She'll play the wife of a possible serial killer.

About Schmidt is another gem from writer/director Alexander Payne that puts Jack Nicholson performance as the reformed Schmidt on the path to Oscar gold.

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The final count of weekend box-office receipts Monday confirmed studio estimates that Warner Bros.' Training Day, starring Denzel Washington, beat out the favorite, MGM's Bandits.

In the weekend contest between the bad-cop movie and the comic-robbers one, the cop movie won -- but just barely, and the outcome could be reversed when the official verdict is handed down later today.

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Word that the U.S. and Britain had launched their first major attacks against the Taliban in Afghanistan apparently kept many potential moviegoers at home on Sunday -- throwing off studio estimates for the weekend.

Training Day, whose scheduled release last month was delayed in the wake of the Sept. 11th attacks, opened at the top of the box office over the weekend with an estimated $24.2 million, well above analysts' forecasts.