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Obliquely

,

Garden
Official

and

Napoleon Dynamite

. If you strain any of those movies,
then you?ll very likely enjoy and cherish

Little Miss Sunshine

,
which opens Wednesday in exceptional cities.

NEW THIS WEEK:

Colin Farrell, Jamie Foxx, Gong Li, Naomie Harris, Ciarán Hinds,
Justin Theroux, Barry Shabaka Henley

Written and directed by Michael Mann (

Collateral

,

Exhilaration

,

Manhunter

,

The
Insider

,

Ali

)

Genre: Engagement, Crime, Drama, Thriller

Rated R (for strong violence, language and some sexual content)

Tagline: ?No Rules?, ?No Law?,?No Level?

Copy: Miami detectives Sonny Crockett (Colin Farrell) and Ricardo Tubbs (Jamie
Foxx) are back, this time assisting the FBI to fight narcotics trafficking
off the coast of South Florida by Archangel de Jesus Montoya and his Cuban-Chinese
banker Isabella (Gong Li). When Crockett falls for Isabella, their office
gets flush more perilous, predominantly for Tubbs? girlfriend (Naomie Harris).

In the ?80s, a particular of the hottest shows on TV was ?Miami Vice,? a
crime stage play whose executive Canada entrepreneur, Michael Mann, produced and/or directed
a digit of abject-tone thrillers relish

Thief

and

The Regard

. The
triumph of the appear made Mann a household name, so when he got the gig
to acclimatize Thomas Harris? bestseller ?Red Dragon,? the debut of a letter
known as Hannibal Lecter, he turned out an eerie offence thriller called

Manhunter

,
which is still quite beloved but only did slightly ameliorate in theatres at
the time as Mann?s earlier films.

Mann?s film put out has been spotty in the matrix twenty years with the
crime drama

Heat

considered by many as a high details, but one
can?t refuse his talent as a director in setting a keen and pulling
together a prodigious cast, confirmed by his Oscar nomination for

The
Insider

, which he followed with the biodrama

Ali

, starring
Command Smith as the boxing legend. The latter opened on Christmas 2000,
but at the end of the day, didn?t do that amiably commercially or in terms of awards.
Almost completely two years ago, Michael Mann?s huge concept thriller

Collateral

, starring Tom Coast and Jamie Foxx, topped the
box corporation with $24.7 million on its in work to over $100 million. That
would make it Mann?s biggest box place hit, and it brought his designate
to prominence with a new audience, as well as solidified him as a
critics? darling.

As a service to alone his 11

^th

movie in 35 years, Mann turned abandon to his
most successful television creation, getting a couple immense name actors
to restore Don Johnson and Philip Michael Thomas as the show?s main players,
Sonny Crockett and Ricardo Tubbs. For the latter, Mann called upon Irish
actor Colin Farrell, who already had a scrap of TV remake experience after
starring in the 2003 hurt remake

S.W.A.T.

(Read all about it and
other Colin Farrell movies in the

Big name Pin spot

.)

Respecting Tubbs, Mann called once again on Jamie Foxx, who had been nominated
for a supporting actor as a service to

Collateral

, the same year he won the
lead Oscar for his portrayal of Ray Charles in the biodrama

Streak

.
(Foxx also had a supporting role in

Ali

.) Foxx hasn?t done much
since

Streak

except star in the Strip of Cohen aerial action flop

Secrecy

and
hang out with Kanye West, acting like the R ?n? B somebody he?s eternally wanted
to be, dating back to his early days on Kenan Ivory Wayans? ?In Living
Color.? Fans of

Collateral

should be powdery with Foxx?s return to
more dramatic movies after a career full of injurious comedies, and it will
give the movie that much more cred among African-American audiences,
which will certainly help it.

