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I thought The Muppets would be, but apparently kids are a-holes.

I... liked it? There wasn't anything really wrong with the performances- I thought Reilly and Waltz did some great work here- but it's exactly like seeing a live stage show recorded on tape. It's not nearly as effective on screen.

Does this mean Muppets made like 10m this weekend? Ugh.

I'll take talking puppets over vampire romance any day of the week.

100m could still be possible with the holidays coming up (it needs Tangled's legs from here on out), but theaters might be less inclined to keep playing it than they were with Tangled or Enchanted. If it does well overseas, a sequel could still happen, as long as it's not any more expensive than this one (45m). Given the terrible market for family movies this year, things could be worse. Happy Feet Two won't reach 80m, meaning it will sell ~25% of the original's admissions. Arthur Christmas will finish in the typical Aardman region (55m-65m), not good considering it cost 100m and it's not doing that well overseas. Hugo might have nice expansions and allocates, but at the end of the day they're not getting that 170m investment back.

I was going to say that The Sitter may not reach 30m in its entire run...

Okay, Muppets is disappointing me. I thought it would recover from its weekdays and a -77% drop from last Friday is just unacceptable. I don't know if it's actually frontloaded, but it's not making much more than 100 million now. Edit: 56m after this weekend means it might not reach 100m entirely. Damn it. Go Hugo!

Sometimes I think you just don't like movies.

63%-64% for BD1 and 52-53% for Muppets sounds right. Close race for #1 this weekend. Hugo's getting a big expansion. I could see a sub-40% drop.

I'm loving this start to the awards season. So many nice unexpected wins. I actually hope we don't get a clear frontrunner for a while.

Is their budget significantly slashed this season? Because nothing really happened in these first seven episodes save the premiere, the finale and a few good character moments. For them, staying on the farm makes sense, but it doesn't make for exciting TV. They don't have good enough performances to fall back on. And from the preview it doesn't look like they're leaving the farm when the show comes back in February.I know this isn't Mad Men or Breaking Bad. Walking Dead's strength has always been the zombie kills, which the show has proven it can do very well. But if you don't have enough money to do a lot of those, what's the point?

I see 120m-130m, providing it sticks around for the holidays to the same extent Bolt did. Definitely enough for a sequel (budget was 45m, less than half of Arthur Christmas and a fourth of Hugo's, heh). Now that they've gotten the nostalgia out of the way, I'd love to see what Segal and Stoller could do with a new Muppet adventure. Something like The Great Muppet Caper. Bring Walter along for the ride, I'm sure it would be great.

Remember the old Dexter? Suffused with Miami flavor, decently clever and not entirely predictable? Remember feeling that most of the scenes, even the ones with the bad side characters, contributed to the main plot in some way and were leading to something? Remember how the backstory of Harry and Dexter unfolded over three seasons, slowly and carefully, and felt mostly planned in advance? Remember how fresh and fascinating the main character felt? Cause that show doesn't exist anymore.

Oh come on, everybody. I laughed.

One of their best gags last season was the flashback of when the study group filled in for Glee club.

Another awful show. Season 2 had some outrageously bad episodes, but that was somewhat entertaining trash TV. Many episodes were misses but you could tell they took a swing. Season 3 is worse, because they're not really even trying anymore. The plots go by extremely fast, we're not getting many character moments, the music choices are mostly uninspired. And even the good moments- a good deal of the West Side Story ep, Santana singing that Someone Like You/Rumor Has It mashup- don't go anywhere because the show has no continuity. Maybe I should just quit already.

Apparently the episode they're leaving us with next week is their Glee episode. That's just cruel.

Kids movies always drop the Tuesday after Thanksgiving weekend. I don't know why, I guess some schools aren't in session those Mondays, but just look at the history. Interestingly, it seems like Hugo is playing to adults as much as kids with its drops.

All of them have special qualities. Kermit is the most heartwarming, and the straight man (frog) is always underappreciated, so that's probably my pick. But I just look at Fozzie, Beaker and the Swedish Chef and I laugh.

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I am too, but my expectations were purely fueled by my own hype for the movie. 42m means that it got its budget back in five days. It's also more tickets than Muppets in Space sold in its entire run (thank god).

If Descendants goes to 2000+ theaters next weekend, it has a legitimate chance at #1. 7.2m from 433 theaters is a little unbelievable.

http://abcnews.go.com/blogs/entertainment/2011/11/twilight-breaking-dawn-scene-allegedly-causing-seizures/ The prescription? Go see Hugo.

giteshpandya Gitesh Pandya WKND BO: #Twilight $42M/$221.3M, #Muppets$29.5M/$42M, HF2 $13.4M/$43.8M, Arthur $12.7M/$17M, #Hugo $11.4M/$15.4M. Was hoping that Muppets and Hugo would have slightly better IMs.

1. Drive 2. The Tree of Life 3. 50/50 4. The Descendants 5. Hugo 6. Win Win 7. The Muppets 8. Rango 9. Moneyball 10. Bridesmaids 11. Midnight in Paris 12. Crazy, Stupid, Love. 13. The Guard 14. Rise of the Planet of the Apes 15. X-Men: First Class 16. Margin Call 17. Puss in Boots 18. The Help 19. 30 Minutes or Less 20. Attack the Block 21. Horrible Bosses 22. Contagion 23. Our Idiot Brother 24. Like Crazy 25. Carnage 26. A Very Harold and Kumar 3D Christmas 27. Jane Eyre 28. The Ides of March 29. The Debt 30. Super 8 31. Warrior 32. Paul 33. The Trip 34. Kung Fu Panda 2 35. Conan O'Brien Can't Stop 36. Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows Part 2 37. Cedar Rapids 38. Terri 39. Winnie the Pooh 40. Red State 41. Cars 2 42. The Lincoln Lawyer 43. The Adjustment Bureau 44. Captain America: The First Avenger 45. Friends with Benefits 46. Fast Five 47. The Beaver 48. Super 49. Thor 50. Bad Teacher 51. Transformers: Dark of the Moon 52. Hall Pass 53. Just Go With It 54. Rio 55. No Strings Attached 56. The Green Hornet 57. Your Highness 58. Limitless 59. The Hangover: Part II 60. Apollo 18