There were people who were sure that, as soon as word of mouth spread after the weekend,
Alice would no longer be trouncing its competition. Well, with figures like these so far, I wonder what they're saying now? (Though I suspect not many, if any of them are admitting they were wrong because their kind rarely ever does.
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Day #1 Movie Boxoffice #2 Movie Boxoffice
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Mon Alice $9,008,430 Shutter Island $1,011,425
Tue Alice $7,976,108 Shutter Island $1,101,674
Wed Alice $6,772,798 Shutter Island $970,211Normally a movie is lucky to amass any one of those
Alice grosses for the entire Monday through Friday period, not just for one day.
And changing reels slightly, you make some interesting points madscntst and I'd love to see if a discussion might going about them. But I want to have that discussion in the Depp/DS topic rather than here. I just haven't gotten the chance to gather my thought and post over there yet. But soon...