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Bridesmaids: What A Reception!
If executives at one studio were wringing their hands over the failure of Pirates of the Caribbean: On Stranger Tides to crack the $100-million mark, executives at another were no doubt pumping them in the air after learning that Bridesmaids declined just 20 percent in its second week to $20.9 million. It managed to beat out Thor, last week’s No. 1 film, which fell 55 percent to $15.5 million. Also celebrating wildly on Monday presumably were the distributors of Woody Allen’s Midnight in Paris, which earned $599,003 dollars in just six theaters — or an average of $100,000 per theater. (Earlier estimates had put the per-theater average much lower but still well above that for Pirates 4.)
The top ten films over the weekend, according to final figures compiled by Box Office Mojo (figures in parentheses represent total gross to date):1. Pirates of the Caribbean: On Stranger Tides, Disney, $90,151,958, (New); 2. Bridesmaids, Universal, $20,882,070, 1 Wks. ($59,341,310); 3. Thor, Paramount, $15,455,304, 3 Wks. ($145,361,459); 4. Fast Five, Universal, $10,576,865, 4 Wks. ($186,165,450); 5. Priest, Sony, $4,750,041, 2 Wks. ($23,833,169); 6. Rio, 20th Century Fox, $4,687,714, 6 Wks. ($131,684,365); 7. Jumping the Broom, Sony/Tristar, $3,703,010, 3 Wks. ($31,320,562); 8. Something Borrowed, Warner Bros., $3,516,387, 3 Wks. ($31,519,452); 9. Water For Elephants, 20th Century Fox, $2,179,046, 5 Wks. ($52,456,620); 10. Madea’s Big Happy Family, Lionsgate, $956,589, 5 Wks. ($51,723,579).
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Why Even 2D Movies May Now Seem Darker
With the proliferation of digital 3D projection systems throughout the U.S., some theater owners are leaving the special polarizing devices, nearly all of them made by Sony, on the lenses of their projectors even when they’re using them to show 2D movies, resulting in “drastically darker” screen images, according to the Boston Globe. A projectionist for one Boston-area theater told the Globe, “When you’re running a 2-D film, that polarization device has to be taken out of the image path. If they’re not doing that, it’s crazy, because you’ve got a big polarizer that absorbs 50 percent of the light.” Audience members, the Globe explained, can determine whether the 3D lens has been removed simply by looking at the light coming out of the projection booth If they see two beams, it means that the polarizing device has not been removed. In an interview with the newspaper, Peter Farrelly said that last February he attended promotional screenings of Hall Pass, which he co-directed with his brother Bobby, at two Boston theaters, one of which had not removed the 3D device. “The first screening looked spectacular and the second was so dark, it was daytime versus nighttime. If they’re doing this for a big screening, I can’t imagine what they do for regular customers. That’s no way to see a movie.”»
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