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Jason Lee: Considering the mass amounts of boyfriends and husbands that surely got dragged along to see this, I gotta think that Kristin Bell was the second biggest star.

Reagen Sulewski: I think that's a question with a number of different answers. Before the film released: probably Jon Favreau. After the film: probably Malin Akerman. Able to have the most people correctly name them from a lineup: Jason Bateman.

David Mumpower: I would maintain that the silent majority of movie goers recognize and like Kristin Davis the most. Everyone else under discussion has been in stuff like Arrested Development and Veronica Mars. Even their movies are along the lines of Forgetting Sarah Marshall and...well, Jason Bateman has only been the star of Extract. He's been a supporting player in everything else on his recent resume. Unless we think Favreau is well recognized as the director of Iron Man - and we don't, which says a lot about the madness of the industry - the dainty star of Sex and the City the show and the movie wins this by default. Three years from now, I'd like to think that it's Kristen Bell since she's the perfect combination of funny, gorgeous and talented, but Emma Stone is coming up fast in her rearview mirror. This is the period when she has to prove herself if she doesn't miss her window.

Zombies are really rather easily distracted. And zombie fans.

Kim Hollis: Zombieland fell 40% to $14.8 million. Is this better, worse or about what you were expecting?

Josh Spiegel: Considering that Zombieland is a mix of horror and comedy, and its opening weekend could have been considered something of a surprise, this result is pretty solid. The word-of-mouth on the movie is impressive (and accurate, as I finally found out this weekend), it's coming out near Halloween, and it's all about warding off the zombie apocalypse, which is becoming a less-than-cult idea these days. Sony should be thrilled and working on a deal to make a sequel.

Michael Lynderey: Horror movies, even excessively well-reviewed ones with doses of comedy, have a hard time keeping their composure on week two. But Zombieland was a nice, clean choice this weekend for anyone who didn't want to go to problem island, or risk it on that little movie playing at 160 theaters. Next week's remake of Domestic Disturbance ought to nibble at Zombieland's box office a little, and of course there's the sleeping shaky-cam giant that could really be waking up any week now.





Pete Kilmer: I think any movie that doesn't drop over 60% on the following week is looked at as a positive. It's going to chug along and make some serious money when it's all said and done. Woody Harrelson has said that this the only movie he's wanted to do a sequel to, so I suspect they'll get to it.

Max Braden: Around 40% is good, especially for a movie that opened higher than initially expected. Looking at last year's chart, Zombieland's box office is behaving like Eagle Eye's (which opened at the end of September), which grossed just over $100 million.

Jim Van Nest: I have to think this second weekend is huge for Zombieland. There's no reason to think that this $15 million shouldn't have been its OPENING weekend take. So for $15 million to be the second weekend, everyone has to be ecstatic.

Jason Lee: 40% is fantastic. Consider that in the last ten weeks, only three films have been able to open in the top five and keep their second weekend drop below 40%: Cloudy with a Chance of Meatballs (kids flick), The Informant! (adults flick) and Julie & Julia (chick flick). The fact that a horror comedy title could join their company is stellar.

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