{"id":33155,"date":"2009-08-17T20:34:52","date_gmt":"2009-08-18T01:34:52","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.theonering.net\/torwp\/2009\/08\/17\/33155-district-9-tops-weekend-box-office\/"},"modified":"2009-08-17T20:34:52","modified_gmt":"2009-08-18T01:34:52","slug":"district-9-tops-weekend-box-office","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.theonering.net\/torwp\/2009\/08\/17\/33155-district-9-tops-weekend-box-office\/","title":{"rendered":"&#8216;District 9&#8217; tops weekend box office"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"intro\">LOS ANGELES The first-time director and cast of unknowns of the acclaimed sci-fi thriller &#8220;District 9&#8221; have given Hollywood a late-summer box-office boost. The Sony release produced by &#8220;Lord of the Rings&#8221; director Peter Jackson led the weekend with a $37 million debut, according to studio estimates Sunday. &#8220;District 9&#8221; is the debut feature from commercial and music-video director Neill Blomkamp, who co-wrote the tale about extraterrestrials forced by humans to live in squalor in a ghetto in South Africa. <strong><a href=\"http:\/\/www.washingtontimes.com\/news\/2009\/aug\/17\/district-9-tops-weekend-box-office\/\">More..<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>LOS ANGELES The first-time director and cast of unknowns of the acclaimed sci-fi thriller &#8220;District 9&#8221; have given&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"inline_featured_image":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2},"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[74,167],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-33155","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-jackson","category-jackson-other-films"],"aioseo_notices":[],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p1tLoH-8CL","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.theonering.net\/torwp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/33155","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.theonering.net\/torwp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.theonering.net\/torwp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.theonering.net\/torwp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.theonering.net\/torwp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=33155"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.theonering.net\/torwp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/33155\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.theonering.net\/torwp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=33155"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.theonering.net\/torwp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=33155"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.theonering.net\/torwp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=33155"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}