![]() ![]() “Paranormal Activity 3” dropped to fourth with another $8.5 million for the three-day and $95.3 million to date. Perhaps the “Harold & Kumar” stoner audience didn’t want to shell out the extra bucks for a 3D ticket? And, like “Tower Heist,” studio tracking anticipated a bigger opening ($18-20 million) that didn’t happen. That’s actually less than the $14.3 million “Harold & Kumar Escape from Guantanamo Bay” found a little over three years ago. “A Very Harold & Kumar 3D Christmas” landed in third with just $13 million. Word quickly spread that’s not what “Heist” delivers. When you put Murphy and Stiller together, moviegoers want big laughs. Mediocre reviews didn’t help, but it’s likely audiences began to realize the picture was more heist movie and less comedy. That’s substantially under the $30 million plus pre-polling had indicated and Universal Pictures was hoping for. 18.ĭebuting in the second slot was the Ben Stiller and Eddie Murphy heist film “Tower Heist” with $25.1 million. The animated adventure has one more weekend of free sailing before strong family competition arrives with “Happy Feet Two” on Nov. After 10 days, “Puss” has now grossed a very good $75 million. That will likely be off a smudge when actual grosses are tabulated on Monday, but it’s a stunning 3% drop as audiences finally caught up to the positively reviewed “Shrek” spinoff. ![]() 1 slot last weekend, “Puss” grossed an incredible $33 million in its second weekend. It looks like last weekend’s subpar results for “Puss in Boots” really was about the snowstorm that shutdown the Northeast. There’s one problem with that theory though: Six months into the Trump presidency, NASA still doesn’t have an administrator.DreamWorks Animation stockholders should breathe a sigh of relief. He also did little to reconcile the apparent importance of NASA with proposed budget cuts.īut maybe Pence was just trying to give a rousing speech heavy on symbolism, leaving the policy to the NASA administrator. Despite the grandiose language - America will take “our rightful place as the vanguard of humanity’s historic rendezvous with the future,” Pence said - the particulars of the Trump administration’s space plan remain murky. will achieve those goals or provide any timetables. Pence didn’t go into detail about how the U.S. “Today, I come to assure you, the men and women of NASA, and all those at this gateway to the stars, where the aspirations of the American people have taken flight, that under President Donald Trump, America will lead in space once again,” he said. by strengthening the economy, unlocking new technology, inspiring children to love science, and helping keep America safe. space policy, and Pence laid out ambitious goals for NASA in a speech at the Kennedy Space Center, which he called “the heart and soul of our space program, where science fiction has become science fact for generations.”Īmerica will “get back to winning” in space, Pence said, and “usher in a new era of space leadership.” He said space exploration will help the U.S. Last seated in 1993, the council is charged with guiding U.S. His remarks came days after President Trump appointed him the head of the revived National Space Council. to return to the moon and put “American boots on the face of Mars.” Vice-President Mike Pence announced Thursday plans for the U.S.
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