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Leonardo DiCaprio’s Sinking Ship ‘Body of Lies’ Readies the Lifeboats

9:20AM STV | Tracking on Body of Lies isn’t dazzling anyone today at Warner Bros., which has spent the last two months trying to push Ridley Scott’s $US100 million Leonardo DiCaprio/Russell Crowe war-on-terror thriller onto the top of this weekend’s congested slate of new releases. Most forecasts place its opening gross around $US17 million — likely enough to dispatch mildly aromatic new competition like Quarantine, City of Ember and The Express, but not nearly enough to guarantee a first-place finish ahead of Beverly Hills Chihuahua Not. Acceptable. Is it too early to ask what the hell happened here? More »