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Garry Marshall's star-studded ensemble pic New Year's Eve stumbled in its box office debut, grossing a tepid $13.7 million as overall box office revenues fell to their lowest levels in more than three years.

New Line and Warner Bros.' s New Year's Eve is on course to gross $6 million to $7 million in its first day of play at the domestic box office, putting it at No. 1. Director Garry Marshall's $56 million star-studded ensemble pic is expected to open in the $20 million range for the weekend, in line with pre-release tracking. While that's far less than the $72 million bow of Marshall's Valentine's Day over the four-day Valentine's Day/President's Day weekend in 2010, Warner Bros. expects the film to have an especially strong multiple and play through New Year's Day since it's the only holiday romantic comedy.

Director Woody Allen's romantic comedy Midnight in Paris is to open the Cannes Film Festival in May, organisers announce.

She and Ashton Kutcher end up in bed together in the romantic comedy, out next January.

Director Garry Marshall and his pack of A-list stars are on track to win the President’s Day weekend with the ensemble romantic comedy Valentine’s Day. Friday’s opening for the film starring Julia Roberts, Bradley Cooper and many, many others is estimated at approximately $15 million, a number that is likely to reach over $50 million for the 4-day holiday frame.

Parlay Films has acquired worldwide rights to "Clueless" and "Fast Times At Ridgemont High" director Amy Heckerling's romantic comedy in development "Vamps" says Screen Daily.

The film will be a modern-day tale of two young female vampires living the good life in New York until love enters the picture and each has to make a choice that will jeopardise their immortality.

The romantic comedy "The Proposal" proved seductive at the North American boxoffice Friday. Disney's PG-13 "Proposal," starring Sandra Bullock and Ryan Reynolds and directed by Anne Fletcher, opened in 3,056 theaters to a rosy estimate of $12.6 million, which should see it flirt with the $30 million mark for its first weekend.