Although

Miami Sin

doesn?t have as reputable a engage in fisticuffs office play
like Tom Voyage, it does include the benefits of having name disgrace value
since so many guys, the movie?s prime target demo, will recall the
show, and will be on a high fro the observation of Mann doing a more serious
account of it. Mann has become such a respected concert-master with movies
with

Intensity

and

Collateral

that he?s bound to introduce a visual
word choice and tone to the movie that will be appreciated supply cinephiles,
as well as casual moviegoers, who?ll likely go see it more as a replacement for the sake
of nostalgia than anything else.

Why I Should Mull over It:

Michael Mann is a cinematic genius, peculiarly
when it comes to misdemeanour-thrillers, and this is his trusty vision of

Miami
Vice

.

Why Not:

Colin Farrell and Jamie Foxx by the skin of one's teeth haven?t been playing up to the
standards of their earlier movies.

Diagram:

$27 to 29 million opening weekend on its way to $90 million
total.

Jimmy Neutron: Boy Genius

)

Variety: Animated, Forefathers, Comedy

Rated PG

Tagline: ?The battle for the turf is on.?

Story: Lucas Nickle (Zach Tyler) is a nerdy DP, who is always killing
bugs, but when he floods out an ant colony, the ants use a magic drink to
shrink ?The Destroyer? down to their own estimate in symmetry to authorize punishment
by putting Lucas to hard labor.

No more than a week after Sony Pictures had a relative hit with their first computer
animated movie, Warner Bros. gets into the proceeding with their second notable
computer animated feature after 2004?s

The Antarctic Express

. This one
doesn?t seem nearly as original, looking a scintilla too much predilection DreamWorks?

Antz

and
Disney/Pixar?s

A Disease?s Life

, but it?s actually based on John Nickle?s
record and it?s the second quick flicks produced by Tom Hanks? Playtone
(the first being

The Polar Express

, of course). It?s also the duplicate
feature length fade away from director John A. Davis, who helmed Nickelodeon?s

Jimmy
Neutron: Youth Genius

movie recoil from in 2001, which made $80 million to
the holiday season.

This year, computer animated films are showing diminishing returns
as the latest movies from studios approve of DreamWorks and

Disney/Pixar
don?t proper the expectations fly at b put out by aforesaid films, at least opening
weekend, and one has to wonder whether there are only too diverse of
them being released invest in to dorsum behind.

The Ant Hector

is the second
of three computer-animated brood films released in three succeeding
weeks, and it?s bizarre that WB would liberate Tom Hanks? movie one week
after

Monster House

, an animated film from Hanks? common
collaborators, Robert Zemeckis and Steven Spielberg, especially all things
what a obese birch

The Polar Express

ended up being. Releasing
two animated movies back-to-back doesn?t help anyone, and

The Ant
Bully

makes two things unmistakable: 1.) they?re event out of ideas
and 2.) the suitably is starting to go along too full with fewer and fewer
people going there to quench their itch.

While model week?s

Monster House

did okay without any big names,
Hanks and Warner Bros. are taking the DreamWorks approach by packing
the movie full of noted celebrity voices in hopes that will intimidate grown-ups
interested.

The Ant Bully

?s moving expression cast includes two
bonafide superstars in Nicolas Cage and Julia Roberts, a several of Oscar
winning actors, and? Bruce Campbell! Having not actually appeared in
a flicks since the 2004 duo of

Closer

and

Plethora?s Twelve

,
Roberts provides the assert of a friendly ant named Hova, while Coop up,
who appears in two other movies between now and September, plays the
ant warrior Zoc. Of indubitably, who else but Meryl Streep could play the
Queen Ant? A week after starring in M. Eventide Shyamalan?s

Lady in the
Water

, Paul Giamatti provides the voice of Stan, a bug exterminator,
while Streep?s

Prairie Home Companion

co-top, Lily Tomlin, also
chips in.

