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People, go out and see WALL-E now. Do it or your favorite teddy bear buys the farm.

Kim Hollis: WALL-E fell 47% to $33.4 million this weekend. What do you think of its $128.1 million total after ten days?

Brandon Scott: Beep, Beep, blip, bllurrrrp, yooowza! Ummm, not bad.

Joel Corcoran: The drop is a bit more than what I expected. I was thinking it would be more along the lines of 42-44%. That being said, the movie is still demonstrating very good legs, and I think Tim's prediction from last week - that WALL-E will end up as Pixar's #2 film - is entirely correct. But, then again, Tim has been doing this longer than I have, so he knows a lot more than I do.

Jason Lee: I thought John summed it best in his Weekend Wrap Up: "[WALL-E] ties Finding Nemo as the fastest Pixar flick to reach $100 million." Given this incredible stat and the soft box-office attendance on Friday for all films, I'm totally satisfied with WALL-E's hold.

Daron Aldridge: It is following the Cars path more than Pixar probably wants because it is almost universally praised unlike Cars, which at 76% is the worst reviewed of any Pixar movie with approximately 15 points less than second place, Bug's Life. I hope and pray that the film recovers and reaches the heights everyone thinks it deserves.

Scott Lumley: It's lower than I expected it to be. Much lower actually. They're off by about $25 million. This film's going to have legs like few films do, but it's not performing like everyone thinks it should. It's a complex and interesting film, so it might be scaring some viewers away. It's really a shame, because there hasn't been anything like this before.





Max Braden: After seeing the movie, I'm not surprised at the significant dropoff. My own word-of-mouth was not as enthusiastic as was the critical consensus. I declare myself the voice of the silent majority!

D. James Ruccio: I'm surprised by the drop-off. In fact, I think it's cause for worry. I see no reason for a drop like this. It's a kids film which should have better legs and smaller drop-offs. It's out in the summer which is the perfect time for just this sort of flick. The critical and public reaction is almost glowing. Given all of these factors the drop-off seems severe. Or perhaps, and I don't have anything to back this up, we're just seeing the regular drop-off for WALL-E that you'd see with other live action, summer blockbusters. As the drop-offs become more severe for event films, perhaps WALL-E is just part of that trend?

Calvin Trager: If my math is correct, WALL-E was off only 40ish percent on Saturday-Sunday. So I think it goes on vulnerability watch these next few weekdays, but if they come in strong, then you have to treat Friday the Fourth as the anomaly it was and assume all systems are go.

Kim Hollis: I'm going to go totally against the grain here and say that this is largely a by-product of the weekend configuration. Independence Days that fall on Fridays are notoriously bad for family box office, for starters. Also, there is no doubt that Pixar has begun to see a fanboy rush for their films, as WALL-E pretty directly compares to Cars, which had similar second weekend drop-off with no calendar issues going against it. WALL-E's ten-day total is behind only Finding Nemo and The Incredibles with regard to Pixar films. I'm not concerned about this weekend's numbers at all. Next weekend will be more indicative of where it's going.

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