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For most new releases, theaters are contractually obligated to keep it for two weekends, though if it's a flop, they tend to limit the showtimes of the second weekend (in the third, they get dropped like hot potatoes--the list of All-Time Theater Drops is a who's who of box office bombs). There are cases where a theater has to keep a movie longer than two weeks, like with IMAX engagements, and in the past, Star Wars prequels have had the clout to demand theaters keep them four weeks. After that, it's basically up to the theaters to decide if they are making enough money from a movie to hold on to it, or if they will fare better by taking on newer releases. Box office results are listed in terms of nationwide totals and averages, but there can be a lot of variances in different parts of the country or even neighborhoods in the same metropolitan area. Plus, there are still the smaller movie theaters out there, the ones that just have two, four, six screens. They can have a higher turnover than larger theaters, which are still included in a movie's theater count, even when a movie might be on one screen out of 24, with one showtime at 10:30 AM. Domestically, the difference between FSoG and Kingsman is $35 million and Kingsman's run is winding down (albeit at a much slower pace) and there's a new flashy action blockbuster in Furious 7 as competition. I think the fortunes might be reversed for the sequels to Fifty Shades and Kingsman, with the latter having much more potential to expand its appeal with another installment.

I imagine they wouldn't film a live action Little Mermaid underwater, but make it look that way with VFX in post-production.

March 27–29, 2015 Estimates: 1 (N) Home $54,000,000 | 3,708 Theaters | $14,563 Avg. | $54,000,000 2 (N) Get Hard $34,610,000 | 3,175 Theaters | $10,901 Avg. | $34,610,000 3 (1) The Divergent Series: Insurgent $22,075,000 | 3,875 Theaters | $5,697 Avg. | $86,394,000 4 (2) Cinderella $17,515,000 | 3,815 Theaters | $4,591 Avg. | $150,022,000 5 (19) It Follows $4,021,000 | 1,218 Theaters | $3,301 Avg. | $4,755,000 6 (5) Kingsman: The Secret Service $3,050,000 | 1,785 Theaters | $1,709 Avg. | $119,424,000 7 (3) Run All Night $2,205,000 | 2,377 Theaters | $928 Avg. | $23,823,000 8 (7) The Second Best Exotic Marigold Hotel $2,185,000 | 1,498 Theaters | $1,459 Avg. | $28,135,000 9 (6) Do You Believe? $2,150,000 | 1,356 Theaters | $1,586 Avg. | $7,052,000 10 (4) The Gunman $2,045,000 | 2,816 Theaters | $726 Avg. | $8,810,000 11 (8) Focus $1,370,000 | 1,260 Theaters | $1,087 Avg. | $51,929,000 12 (11) McFarland, USA $1,126,000 | 1,126 Theaters | $1,000 Avg. | $40,567,000 13 (12) American Sniper $905,000 | 970 Theaters | $933 Avg. | $345,445,000 14 (10) The SpongeBob Movie: Sponge Out of Water $610,000 | 1,354 Theaters | $451 Avg. | $160,208,000 15 (14) Fifty Shades of Grey $554,000 | 554 Theaters | $1,000 Avg. | $164,962,000 While We're Young $242,000 | 4 Theaters | $60,500 Avg. | $242,000 Danny Collins $231,000 | 29 Theaters | $7,966 Avg. | $327,500 Serena $110,000 | 60 Theaters | $1,833 Avg. | $110,000 Global Totals: BIG HERO SIX: $429.6M Overseas Total | $651.7M Global Total FIFTY SHADES OF GREY: $398.9M Overseas Total | $563.9M Global Total NIGHT AT THE MUSEUM: SECRET OF THE TOMB: $242.82M Overseas Total | $355.84M Global Total CINDERELLA: $186.2M Overseas Total | $336.2M Global Total KINGSMAN: THE SECRET SERVICE: $209M Overseas Total | $328.4M Global Total TAKEN 3: $238M Overseas Total | $326.8M Global Total THE SPONGEBOB MOVIE: SPONGE OUT OF WATER: $127.7M Overseas Total | $287.3M Global Total INTO THE WOODS: $75.5M Overseas Total | $203.4M Global Total INSURGENT: $93.7M Overseas Total | $180.1M Global Total JUPITER ASCENDING: $132.8M Overseas Total | $179.29M Global Total FOCUS: $82.4M Overseas Total | $132.96M Global Total THE THEORY OF EVERYTHING: $84.2M Overseas Total | $120M Global Total SEVENTH SON: $93.4M Overseas Total | $110.6M Global Total HOME: $48M Overseas Total | $106M Global Total SECOND BEST EXOTIC MARIGOLD HOTEL: $38.86M Overseas Total | $64.81M Global Total THE BOY NEXT DOOR: $11.1M Overseas Total | $46.5M Global Total RUN ALL NIGHT: $19.7M Overseas Total | $41.31M Global Total GET HARD: $4.6M Overseas Total | $39.21M Global Total

