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...Titans, whose opening was delayed a week, both to complete the film's reformatting in 3-D and to secure more venues that could show it in that format. Clash opens Friday on about 1,500 3-D screens and 2,000 2-Ds. Industry analyst Jeff Bock of Exhibitor Relations says Clash might have been expected to earn about $100 million this weekend - if it had secured all the 3-D screens it needed, which Warner Bros. could have done if it had released the film in mid-April, when Alice and Dragon would have run their course...
...Avatar was a game changer," says Bock, "but so was Alice in Wonderland. People were expecting it to do $65 [million] to $70 million [its first weekend], but then it goes and does $116 million, which is something almost unseen outside a traditional Hollywood blockbuster. So now that's something that every studio has to consider: How can you find the right window to match that sort of performance? It's a change in paradigm. You not only have to look at your weekend, but you have to look at surrounding weekends, because you need control of the most...
Third-year skippers Teddy Himler and John Stokes split time taking care of the skipper duties in the B division, as junior crew Quincy Bock, freshman crew Ryan Byrne, and Yan each worked four races in the division, where Harvard finished in ninth place...
Bock’s switch to the B boat proved to be a good strategic move, as both the A and B lineups posted better finishes on Sunday than they had the day before. Switching with Bock to captain Alan Palmer’s A Boat was junior Meghan Wareham, helping the boat come in sixth place. The A boat took two third-place finishes on Saturday but landed outside the top ten for the majority of the day’s races. The following day Palmer and Wareham made the top ten in nearly every race, and notched...
...lucky for us that we had just practiced and that it was nice, light and choppy,” Bock said...