The way you wrote that post made me think women were showing up in droves to see Ted (!)

Took me a confused second to figure out that while you saw Ted, they saw Magic Mike (that is, unless a middle-aged woman was turned on by a talking teddy bear).

Considering how many teenagers I saw in my screening of TED, I'm wondering how many kids bought tickets for BRAVE and snuck in? I'm sure the same is true of teenage girls and MAGIC MIKE.

Poor gay men.....

they always get left out when people say that its women that are going out in droves to see Magic Mike.

Maybe that's because it's easy to track how many women see certain movies. I just read that women made up 73% of the audience. Maybe another 10% were gay men but nobody would know unless every guy in the audience was asked whether he was gay or straight. It's a lot easier to just count all the women in the audience.

Nah, just count the guys who aren't accompanying a woman

Well to be honest, the types of men that women like to watch strip don't necessarily match the types of men that gay men like to watch strip. ie Shaved-chested-chippendale-pretty boys vs rugged-hairy-tattooed-grisly men.

So just to be sure...... you are saying that gay men prefer rugged-hairy-tattooed-grisly men over Shaved-chested-chippendale-pretty boys?

Correct!

You'd think Fox would have picked up the film considering MacFarlane's home has been at Fox for years.

And you think we're going into the movie looking for a plot instead of a bunch of abs for an hour and a half

Sarcasm, I hope?

Actuals:

<<Last Weekend <Last Year	View Index: By Year | By Weekend
TW LW Title (click to view) Studio Weekend Gross % Change Theater Count / Change Average Total Gross Budget* Week # 1 N Ted Uni. $54,415,205 - 3,239 - $16,800 $54,415,205 $50 1 2 N Magic Mike WB $39,127,170 - 2,930 - $13,354 $39,127,170 $7 1 3 1 Brave BV $34,094,643 -48.6% 4,164 - $8,188 $131,768,334 $185 2 4 N Tyler Perry's Madea's Witness Protection LGF $25,390,575 - 2,161 - $11,749 $25,390,575 $20 1 5 2 Madagascar 3: Europe's Most Wanted P/DW $11,840,276 -39.9% 3,715 -205 $3,187 $180,036,798 $145 4 6 3 Abraham Lincoln: Vampire Hunter Fox $6,009,612 -63.1% 3,109 +1 $1,933 $29,043,805 $69 2 7 11 Moonrise Kingdom Focus $4,926,837 +45.1% 854 +459 $5,769 $18,465,954 $16 6 8 4 Prometheus Fox $4,921,254 -50.3% 1,951 -911 $2,522 $118,258,102 $130 4 9 5 Snow White and the Huntsman Uni. $4,498,725 -44.4% 2,337 -582 $1,925 $145,684,645 $170 5 10 8 Marvel's The Avengers BV $4,421,671 -38.4% 1,757 -473 $2,517 $606,504,744 $220 9 11 N People Like Us BV $4,255,423 - 2,055 - $2,071 $4,255,423 $16 1 12 9 MIB 3 Sony $2,978,821 -48.0% 1,902 -560 $1,566 $169,718,907 $225 6 13 6 Rock of Ages WB (NL) $2,844,339 -62.8% 2,405 -1,065 $1,183 $35,025,906 $75 3 14 7 That's My Boy Sony $2,240,411 -70.6% 2,363 -667 $948 $34,419,159 $70 3 15 12 The Best Exotic Marigold Hotel FoxS $1,104,201 -32.2% 534 -207 $2,068 $40,425,095 - 9 16 10 Seeking a Friend for the End of the World Focus $1,069,393 -72.0% 1,608 -17 $665 $6,619,173 $10 2 17 20 To Rome with Love SPC $692,300 +91.6% 29 +24 $23,872 $1,232,972 - 2 18 14 Battleship Uni. $403,480 -22.3% 308 -175 $1,310 $63,869,050 $209 7 19 13 The Hunger Games LGF $397,145 -36.4% 278 -136 $1,429 $403,768,852 $78 15 20 22 Dark Shadows WB $393,406 +51.1% 365 +63 $1,078 $76,280,764 $150 8 21 16 Safety Not Guaranteed FD $379,324 -19.8% 164 +35 $2,313 $1,684,069 - 4 22 15 Bernie MNE $322,981 -33.7% 166 -54 $1,946 $7,263,297 - 10 23 21 The Intouchables Wein. $312,716 -9.8% 68 -6 $4,599 $2,579,382 - 6

Jesus... MIB3 is just shy of $600M worldwide

Wait...how is MIB3 below Moonrise Kingdom? Wow. Go MK.

Magic Mike made more in its opening weekend than Rock of Ages has done in its entire run thus far.

It cost less than a tenth as much to make.

Yowza I haven't seen Magic Mike, but RoA deserves to rot in its own flaming crapulence for eternity.

Yay for Madea!

So is Madea the new Ernest?

A side not: I am siiick of seeing the trailer for Savages. But everybody knows it won't do well right? I've heard zero buzz, the box office is cluttered and Spider-Man comes out tonight. Poor Taylor Kitsch... again...

^Not sick of seeing the trailer just don't think they are doing a good job of marketing it. From the trailers I have no f'n idea what it is about other than Blake Lively is hot. Probably won't open to more than $10 million or so.

I can't wait for Savages personally, looks like one of the better movies coming out this summer.

It has a great cast. I will see it at some point though.

I hear the story is pretty good, it's violent as hell, it's old school Stone in a lot of ways and it is set in the semi-real world. Those are selling points for me and seemingly a bit rare during the summer (superhero flicks (Avengers, Batman, Spider-man), high concept movies (Ted, Dark Shadows, Abraham Lincoln VH), Sci-fi/Fantasy (Prometheus, Snow White, MIB 3, Battleship, Hunger Games), etc; ) it's kind of nice to see a good old fashioned hard R-rated movie that has some roots in reality, I just hope it's better than Safe House.

According to Deadline, Spider-man is up to $16.8 million after matinee showings. Possibly mid 20s after tonight.

^It has 2 weeks to make as much as it can...after that look out.