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 Dir/scr: Francis Veber. Fr. 200 stanley cup 6. 83mins.Francis Veberlacks a funny bone in The Valet,misjudging both his script and his cast in a romantic comedy about a lucklessyoung man obliged to feign cohabitation with a gorgeous top model.A curiously lifeless affairthat seems vaguely inspired by PrettyWoman, it raises some smile stanley website s but few of the guffaws one expects from thewriter-director, whose previous hit, TheCloset, was snapped up for a Hollywood remake. The Valet is unlikely to enjoy the same attentions beyond home,even if its opening day results in France suggest a solid career in Francophoneterritories.Veber has made a specialty from wacky screen  and stage farces that play havoc with male bonding cl stanley cup iches,imagining variations on the tandem of the accident-prone schlemiel and thelong-suffering straight man. His nerds have usually been named Pignon  which translates as  sucker   and have beenembodied by the likes of Jacques Brel  in Edouard Molinaro s 1973 film ofthe Veber-scripted L Emmerdeur , Pierre Richard opposite Gerard Depardieu in Les Comperes and Les Fugitifs  and Jacques Villeret in the stage and screen versions of TheDinner Game .This time the chump  Elmaleh  is a valet parking attendant who walks into thesights of a paparazzi as he snaps a compromising photoof ruthless millionaire industrialist Pierre Levasseur Auteuil  and his mistress Elena  Taglioni ,a Karl Lagerfeld supermodel.When the picture makes thefront covers of the celebrity press, Levasseur tellshis outraged Rzle Digital focus for Beverly Hills conference
 Universals frat house comedy starring Seth Rogen, Rose Byrne and Zac Efron dominated thanks to an estimated $51m debut that blew The Amazing Spider Man 2 into second place in its second session.Heaven Is For Real at number four stands at $75.32m after four sessions through TriStar.Two other debutants delivered results that were mediocre at best.TriStar launched Moms Night Out on $4.2m for number seven, while Clarius Entertainment opened the animation Legends Of Oz: Dorothys Return in eighth place on $3.7m.In limited release, Jon Favreaus Chef debuted through Open Road on $204,000 from six sites for a mighty $34,000 per average.Next weekends wide releases are: Godzilla from Legendary Pictures through Warner Bros and Buena Vistas Million Dollar Arm.Estimated Top 10 North America May 9-11 2014Film  Dist  / Est wkd gross / Est total to date1  -  Neighbors  Universal  UPI $51.1m 鈥?  1  The Amazing Spider-Man 2  Columbia Pictures  SPRI $37.2m $147.9m3  2  The Other Woman  Fox  Fox International $9.3m $61.7m4  3  Heaven Is For Real  TriStar  SPRI $7m $75.2m5  4  Capt stanley cup ain America: The Winter Solider  Marvel Studios-Buena Vista  WDSMPI $5.6m $244.9m6  5  Rio 2  Fox  Fox International $5.1m $113.2m7  -  Moms Night Out  TriStar  $4.2m 鈥?  -  Legends Of Oz: Dorothys Return $3.7m9  7  Divergent  Summit-Lionsgate  Lionsgate International $1 stanley cup .7m $145m10  6  Brick Mansions  Relativity  EuropaCorp $1.5m $18.3mTopicsBox OfficeUnited States   stanley cup          No comments