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Based on Sunday’s estimates, courtesy of boxofficemojo.com:

I’m completely brain dead right now, so instead of witty one-liners about the movies, I’m going to use lyrics from ABC songs to do the talking for me.

1) Saw III: $34.3 million (first week)
“When she’s gone, all I’ve got to learn is the law of diminishing returns.”
2) The Departed: $9.8 million ($91.1 million, fourth week)
“Add and subtract, but as a matter of fact, now that you’re gone I still want you back.”
3) The Prestige: $9.6 million ($28.8 million, second week)
“Vanity kills. It don’t pay bills.”
4) Flags of Our Fathers: $6.4 million ($19.9 million, second week)
“So lower your sights, but raise your aim. Raise your aim.”
5) Open Season: $6.1 million ($77.1 million, fifth week)
“Larger than life and twice as ugly. If we have to live there, you’ll have to drug me.”

Based on Sunday’s estimates:

1) X-Men: The Last Stand: $120 million (first week)
In four short days, the third “X-Men” movie has already made more money than the third “Mission: Impossible” movie. Have fun spinning that nugget, Paramount.
2) The Da Vinci Code: $43 million ($145.4 million, second week)
Only three or four more weeks until we never have to write or think about this movie again.
3) Over the Hedge: $35.3 million ($84.3 million, second week)
“Da Vinci” fell off 44% this week. “Hedge” fell off 8%. Word of mouth: it’s the new/old way to market movies.
4) Mission: Impossible III: $8.5 million ($115.8 million, fourth week)
Should there be a fourth installment, Tom Cruise has commissioned a script about a “mutant” spy with a terrible, terrible secret. Some have called it the part Cruise was born to play.
5) Poseidon: $7 million ($46.6 million, third week)
At last, we are no longer bound to come up with another “RV” joke, which would have made us even with the number of jokes contained in the movie itself.

Based on Sunday’s estimates:

1) Tyler Perry’s Madea’s Family Reunion: $30.2 million (first week)
Who needs advance word of mouth from critics (this was not screened for us) when you have the power of the pulpit?
2) Eight Below: $15.7 million ($45 million, second week)
There was speculation that Paul Walker could have back-to-back movies at #1 at the box office. As you can see, not only did that not happen, it didn’t even come close to happening (“Running Scared,” $3 million, ninth place). Balance is restored in the universe.
3) The Pink Panther: $11.3 million ($61 million, third week)
Sure, Clive Owen’s cameo was good, but it wasn’t that good.
4) Date Movie: $9.2 million ($33.9 million, second week)
There’s a Latino wedding planner with a big butt. Ah? Ah? Ya keeping up with us…? Jesus.
5) Curious George: $10.1 million ($35.8 million, second week)
Only four months until “Cars,” kids. It can’t come quickly enough.