In looking up video of Jim Bob/Michelle's golf course infamy, I came across a clip of Jimmy Fallon doing a few jokes about the show (including a clip) during a Tonight Show monologue.

Jim Bob and Michelle went on a mini-golf double date with Jessa/Ben and were quite affectionate with each other. Here's a snarky recap from Best Week Ever:

If Don had proposed to Faye in "Tomorrowland", it's hard for me to picture her saying yes, and it being consistent with the character presented throughout S4. I don't know if the objections from fans would have been quite so vehement, because she still would have been a very different sort of wife than Don would have had before (not so young and starry eyed and blind to his faults, initially). She was presented as someone with a professional place in the SCDP universe ahead of becoming involved with Don, as opposed to Megan the sunny secretary's "I dabble in modeling and art and acting but I really love advertising hey can I sit in your lap?" spiel, which could be viewed as calculated by the less charitable viewer. Even if you thought she was sincere, after the Allison debacle, how many fans were thrilled to see Don sleeping with yet another secretary in the same season? Faye, I didn't care for, but the character was better/more consistently drawn and not just whomever Weiner needed/wanted her to be on any given week. As I've said many times, I've never had a problem with the idea of Don marrying the wrong woman too soon, because how likely was it that he'd turn the corner and be on the right path of getting his act together for good, in S4? It's just that the execution with Megan IMO was pretty poor. Weiner kept trying to dazzle fans with Megan, but in stories that were probably never going to go over well. In watching MM, people didn't sign up for the travails of an aspiring actress/soap star, so it was pretty likely that only so many fans were going to be able to roll with it. Before that, to have her being a whiz at advertising, saving accounts at the last minute, with Peggy singing her praises as someone who was good at everything, with every man going about on her beauty...it's hard enough to present a character like that the first year of a story without inducing eye rolls, but in season five, when viewers have had the chance to get much more attached to the characters who've been around a lot longer, what did he expect? Weiner pretty much followed the textbook guide in How to Create An Interloper without realizing it.

Fraternal twins can have two different fathers. It's happened on soaps and talk shows before.

He'd have to get Eleanor out of the way, too. Eleanor and Liam are twins (in this clip she calls Liam "big brother by four minutes"), so if they had different fathers that would be pretty messy on Helena's part. Very soapy! I have to keep reminding myself that obviously, this universe didn't experience the Charles/Diana disaster and her death triggeiing the monarchy's biggest crisis in decades when the public scorned the royal family's initial stiff upper lip reaction to it. Liz Hurley is fun as a Real Housewife of Windsor but watching her go on about how the future King must marry a classy suitable girl and not riffraff like Ophelia requires a huge suspension of disbelief. Confused about why Ophelia thought Gemma wouldn't be able to hang in a drink off. Because young and wealthy rich kids aren't known for being huge partiers? Especially the rich kids in the same social set as a young royal. Amateur move, Kate Wannabe.

