• Liam Neeson Rules Box Office Again With ‘Taken 2’ 
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Atlas Shrugged movie  | Horror flick "Sinister" posted a strong debut, but the Kevin James comedy "Here Comes the Boom," meta crime caper "Seven Psychopaths" and the conservative-friendly "Atlas Shrugged: Part II" all underperformed.  

• Patricia Neal, Oscar-winning actress, dies at 84 
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The Fountainhead  | One of [Neal’s] most prominent roles came in 1949, when she nabbed the coveted lead role in “The Fountainhead,” an adaptation of the Ayn Rand novel.  

• • Francis Ford Coppola talks ‘Tetro’ and whether he’ll make another ‘Godfather’ 
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The Fountainhead  | MTV: Could the fact that effects might be more affordable now make "Megalopolis" more tenable as a project? Coppola: Possibly. That film was set in Manhattan and, like an Ayn Rand novel, it was about an architect who builds a city within a city that demonstrates a human style of living that is approaching utopia — where people are doing what they love to do and perfecting their body and mind. What would a city be like that was built around that?  

• ‘Wanted’ star Angelina Jolie discusses passing on the action torch, ‘rolling around on the floor’ 
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Atlas Shrugged movie  |Video  | [Q:] Are there certain roles that still excite you? “Atlas Shrugged” is one you've been associated with for a while. Is that one?[A:] That's one of those, I think, once-in-a-lifetime films that you feel, "If I only do a few more in my lifetime, that has to be one of them."  

• ‘Super Mario Galaxy,’ ‘Halo 3’ and more impressive video games, in our year-end top 10s 
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8. "BioShock" [...] It is both the thinking person's first-person shooter (note all the Ayn Rand references and the encouragement for strategic combat) and the game that introduces Big Daddies near the top of the list of great gaming enemies of all time.  

•‘BioShock’ bucks convention; ‘Warcraft’ sells big & more 
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Video games column.
[BioShock designer Ken] Levine [has] read up on Ayn Rand and studied art history. Certainly that can fit into a video game. "You could take a bunch of liberal-arts courses and find 'The Matrix' all throughout it. What they did is they basically said, 'Let's take a tiny bit of this and sprinkle it on top of our action movie. Because it makes our action movie seem cooler.' That's what 'BioShock' is. The architecture ... (and) the Ayn Rand philosophy and the economic theory sprinkled on top."