Red Tails overperformed. Grass roots effort to buck the system along with George Lucas & Tyler Perry comments re the extinction of Black movies, Lucas self funding is what pushed viewers to go out.
Red Tails may overperform it's OW predictions but still don't think it will be a gross hit. I think grass roots are trying to support it this weekend. I've seen lots of blogs/tweets from stars in Hollywood telling their followers to support especially as George Lucs self funded.
Not surprised that Contraband did great. A bit surprised that it exceeded it's estimate but I liked the trailer and had a good feeling about it. Joyful Noise seems to be living up to expectations that it will do between $10-$12mil and that's too bad because that is not enough. It had a strong last minute push re promo but most people thought it looked cheesy.