Gee, with Saturday's numbers I see there's no more mention of DS being on life support. But then, as I pointed out, that comment was just ridiculous on so many levels.
And now that's she's upped her estimate for DS for the weekend, it will be interesting to see if places like Box Office Mojo report a similar estimate once they post the "official" estimates for the weekend later today.
Going off topic briefly, though it's not entirely OT because the continued mega-success of
The Avengers is what's affecting practically every other film currently out, but I'm really surprised by the estimated numbers for
Battleship and
What To Expect When You're Expecting. I didn't think
Battleship would open huge, but I was thinking a lot more than what it's supposedly done. But considering it appeals to the same sort of crowd as
The Avengers, I suppose that perhaps a lot of people simply went to see
The Avengers again rather than see
Battleship. And I really thought
What To Expect When You're Expecting would come in higher than DS, if only for the fact that it's a new opening. Though I'm certainly not going to complain - particularly considering that both
What To Expect When You're Expecting and DS were supposedly tracking well with women but apparently more decided to go to see DS even though some Web sites predicted
What To Expect When You're Expecting would be more likely to siphon women away from DS to the point that it would come out ahead of DS. So, about the only major film opening this weekend that seems to have lived up to expectations was
The Dictator. But then, expectations weren't high to begin with because Sasha Baron Cohen is such an acquired taste - and a taste that may not be shared all that much with the audience that was likely to see the other top 5 films this weekend...
9 days 11 hours 39 minutes 41 seconds since the Depp/Burton Dark Shadows has been in release(ET)!!