Down To The Wire
No one thought Eddie Murphy's new film Meet Dave would do well, but it's pretty shocking that he could only manage a $5 million opening. I guess the trailers just didn't make it look as fun as Norbit.
But there are two races, champs versus challengers, which have been going on a while that I'm watching closely. First, to my surprise, it's not a gimme that Wall-E will pass Kung Fu Panda. The former has $162 million and is still making decent coin, but the latter has a huge lead at $202 million and isn't played out yet.
Meanwhile, there's Indiana Jones versus Iron Man. Indiana Jones was the easy favorite before the year started, but with the both running out of steam, and Indy at $310 million and I-Man at $313 million, I'm not sure the old guy can catch up.
posted by LAGuy @ 12:17 AM
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$5 million? Wow. There was essentially nobody waiting to climb into a giant Eddie Murphy head and have your picture taken leaning out of his ear, last week in Times Square. The only people I saw who were very interested were foreign tourists, who presumably thought it was just a normal part of the Times Square experience.
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