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At a time like this, we can't help but be reminded of Anna Faris's Diaz impression in Lost in Translation.

Kim Hollis: Believe it or not, there was another release this weekend. My Sister's Keeper earned an estimated $12.4 million in three days. Is this more, less or about what you expected for the Cameron Diaz/Nick Cassavetes project?

Daron Aldridge: I'll have to take your word for it, Kim, that this film opened. Since I didn't know it existed, then I had no expectations for it, so $12 million is quite impressive. Looking at the parties involved, it seems as if Nick Cassavetes is carving himself a nice tear-jerking niche.

Josh Spiegel: The only reason I knew this was coming out was thanks to the surprisingly aggressive marketing push, at least by having Cameron Diaz show up on Conan O'Brien and Jon Stewart this week. Considering the competition from all sides, this movie made a pretty fair amount of money. I'm not sure that, like Cassavetes' previous film, The Notebook, this movie will gain a kind of cult status, but its first-weekend take is pretty impressive.





Scott Lumley: The trailer for this showed what appeared to be a pair of girls arguing a lot and a scene with one girl shaving her head followed by other shots of girls doing girlish stuff. I could feel my estrogen levels climbing just watching it. I might watch this. At gunpoint. Maybe.

So yeah, $12 million seems high for this. Then again, I sense I am not the target audience here.

Jason Lee: Clearly, fans of the book came out to see this . . . along with a surprising number of other people. I wonder if they could even hear the dialogue in this film over the sounds of explosions from the adjacent theaters playing Transformers 2.

Reagen Sulewski: Reviews rarely do a lot of good or bad for a film, but this is one of those cases where it clearly did. This sort of emerged from nowhere to grab a critical consensus, and if you didn't want to see giant CGI creations (although I'm still convinced about Cameron Diaz's face), this was what you went to.

David Mumpower: Remember back in May of 1999 when there was another film called The Love Letter that opened the same weekend as The Phantom Menace? No? Same deal here. Having said that, this is 25% more than I had expected the movie to make on opening weekend. Also, I saw director Nick Cassavetes on an episode of World Poker Tour a couple of years ago and he seemed like a very cool guy.

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