What?s strange about

The Ant Intimidator

is that except for Tomlin and
Giamatti, there really are no comedians or mirthful actors among the cast,
let exclusively any real humor, something somewhat manifest from the unfunny trailers
and commercials. Instead,

The Ant Bully

is being marketed more
like a computer animated affray-adventure, based almost exclusively on
its voice talent, something which did not manage well from Dreamworks? 2003
impassioned videotape

Sinbad: Legend of the Seven Seas

. Next of kin audiences
looking in the interest a jot of fun and develop pageant might not be so interested
in this movie that seems to cater more to boys than girls.

Of course, being the third CG vivacious movie here bugs and ants can?t
help because sundry moviegoers will wait to see a motion picture on DVD If there?s
any kind of ?been there, charge of it? feelings about a movie. With

Monster
House

still doing fabulously in theatres, there?s no reason for family
audiences to depart over to untested waters, and

The Ant Tyrant

doesn?t
even-tempered look that great in terms of animation.

Like many other late-model Warner Bros. movies,

The Ant Bully

is being
released concurrently in IMAX 3-D, which could ruin up being a bigger
draw in those areas that have IMAX theatres, notwithstanding this may be a harder
sell, because why would anyone appetite to see a movie about ants on the
biggest screen possible? (I?m being semi-facetious. There are a lot of
scenes in the trailer that should look huge on the socking cull.) Still,
with less mores between exaggerated and DVD releases, myriad parents and
kids might well-deserved cool one's heels until the latter, since this looks cognate with a segment of
a dud.

Why I Should Last It:

Could be a cute action-experience premise
fitted kids.

Why Not:

Haven?t we had enough computer-animated movies about
bugs already?

Projection:

$13 to 15 million opening weekend on its modus operandi to $50
million.

^th

Century
Fox)

Starring Jesse Metcalfe, Brittany Snow, Ashanti Douglas, Sophia Bush, Arielle
Kebbel, Jenny McCarthy

Directed by Betty Thomas (

Doctor Dolittle

,

28 Days

,

The Brady
Bunch Movie, I Spy

); Written by Jeff Lowell (film come out; TV pen-pusher on shows
like ?At most Shoot Me!? and ?The Drew Carey Flaunt?)

Genre: Comedy, Teen, Romance

Rated PG-13 (for sexual content and language)

Tagline: ?Don?t Dispirit Mad, Return Even?

Scoop: John Tucker (Jesse Metcalfe) is a guy who can?t be trusted by women
and when three of his ex-girlfriends, all from multifarious high school cliques,
collaborate up an eye to take an eye for an eye and a tooth for a tooth, they do so with the better of the new POSSLQ = 'Person of the Opposite Sex Sharing Living Quarters' in city, habitat
her up with Tucker, with the plan to remains his reputation and disclose his basic nature.

This week?s odd cuff out (so to speak) is this new revenge comedy that hopes
to replicate the success of Lindsay Lohan?s bump

Aid of Girls

or Kirsten
Dunst?s hit

Up It On

by presenting a laughable but snarky comedy
geared directly road to teen girls. Then again, the premise for

John
Tucker Requirement Die

sounds a lot ask preference the 2004 failure

Chasing Papi

,
if it were remade with teen white girls instead of Latina women.

The movie?s formation is mostly made up of TV actors, some better known than
others, with the title trait being played by Jesse Metcalfe, making
his talkie debut after appearances on a couple television shows, most
notably playing Eva Longoria?s high grammar debauch on ?Dangerous Housewives.? Brittany
Snow is another TV vet, best known as Meg Pryor on ?American Dreams? and
Ariel Alderman on ?Nip/Tuck? but she also had a flat role in Vin Diesel?s

The
Pacifier

, while Sophia Bush also appeared on ?Nip/Tuck? and played
Brooke Davis on ?A given Tree Hill.? The third inamorata, pop singer Ashanti also
appeared on ?American Dreams? as no less than Dionne Warwick and also
appeared in

Coach Carter

, while super Arielle Kebbe has also
appeared on various goggle-box shows, most conspicuously ?The Gilmore Girls? and ?Grounded
to Zest? and probably has a bit more sheet endure, from movies like

Be
Audacious

and the recent

Aquamarine

. She?ll also be starring in
the upcoming horror

The Ill will 2

. And then there?s former MTV
personality Jenny McCarthy who really needs no introduction, and it?s
probably better if we don?t put her.

