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Surprisingly, I Know Who Killed Me is not a title that refers to career suicide

Kim Hollis: I Know Who Killed Me opened in ninth place this weekend with an estimated $3.4 million. Do you think this total was helped, hindered, or unaffected by the latest appearance of Lindsay Lohan legal?

Tim Briody: I've said for years that Mean Girls is going to become a historical document to prove that Lindsay Lohan was once considered a) attractive, b) talented and c) "the good one." Things like this prove my point further. I had no idea this movie even existed until a few days ago so her current troubles didn't really matter.

Reagen Sulewski: I think the arrest was horrible timing, but it's not like without that it was going to be an easy sell. There's a backlash building against these starlets, and even if the movie wasn't getting laughed out of theaters, it wasn't going to do well.

David Mumpower: There was no marketing and nothing tangible in terms of studio support even before that. If anything, it gave some TMZ viewers a bit more reason to attend it for the purpose of rubbernecking. The most poignant thing out of all of this from my perspective is her Freaky Friday director, Mark Waters, begging her to get help. He seems more emotionally invested than her parents do. I hope that Lohan has a Drew Barrymore type of recovery from all of this, but her path to redemption is a long, long road.

Kim Hollis: My thought is that her arrest gave her last remaining fans, the ones who might have been standing by her, no reason to keep doing so. As such, I Know Who Killed Me was probably an even worse performer than it might have been.

Dan Krovich: I don't think the movie was ever going to do very well, but the arrest certainly hurt. Lohan was the only point they had to sell this movie on and when she wasn't available, they were screwed. I don't see how any studio is going to want to take a chance on her now. They can find someone else or make a new star without all the baggage. Her only hope is to get clean and perform well in some indie movies that will be willing to take a chance for the publicity.

No respect.

Kim Hollis: Who's Your Caddy opened to an estimated $2.9 million. Does this prove that Big Boi is as big a draw as Lindsay Lohan these days?

Reagen Sulewski: That's about as much as a film with a pun-based title deserves.

David Mumpower: My question here is simple. Can you watch Who's Your Caddy at those certain sorts of *ahem* exclusive country clubs?

Shane Jenkins: Does Andy Milonakis play the gopher in this? How are you gonna have a Caddyshack remake with no gopher? At the very least, I hope there's a P. Diddy song that samples heavily from Kenny Loggins!

Kim Hollis: Why this didn't go straight-to-video I'll never know. I'm loving that it's currently #2 on the Bottom 100 List at IMDb.

David Mumpower: What's #1?

Kim Hollis: Die Hard Dracula! Sadly, it is not the lesser-known fifth film of the Die Hard series.

James Wood: Can't wait for the...black? urban? Ice Cube?...remakes of Meatballs and Slap Shot.

By the way, I watched Meatballs over the weekend. It was like a two-hour commercial for American Apparel.

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