Keith, even money says that those clones you speak of were shoved into the pipe the day "The Hangover" cleared $100 million.
---------[ Received Mail Content ]---------- Subject : [scifinoir2] Weekend Box Office is No Surprise Date : Mon, 20 Jul 2009 03:52:29 +0000 (UTC) From : Keith Johnson <keithbjohn...@comcast.net> To : scifinoir2@yahoogroups.com A lot of predictable fare. What worries me, though, is that studios, seeing the performance of "The Hangover", will start churning out clones. That's all we need: dozens of inferiour copies, which will have all the intelligence of those sex-crazed movies of the '80s like "Porky's", "Hot Dog: The Movie", etc., etc. ********************************************************************** http://movies.yahoo.com/mv/boxoffice/ Weekend Box Office Estimates (U.S.) Jul 17 - 19 weekend Archived Charts: This Wk Last Wk Title Dist. Weekend Gross Cumulative Gross Rlse Wks # of Theaters 1 - Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince Warner Bros. Pictures Distribution $79,475,000 $159,662,000 1 4325 2 2 Ice Age: Dawn of the Dinosaurs 20th Century Fox Distribution $17,700,000 $152,005,000 3 3817 3 3 Transformers: Revenge of the Fallen Paramount Pictures $13,750,000 $363,867,000 4 3857 4 1 Bruno Universal Pictures $8,374,000 $49,588,000 2 2759 5 6 The Hangover Warner Bros. Pictures Distribution $8,315,000 $235,882,000 7 2667 6 5 The Proposal Walt Disney Studios Motion Pictures $8,294,000 $128,087,000 5 3043 7 4 Public Enemies Universal Pictures $7,592,000 $79,483,000 3 3118 8 8 Up Buena Vista Pictures Distribution $3,147,000 $279,559,000 8 1706 9 9 My Sister's Keeper Warner Bros. Pictures Distribution $2,825,000 $41,504,000 4 1967 10 7 I Love You, Beth Cooper 20th Century Fox, 20th Century Fox Distribution $2,665,000 $10,261,000 2 1872 11 10 The Taking of Pelham 1 2 3 Sony Pictures Releasing $885,000 $62,896,000 6 610 12 - (500) Days of Summer Fox Searchlight Pictures $838,000 $838,000 1 27 http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JQdwk8Yntds