The first box office results are in for “Sherlock Holmes: A Game of Shadows” which hit theaters this weekend and it topped the box office with an estimated $40.02 million, “Alvin and the Chipmunks 3″ ($23,5 million) came in second and Mission: Impossible 4 third ($13 million).

Warner Bros. Pictures’ Sherlock Holmes: A Game of Shadows easily topped the domestic box office its first weekend, earning an estimated $40 million from 3,703 theaters, an average of $10,807 per theater. The opening was quite a bit down from Sherlock Homes, which debuted to $62.3 million over Christmas weekend in 2009. The sequel, which cost about $125 million to make, was directed by Guy Ritchie and stars Robert Downey Jr., Jude Law, Noomi Rapace, Jared Harris, Eddie Marsan, Stephen Fry and Rachel McAdams.
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Did you see “Sherlock Holmes: A Game of Shadows” this weekend?

We wanted to remind you that “Sherlock Holmes: A Game of Shadows” is out in theaters now in the US/UK. Be sure to see it in theaters if you can. Rachel will return as Irene Adler but she only has a small appearance. The movie currently holds a ‘fresh’ rating with 66% at Rotten Tomatoes.

Be sure to check out all the photos in our gallery, watch the videos in our media archive and read more information on our information page.

Since we there are a few press high lights from this week we decided to make a round-up in one update.

• Entertainment Tonight aired a special on “Sherlock Holmes: A Game of Shadows” including a look back with the cast members of the first movie were they released unseen footage of their set visit to the first “Sherlock Holmes” be sure to watch the special with new on set interview footage with Rachel in our media archive. The special of the first film can still be watched in our media archive as well.

• The award season has started and the first nominations for “Midnight in Paris” were announced. Rachel already received a Satellite Award nomination for Best Supporting Actress. AFI announced their top ten films of this year and “Midnight in Paris” was one of them.

• The Broadcast Film Critics Association has announced its nominees for the 17th annual Critics’ Choice Movie Awards “Midnight in Paris” is nominated for Best Picture, Best Original Screenplay, Best Comedy. The awards will be given out 12 January, 2012.

• The 18th Annual Screen Actors Guild Awards were announced earlier today and “Midnight in Paris” is nominated for Outstanding performance by a cast in a motion picture. The awards will be given out January 29, 2012 Congratulations to the cast and crew of “Midnight in Paris” for the nominations so far!

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Sherlock Holmes > Entertainment Tonight Special

We added the first released videos of the “Sherlock Holmes: A Game of Shadows” LA premiere in our media archive. The premiere was held earlier this week, since Rachel only has a small appearance she did not do many press interviews during the premiere but we still found a few of them.

Rachel talked with Entertainment Tonight, Associated Press and E! Online. We added a few more videos so be sore to watch them all in our media archive.

The first reviews are released after the Los Angeles and London premiere, the reviews are generally positive. The Huffington Post and Empire Online both mention Rachel in their reviews:

“Ironically it is the supporting characters who provide most of the entertainment value this time around. In her comparatively brief screen-time, McAdams exhibits far more personality and roguish charm in her few moments here than she did in all of the previous film (freed from the constraints of being the de-facto love interest, McAdams relishes the chance to go full-villain).”
-Scott Mendelson (Huffington Post)

“Rachel McAdams, who returns briefly as treacherous Irene Adler, did more with less first time around.”
-Ian Nathan (Empire Online)

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Sherlock Holmes: A Game of Shadows > Last Uploads

We added a lot more photos of Rachel during the “Sherlock Holmes: A Game of Shadows” Los Angeles premiere last Tuesday (December 8). We are close to 700 (!!) images both medium and high quality of the premiere. Rachel did not make it to last night’s London premiere. The movie hits theaters December 16.

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Appearances > 2011 > December 6th: “Sherlock Holmes: A Game Of Shadows” LA Premiere – Arrivals

Rachel just attended the LA premiere for “Sherlock Holmes: A Game of Shadows” yesterday eye (December 6). She looks absolutely stunning wearing a Marchesa dress with Christian Louboutin shoes and Jacqueline Nerguizian jewelry. We added the first photos in our gallery, but we are still adding lots more so keep an eye on our latest uploads and this update.

