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...indie action, the rom-com (500) Days of Summer picked up $2.8 million and, at 266 venues, had the weekend's highest per-screen average among the top 60 releases, for a cume of $6,821,000. The bomb-squad thriller The Hurt Locker was right behind, with a five-week total of $6,757,000. The weekend's most highly acclaimed newbies - the save-the-dolphins doc The Cove and the South Korean vampire-priest horror movie Thirst - opened well, with about $55,000 each at four theaters...
Among the human-being, or also-ran, movies, the Sandra Bullock romantic comedy The Proposal took second place with an honorable $18.5 million (a 45% drop from its $33.6 million win last weekend). The Hangover hung on with an additional $17.2 million, pumping its cume up to $183.2 million. Pixar's Up started its balloon descent with a $13 million take. And the new sick-child weepie, My Sister's Keeper, cadged a soft $12 million for fifth place...
...film but also of any movie released in the normally somnolent month of April. (Previous top dog of the cruelest month: the Adam Sandler-Jack Nicholson Anger Management, which picked up $42 million six years ago.) F&F also cadged $30.1 million internationally, bringing its three-day cume to $102.6 million. (See TIME's auto special: "The 50 Worst Cars Ever Made...
...this was the purge before the binge. A heady month is ahead, with Shrek the Third and Pirates of the Caribbean: At World's End ready to pick the public's pockets. And this weekend: Spider-Man 3, which on its own is guaranteed to top last weekend's cume. Anything under a $100 million launch would be disappointing for a threequel with a budget in at least the quarter-billion-dollar range. These days directors of special-effects epics can spend money faster than Tony Soprano at the roulette table...
...Occasionally, a film goes into the marketplace unrated and finds a welcoming adult audience. Y tu mama tambien earned $13.8 million at the North American box office, along with lots of critics' awards, and $19.8 million abroad. That cume, $33.6 million, is pretty good for a sexy little art film with a budget (according to the Internet Movie Database) of about $5 million. But it's less than, say, Saw II, the horror-film sequel that cost only $4 million to make, earned in just its first weekend in the U.S., Canada and Britain...