And that’s the least of the overbearing sports puns I’ll leave you with today. What are we even doing exchanging formalities at this point? It’s a bottleneck at the box office, with new releases battling holdovers for early-autumn supremacy. Your Weekend Forecast is here.
NATIONAL OUTLOOK
· Moneyball: It seems like only yesterday we were debating the legitimacy of the embattled Moneyball as a mainstream movie project. Flash forward to today, with the terrific final product drawing rave reviews, stimulating Oscar talk, and preparing to lose the weekend box office nevertheless to a 17-year-old Disney film with a 3-D spitshine. What does Billy Beane’s spreadsheet have to say about that? Anyway, it’ll be close — The Lion King’s repeat performance at No. 1 is by no means a sure thing, with a drop between 40 and 50 percent putting it right in Moneyball’s sweet spot. Bottom line: If Brad Pitt can keep his opening magic, and if this thing shows even a little of the four-quadrant spunk it’s capable of, and if it can get a little help from Dolphin Tale usurping a few million from the Disney juggernaut, then it can win out. I don’t know if Moneyball’s stars are that aligned, though; after all, doesn’t it seem like only yesterday… Oh, sorry. FORECAST: $17.1 million
· Dolphin Tale: I still can’t believe there’s a movie… about an amputee dolphin… and the prostheses… that bring her and a young boy… and his wounded soldier/cousin… and Morgan Freeman and Harry Connick Jr. and Ashley…
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