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And the other films: 1 The LEGO Movie $1,262,118 4% 3,890 115 $324 $188,310,084 3 Warner Bros. 2 3 Days to Kill $734,673 -14% 2,872 -- $256 $15,800,883 1 Relativity Media 3 The Monuments Men $714,455 1% 3,064 -19 $233 $60,692,973 3 Sony / Columbia 4 Pompeii $635,133 -8% 2,658 -- $239 $13,435,684 1 Sony / TriStar 5 RoboCop (2014) $596,389 -4% 3,372 0 $177 $46,711,444 2 Sony / Columbia 6 About Last Night $454,534 -4% 2,253 0 $202 $40,351,348 2 Sony / Screen Gems 7 Frozen (2013) $272,719 11% 1,891 -210 $144 $385,125,143 14 Disney 8 Ride Along $229,530 -5% 2,186 -331 $105 $124,123,400 6 Universal 9 Endless Love (2014) $202,545 0% 2,896 0 $70 $20,662,830 2 Universal 10 Winter's Tale $189,175 -4% 2,965 0 $64 $12,070,150 2 Warner Bros. 11 Philomena $184,369 2% 1,004 -221 $184 $33,404,668 14 Weinstein Company 12 Lone Survivor $151,425 0% 1,516 -497 $100 $122,314,966 9 Universal 13 That Awkward Moment $101,728 -9% 1,208 -714 $84 $24,522,873 4 Focus 14 The Nut Job $56,384 -2% 1,235 -683 $46 $60,130,644 6 Open Road

I'd completely forgotten that District 9 got nominated for BP. Pity Elysium wasn't as solid a followup. Hell of a sophomore slump there.

The New Guy - I’m not entirely sure why I watched this. Seems pretty ho-hum as far as raunchy teen comedies go.Narc - Unfortunately I got distracted at parts and missed some of the movie. Really good, gritty crime drama from what I saw, though.42 - While it’s more broad strokes than nitty gritty, it’s an impressive statement about a troubled and inspiring moment in sports history. It’s also good just as a sports film.

Does a film need to pass a certain threshold of theaters to be closed?

Well, yeah, it's a bit blunt at points, but I not everything needs to be a fully researched thesis with copious footnotes. The broad strokes works well to get the point across. Plus, it had some really well done baseball action shots. And I really liked a lot of the performances. Tudyk's Ben Chapman really hit hard. (I wonder how uncomfortable he was doing it.)

Just watched 42. That was really impressive.

I wonder if Lego might be looking at a sub 20m weekend with these weekdays.

Yeah, there's more than a few, come to think of it.

It's a fun movie with a lot of enjoyable acting performances, but it doesn't really have anything about it that says "great". I didn't hate it, but I have to admit that I laughed the most at the use of the old studio logo at the very beginning. (Which Argo had already done, so...)

Wow. That's like RDJ money.

Lego should still be over a million.

Argo - Taught and tight, it’s pretty amazing. Affleck does good thriller.Shrek: The Musical - Enjoyable enough, but mostly cements that Shrek was never a huge departure from the Disney films it was parodying.

Somewhere - Coppola strips down celebrity culture to a level that is equal parts mundane and absurd. Impressively done.Super Troopers - The opening sequence is fun, but after the title, it gets pretty repetitive.

Besides the trickiness of determining what threshold you apply for what should be saved or not, this is a really bad idea. For one thing, something could be a critical and commercial failure at the time of its release and then later be regarded in a new light. We'd want to have a copy of such films well after the fact in case that happens. But moreso, archiving isn't a critical choice, it's a historical one: we want to have as complete a record of, well, everything so that in generations to come there's a clearer picture of the society and culture that created the movies. Even seemingly vapid and forgettable films could provide some interesting insight, despite possible problems.

Looks like it's a bit lower: 1 The Nut Job $51,240 -86% 1,235 -683 $41 $59,957,307 6 Open Road

To be fair, stable long-term storage is an issue that the computing industry has been working on for years. It just doesn't seem like there are any solutions that are going to show up in the immediate future. They could be invented in the next few years, but probably won't be commercially viable for several more thereafter.

This wasn't mentioned, but there's also the issue of digital file formats not being usable at some point in the future. Even if you have the technology to read the physical media AND that media hasn't degraded, you need to have a computer that can process the information. There is plenty of old computer storage media lying around that we have no way to read anymore, simply because, even if we have the drives, there's no way to hook them up to a modern machine that can understand the information on them. So we're left with useless bits on magnetic tape or a floppy or something. So the problem with the constant churn of new magnetic tape drives is that even if you have the media (and it doesn't decay) and you have a player for them, there's absolutely no guarantee you'll have a computer that can do anything with them several years down the line. And, um, you can't just keep an old computer around for that purpose, because it'll still run into the same interface problems. I could keep an Tandy 1000 around for whatever reason and even use it to read the disks I might have, but there's no easy way for me to get that information onto my new Macbook Pro.

100 points Veronica Mars opens above 1 million OW, 2 people.

In Bruges - Colin Farrell is just fantastic in this. His mannerisms are perfect.Highlander 3 - Uninteresting and cheap looking, I have no idea or interest what’s going on. However, I did make a nice little plate of fried rice, so that was good.

Yeah. We're culturally trained to expect that anything to do with computers and such is pretty permanent. I mean, Google practically has the entire internet backed up and you can still go see the original Space Jam website from 1996, so it's not like any of that goes anywhere. But the technology itself is particularly transient. Modern flash memory, which is making a headway into replacing magnetic hard drives (mostly because it's significantly faster and not prone to mechanical failure) is likely only good for a couple thousand read/write cycles. That's fine for most people over the lifetime of a product, but most products we use have life cycles of less than the five year obsolescence window of a tape drive. My laptop is over three years old and feels pretty creaky. My phone is a just bit over two years old and it feels ancient. I wish there was a good solution, but it'll probably take a catastrophe of some sort in order to spur economic interests into updating things. Good article, Tele. Thanks for the link.

1 The LEGO Movie $31,305,359 -37% 3,890 115 $8,048 $183,015,455 3 Warner Bros. 2 3 Days to Kill $12,242,218 -- 2,872 -- $4,263 $12,242,218 1 Relativity Media 3 Ride Along $4,623,390 -47% 2,186 -331 $2,115 $123,129,190 6 Universal 4 Endless Love (2014) $3,967,520 -70% 2,896 0 $1,370 $19,808,775 2 Universal 5 Lone Survivor $1,978,380 -52% 1,516 -497 $1,305 $121,709,286 9 Universal 6 That Awkward Moment $1,385,146 -60% 1,208 -714 $1,147 $24,053,688 4 Focus 7 The Nut Job $1,066,564 -42% 1,235 -683 $864 $59,906,067 6 Open Road Pretty much everything except TNJ is coming in under the estimate.

Actuals coming in: 1 Endless Love (2014) $3,967,520 -70% 2,896 0 $1,370 $19,808,775 2 Universal 2 The Nut Job $1,066,564 -42% 1,235 -683 $864 $59,906,067 6 Open Road EL's a bit worse than the estimate. NJ's a bit better.

It was a tossup between Sam and John Marston. So I flipped a coin.

I'm willing to participate. This does seem a pretty cool series.

It's impressive enough when you consider what he was working with, but it would have been nice if he had tightened up the story somewhat so it didn't feel so empty.