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Though it clearly won’t make any critic’s top ten list this year, there is no doubt that “Clash of the Titans” is an entertaining film. The pace of the action, dazzling special effects, and hokey one-liners rarely lets up. But though the audience may enjoy the film as it unfolds, the quality of this unabashedly derivative movie itself is definitely less than godly...
Storming the screen with plenty of muscle - and some steroids in the form of a last-minute 3-D version on about 1,500 screens - Clash of the Titans was No. 1 at the North American box office with $61.4 million, according to early studio estimates. The Greek-myth epic topped the previous best Easter weekend entry, 2006's Scary Movie 4, by about 50%. (Clash's $135 million budget was three times as high as SM4's.) But the movie earned about $10 million less than Fast and Furious, which opened on this (non-Easter) weekend last year...
...Clash was the third new stereoptic release in a month, after Alice in Wonderland (now well past $300 million at home, and at $672.8 million worldwide) and last weekend's topper, How to Train Your Dragon (already closing in on $100 million domestic). Apparently audiences are insatiable for movies for which they have to wear goggles. The Hollywood bosses like them too, since they can charge an extra $3 or $4 per ticket for the privilege of seeing a movie like Clash that is retrofitted with no other purpose than greed. This time, audiences responded to the saturation marketing campaign...
Viewers addicted to 3-D are going to have to wait another seven weeks for the next one, Shrek Forever After. In the meantime, they'll just have to rewatch Alice, Dragon and Clash. Hey, movie exhibitors: Care to bring back Avatar...
...Clash of the Titans, $61.4 million, first weekend 2. Why Did I Get Married Too, $30.2 million, first weekend 3. How to Train Your Dragon, $29.2 million; $92.3 million, second week 4. The Last Song, $16.2 million; $25.6 million, first five days 5. Alice in Wonderland, $8.3 million; $309.8 million, fifth week 6. Hot Tub Time Machine, $8 million; $27.8 million, second week 7. The Bounty Hunter, $6.2 million; $49 million, third week 8. Diary of a Wimpy Kid, $5.5 million; $46.2 million, third week 9. She's Out of My League, $1.463 million; $28.7 million, fourth week 10. Shutter...