'Harry Potter' Stays at No. 1 for Third Week

Despite competition from Charlize Theron as a 25th-century assassin in skintight black, "Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire" (Warner Brothers), starring Daniel Radcliffe, handily retained the top spot at the box office this weekend, taking in $20.4 million since Friday, according to studio estimates. Its three-week total stands at nearly $230 million, making it already one of the top-grossing movies of the year. "Aeon Flux" (Paramount), starring Ms. Theron and directed by Karyn Kusama ("Girlfight"), opened at No. 2 with $13.1 million. It was the only new film in wide release this weekend, but the studio did not screen it in advance for critics, so it had a one-day head start over the widely unfavorable reviews it received on Saturday. "Walk the Line" (Fox), the Johnny and June Carter Cash love story, dropped one spot to No. 3 with an even $10 million, bringing cumulative sales over three weeks to $68.7 million. "Yours, Mine and Ours" (Paramount), the remake of the 1968 Lucille Ball-Henry Fonda picture starring Dennis Quaid and Rene Russo, was No. 4 with $8.4 million in its second weekend, bringing its total gross to $34.5 million. The romantic comedy "Just Friends" (New Line), moved up one spot to No. 5 in its second week out; it took in $5.9 million, for cumulative sales of $21.4 million. CATHERINE BILLEY

60 Years on the Radio

Oscar Brand's radio show on WNYC, "Folksong Festival," made its debut on Dec. 9, 1945, and 60 years later has won a Guinness World Record as the longest-running radio show with the same host. It beats Alistair Cooke's "Letter From America," which ran for just under 58 years. Over the years Mr. Brand, now 85, has had Woody Guthrie, John Denver, Harry Belafonte, B. B. King, Leadbelly and Bob Dylan on his show. This month WNYC offers a special program, "Celebrating Oscar," with Mr. Brand and Jean Ritchie, Christine Lavin, Guy Davis and Leonard Lopate, beginning Saturday and repeating five times through Dec. 31 on the station's two frequencies (820 AM and 93.9 FM). It will also be streamed on the Web at www.wnyc.org.

European Film Awards

A French thriller, "Caché" ("Hidden"), swept the European Film Awards in Berlin on Saturday. The film, starring Daniel Auteuil and Juliette Binoche as a television host and his wife who are under mysterious surveillance, won six prizes, including best film, best director (for Michael Haneke), best actor (for Mr. Auteuil) and the critics' award. Julia Jentsch took the best actress award as the title character in "Sophie Scholl - The Final Days," about the White Rose resistance to the Nazis, and Hany Abu-Assad and Bero Beyer won the screenwriting prize for "Paradise Now," a thriller about Palestinian suicide bombers. Sir Sean Connery was given a lifetime-achievement award, and George Clooney's "Good Night, and Good Luck" took the award for best non-European film.

On Broadway and Off

"Jacques Brel Is Alive and Well and Living in Paris" is coming back to Off Broadway. A new production of the show, a sensation at the Village Gate when it opened in 1968, will start at the Zipper Theater on West 37th Street in March, and will be directed by Gordon Greenberg. ... The New Group's production of "Abigail's Party" by Mike Leigh, with Jennifer Jason Leigh, has been extended by a month, to Feb. 11. The play, directed by Scott Elliott, is at the Acorn Theater at Theater Row, on West 42nd Street. ... Amra-Faye Wright, who has played in the South African and London productions of "Chicago," will make her Broadway debut in the show on Jan. 16, playing Velma Kelly. She will play opposite Robin Givens, who will be making her Broadway debut as Roxie Hart.

Film Museum Closes in Moscow

The Moscow Film Museum has shut the doors of its longtime home after a protracted real estate struggle that drew rare street protests from Russian film lovers. The museum, which housed a collection of memorabilia from Tarkovsky and Eisenstein, had been in the Kino Center, a huge building in central Moscow that was constructed in 1980's for the Soviet Filmmakers' Union, but since 1991 has been gradually taken over by casinos, restaurants and strip clubs, and also has a commercial movie theater. The director of the museum, Naum Kleiman, said earlier this year that he had been served with eviction papers, and it closed down on Thursday. "We have to say goodbye to these quarters," he told the newspaper Izvestia. "It's the past, which has now ended up in the hands of people who are strangers to film." The Russian Filmmakers' Union last year sold its stake in the building to a company said to be linked to Nikita Mikhalkov, the Oscar-winning director and the chairman of the union, a connection that raised eyebrows in Moscow. Mr. Mikhalkov recently announced that he was taking a break from his position with the union to complete several film projects. The museum's collection is being moved to Mosfilm Studios, and is to have screenings at a government-run cultural facility, but still hopes for a new permanent home. SOPHIA KISHKOVSKY