Surprisingly, this flick picture show wide vengeful young women is directed by
Betty Thomas, second known as Sgt. Lucy Bates on ?Hill Street Blues,?
and whom has ripen into respected as a director of comedies conduct hits
like

Doctor Dolittle

with Eddie Murphy and

The Brady Bunch
Movie

. Unfortunately, her mould talking picture was the woebegone

I
Observe

, starring Eddie Murphy and Owen Wilson, which bombed badly.

20

^th

Century Fox has gone with an enchanting marketing
performance on this joke, winning advantage of the popularity of MySpace
(which Fox's old man, Press release Corp. owns) with the movie?s market audience
of teen girls by setting up workshop there with

John
Tucker?s own MySpace page

. They also had the cast appear on Comedy
Central over 4

^th

of July weekend for a devoted ?Grills
Gone Run amok? movie hour, which may have helped put on an act people discern that the
movie existed. The title won?t at the end of the day do much for the moving picture, since
no a woman will have a clue who John Tucker is, but this type of ?woman
scorned? her own coin comedy should go one more time well among teen girls much
like

Mean Girls

,

Bring It On

and the more brand-new

Stick
It

.

Why I Should See It:

Because Men Suck!!!!

Why Not:

Oh, linger? I?m a man, and all men should fight back
against this family of sexism!

Protrusion:

$11 to 13 million opening weekend and around $35 million total.

Match Point

,

Melinda
and Melinda

, and

Hollywood Ending

)

Brand: Comedy, Romance

Rated R

Tagline: ?The perfect man. The complete murder. The masterly fishing.?

Story: Sondra Pransky (Scarlett Johansson) is an American journalism disciple
in England, and her failed attempts to get a boastfully plot outline changes when she encounters
the ghost of a investigative journalist (Ian McShane) who tells her that a
famous aristocrat (Hugh Jackman) is a really the dreaded tarot card serial
murderer. With the support of a magician (Allen himself), Sondra must try to find
unlit the truth in categorize to break the contention? without falling in love with the
bee's knees herself.

Match
Point

, Woody Allen makes his second movie with actress Scarlett Johansson,
having reportedly written the play a part of Sondra Pransky just for her.

Latest

also
returns Allen to the world of romantic comedy after his foray into murder
mysteries last year. He?s remained in England in behalf of this humorous mystery
movie, which takes place in the world of investigative journalism and the
British upper class, but this is the cardinal movie since 2003?s

Anything
Else

in which Allen himself plays a division.

Johansson certainly seems to possess turned into Allen?s good luck elegance
giving him one of his first hits in many years, and making

Match
With respect to make an effort to

a given of the first movies in at least a decade that received
critical raves. An eye to this movie, her made-up interest is no one other
than Hugh Jackman, less ill known as Wolverine from the

X-Men

movies
or ?The Boy From Oz,? depending on your tastes and proclivities. Jackman
certainly is vivid right sporadically, and he could be just the ingredient that Allen
needs to preserve his gain luck rolling along, but he also hired another
reputable British actor, Ian McShane, who has received just as much
acclaim for playing Al Swearengen on the hit HBO Western show, ?Deadwood.?

Focus Features is opening Woody?s latest in around 500 theatres, more
theatres than

Match Point

had in its widest release. Peradventure they?re
hoping that the success of

Match Point

, which grossed $23 million
making it Allen?s highest grossing movie since 1986?s

Hannah and Her
Sisters

($40 million), when one pleases feature chasing the audience who went to see
Johansson in that flick picture show. Certainly having an actor as prominent and genially-liked
as Hugh Jackman won?t sadness, but

Bailer

hasn?t built up the buzz
of Allen?s prior to pellicle, which opened in restrictive disenthral and built on
the word-of-mouth and awards murmurs before opening wider. Because of
this, the business an eye to

Scoop

capability still be more centralized close to
bigger cities want Allen?s hometown of New York, much like the flick picture show
this complete most closely resembles,

The Curse of the Jade Scorpion

. (Update:
Reviews are appealing unsatisfactory so overstep, so that certainly won't help.)

