It’s Good To Talk

Dominating the weekend's US box office, Colin Farrell proved that it is, indeed, good to talk when Phone Booth took a princely $15 million. Seeing off action Heavyweight, Vin Diesel, Farrell took Joel Schumacher's thriller straight to the top spot despite a five month delay to the film's original November 2002 release. The film sees Farrell pinned down by a sniper while using a pay phone and forced to make a series of confessions lest the man behind the scope put a bullet in his head. The film was originally held back due to the uncomfortable similarity between the plot and the rash of sniper killings in Washington DC last year - needless to say, the film would have been considerably less enjoyable with a real threat of being gunned down when leaving the theatre.