I have early box office numbers for the top two movies tonight. I'm told Universal's American Gangster stole the show Friday by snatching $17+ million in domestic gross receipts at 3,054 theaters. The Imagine production ... should make "comfortably in the $40Ms" for the weekend and maybe even $50M. That makes thisbiopic drama the biggest R-rated motion picture opening in history for a movie that more than 2 1/2-hours long (beating Troy's $46.8M and Gladiator's $34.8M).It's nice to be surprised when so often these things go exactly as they look at face value - crap is crap and you just can't hide it behind spiffy trailers and big names. It's funny though, that with only three new flicks opening this weekend that two of them are doing very well at the same time. I guess less competition makes it an easy going, but you'd figure it'd be one or the other, not both.
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