Eleonor's antics read more Grimaldi than Windsor. It's a TV show, so fine. The British monarchs are pretty staid in terms of fashion. People who follow other royal houses kind of turn their noses up at all the fuss about Kate's style, compared to Queen Maxima of the Netherlands or Sheikha Mozah (married to the former Emir of Qatar). The latter always has covered up hair and hems to the ankles, while positively dripping in jewels and couture: eye-catchingly modest. It's kind of strange to see Queen Helena here being the stuffy royal on one hand, desperate for her son to marry a suitable girl but dressed/styled the way she is. For life, it's fine, if flashy, but it'd go over pretty badly with the horsey garden party set.

March 20–22, 2015 Estimates: 1 (N) The Divergent Series: Insurgent $54,025,000 | 3,875 Theaters | $13,942 Avg. | $54,025,000 2 (1) Cinderella $34,492,000 | 3,848 Theaters | $8,964 Avg. | $122,041,000 3 (2) Run All Night $5,115,000 | 3,171 Theaters | $1,613 Avg. | $19,722,000 4 (N) The Gunman $5,009,000 | 2,816 Theaters | $1,779 Avg. | $5,009,000 5 (3) Kingsman: The Secret Service $4,600,000 | 2,223 Theaters | $2,069 Avg. | $114,570,000 6 (N) Do You Believe? $4,000,000 | 1,320 Theaters | $3,030 Avg. | $4,000,000 7 (6) The Second Best Exotic Marigold Hotel $3,450,000 | 2,016 Theaters | $1,711 Avg. | $24,125,000 8 (4) Focus $3,300,000 | 2,055 Theaters | $1,606 Avg. | $49,403,000 9 (5) Chappie $2,650,000 | 2,429 Theaters | $1,091 Avg. | $28,300,000 10 (7) The SpongeBob Movie: Sponge Out of Water $2,350,000 | 1,980 Theaters | $1,187 Avg. | $158,794,000 Global Totals: BIG HERO 6: $422.8M Overseas Total | $644.7M Global Total AMERICAN SNIPER: $184.2M Overseas Total | $528.2M Global Total FIFTY SHADES OF GREY: $394.5M Overseas Total | $558.3M Global Total KINGSMAN: THE SECRET SERVICE: $181.2M Overseas Total | $295.7M Global Total THE SPONGEBOB MOVIE: SPONGE OUT OF WATER: $121.2M Overseas Total | $280M Global Total CINDERELLA: $131.1M Overseas Total | $253.141M Global Total INTO THE WOODS: $71.2M Overseas Total | $198.8M Global Total JUPITER ASCENDING: $129.6M Overseas Total | $175.8M Global Total FOCUS: $71M Overseas Total | $120.4M Global Total THE THEORY OF EVERYTHING: $83.2M Overseas Total | $119M Global Total SEVENTH SON: $92.3M Overseas Total | $109.5M Global Total INSURGENT: $47M Overseas Total | $101M Global Total BIRDMAN: $57.1M Overseas Total | $99.2M Global Total THE SECOND BEST EXOTIC MARIGOLD HOTEL: $34.4M Overseas Total | $58.5M Global Total HOME: $19.2M Overseas | Global Total

Weekend box office report: Lionsgate sells the international rights to local distributors so they don't necessarily reap the benefits of the global box office. It does help cover the cost of the budget and negotiate higher fees for the next installment, though.

Plus, the show has ridden a wave of "Yay feminist narrative female gaze at last!" publicity which the spanking scene just might undercut...

The character was born to a reigning British monarch, or the next in line at the time. He could have been given twenty names, but none would have been Liam, any more than William and Kate are going to drop Padraig or Seamus or Topher anywhere into their next kid's name. Further down the line is where you get Zara and Savannah and Mia, the less staid and traditional names. I find the blatantly incorrect details here more amusing than anything else; should you really expect more from a One Tree Hill take on royalty brought to you on the network that long ago hitched their wagons to the Kardashians? I'm not sure how much of a problem it will be with in terms of a broader audience, but a show like this does attract an audience who actually follows real royalty enough to know right away what aspects they're getting blatantly wrong, and some will be irked to distraction, rather than rolling with it.

