WEEKEND BOXOFFICE BULLETIN

Mitch Metcalf will doubtless have more to say about this later today, but the weekend's actual boxoffice totals have just been announced, and the surprise is that CARS 2 ended up almost $2M below the number Disney predicted yesterday, $66.1M rather than $68M.  This translates into a Sunday drop that was far heavier than expected (27% instead of 18%), and comes after the film had already suffered a 9% drop on Saturday.  By way of comparison, after Toy Story 3 and Wall-E fell on their first Saturdays, the Sunday drop for each was less than 20%.  What this probably means is word of mouth that's less than great.