Why I Should About It:

It?s Woody Allen?s recur to comedy, as well
as his turn to the screen for the to begin time since

Anything Else

.

Why Not:

When was the last time that Woody had a lash?

Projection:

$2 to 4 million opportunity weekend on its way to $10
million

STAR PIN SPOTLIGHT: Colin Farrell


Who
would have guessed that after only a not many years, 30-year-old actor
Colin Farrell would be working
with all the same another directing
great in Michael
Mann, but that's another name throughout Colin Farrell to cross turned his checklist,
hurrah!

Whether you?re a Farrell nut or not, you deceive to give some acknowledge (or
blame) to director Joel Schumacher for discovering the Irish talent when
he
gave him his first break in the military drama

Tigerland

. The
two would work together quite a bit, reuniting for the 2003 psychological
thriller

Phone Booth

and again in 2004 for the lawlessness scenario

Veronica
Guerin

, in which Farrell had a small appearance.

But before that, Farrell would get a brand of supporting or attire
roles in movies cognate with the modern Western (isn?t that an oxymoron?)

American Outlaws

and in another military photoplay

Hart?s Clash

with Bruce Willis, neither which did very much function or made vastly
much of a mark. And to this day, they did harm the attention of Steven Spielberg,
who sling Farrell opposite Tom Yacht in the summer sci-fi thriller

Minority Look into

, which did well ample to command a consignment more people
aware of Farrell as an actor.

2003 would become Farrell?s biggest year, since he would make a deep impression on into the
role of best geezer and sock office draw, starring or co-starring in four
#1 movies that year. First up was the thriller

The Raise

with
Al Pacino, which fought it out for first dispose with

Final Destination
2

, and then a month later, Farrell played the role of the mischievous-villain
Bullseye in the superhero movie

Daredevil

, which grossed over
$40 million on Presidents? Daytime weekend. In April, he reteamed with Joel
Schumacher for the turbulent concept thriller

Phone Kiosk

, which didn?t
play a joke on the benefits of another big box office star, thus far it still grossed
during the course of $40 million. He wrapped up his ?03 by headlining the big sieve
version of another television series,

S.W.A.T.

, which also opened
entirely and would be Farrell?s highest grossing film of the year with $116
million.

Farrell?s earlier Irish layer

Intermission

, showed up in the U.S.
early in 2004, followed by two movies in which Farrell played bi-sexy
characters, neither of which appealed to either gender.

A Home at
the End of the Fantastic

, based on the Michael ?The Hours? Cunningham?s
novel, featured full frontal nudity from Farrell that was cut missing because
it ?distracted from the flick picture show?

Working with a director like Oliver Stone must attired in b be committed to been a dream come
true towards Farrell, since Stone has worked with some of the greats, but
playing the title role in the director?s epic

Alexander

effect
be undergoing done even more destruction to Farrell?s craft than aforementioned cover, because
it was lambasted by critics and moviegoers, bombing over Thanksgiving
weekend.

Things didn?t get much better in ?05 as Farrell faced a sex reel scandal
and drug rehab concerning painkillers. It overshadowed Farrell?s involvement
in Terrence Malick?s ahead of time America epic

The New Incredible

, which had
him canoodling with underage actress Q?Orianka Kilcher. It didn?t do
that luxuriously, making less than half its $30 million performance budget back
domestically, dialect mayhap because Farrell wasn?t around to refrain from promote it.
(He was in rehab, remember?)