On the show's E! home page, there's a cast picture you can click on each character to find out more info about each character. For Ophelia's father (Ted), here's the blurb (is it really a spoiler if it's on the show's home page? But it wasn't quite explained on the show, so): There was a UK show about a faux royal family called The Palace a few years back, and it also started with the death of the royal in the first five minutes of the episode. In this case, the young prince became king and had to deal with a scheming sibling vying for the crown. Perhaps the writers here were inspired by it.

1. The show's been paired with Keeping with the Kardashians in the lineup. Maybe E! figures Elizabeth Hurley only has to seem "upper class" compared to Kim and Khloe. Or (speculation based on unaired but reported info) 2. Another thing I handwave as the creators/E! figuring the bulk of the audience won't care, and wanting to avoid the names of the real, recent British royals. There's a reason why everyone bets on William and Kate naming their kids George, Victoria, Mary, Philip, very traditional names that have a long history in the family. But on American TV, you can have Prince Liam and King Simon and Prince Cyrus with his daughters Penelope and Maribel (IRL, it was widely reported that Prince Andrew and Fergie wanted to use Annabel for their firstborn, but the Queen vetoed it for being too yuppie and that's how they ended up with Beatrice). That's a good point, though at the moment, It's hard to know if this is a show where the showrunners just think, I suppose all will be revealed in time.

Although 50SoG it ended up very frontloaded, it only cost $40 million and has been even more successful overseas, so the studio can't be too displeased. The sequel would already have a firm start/release date if not for EL James thinking trying to commandeer the sequel. Disney overreached with those Cinderella estimates: its actual 3-day total came in at $67,877,361. Still quite strong considering the budget was $95M, nearly half of Maleficent's $180M cost.

I didn't go into this expecting anything too true to life, considering that the premise had the heir going off into apparently dangerous combat while the spares party hardy (there's a reason why Prince Harry was the one who went to Afghanistan and Prince Andrew went to the Falklands, not their older bothers) and a future King of England naming his son "Liam". Or a Queen of England in supertight, lowcut dresses. However, the central couple is just too boring and the uncle just needs a mustache to twirl to make his charaterization complete. The only thing mildly interesting about Ophelia is the mother's death being related to the royal family in some way. I suspect the writers felt the viewers needed an American girl to "relate to" and a frivolous show like this wouldn't dare tackle racial issues, so she's white. But she's kind of British and wears a fascinator well, so besides the other girls in Liam's life and his mother not approving, her background isn't that much of an obstacle. How long are we supposed to root for their star-crossed love? I'm already yawning. I was surprised not to see a breakdown from Helena but maybe she really has botoxed those tear ducts (or...perhaps sobbing isn't quite in Liz Hurley's repertoire as an actress). Liam and Eleanor are twins, both 21 years old. They've both been brought up as "spares" (not Robert the heir) and probably acted in a more carefree/lenient manner as a result. The Beatrice and Eugenie stand-ins, I think they just dress/act similarly. The way it goes now with the British royals is that if the Queen is the monarch, her husband is a prince consort so he won't outrank her (think of a deck of cards). If the King is the monarch, his wife gets to be a queen. Joan Collins is playing the mother of Elizabeth Hurley's queen character, but isn't the "Queen Mother" as such. "Queen Mother" (or Dowager Queen) is just what people call the widow of a king after his death. On this show, Simon is the one who inherited the throne; Joan Collins is just playing his mother-in-law. From what I'm understanding, the Joan Collins character (info that's in articles about the show but hasn't been introduced onscreen)

