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This movie represents and reflects on why I like movies. I don't know what did exactly it in for me, but this is a magical film that's directed almost impeccably by one of the greats. And Hugo did what I thought no film could: It made me believe in 3D. This isn't a fad. If used well (I should say, used this well), it's a technical marvel and makes for an immersive experience. A-

Marilyn's a botch with a 20m budget. So is A Dangerous Method if that 7.5k PTA holds true. Luckily The Artist's PTA will be very strong this weekend. And here's hoping Shame opens really well next week.

And finally, give Muppets a 50% drop and BD1 a 64% drop and Muppets will win next weekend. By my projections it will finish with 130m-135m, a solid result, IMO.

Like I just said, it's in a third of the theaters AC and Muppets are in. It has recovered a lot from Wednesday, indicating that word of mouth is strong. And on the 9th its supposed to double its theater count. That doesn't mean it'll be recouping that budget anytime soon, but with Polar Express legs or better, it'll make a valiant effort.

BD1 corrects itself from Wednesday, 16.9m will get it to 40.5m for the 3-day, down 71%. Muppets will do 30m for the 3-day and break its budget in five days. Happy Feet 2 will make 12m, down 43%, continuing its terrible domestic run. Hugo is doing as well as Arthur Christmas in a third of its theater count. Descendants is well outperforming Up in the Air and is on its way to 100m+.

I don't know, Spaghett. But I'd definitely take back seeing anything below where Red State is.

1. Drive 2. The Tree of Life 3. 50/50 4. The Descendants 5. Win Win 6. The Muppets 7. Rango 8. Bridesmaids 9. Moneyball 10. Midnight in Paris 11. Crazy, Stupid, Love. 12. The Guard 13. Rise of the Planet of the Apes 14. X-Men: First Class 15. Margin Call 16. Puss in Boots 17. The Help 18. 30 Minutes or Less 19. Attack the Block 20. Horrible Bosses 21. Contagion 22. Our Idiot Brother 23. Like Crazy 24. Carnage 25. A Very Harold and Kumar 3D Christmas 26. Jane Eyre 27. The Ides of March 28. The Debt 29. Super 8 30. Warrior 31. Paul 32. The Trip 33. Kung Fu Panda 2 34. Conan O'Brien Can't Stop 35. Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows Part 2 36. Cedar Rapids 37. Terri 38. Fright Night 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. Pirates of the Caribbean: On Stranger Tides 55. Rio 56. No Strings Attached 57. The Green Hornet 58. Your Highness 59. Limitless 60. The Hangover: Part II 61. Apollo 18

Okay, Dex, I'm done. I was hoping that this season would reverse Season 5's lameness, but I get nothing out of this show anymore. It had a decent run, pull the darn plug already.

Wouldn't its box office correct itself from Wednesday, though? If it follows NM's jumps for the rest of the weekend it makes 36m, or a -74% drop from last weekend, enough that 270m would be in doubt. It could do better today, but like you said, besides Wednesday it's been following NM to a tee.

If Muppets follows Tangled from here on out- 6.6m Wednesday 5.9m Thursday 14.3m Friday (142%) 13.6m Saturday (-5%) 7.8m Sunday 35.7m weekend, 48.2m 5-day

If history repeats itself, Breaking Dawn and Puss in Boots will go down quite a bit today (the Muppets could too), but everything else should go up substantially.

Also, go Descendants! That's a huge number!

It's probably good for The Muppets (6.5 is okay given) that the whole box office was pretty poor yesterday. Those are very weak increases all around.

I can write a list of things I loved about it and it would take me forever. But I'll start- Lots of emotional moments. I got misty eyed during the Rainbow Connection number near the end No one can break the fourth wall like The Muppets can, and it happens all the time hereAnimal's little anger management subplot Muppet barbershop quartet (in a barbershop) singing Nirvana The chickens' musical numberOf course Miss Piggy would be an editor at Vogue! Life's a Happy Song and Man or Muppet, the movie's two best numbers Amy Adams lines- "This is going to be a really short movie"- and physical humor momentsChris Cooper's rapping and maniacal laugh The 80s robot that served New Coke Punch Teacher and Donald Glover's cameo The Moopets, particularly Miss Poogy Zach Galifianakis singing along to the Muppet Show opening Jack Black, who has rarely been funnier or more likable than he was in thisSo yea, easily the most entertaining movie I've seen all year. Long live the Muppets.

Expected for Twilight (edit: DHD says 13m, which is actually a bit low). Muppets is more Enchanted than Tangled, which is fine, I guess. Soft for the other three kidpics.

It's overwhelmingly good. Hysterical, heartfelt and extremely nostalgic. I think I should see this again; there's so many gags here that you'll miss one if you blink. A-

Some are off all week, most are off Wednesday-Friday.

I can't imagine Happy Feet 2 doing more than 80 million with three family movies opening tomorrow and the post-Thanksgiving crash. What a horrible result for WB.

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Noah Baumbach co-wrote Fantastic Mr. Fox... I guess I'll be seeing this, then.

One of the best movies I've seen all year. It has such a simple, specific premise that illustrates grand ideas about these characters in an observed, authentic way. Clooney's at the top of his game, but the whole cast is pretty great. Funny that Jim Rash (or Dean Pelton in Community) co-wrote this.

Descendants wins the weekend. 1.222m from 29 sites gives it the record of breaking into the top 10 with the lowest theater count (29). It's setting itself up for a long, healthy run. Number-wise that's a great result for Breaking Dawn. It failed to reach NM despite 2 years of inflation, but I doubt anyone could care.

Okay Noctis, I saw it again. DH1: B+DH2: B- It's just an okay movie. Potter deserved a more competent ending.

Sigh...This Twilight film is affecting the box office weirdly. Blind Side and TLA were both great counterprograming to NM and Eclipse, respectively. But Happy Feet bombed (pretty hard) and nothing else held that well.

It's a really frustrating show to watch. I hate all of the characters to some degree, because the writers really have no idea how to utilize them. But they do things like the last five minutes of this last episode or the whole West Side Story episode that keep me going.