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A Successfull 'Attack'
The "Clones" score big  taking in $116 million in its first four days.  But is it a hit according to "Spider-Man"s standards?  by Mark Whipkey
The numbers do not speak for themselves in "Star Wars" defense.  Spider-Man opened with 1,500 more theaters than the "Clones" did.  Everyone knew this would be a battle at the box office this weekend.  Can "Star Wars" make more than "Spider-Man"s $114 million three-day weekend?  Critics say it didn't because the "Clones" made $116 in four days, where as "Spider-Man" did in three.  You can look at it that way.  Yet you can also 
The "force" was with Yoda and his Jedi knights, as they kicked some box office ass and maybe a little bit of Lord Dooku's too.
look at the theater ratio.  With 1,500 more theaters than the "Clones", "Spider-Man" grossed $125 million on its fourth day.  According to the "Clones" gross per theater, if "Star Wars" had the same number of theaters, we would be looking at a $171 million total for its first four days.
The "Clones" win the battle, but the war for highest grossing movie of the summer has just begun.

So "Star Wars" has the second biggest opening ever, behind "Spider-Man" bringing it to a total of $116 million.  In second this weekend was "Spider-Man" of course, what you thought it was going to be the "New Guy" didn't you?  "Spider-Man" snagged another whopping $46 million bringing its total to $286.5 million, breaking another record of the biggest third week for a  movie.  WOW!  In third this week was Unfaithful, impressively pulling in another $10 million this weekend, finishing with $29.8 million.  Coming in fourth this weekend was Hugh Grant's new comedy, About a Boy opening with $8.4 million.  Rounding out the top five this week was The New Guy.  Wait a minute how can this be.  Must have been the "new guy" himself, DJ Qualls family's turn to see the movie.  The movie finished surprisingly with another $6.5 million for a total of $17.3 million. 

Next Week, expect nothing to change.  Star Wars:Episode II -  Attack of the Clones has two good weeks to rule the box office thrown.  The next movie that may pose some threat will be The Sum of All Fears, will come in two weeks with Ben Affleck taking over the role that Harrison Ford played in Patriot Games and Clear and Present Danger, playing CIA agent Jack Ryan, who has to stop a terrorist attack at the Super Bowl.   If you can think back to 1990, Alec Baldwin started this role as Jack Ryan, based on the Tom Clancy novels, in The Hunt For Red October.  As for this coming weekend's openers, we have Robin Williams as a murderer being chased by Al Pacino in Insomnia, Jennifer Lopez playing a battered wife who fights back in Enough, a movie that we already saw Julia Roberts do in Sleeping With the Enemy, and children's cartoon Stallion:Sprit of the Cimmaron, with voices by Bryan Adams and Matt Damon.  All in all expect the "Clones" to rule once again this coming weekend.

As for an update for top movies of all time, some big news on "Spider-Man", "Lord of the Rings", "Ice Age" and "Harry Potter".  "Spider-Man" has become the fourteenth hightest grossing movie of all time, by beating Back to the Future's $285 million.  Spidey should have no problems striking another blow to George Lucas this week by out grossing two older "Star Wars" movies, "Retun of the Jedi" and "The Empire Strikes Back", and setting itself in the top ten of all time.  The "Lord of the Rings" also made gain this week by beating "Return of the Jedi"s $309.2 million and becoming the ninth highest grossing movie of all time.  "Ice Age" became the sixty-seventh highest grossing movie this week with $172 million.  And "Harry Potter" in a spectacular final run finished at number seven of all time with $317 million, behind Forrest Gump's $329 million.
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