LABORIOUS HOLIDAY FOR MOVIES
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LABORIOUS HOLIDAY FOR MOVIES
Five new movies are opening wide this weekend, the most ever released on a Labor Day holiday, but none of them is expected to displace Tropic Thunder from the top of the box-office list of winners, according to many box-office analysts. Fewer moviegoers visit their local theaters during the Labor Day weekend than during any other major holiday of the year, and this weekend is not expected to be an exception Only the two films that were released on Wednesday, Traitor and Hamlet 2, were screened for U.S. critics. The others were not, usually a sign that the studios that produced them have low expectations for them. Critics are suggesting that Disaster Movie will live up to its title at the box-office. The sci-fi thriller, Babylon A.D. has been rapped even by its director,Mathieu Kassovitz, who said that it looked like "a bad episode of 24 ." And College is expected to flunk out, perhaps not even landing in the top ten. Nevertheless, they are capping off a summer that produced far greater ticket sales than analysts had initially predicted. Overall, the box office is expected almost to equal last summer's record-breaking $4.16 billion.
29/08/2008
