Nov 17 2008 Bond is a Popular, Money-Making Franchise

1. Quantum of Solace - $70.4 million--the best opening ever for a Bond movie or any other film with the words "quantum" and "solace" in the title.

2. Madagascar: Escape 2 Africa - $36.1 million. Every1 luvs escaping to theaters 2 C talking animals!

3. Role Models - $11.7 million, and it's all going to Big Brothers/Big Sisters! (No it isn't.)

4. High School Musical 3: Senior Year - $5.9 million. Who says people won't pay to see teenagers sing and dance in a Disney production, week after week? I think I said that, but I was dead wrong.

5. Changeling - $4.2 million, bringing the Clint Eastwood-directed film to just over $27 million in four weeks. I'm so confident it could have made a lot more under my title, Anglina Jolie and the Baby Switcheroo.

Weekend Box Office Results [Box Office Mojo]

Nov 10 2008 'Madagascar 2' Moves the Weekend Box Office!

And the weekend box office results were...

1. Madagascar: Escape 2 Africa - $63.5 million. Once again, I've underestimated the public's desire to move it (move it).

2. Role Models - $19.3 million. Stifler may not have the same box office pull he did in 2000, but he still does OK if you give him a Rudd for support.

3. High School Musical 3 - $9.3 million. This ordering just goes to show that as much as people love singing, dancing adolescents, they will always more love singing, dancing computer-generated animals.

4. Changeling - $7.3 million, most of that money coming from tickets Brad Pitt bought to support his wife. THEY ARE THAT IN LOVE.

5. Zack and Miri Make a Porno - $6.5 million, bringing its domestic total up to nearly $21 million. Is that enough to warrant an actual porn spoof film? I want to see how that would work.

Weekend Box Office Results [Box Office Mojo]

Nov 3 2008 'High School Musical' Still Most Publicy Viewed Moving Picture

For all you film statisticians: weekend box office numbers!

1. High School Musical 3: Senior Year - $15 million. Now that Disney has figured out their television programming can make so much money in theaters, the studio's production schedule has been cleared and replaced with plans for five The Suite Life of Zack & Cody films.

2. Zack and Miri Make a Porno - $10.7 million, proving that watching pornography creation will never replace staying home, enjoying already-made pornography.

3. Saw V - $10.1 million, a significant drop as many people decide to just wait and see Saw VI next weekend.

4. Changeling - $9.4 million. You know how this could have made more? If instead of the LAPD replacing Angelina Jolie's child with another boy, they replaced him with a talking, CGI rabbit, and the title was Somebunny Else's Baby.

5. The Haunting of Molly Hartley - $6 million. Usually a Halloween weekend horror movie would have bigger numbers, but in this case, High School Musical 3 was a more chilling option.

Weekend Box Office Results [Box Office Mojo]

Oct 27 2008 'Senior Year' Wins Box Office, Because Seniors RULE

The weekend box office numbers are in!

1. High School Musical 3: Senior Year - Yeesh, $42 million? I'm sensing a High School Musical: The College Years, High School Musical: The New Class, High School Musical: Hawaiian Style, and a High School Musical: Wedding in Las Vegas can't be far behind.

2. Saw V - $30.5 million, and now millions of people know a few more elaborate and painful ways to murder you.

3. Max Payne - Whups, just $7.6 million. The only thing emptier than the seats was Wahlberg's performance! I just got you so bad, Wahlberg.

4. Beverly Hills Chihuahua - Since dropping another two spots with only $6.9 million, I've switched my take on talking dogs from a "don't buy" to a "sell."

5. Pride & Glory - Of course it only made $6.3 million; who can relate to pride or glory? You want to get people in the seats, make Shame & Self-Pity.

Weekend Box Office Results [Box Office Mojo]

Jul 15 2008 'HSM 3' Trailer! (If You Don't Know What That Means, Try Not To Find Out)

I won't pretend to understand the prolonged relevance of not one but several of Disney Channel's saccharine programs, but it's somehow reality, and here's more evidence of that: the trailer for High School Musical 3, which for some reason will be in theaters instead of basic cable.

I totally can't believe the end of the trailer shows the basketball trophy. Now I know the part where the basketball court turns into American Beauty and Zac Efron, through song, asks Vanessa Hudgens for the strength to "turn it up; game on" must work. Talk about a spoiler.

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May 1 2008 'High School Musical 3: Senior Year' Poster, Never Change, BFF 4 Ever

Pretending I saw both of the first High School Musicals, I imagine I would have two reactions once the music of the final song faded, transitioning into the opening theme of That's So Raven: 1.) How did I not have to pay for this much entertainment? 2.) What the shit happens next?! October 24, both questions will be answered!*

*Answer 1: Now you do have to pay for it. Answer 2: Punching the air, and probably singing?

New High School Musical 2: Senior Year Poster [Coming Soon]