This Week	Last Week	Title	Weeks Released	Weekend Gross	Total Gross	Theater Average	# Of Theaters	T-Meter
1	1	Dr. Seuss’ Horton Hears a Who	2	$25.1M	$86.5M	$6.3k	3961	79%
2	new	Tyler Perry’s Meet the Browns	1	$20M	$20M	$10k	2006	33%
3	new	Shutter	1	$10.7M	$10.7M	$3.9k	2753	7%
4	new	Drillbit Taylor	1	$10.2M	$10.2M	$3.3k	3056	23%
5	2	10,000 B.C.	3	$8.7M	$76.1M	$2.5k	3454	9%
6	3	Never Back Down	2	$4.9M	$16.8M	$1.8k	2729	25%
7	4	College Road Trip	3	$4.6M	$32M	$1.8k	2575	14%
8	6	Bank Job	3	$4.1M	$19.4M	$2.5k	1613	77%
9	5	Vantage Point	5	$3.8M	$65.3M	$1.8k	2124	36%
10	new	Under the Same Moon	1	$2.6M	$3.3M	$9.8k	266	57%
11	7	Doomsday	2	$2.2M	$8.9M	$1.1k	1938	36%
12	9	Other Boleyn Girl	4	$2M	$22.5M	$1.7k	1188	40%

Source: Rotten Tomatoes

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At least the top movie this week is allegedly good:

This Week	Last Week	Title	Weeks Released	Weekend Gross	Total Gross	Theater Average	# Of Theaters	T-Meter
1	new	Dr. Seuss’ Horton Hears a Who	1	$45.1M	$45.1M	$11.4k	3954	81%
2	1	10,000 B.C.	2	$16.4M	$61.2M	$4.8k	3410	10%
3	new	Never Back Down	1	$8.6M	$8.6M	$3.2k	2729	21%
4	2	College Road Trip	2	$7.9M	$24.3M	$2.9k	2706	12%
5	3	Vantage Point	4	$5.4M	$59.2M	$2k	2761	36%
6	4	Bank Job	2	$4.9M	$13.1M	$3k	1613	79%
7	new	Doomsday	1	$4.7M	$4.7M	$2.5k	1936	27%
8	5	Semi-Pro	3	$3M	$29.7M	$1.3k	2270	23%
9	7	Other Boleyn Girl	3	$2.9M	$19.2M	$2.4k	1212	40%
10	6	Spiderwick Chronicles	5	$2.4M	$65.4M	$1k	2407	80%
11	8	Jumper	5	$2.1M	$75.8M	$1.3k	1605	16%
12	11	Miss Pettigrew Lives for a Day	2	$2M	$5.3M	$3.6k	539	77%

Source: Rotten Tomatoes 

Unwitting Fox Sponsor 

After last season’s Shrek 3 and various Fox series tie-ins, I wasn’t exactly surprised to see the shameless marketing for Horton Hears a Who during yesterday’s elimination. But it was yet another tic on a growing list of Idol turn-offs for me.

First, I just felt bad for Jim Carrey, who seemed hugely uncomfortable and insincere with all the mugging. He’s not some In Living Color chump anymore, he’s a respectable actor, and no one of his caliber should be forced to shill like that.

But at least he was aware he was doing it. Unlike, say, the departed members of the Beatles: When the producers timed “A Day in the Life” so that the line I saw a film today, oh boy played while the Idolettes were at a Horton promotion, I nearly retched.

Now, though I am a movie reviewer, I’m no cinema snob — I tend to love big, dumb Hollywood flicks more than your usual critic. So I don’t have a problem with marketing and mass-consumerism in general. But “A Day in the Life” is about despair, both personal and global, and it sure as hell wasn’t written to sell anything, ever. Just because you got the rights to the Lennon-McCartney songbook doesn’t mean you can desecrate it.

At least they didn’t flash a Ford during the line He blew his mind out in a car.