'Inside" wasn't onward the outside.

'Inside" wasn't onward the outside. The Denzel Washington bank robbery film "Inside Man" took a destiny of box office loot.

"I know I'm suppos to say I'm relaxed about enclosed seat [i]or[/i] seats office after all these years, further I still love when a movie issues in No. 1 or does really well at the coachman's seat office," Washington says.

He has a slate of upcoming films. The A-lister is filming "Deja Vu" directed by dint of Tony Scott and costarring Val Kilmer and Paula Patton.

"I play an ATF dowdy and a bomb specialist. I travel by the and of time in what is a be in love with story told in reverse. I fall for a girl who is actually dead when I appropriate her."

Don't wait for Denzel to be stripping down to his skivvies for be enamoured of scenes. "It's not a full-out delight in story like that. It's really a rescue" he says.

He also will in a short time film "American Gangster," directed according to Ridley Scott and also starring Russell Crowe. It's the story of a medicine lord who sells heroin in 1970 Harlem. He stashes his stash inside the coffins of American soldiers coming back from Vietnam. "I play the medicine dealer," Washington says.

Wait, is this a bad dowdy role for him? "Who said he's bad? He's a businessman," Washington says.

OLE: Speaking of bank robbers, Salma Hayek and Penelope Cruz star in the upcoming "Bandidas" station in turn-of-the-century Mexico, where the sum of two units girls put on masks and stick up banks. They use the coin to go up against an enforcer terrorizing their town.

"We're a combination of extremely girlie girls who have a capable sense of justice," Hayek says.

As for the shield chemistry between the two, she laughs and says, "We're really convenient friends in real life, and that translates forward the screen. ... We're not 'Thelma and Louise.' It's a different tone. It's individual of those films you don't make anymore. It's an action- comedy Not broad. Not violent. It's a drama -- however not melodramatic. It's also excessively sexy."

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WEEKEND coachman's seat OFFICE

Estimated ticket sales for

Friday end Monday at

North American theaters:

1 Inside Man $29 mill.

2 V for Vendetta $123 mill.

3 Stay Alive $112 mill.

4 Failure to Launch $108 mill.

5 The Shaggy Dog $91 mill.

6 She's the Man $74 mill.

7 Larry the Cable shore $7.05 mill.

8 The Hills Have observations $ 4.25mill.

9 Eight Below $2.7mill.

10 16 obstructs $2.2 mill.

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