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Brett Ballard-Beach: It's playing out exactly like Scary Movie 2 - just about as critically reviled and opening at over 50% less (albeit on a much, much smaller scale gross-wise and a much, much larger scale grossout-wise.) What this means, of course, is that we can expect three more of these in the next decade. I will give Marlon this due: I don't know many other actors whose career could realistically encompass Don't Be a Menace to South Central While Drinking Your Juice in the Hood (loved it back in '96, btw) Requiem for a Dream, White Chicks, G.I. Joe: The Hunt for Cobra, and this. That is a testament to… something

Felix Quinonez: I think that the fact that it opened to half as much as the first one speaks volumes. The first one is held in very low regard by audiences and this one will probably fade even quicker and be forgotten about by summer. But it doesn't even matter because the budget is so low that it will still make money and I wouldn't be surprised if they actually make a third one.

Max Braden: The first one was easily among the five worst movies I saw that year, if not dead last. $9 million is shockingly high for anything related to it. Maybe these were lazy purchases when the preferred movie was sold out? I suppose that like Bad Grandpa, some audiences want to just check out and gamble on a glimpsing a surprise.

David Mumpower: As I said at the time, A Haunted House was vastly inferior to Scary Movie 5, its satirical cohort early last year. The fact that A Haunted House received a lightning-fast sequel while Scary Movie 5 bombed is mystifying to me. I watched about 160 movies last year; A Haunted House was the one of the three worst I saw. The fact that anybody attended opening weekend for the sequel is indicative of how desperate people are to watch a satire on occasion. What percentage of these “comedies” are even 30% fresh at Rotten Tomatoes? Since The Naked Gun series ended, there have been at least a dozen such films, and they have been universally atrocious.

Kim Hollis: Bears, a nature documentary from Disney, debuted with $4.8 million this weekend. What do you think of this result?

Edwin Davies: This feels like it's in keeping with the way that the Disneynature brand has been going since it peaked with the first film, Earth, back in 2009. The subsequent films trended downwards before rebounding significantly with Chimpanzee, because apes are cute, and this feels like a return to the norm since Bears doesn't have as strong a story as Chimpanzee or the promise of grandeur that Earth had as selling points. It does demonstrate that a documentary about bears that doesn't end with a man being mauled to death is a surer path to success, so Werner Herzog is probably kicking himself right now.

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