9:30AM Defamer Hollywood | conPredictable as it was by
America’s right-wing box-office seers,
Stop-Loss‘ flat opening wasn’t the only high-visibility stumble out of the gate last weekend. The Weinsteins’
Superhero Movie barely cracked $10 million, a fraction of the early takes for previous installments of the lucrative spoof quasi-franchise that includes
Scary Movie,
Date Movie et. al. While immediate speculation focused on the impact of the threatened
Fanboys Solidarity Movement boycott, we’re quite fond of
Steven Zeitchik’s take both postulating the Bob Saget Rule and suggesting superhero movies are send-ups all their own:
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