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Matthew Huntley: The summer of 2010 is turning into one of many pleasant surprises for Sony. First, both The Karate Kid and Grown Ups cross $150 million domestically; Salt continues its way toward $100 million; and now The Other Guys opens with big enough numbers to suggest it too will cross the coveted "century mark." It seems that with so many hits in such a short amount of time, The Other Guys is icing on the cake for the studio. Still, it was a costly picture to produce (reports claim the budget was as high as $100 million), so Sony will obviously want the movie to have legs. But for a late summer entry, they have to be satisfied. It'll be interesting to see how much of its audience The Expendables steals away next weekend, but with good reviews, I can see The Other Guys sticking around.

Oh, and just a quick note to Tom: Talladega Nights, in my opinion, was funnier than Tropic Thunder, at least in terms of consistent laughs.

Shalimar Sahota: This one has been pretty much off the radar for me and I didn't expect it to open over $30 million. The positive reviews are also a surprise. I'm no Ferrell fan myself, but even from the trailer at least this one looks genuinely funny. I guess it also looks like we'll be seeing Wahlberg do more comedy in the future.

Reagen Sulewski: I think we can basically just write off Semi-Pro as Ferrell's Little Nicky at this point, right? He might be a little more dependent on the actual content of the jokes than Sandler has ever been but "Hey! It's Will Ferrell! And he's doin' stuff!" remains a pretty consistent draw at the box office (and no one could have saved Land of the Lost). With someone whose comedy depends so much on improv, he's always going to be a little more hit and miss and kind of resist analysis about why a particular movie works or doesn't. "This one looked funnier" doesn't really satisfy as an explanation, but here we are.

Needs more Channing Tatum

Kim Hollis: Step Up 3D opened to $15.5 million. Is this more, less, or about what you expected?

Josh Spiegel: Well, what I expected is that this movie wouldn't have ever been made. Seriously, I figured the movie would do closer to $20 million, if only because of the 3-D prices. Considering that this movie, more than other recent 3-D films, was clearly meant to be seen in 3-D, this number is a bit too low. I imagine Disney is quite disappointed, but this may be a case where the audience just doesn't want to shell out extra money to see cool dance routines, routines they could easily watch on Fox or MTV or any other network showing dance programs. If we're lucky, this is the end of the Step Up franchise.

Max Braden: I think earlier in the year and even up until recently, BOP and others were considering the possibility that Step Up 3D would beat The Other Guys. Remember when Save the Last Dance opened at $27 million in January? Step Up 2 managed to $28 million over its five-day opening. Well, at least 3D beat Fame.

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