Tropic Thunder beat out WB’s reining champ The Dark Knight taking the number one spot after a lengthy 4 week rein previously held by the Batman sequel. While Alexandre Aja’s latest horror film Mirrors (20th Century Fox), starring Keifer Sutherland, opened in 4th place with $11.1 million in 2,664 theaters, this according to ComingSoon.net.

1) Tropic Thunder - $25,812,796
2) The Dark Knight - $16,379,293
3) Star Wars: The Clone Wars - $14,611,273
4) Mirrors - $11,161,074
5) Pineapple Express - $9,808,295

32-year old Paula Patton is making quite a splash in Hollywood these days. Apart from playing an ambitious journalist who has an impact on the life of Kevin Costner in the wry comedy Swing Vote, the actress will also be seen opposite Kiefer Sutherland in the horror film Mirrors, due out later this year.

Her family lived across the street from the 20th Century Fox lot when she was growing up and she was a fan of films from her earliest years. Her mother, who also appreciated good films, was a schoolteacher, and her father was a lawyer. Paula claims that as a girl she would escape by “pretending to be someone else” so it was not a surprise that she acted in high school plays at Hamilton Magnet Arts High School. Her favorite role was that of “Abigail” in The Crucible.

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The trailer for Mirrors debuted the other day like mentioned and we get to see a lot of Paula! I totally love her look in the movie and I’m a big Alexandre Aja fan so I’m really looking forward to this one on August 15! I really like it’s a bit darker material for her too.

In more trailer news, I just saw the preview for Swing Vote (due out in August 1st) is also online here. Yay! Two Paula films in one month :D. I will likely see this one although it doesn’t really appeal to me outside of Miss Patton, but of course more Paula makes me happy so I’m there either way!

And lastly our girl is in the new WWD Scoop magazine. I just picked it up today and I will be scanning this tomorrow after work. It features a new pic and article!

Check out the newly launched official site for Mirrors at www.mirrorsmovie.com. Over there you can view a handful of new stills, which some new ones do feature our gorgeous Paula.

Furthermore, the teaser trailer is slated to premiere sometime today (Wednesday, June 11) on Yahoo! Movies. When possible I will be making the screencaps and posting the new stills.

Here are the two first stills of Paula playing Amy Carson in Alexandre Aja’s Mirrors. I just got really excited, as Paula looks incredible in the stills, I totally am loving this look and can’t wait! The film is due for release in the US on August 15, 2008.

A mall security guard becomes wrapped up in a mystery involving a particular department store’s mirrors which seem to bring out the worst in people.