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Yep. Take that number and lop off 2-3%. So let's go with 14.5M for the actual.

21JS held on very, very well. All the movies that did poorly in THG's shadow were also not that well-received by the audience.

So, had TLAM opened two weeks earlier, it could've clipped THG's streak from four down to just two weeks...

Holy mackerel! Go THG!!!LGF seems to have renewed marketing. I heard that a THG TV spot aired during Survivor (and probably other shows too; I haven't checked).

Cabin beating Stooges. Yes! Yes! Yeeees!

Official Friday estimate: $12.2 million for 'Think Like A Man' from 2,015 locations. Location avg. = $6,054.Official Friday estimate: $4 million for 'The Hunger Games' from 3,752 locations. Location avg. = $1,066.Official Friday estimate: $3.536 million for 'Chimpanzee' from 1,563 locations. Location avg. = $2,262.After all the hoopla over rating, auds still not interested in PG13 Bully. Makes just $144k FRI, will avg < $2k wknd.Official Friday estimate: $2.3 million for 'The Three Stooges' from 3,482 locations. Location avg. = $661.Official Friday estimate: $9.1 million for 'The Lucky One' from 3,155 locations. Location avg. = $2,894.BOG says 3.3M for Chimp, while BO says 3.5M. I guess one of them is a typo.

Could it be a matter of demographic locations? E.g., not releasing it in small towns with predominantly white populations?Besides, I suspect that once you get past 2000 theatres, the theatres that you add are probably small outfits with just a few screens and very little traffic anyways.

*bows head in moment of silence*LGF also occupied the top two spots for a four-day streak.Oh, and apparently, LGF has been airing ads during primetime TV this week (one person reported seeing one during Survivor); these are the ads that brag about getting four weeks in a row. Along with the IMAX deal next week, I guess LGF is trying for one last push before the Avengers.

Well, BOM tweeted yesterday that 26 days was the longest since Six Sense. So either they forgot about Meet the Parents, or someone there knew that, despite the incompleteness of the data, it didn't manage that long a streak.

What I read is that MGM spent $30M to produce, and LGF snapped it up for 12 (sorry, I forgot where I had read the $30M, but IIRC, it was a news article, not a fansite).

Several months ago, fans of THG (like myself) were wondering if it would even make enough to justify a sequel, so yes, it's exceeded all of our (modest) expectations. But it's fun to continue to bask in the glow of its success.

Well, so much for the tax theory of why Monday/Tuesday sucked.

Tax procrastinators? (Though that seems counter-intuitive for yesterday's R holds.)

No, no, we're Winsome Whedon Worshippers. We mustn't forget the one positive thing that she says about us.

Ouch. What happened? Everyone staying home doing taxes? If so, then today's going to be just as dreary.

ERC says, Looks like a fairly good hold for Cabin. And Stooges didn't even break the top three?

Lionsgate shoulda fudged those numbers to give Cabin the "666".

Oi. Had no idea about number fudging. But that doesn't make sense here; Journey 2 would've broken $100M this weekend even with "normal" drops. What other reason could there be?

Could someone explain to me how Journey 2 experienced such a large rise in sales despite losing theatres?! Was there a renewed marketing campaign this weekend or something?

And it's worked, apparently. That's gotten it a lot of positive reactions. (Wait, Pocahontas was an archer?) I wonder, though, if they redubbed the film as well (vs. redubbing it only for the TV spots).

Um, I think that the marketing was pretty clear that this is not a typical horror film. It even came out and said so explicitly. I don't see how people could have been duped into thinking otherwise. And what other kind of comedy would you have put in, hm? This isn't exactly a movie where fart jokes or slapstick would make sense. Given the genre, the comedy is perfectly sensible and well-executed, IMO.

How does a film become this polarizing?

5.625M official estimate for Stooges, so her (final) number for that last night wasn't too off the map.As for Cabin, I'm surprised by that "C" as well. Great critical reviews, great like percentage of RT, great IMDb score... and for what it's worth, the people in my theatre clapped when it was over.,,