This weekend, the loge office becomes a dumping ground for movies the studios had low hopes for when they developed their schedules. The end of August and the beginning of September ar typically the most lustreless time of the year for ticket sales, and this year should prove to be no exclusion. Despite the fact that four unexampled films ar opening wide (one of them, The Rocker , opened on Wednesday), not unmatched is expected to crack $20 billion. Most analysts expect Focus Features' thriller Death Race to win the weekend race with about $14-17 million. Its primary rival will come from Sony's comedy The House Bunny , which will likely end up in second place with $12-16 million. But both 20th Century Fox's The Rocker and MGM/Dimension Films' The Longshots testament struggle to make it into the top tenner, forecasters suppose. Each is expected to earn only if $5-7 one thousand thousand. Many analysts are keeping an eye on Focus Features' Hamlet 2, which is curtain raising in only about C theaters this weekend with hopes of building word of mouth excitement for its wider opening next Wednesday at about 1,500 theaters. The cinema received a good deal praise from critics earlier this year at the Sundance Film Festival. (Full reviews of the film will come along here on Wednesday)
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