Word: weeklies
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Dates: during 2000-2009
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...numbers - the studios' early tallies of the weekend gross, based on hard numbers for Friday, estimates for Saturday and sheer guesswork for Sunday - say that Christmas Carol won the weekend with $31 million, more than double the $14 million take of the runner-up, and last week's winner, Michael Jackson's This Is It. The very odd Clooney comedy came in third, with $13.3 million, just beating out the $12.9 million gleaned by the low-budget alien-abduction thriller The Fourth Kind. Trailing these were the unkillable phenomenon of Paranormal Activity, with $8.6 million in its seventh week...
...mavens say that The Men Who Stare at Goats and the man who stares at ghosts did so poorly? Because, in the land of make-believe, the success of a movie is as much perception as reality. Insiders predict films' box-office take in the early part of the week, monitor the returns on Saturday and then, when the numbers are announced on Sunday morning, say how surprised or disappointed they are. Forecasting the weekend grosses has become a rabid Internet pastime, and the spur to free publicity when news services cover the "story" in Sunday columns like this...
...Disney's A Christmas Carol, $31 million, first weekend 2. Michael Jackson's This Is It, $14 million; $57.9 million, second week 3. The Men Who Stare At Goats, $13.3 million, first week 4. The Fourth Kind, $12.5 million,, first weekend 5. Paranormal Activity, $8.6 million; $97.4 million, seventh week 6. The Box, $7.9 million, first week 7. Couples Retreat, $6.4 million; $96 million, fifth week 8. Law Abiding Citizen, $6.2 million; $60.9 million, fourth week 9. Where the Wild Things Are, $4.2 million; $69.2 million, fourth week 10. Astro Boy, $2.6 million; $15.1 million, third week Read "The Year...
...TIME's Pictures of the Week...
...Cartoons of the Week...