Feb 19 2008 'Jumper', Lincoln Win President's Day Weekend

1. Jumper - $31.7 million, making it the biggest opening ever for a Third Eye Blind video.

2. The Spiderwick Chronicles - A $24.5 million opening has filmmakers scrambling to put together Spiderwick 2, and to find a way to work Venom in.

3. Step Up 2 the Streets - The competitive dance trend makes a successful, terrifying leap from something lazily watched because it's on after something else to something you leave the house and actually pay for, making $21.5 million.

4. Fool's Gold - Another $15 million, finally covering the film's bronzer budget.

5. Definitely, Maybe - There's no 'maybes' that this $11.4 million opening showed America needed a lighthearted rom-com to get their minds off this war. Y'know what I mean, man?

4-Day Weekend Box Office [Box Office Mojo]

Nov 14 2007 'Definitely, Maybe' Trailer Definitely Isn't Interesting

Having Ryan Reynolds regale me with tales of his sexual conquests, but toned down for an audience consisting of Abigail Breslin and romantic-comedy fanatics, has never been high on my list of experiences to have before death. But at least now I know that seeing a two-minute preview for such an experience, complete with a comedic record screech, won't change that opinion.

Incidentally, what kind of sick f*** answers his daughter's question of how he met her mom with an hour-long story about the various women he's courted, never revealing who the mother is? If she asks where babies come from, maybe he can give her several detailed stories of the lurid ways he's had sex with women, and she can guess which makes a baby.

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