The movie came in an expected third after “Robin Hood” and “Iron Man.” Hopefully the movie continues to bring in money in the next few weeks!

Romantic drama “Letters to Juliet” starring Amanda Seyfried had a modest but not terrible opening with $13.8 million. Distributor Summit Entertainment had been looking for an opening closer to $20 million based on pre-release polling. However, the mostly young and overwhelmingly female crowd gave the picture an average grade of A-, boosting hopes that the movie will continue to play well underneath summer event films for the next few weeks.

Summit spent $30 million to produce “Letters to Juliet” but has already recouped half that amount through tax credits and foreign pre-sales.

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“Letters to Juliet” finally opens today so make sure to go out and see it! Come back and let us know what you thought too – we’d love to know! Check out these reviews the movie is receiving:

“Redgrave brings a lovely gravity to the lightweight proceedings, while Seyfried again proves an ­unusually ­levelheaded presence.” – New York Daily News

“There are worse ways to spend a couple of hours. Set in some stunning locales in Italy, Letters is a guilty pleasure that’s lighter on the guilt and heavier on the pleasure. ” – USA Today

“I’d take any woman in my life, ages 10 to 100, to Letters to Juliet and my guess is we’d both leave with a little Italian glow. ” – Time

“Letters to Juliet is a by-the-numbers romantic comedy — and I mean that in a good way.” – Salon

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It seems that Amanda Seyfried has a soft spot for girls named Sophie. She played a Sophie in the hit musical flick “Mamma Mia,” and now she’s headed back to the big screen using the name in her new romantic movie, “Letters To Juliet.” It seems Amanda has some of both their characteristics somewhere inside of her, as well. We’re sure that makes playing the two Sophie’s that much easier!

“Well the Sophie in ‘Mamma Mia’ is more similar to me. I mean they’re both versions of me,” she told MTV News at the “Letters” junket in Verona earlier this month. “[The 'Mamma Mia' one] is a more similar version — she’s impulsive and scatterbrained and doesn’t really know who she is yet, but is willing to try and find out.”

On the other hand, Amanda explained that she doesn’t relate as much to the Sophie in her new movie (opening tomorrow). “She kind of knows who she is, maybe not what she wants, but sort of what she wants,” she said. “And she’s doing what she loves to do and she’s fearless.”

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Photos from tonight’s “Letters to Juliet” premiere in Los Angeles are beginning to roll in and both Christopher Egan and Amanda look amazing. Amanda is dressed in Roland Mouret tonight. Enjoy the first photos and check back for the latest adds!

Gallery Link: 05.11.10: “Letters to Juliet” Los Angeles Premiere

VERONA, Italy — Amanda Seyfried “would do anything for love,” but she won’t do that. And after getting that Meat Loaf song in our head, the “Letters to Juliet” star revealed that much like her character, Sophie, she’s a big believer in romantic gestures.

“I’d fly anywhere for somebody if I loved them,” she told MTV News in the Italian city that inspired “Romeo and Juliet” as well as “Letters,” which opens on Friday. “There are no boundaries. There are some things I wouldn’t do. I wouldn’t kill for love, for sure, but I would do anything positive for love. I would do it.”

In the film, Sophie answers a 50-year-old letter a woman named Claire (Vanessa Redgrave) wrote to Juliet about her long lost love and stuck in a wall where the lovesick appeal to Shakespeare’s tragic character for help. Claire and her grandson Charlie (Christopher Egan) soon fly to Verona and take Sophie along on a road trip to look for the man Claire lost touch with so many decades before.

Seyfried said she was drawn to the romantic flick because of Sophie’s incredibly positive outlook on love. “That’s another reason I liked the script, because I connected to that romance,” the “Mamma Mia” star said. “She’s not cynical. There’s nothing cynical about her, and a lot of times in a romantic comedy, the lead character is pretty cynical about love. And she’s not and I love that. [Charlie's] that guy. … I’m glad it was him.”

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Buzznet had the fantastic opportunity of going to Verona for “Letters to Juliet” promo and you can check out their experience by clicking the photo above. Enjoy!