Update: We added a lot more photos of the premiere, we have over 400 images, and the first released photos from the after party in our gallery. Keep checking back, we will add more additions today/this week.

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Appearances > 2011 > December 6th: “Sherlock Holmes: A Game Of Shadows” LA Premiere – Arrivals
Appearances > 2011 > December 6th: “Sherlock Holmes: A Game Of Shadows” LA Premiere – After party

Entertainment Tonight Canada already gave us a preview of the official on set interview in their segment but now Warner Bros released the full official interview of Rachel on set of “Sherlock Holmes: A Game of Shadows” while she was filming in London. She talks about her character Irene Adler, the relationship between Sherlock and Irene and on working with Jared Harris who portrays Professor Moriarty.

We also added the high definition screen captures of the interview in our gallery. The movie will hit theaters December 16.

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Sherlock Holmes: A Game of Shadows > Official Interview

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Sherlock Holmes: A Game Of Shadows > Screencaptures: Official Interview

This week gave us little bits and pieces of news and we decided to wait and make one update for you with all of them included. Be sure to read the latest press high lights below.

• A few months ago we first reported that the book “The Vow: The Kim and Krickitt Carpenter Story“, on which “The Vow” starring Rachel and Channing Tatum was based, was getting a re-release with the new title “The Vow: The True Events That Inspired The Movie“. The release date was moved to February 10, 2012 – the same day as the movie release. The new cover artwork was also released, they used the same photo as the new poster.

Now available in trade paper with a new chapter and photo insert, The Vow is the true story that inspired the upcoming major motion picture of the same name starring Rachel McAdams (The Notebook), Channing Tatum (Dear John), Sam Neill (Jurassic Park), and Academy Award winner Jessica Lange.
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• The untitled Terrence Malick projects remains untitled, the rumored title was “The Burial” but producers Sarah Green and Bill Pohlad recently confirmed this title was false.

“It is not called The Burial. We don’t know what The Burial is. Somebody else attached that name, but there is no movie that we’re working on called The Burial.”
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• “Midnight in Paris” is still expanding by getting released in theaters outside the US. Yesterday was the release in Italy and Vogue Italia released their Cannes interview with Rachel, she talks about the movie, fashion and more. Be sure to watch the interview in our media archive and read it in our press archive.

• Entertainment Tonight Canada had a short special on “Sherlock Holmes: A Game of Shadows” with new (behind the scenes) footage of the movie. They also included an interview with Rachel on set of the movie. Be sure to watch it in our media archive as well.

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The Vow > Book Cover: “The Vow: The True Events That Inspired The Movie”

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Midnight in Paris > Vogue Italia Cannes Interview
Sherlock Holmes: A Game of Shadows > Entertainment Tonight Canada Special

We are getting closer to the release of the highly anticipated “Sherlock Holmes: A Game of Shadows” and Warner Bros released even more goodies for us. They released a bunch of movie clips including two featuring Rachel as Irene Adler and the full b-roll footage which gives us a behind the scenes look of the movie.

We are happily suprised Rachel is featured in so much released footage of the movie since she is only returning for a cameo/small appearance. Earlier this week the first production stills were released and the promotion tour starts today. We are not sure Rachel will do promotion since her role is small, but we hope she will. The movie will hit theaters in the US/UK December 16.

Update: We just added the high defenition screen captures of all the videos in our gallery, we really love the b-roll video since we love the chemistry between Robert Downey Jr. and Rachel – they always seem to have a good time working together.

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Sherlock Holmes: A Game of Shadows > Movie Clip #1: Do You have the Letter?
Sherlock Holmes: A Game of Shadows > Movie Clip #2: Be careful with the face boys
Sherlock Holmes: A Game of Shadows > B-Roll

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Movies & Television > Sherlock Holmes: A Game Of Shadows > Screencaptures: Movie Clip #1 – Do You Have The Letter?
Movies & Television > Sherlock Holmes: A Game Of Shadows > Screencaptures: Movie Clip #2 – Be Careful With The Face Boys
Movies & Television > Sherlock Holmes: A Game Of Shadows > Screencaptures: Official B-Roll