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Her birthday was over two weeks ago.

TD YD Title (Click to View) Studio Daily Gross % +/- YD / LW Theaters / Avg Gross To-Date Day 1 1 Marvel's The Avengers BV $4,917,764 -14% -42% 4,249 $1,157 $468,271,215 19 2 2 Battleship Uni. $2,269,350 -4% - 3,690 $615 $30,165,840 5 3 3 The Dictator Par. $2,151,734 -0% - 3,008 $715 $28,785,272 7 4 4 Dark Shadows WB $1,303,235 +4% -50% 3,755 $347 $53,280,153 12 5 5 What to Expect When You're Expecting LGF $1,298,023 +14% - 3,021 $430 $12,983,380 5 6 6 The Best Exotic Marigold Hotel FoxS $521,656 -0% +50% 354 $1,474 $9,271,975 19 7 7 The Hunger Games LGF $346,088 -2% -26% 2,064 $168 $392,280,533 61 8 8 Think Like a Man SGem $275,840 +6% -47% 1,722 $160 $86,375,017 33 9 10 The Lucky One WB $210,354 +12% -51% 2,005 $105 $57,333,241 33 10 11 The Five-Year Engagement Uni. $152,750 +8% -67% 1,175 $130 $27,396,785 26 11 9 The Pirates! Band of Misfits Sony $147,023 -41% -42% 1,840 $80 $25,886,807 26 12 12 Chimpanzee BV $96,190 +16% -47% 895 $107 $27,187,671 33 - - To the Arctic (IMAX) WB $54,113 -8% +27% 49 $1,104 $1,948,207 33 - - The Cabin in the Woods LGF $51,642 -6% -60% 448 $115 $40,658,455 40

After THG's 35% drop over the weekend, dropping only 11% from last Monday is... remarkable. Is that fudge that I smell?

I saw the trailer multiple times because LGF attached it to THG. It. Was. Not. Funny. Even the THG midnight audience (huge room, several hundred people who reacted to pretty much every trailer) barely reacted to it. The movie just looked confusing (little indication of plot/story) and unfunny (guys pushing stroller? um...). Not surprised at all that it bombed.

How far he's sank since Schindler.

But at least it did so with gusto--if it had instead been a pathetic barely-squeaking-by-despite-higher-prices type of thing, then that would have been an insult to SM1.

THG over TLAM! 17.4% drop from last Thursday.

*looks @ historical numbers* *is surprised by the effect* *concedes*

Best Exotic Marigold Hotel is getting a midnight screening on May 25th at one of the megaplexes here.1) Midnight showing for an old-people movie?2) The movie would have already played at a number of independent theaters (and one of the other megaplexes) in this city for at least two whole weeks by that point.Doing a midnight usually means cutting off the final showtime of the night (10 or 11PM) for some other movie, so it amuses me that they are going to do a midnight for this movie.

Canada has (on a rough order-of-magnitude estimate) 1/10 the population of the US. Any affect of holidays in Canada is insignificant (my apologies to the Canucks on this board).

So... in light of all the other TC drops, THG's upcoming loss of 467 now looks stunningly beautiful. It's got a higher TC than films released 5 weeks after it--the widest release of any pre-Avengers film.

TD YD Title (Click to View) Studio Daily Gross % +/- YD / LW Theaters / Avg Gross To-Date Day 1 1 Marvel's The Avengers BV $6,339,757 -25% -53% 4,349 $1,458 $395,813,047 13 2 - The Dictator Par. $4,175,274 - - 3,003 $1,390 $4,175,274 1 3 2 Dark Shadows WB $1,841,116 -30% - 3,755 $490 $36,449,053 6 4 3 Think Like a Man SGem $380,482 -26% -32% 2,052 $185 $82,810,061 27 5 4 The Hunger Games LGF $376,509 -19% -18% 2,531 $149 $388,246,795 55 6 7 The Best Exotic Marigold Hotel FoxS $321,998 -7% +273% 178 $1,809 $4,693,068 13 7 6 The Lucky One WB $311,464 -28% -32% 2,839 $110 $54,847,007 27 8 5 The Five-Year Engagement Uni. $285,480 -38% -46% 2,196 $130 $25,718,135 20 9 8 The Pirates! Band of Misfits Sony $205,009 -19% -32% 3,079 $67 $23,702,952 20 10 10 Chimpanzee BV $136,187 -25% -33% 1,400 $97 $26,179,160 27 11 11 The Raven Rela. $125,848 -27% -56% 1,888 $67 $15,181,722 20 12 9 Safe (2012) LGF $107,369 -49% -61% 1,690 $64 $16,197,183 20 13 12 The Cabin in the Woods LGF $84,206 -35% -55% 1,029 $82 $40,086,468 34 14 13 Girl in Progress LGF $62,300 -27% - 322 $193 $1,623,855 6 15 15 The Three Stooges Fox $53,417 -24% -46% 1,027 $52 $41,339,177 34 Kinda amazing that THG almost beat TLAM.

I read "every" as an exaggeration. At my usual theatre, the majority (though not all) of the wide releases got midnight screenings; I haven't seen a limited film get a midnight, though.