This box office figure was expected but as I pointed out about 6 weeks ago, this film was an unequivocal "hit" despite the mass media trying their damndest to not acknowledge it as such from the onset.
That it finishes the summer as one of the biggest films of the year with absolutely no fanfare is no surprise to me.
Everything is funny as long as it is happening to somebody else. --Will Rogers
"I don't think anyone anticipated the breach of the levees." - George W. Bush
I don't think anybody could have predicted that these people would .. try to use an airplane as a missile, a hijacked airplane as a missile. - Condoleeza Rice
Barbara Bush: It's Good Enough for the Poor
To comfort the powerless and make the powerful uncomfortable.