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Kim Hollis: Baby Mama, the film that unites former Saturday Night Live weekend update anchors Tina Fey and Amy Poehler, fell 41% to $10.3 million. It has a ten-day total of $33.2 million. Are we calling this one a hit?

Joel Corcoran: I think it's a stretch to call it a "hit", but it's a much more solid performance than I expected. The fact that it fell off less than 50% is both impressive and slightly nauseating.

Kim Hollis: I think it's a mild hit. It's already exceeded its budget, and since a lot of times releases such as these are just extended commercials for the DVD, Baby Mama has done exactly what it needed to.

David Mumpower: Having seen the trailers too often while I was in the hospital, I stubbornly refuse to ever call this a hit. I am extraordinarily disappointed in any of you reading this who exchanged your hard earned money for a ticket to this monstrosity. Why are you people helping the terrorists win?

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Kim Hollis: Forgetting Sarah Marshall, the latest product of the Judd Apatow Machine, fell 44% to $6.1 million in its third weekend. The Jason Segel project has a 17-day total of $44.8 million. It's no Knocked Up, but we still consider this a good result, right?

Pete Kilmer: Yes. Being Segel's first major movie role and with no other major movie stars (Sorry Kristen Bell...you're my girl and everything but you're not a movie star yet)...this is a damn fine showing.

Tim Briody: I'll only truly be satisfied if Segel can parlay this into a few more viewers for How I Met Your Mother, the funniest show on tv at the moment.

Kim Hollis: Given that no one knows who Jason Segel is and the fact that Apatow didn't actually write or direct, I think this has to be considered a stellar result. Like Baby Mama, this is all just a run-up to a very successful performance on DVD.

David Mumpower: $44 million is a good result, but I cannot shake the notion that it would be doing about 50% better if not for the gruesome male frontal nudity scene that Jason Segel inflicts upon movie goers. We're in the era of text messaging, dude. Word gets around about stuff like this.

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