Weekend box-office

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Rush Hour 3 will have about $53,515,000 in the pants pocket by Sunday night. It made $18,456,000 last night, but it'll probably be down today because (a) sequels always fade on Saturday unless they're propelled by exceptional word-of-mouth (as The Bourne Ultimatum was last weekend) and (b) the word-of-mouth on Brett Ratner's film is sure to be piss poor. (You'd have to be a complete movie retard to enthusiastically tell a friend, "Wow, great film!!")

The Bourne Ultimatum will pull in $32,321,000 -- down 52% from last weekend -- for a $131,995,000 two-week cume. The Simpsons Movie is down 56% for $11,139,000. Stardust has tanked with a projected $8,661,000 by Sunday night, with $2,985,000 earned last night in 2540 theatres. Underdog will come in fifth with $6,880,000.

The sixth-place Hairspray will earn $6,634,000 by Sunday, and will therefore have a total of $92.4 million, meaning it's all but certain to cross $100 million. (Hey, how come it's not up to $150 million by now? All right, that's it...can Russell Schwartz!!) I Now Pronounce You Chuck and Larry will be seventh with 6,130,000, which will put it across the $100 million mark -- $ 104,000,000, to be precise.

Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix will make $5,873,000 -- the cume is now $272 million. No Reservations will be ninth with...I lost the figure but the Sunday-night cume will be $32,184,000 -- will WB make back its p & a outlay? And poor Daddy Day Camp is tenth with $3,720,000 -- 2392 theatres, 1600 a print, dead.

Becoming Jane expanded, added 500 runs, 600 theatres now....$3,179,000 and 5300 a pinrt...not bad..
Skinwalkers opened in 737 theatres and willl take in 472,000 by Sunday night...$670 dollars a print. Julie Delpy's Two Days in Paris opened in 8 theatres, and will earn $164,000 or about $28,000 a print. Rocket Science opened in six theatres and will make... okay, this makes two films I'm not completely sure about. But it did moderately well, I'm told.