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'Prom Night' Butchers Keanu Reeves on Slow Weekend at the Movies

Seeing as you've still got almost 36 hours to cobble together your taxes, feel free to blow off those forms and join us in crunching some numbers that really matter: This weekend's box office returns:

1. Prom Night — $22.7 million
We could sit here and spit with resentment over the windfall greeting this PG-13 slasher knock-off, but what's the point? OK, OK — besides protesting against the continued ruination of more than 2 million teenagers who've never seen a good mainstream horror movie. And besides lamenting the certain incentive for Prom Night 2. And besides... all right, fine, we're spitting with resentment.

2. Street Kings — $12 million
Fox Searchlight took a gamble opening wide with this Keanu Reeves/Forest Whitaker cop thriller, which found scorn among critics and audiences alike. Consider this the last time the Searchlight gang ignores the sage advice of distribution wunderkind Scarlett Johansson.

3. 21 — $11 million
The surprise hit sustained in the top three in its third week of release, bringing its gross to more than $62 million and guaranteeing a slew of teen-oriented gambling films that will alternate opening weekends with its Sony/Screen Gems' Prom Night franchise.

4. Nim's Island — $9 million
We have yet to meet anybody who has actually seen this movie, thus convincing us it's really just a vast Walden Media conspiracy to make George Clooney feel bad about...

5. Leatherheads — $6.2 million
For the second straight week, Clooney establishes himself as the A-list actor/director who can't outperform Jim Sturgess (21) or Abigail Breslin (Nim's Island). Only the Nipple Suit represents a greater indignity — for now.

11:10 AM on Mon Apr 14 2008
By STV
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CourageousCoward at 11:19 AM on 04/14/08
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The Nipple Suit is a greater indignity than having his house smell like orangeflower / pomegranate / sage blossom musk?!
Indiana Bento and the... at 11:26 AM on 04/14/08
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Was Brittany Snow wearing a Nipple Suit? Or was the set really cold?
STV at 11:37 AM on 04/14/08
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@CourageousCoward: Yes, yes, a million times yes.
jasonelias at 11:55 AM on 04/14/08
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I love that mask that guy in Street Kings is wearing. It looks like Keanu Reeves.
Juancho at 12:46 PM on 04/14/08
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For the amount of talent on hand for Street Kings, I'm shocked at what a piece of crap it apparently is.

But what do I know, this weekend I finally saw The Bank Job.
Shazaam at 09:12 PM on 04/14/08
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Actually, Street Kings is not a piece of crap. I saw it with my husband on Friday night and loved it so much I took my son on Sunday. Everyone in the audience seemed to like it. From what I've read on the net, audiences are loving it. So there. It also received some very good reviews by the smarter and more apt to have fun at a cop movie crowd.
Shazaam at 09:55 PM on 04/14/08
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It's not a piece of crap. My husband and I saw it Friday night and I loved it so much I took my sons to see it Sunday. The crowd all seemed to love it too. In fact reading around the web, I am finding quite a few good reviews including the Hollywood Reporter and Variety and almost a unanimous 4-5 star rating from audiences. So whatever this guys thinks is based on whatever he's reading, NOT real movie goers.
Peggy Archer at 10:26 PM on 04/14/08
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Juancho said:

"For the amount of talent on hand for Street Kings, I'm shocked at what a piece of crap it apparently is."

Same thing with "Harsh Times". Ayer had top notch talent and still managed to make a complete hunk of crap.

I don't even think I'm going to bother seeing this one.
fishwife at 04:40 AM on 04/15/08
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@jasonelias:
That mask IS Keanu Reeves. They get it out and pop it on some non-union actor when they need a film that looks pretty but is unlikely to win a Best Actor.