interesting how Hardball (9/14/01) kept the release date when everything else moved, and it was on gun violence.
Hardball opened the weekend after The Musketeer, which was marketed like a 30M OW, or marketed to have the action look like a wire-fu Mummy Returns but with a Musketeer. It only opened to 10.3 and finished at 27.1 with 7.5 overseas. Hardball did 9.4/40.2. What would they have opened like if they were released in 2000 instead of 2001? Highlander: Endgame did terrible with 5.1 OW in 2000. Hidalgo isn't The Musketeer when sword fighting movies were starved. I'd think Hardball might have done a little more, but The Musketeer and all these pre-Transformers actions movies made crowd reports a hot thing for top 10 movie followers back then. I think Hardball, and the hostile pressure people face in giant Urban cities should be saved if people keep registering for the internet and become screen addicts.