9:00AM Molly Friedman | Happy May Day. Why? Aside from May flowers, this month will finally bring some answers regarding all those conflicting box office predictions made in the trades weeks ago: will the upcoming back-to-back openings of
Iron Man,
Speed Racer,
Prince Caspian and
Indy 4 crush recession worries
as Variety predicted? Or is the 19% decline in spring grosses
only going to continue, as
THR suggested mid-April? Well, the folks at Moviefone have provided us with a bit of guidance in the form of a poll
measuring audience anticipation. And despite early rave reviews for Downey Jr.’s performance in Iron Man, the scores of kids aching for more Narnia adventures and
testosterone-invigorating posters for
Indy 4, it seems the majority of audience-goers only want to talk about
Sex, baby.
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