March 13–15, 2015 Estimates: 1 (N) Cinderella $70,053,000 | 3,845 Theaters | $18,219 Avg. | $70,053,000 2 (N) Run All Night $11,015,000 | 3,171 Theaters | $3,474 Avg. | $11,015,000 3 (4) Kingsman: The Secret Service $6,200,000 2,635 Theaters | $2,353 Avg. | $107,373,000 4 (2) Focus $5,805,000 | 2,855 Theaters | $2,033 Avg. | $44,032,000 5 (1) Chappie $5,800,000 | 3,201 Theaters | $1,812 Avg. | $23,300,000 6 (3) The Second Best Exotic Marigold Hotel $5,700,000 | 2,022 Theaters | $2,819 Avg. | $18,060,000 7 (5) The SpongeBob Movie: Sponge Out of Water $4,100,000 | 2,659 Theaters | $1,542 Avg. | $154,691,000 8 (7) McFarland, USA $3,692,000 | 2,455 Theaters | $1,504 Avg. | $34,974,000 9 (11) American Sniper $2,930,000 | 2,001 Theaters | $1,464 Avg. | $341,500,000 10 (9) The DUFF $2,900,000 | 2,301 Theaters | $1,260 Avg. | $30,317,000 Fifty Shades of Grey $2,895,000 | 2,039 Theaters | $1,420 Avg. | $161,377,000 Still Alice $1,011,000 | 740 Theaters | $1,366 Avg. | $16,440,000 It Follows $163,000 | 4 Theaters | $40,750 Avg. | $163,000 Global Totals: BIG HERO 6: $411.1M Overseas Total | $632.7M Global Total FIFTY SHADES OF GREY: $385.1M Overseas Total | $546.5M Global Total AMERICAN SNIPER: $175.7M Overseas Total | $513.2M Global Total KINGSMAN: THE SECRET SERVICE: $169.9M Overseas Total | $277.2M Global Total THE SPONGEBOB MOVIE: SPONGE OUT OF WATER: $116.2M Overseas Total | $271.3M Global Total THE IMITATION GAME: $119M Overseas Total | $208.5M Global Total JUPITER ASCENDING: $125.2M Overseas Total | $171.1M Global Total CINDERELLA: $62.4M Overseas Total | $132.4M Global Total THE THEORY OF EVERYTHING: $81.5M Overseas Total | $117.2M Global Total FOCUS: $57.7M Overseas Total | $101.7M Global Total BIRDMAN: $56.1M Overseas Total | $98.1M Global Total

"Frozen Fever" is attached to Cinderella (opening this weekend) and Frozen 2 is officially in the works.

Studios thought it was an incoherent mess: Watch there be a documentary about the movie that goes on to win an Oscar or something.

I don't think it wasn't actually supposed to be the 1990s; the clothes/hair were "off" for 2008-2009, especially little Hakeem (who looked about 8 or so in the flashback, but maybe he was supposed to be 10-11 and just on the smaller side) having the hi-top fade. That style didn't make a comeback with his generation until the 2010s sometime. Olivia's look in the flashback also reminded me of someone from a mid-90s video. The wardrobe/hair department on the show seem to be very fond of retro looks, so maybe it's just that.

Previously, Jamal has said that he slept with Olivia once, which his ex pointed out was all that it took. It sounds like Olivia was having sex with Lucious in the same time frame, just far more regularly.

Confused as to why the flashbacks to Andre's first breakdown "in college" seemingly took place in the 1990s? At least it seemed that way judging by the fashions everyone was sporting. Lola is pretty young, and I can't imagine Olivia's relationship with Jamal lasted that long. Shouldn't it have been the late 2000s or earlier this decade, when the Jamal/Olivia relationship was happening? Maybe there are such retro attitudes about homosexuality and mental illness on display because the writers aren't sure what year we're in.

Exactly what does Aaron do for food, protein shakes? Jane should have just said something like, "One thing at a time," and pointed out that they were both in other long-term relationships, not very long ago. It didn't have to involve any stupid "tests". If she really wanted to marry him she wouldn't have been wavering.

Faith, alive? That would be some "undoing Erica Kane's abortion" level of soap opera rewriting. Please no, Diana! But seeing the rest of that scene explains the latter part of it, with Jemmy getting so much information.