to preliminary figures on Sunday. The film, which stars Adam Sandler as a terminally-ill famous comedian who decides to mentor a young comic, earned 23.4 million dollars in its first week, according to box office tracker Exhibitor ...

"Transformers: Revenge of the Fallen," a blockbuster action movie starring Shia LaBeouf, stormed to the top of the North American box office, pushing "The Proposal" to number two, according to earnings estimates released Sunday. Director Michael Bay's follow-up to 2007's first Transformers movie pulled in 112 million dollars over the three-day period, according to box office tracker Exhibitor ...

Giant alien robots don't actually exist. So the dozens featured in "Transformers: Revenge of the Fallen" had to be built from the ground up. That effort took hundreds of artists, thousands of hours and even caused one computer to explode. "We lost some machinery," visual effects ...