Be a Movie Smarty Pants

I hope you have all had a fun 4th of July. Here are seven cool facts about current or upcoming movies:

* Transformers and Ice Age 3 tied at the box office with $42.5 million over the 4th of July weekend, but Ice Age had the highest per screen average.

* Harry Potter co-star Rupert Grint has recovered from the swine flu.

* Pixar’s Up has made a whopping $265 million, making it the 40th highest grossing film of all time—and it’s still going strong.

* Eminem has a small role in Judd Apatow’s new comedy Funny People with Adam Sandler and Seth Rogen.

* The film version of the Atari videogame Asteroids is in the works (true!).

* There have been at least three injuries on the set of Russell Crowe’s latest, Robin Hood.

* The following people were among those invited to join the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences: Michael Cera, James Franco, Seth Rogen, Paul Rudd, Hugh Jackman, Jane Lynch, Casey Affleck, Viola Davis, Anne Hathaway, Michelle Williams, Amy Ryan, Danny Boyle, Dustin Lance Black, A.R. Rahman, Emile Hirsch, Tyler Perry, James MacAvoy, Jeffrey Wright.