Weekend Wrap-Up

Hmm, hadnt I promised a update on Friday? Geez, its gettin bad here isnt it?! Apologies all around. Hope you all had great weekends! This isnt going to be so much a Weekend Wrap Up so much as its going to be a rant session. Apologies again!! ;-)

RANDOM RANTS

-Gas prices are gettin out of hand. When you have to pay $30 to fill up a sedan, something is seriously amis. But, as long as we are at the mercy of OPEC and the other oil rich countries, and not to mention the fact that our Prez refuses to do anything about it, we're gonna have to keep digging deep. Do what you can to conserve gas, because this crunch is isnt gonna be over soon.

-The Lakers season is ALMOST over. The team is 10-26 since that fateful day when Rudy T. bailed on them and basically put a wrench on the whole season. The rebuilding is coming. Hopefully, they get the right parts this time! You know Shaq is just loving the way his former team has gone down in flames.

-One team that is suprassing all odds and predictions are the Dodgers. Pegged by many to finish third or
fourth they have jumped out to a 9-2 start and have the best record in baseball thus far. Its still WWAYY to early to get excited over anything, but this fast start has many in LA happy. Including yours truly. ;-)

-The conclave to elect a new Pope begins this week. I cant believe they are actually posting odds on who the next pope will be. I like what Amy Poehler on SNL said last week: "I'm no Cardinal, but why dont they just select John Paul III??" Wrong, but funny!

Weekend Box Office


1)The Amityville Horror, $23.3 mil: The horror movie train continues. This remake wasnt has heavily hyped as other recent horror films, but it still made a pretty good chunk of chnage this weekend. Lets see if this one follows the recent trend of horror movies that open strong and then tail off considerably. "The Ring Two" is seriously underperforming as we speak.

2) Sahara, $13.1 mil: Last weeks top draw, drops down a notch. Was last weeeks opening a fluke or does this film have what it take to keep going strong? Stay tuned..

3) Fever Pitch, $8.8 mil: Unchanged from last week. And actually, the fact that it didnt drop and stayed about the same, may be a good sign.  But lets wait til next weeks numbers before we jump to any conclusions.

4) Sin City, $6.7 mil: Robert Rodriguez's dazzler continue to chug along. There's already been preliminary talk of using more of Frank Miller's comics to make a sequel to this film. Interesting.

5) Guess Who, $4.9 mil: Speaking of chuggin along, thats what this romantic comedy is doing. It sill probably take a hit, once Ashton Kutchers next film opens.

Only two weeks to go before Disneyland's 50th Anniversary Celebration kick off ceremony. On May 5th, all the Disney Magic Kingdom parks around the world will participate in honoring the park that started it all. Should be a sight to see, and I will do what I can to provide you all with pics of the ceremony.

OK, that should do it for now. Hope you all have a good week. I will hopefully be back sooner rather than later with more Two Minute Drill-ness. ;-) Til then...

DQ