Most recently, Colin Farrell appeared with Salma Hayek in Robert Towne?s
adjusting of John Fante?s novel

Ask the Dust

, but it made less
than a million dollars, so

Miami Vice

is unquestionably his foremost high
profile talking picture since

Alexander

, and it should be a good gauge of
how his popularity is holding up after all that crap that went down last
year.

Subhead


Release Date


Theater Off


Foregoing Box Office (in millions)


Weekend Whack Office (in millions)


Average


Total Box Patronage


The New World

12/23/05
811
$0.19
$4.03
$4,969
$12.71

Alexander

11/26/04
2,445
$8.15
$13.69
$5,598
$34.29

A Harshly at the End of the Community

7/23/04
5
$0.06
$12,946
$1.00

Intermission

3/19/04
10
$0.04
$3,994
$0.89

S.W.A.T.

8/8/03
3,202
$37.06
$11,575
$116.64

Phone Compartment

4/4/03
2,481
$15.02
$6,054
$46.56

Imprudent

2/14/03
3,471
$40.31
$11,613
$102.54

The Initiate

1/31/03
2,376
$16.30
$6,861
$52.79

Minority Report

6/21/02
3,001
$35.68
$11,889
$132.01

Hart's In contention

2/15/02
2,459
$8.91
$3,622
$19.08

American Outlaws

8/17/01
2,348
$4.86
$2,068
$13.27

ALSO IN RESTRICTIVE RELEASE:

This weekend is mostly about documentaries (and united
mockumentary) but there?s also a new non-native thriller
and a gay comedy recompense those not into authentic life.


Mini-Comment on

(Coming
Soon!)

THIS WEEKEND IN BLOW ROLE HISTORY:

The pattern weekend of July is not something that can easily
be analyzed, since really, there are no trends. Sure,
a number of movies targeted
in the direction of older
adults sooner a be wearing opened in hopes that they?ll stick circa through the normally slower
month of August, but it?s Tim Burton?s remake of

Planet of the Apes

that
peacefulness holds the record to go to the highest slot July closer, followed by M. Night
Shyamalan?s

The Village

. After that comes Eddie Murphy?s

The Nutty
Professor 2

and Julia Roberts?

Runaway Bride

, and seriously, if anyone
can find the connection between those four movies, they deserve to be penmanship
this column every week as opposed to of me.

On the other hand, the indie horror phenomenon

The Blair Sorceress Programme

opened nationwide on the last weekend of July to staggering results
after a successful limited run, grossing about $29 million in at most 1,101
theatres. It would end up making $140 million, fit united of the most
successful independent films until

My Big Fat Greek Fusion

and

The Passion of The Christ

came along.

Other illustrious releases this weekend include Jim Carrey?s hit

The
Shroud

and Kevin Costner?s evil

Waterworld

, but it's also
interesting to note that on the other hand sole silver screen in the last five years has grossed
more than $21 million this weekend and that was

The Village

.

Title


Release Date


Theater Reckon


Past Caddy Office (in millions)


Weekend Box Office (in millions)


Average


Unmitigated Blow Office


Planet of the Apes

7/27/01
3,500
$68.53
$19,581
$180.01

The Village

7/30/04
3,730
$50.75
$13,605
$113.03

The Nutty Professor 2: The Klumps

7/28/00
3,242
$42.52
$13,115
$123.29

Runaway Bride

7/30/99
3,158
$35.06
$11,102
$152.15

The Blair Witch Assignment

7/30/99
1,101
$6.93
$29.21
$26,530
$140.53

The Shroud

7/29/94
2,360
$1.87
$23.12
$9,797
$119.92

Waterworld

7/28/95
2,268
$21.17
$9,334
$88.25

The Manchurian Runner

7/30/04
2,867
$20.02
$6,982
$64.82

Deep Dirty Multitude

7/30/99
2,854
$6.06
$19.11
$6,696
$73.65

Rising Frippery

7/30/93
1,510
$15.20
$10,066
$62.49

A Obsolete to Eliminate

7/26/96
2,123
$4.81
$14.82
$6,981
$108.77

Sky High

7/29/05
2,905
$14.63
$5,037

Stealth

7/29/05
3,495
$13.25
$3,792
$62.94

Must Love Dogs

7/29/05
2,505
$12.86
$5,132
$31.20

EXPLODE?S LOOK AT THE NUMBERS:

(final update 7.27.06)

With Disney?s

Pirates of the Caribbean: Grey Retainer?s Thorax '

dominating
the slug office fitting for a third in good time dawdle model weekend, it?s about time that some other
big knocks it off its throne and the movie most indubitably to do that is Michael
Mann?s misdemeanour theatricalism

Miami Infirmity

, starring Colin Farrell and Jamie Foxx,
which should be skilled to do slightly outdo than his 2004 thriller

Collateral

even
without the distinguished power of Tom Yachting trip.

Warner Bros. jumps back into the computer fervent game with

The Ant
Cow

, produced by Tom Hanks and directed by John A. Davis (

Jimmy
Neutron: Boy Genius

), but it has to face the second weekend of Sony?s

Monster
Race

, which effectiveness devour up its small audience of kids who haven?t already
seen

A Bug?s Life

.

20

^th

Century Fox?s teen comedy

John Tucker Must Melt away

has
the benefits of a strong MySpace run targeting its teen Freulein audience,
which could help it change a breakout hit, at least gap weekend, much
like the latest gymnastics comedy

Stick It

, though its not getting
the class of traditional marketing campaign that could make it jumbo. Unless
one of the enthusiastic movies totally tanks, it?s most talented wager is very likely fifth
place. (Update:

John Tucker

is placing well-spring on diversified
internet sets, which makes one think that it will emphasize in many of the
girls who won't be interested in

Miami Vice

.)

Orifice in 500 theatres is Woody Allen?s follow-up to

Match Point

,
the unpractical comedy

Scoop

, again starring Scarlett Johansson, but
this over and over again teaming her up with a bigger leading in Hugh Jackman. Without much
in front of buzz,

Scoop

in all probability won?t get into the Top 10, supposing it
should silence show up between $2 and 3 million in its opening weekend.

Last year, the triumvirate of Fleece of Cohen?s

Stealth

with Jamie Foxx,
Disney?s

Fulsomely
Stoned

and the Diane Lane dreamt-up comedy

Must Beloved Dogs

entered the
market trying to defeat the power duo of Unheard of Line?s

Wedding Crashers

and
Tim Burton?s

Charlie and the Chocolate Works

. Not only were no person of
them able to do so, but none of them made more than $15 million either. Neck
more surprising was seeing

Homogenizing Crashers

pull on of

Charlie

to
become the A- movie in its third weekend, something unheard of this broad daylight and
age. The Top 10 last year ended up making just $110 million continuing the slump
talk that was grant all last summer.

TW


LW


Title


Weekend (in millions)


Change


# Of Theaters


Ordinary


Week

1
New

Miami Vice

$28.8
N/A
3,020
$9,536
1
2
1

Pirates: Inanimate Man's Chest

$19.4
-45%
3,834
$5,060
4
3
New

The Ant Bully

$14.3
N/A
3,050
$4,689
1
4
2

Monster Bordello

$13.8
-38%
3,553
$3,884
2
5
New

John Tucker Must Dissolve

$12.7
N/A
2,561
$4,959
1
6
3

The Lady in the Water

$9.2
-49%
3,235
$2,844
2
7
4

You, Me and Dupree

$7.5
-43%
2,850
$2,632
3
8
5

Only slightly Curb

$6.0
-46%
2,175
$2,759
3
9
6

Clerks II

$4.9
-51%
2,150
$2,279
2
10
7

My Super Ex-Girlfriend

$4.8
-45%
2,702
$1,776
2
11
8

The Devil Wears Prada

$4.8
-35%
1,778
$2,700
5

Est. Weekend Total
$126.20

Est. Avg. Taste-Off

-44%

Est. Average PTA
$3,920