The Bourne Ultimatum posterThe biggest movie in the world last week­end was The Bourne Ulti­mat­um (US$47m on Thursday, Fri­day and Sat­urday alone) and it opens here tomor­row. The last of the big tent-pole fran­chise attrac­tions of the (north­ern) sum­mer, this Bourne brings Jason back home to New York (with a detour in Blighty). Play­ing at Read­ings, Regent-on-Man­ners, Sky City Queens­gate and (prob­ably the ulti­mate Bourne exper­i­ence) the Embassy

Also open­ing tomor­row is Rus­si­an art-house weepy The Itali­an (dir­ect from the Fest­iv­al): Rialto and Light­house Petone only. The Sing­er (Quand j’étais chanteur) places one of France’s all-time greats (Gérard Depardieu) along­side one of her freshest new faces Cécile De France (Orches­tra Seats) for some May-Decem­ber romance. Depardieu plays a fad­ing nightclub sing­er who woos De France’s single moth­er real estate agent. Also at Rialto and (unsur­pris­ingly) the Pent­house.

Finally, The War With­in opens at the Para­mount: it’s a drama about a Pakistani ter­ror­ist in New York and it was made for dot­com bil­lion­aire Mark Cuban’s HDNet, the cable chan­nel devoted to break­ing down the estab­lished studio/distributor/exhibitor strangle­hold. Oth­er titles pro­duced by Cuban include Enron: the Smartest Guys in the Room, Bubble and Good Night, and Good Luck.

The Itali­an and The War With­in are reviewed at Funer­als & Snakes; reviews of the oth­er two will appear there next Wed­nes­day.