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It's not even cool fighting, like Kung Fu Fighting.

Kim Hollis: Fighting, a film about, well, you know, finished in third place with a total of $11 million. Where does this fall on the good/bad/indifferent scale?

Pete Kilmer: I think it placed better than that Redbelt thing that was released....it'll be a DVD staple for the next six months or so.

Josh Spiegel: On the one hand, for a relatively low-budget film, Fighting's result is impressive. However, it seems like Channing Tatum is being pushed as a star in the making, what with this and a film like Step Up. This probably doesn't speak too well for his success with G.I. Joe (a film that's likely going to be successful with or without Tatum), but it's not a bad result by any means.

Reagen Sulewski: When you break this film down, it almost could have been a Step Up sequel, in which our dancer character falls on hard times or some garbage. Dancing's an inherently less appealing subject for Tatum's female fans (assuming he has non-gay male fans), which would explain the drop between those two films and this one. Often, these films make about eight bucks, so I can't see why they shouldn't be happy with how this turned out.





Brandon Scott: Yeah, I think it's a fair number, but it doesnt really say too much for Tatum, who has really been pushed as a star since Step Up. He kind of has an almost cross-eyed stare that doesn't seem to express what it always needs to, to me. I think he might be a capable actor, but even in a film like A Guide To Recognizing Your Saints to which this is actually a sequel of sorts, I am not on his bandwagon yet, and neither is America, either. We'll see.

Kim Hollis: I think it's an okay number. Really, something this generic looking probably should have made about $4 million and slunk off to DVD land. No one should be kidding themselves that Channing Tatum is any kind of star, though.

Iron Man doesn't have *that* much pop.

Kim Hollis: The Soloist, a film featuring the worst onscreen hairstyle since Yahoo Serious vanished into obscurity, opened to $9.7 million. What do you think of this performance?

Pete Kilmer: It wasn't what people are looking for in a film right now, I have to think Robert Downey Jr. and Jamie Foxx are very disappointed. But RDJ is shooting Iron Man 2 and has Sherlock Holmes coming so he's fine, and Jamie Foxx will find something else.

Josh Spiegel: I think that this film has a poor opening weekend, but I'd be surprised if it completely disappears within a few weeks. It's got potential just because lots of the older crowds may flock to this instead of the big blockbusters. I think the only person who may lose out a bit here is the film's director, Joe Wright; after Pride and Prejudice & Atonement, this may be a step down in prestige and profit.

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