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That's enough Red Riding Hood for 2011, thanks.

Kim Hollis: Hoodwinked Too!: Hood vs. Evil was no Hoodwinked!, opening to a measly $4.1 million. What went wrong here for the Weinstein Company?

Edwin Davies: The Weinstein Company basically did the exact opposite of striking whilst the iron is hot, deciding to strike once the iron has cooled, rusted and been put on display in a museum. The first Hoodwinked wasn't that big of a moneymaker in the first place, but if they had got a sequel out in 2007 when it was still relatively fresh in people's minds and was enjoying a modest retirement on DVD, they might have had a better chance. Now, when more or less everyone has forgotten that the first film existed, there's just no awareness of the brand. It also doesn't help that it is, by all accounts, an exceptionally crappy animated film that has been released at the tail end of a glut of animated films.

Bruce Hall: "The Weinstein Company basically did the exact opposite of striking whilst the iron is hot, deciding to strike once the iron has cooled, rusted and been put on display in a museum."

I'm sorry but that has me laughing so hard I can't even type a legitimate response. Well put, and quite true!

Josh Spiegel: Edwin, you win this round. My hat's off to you, sir.

Brett Beach: Edwin had me at whilst and I, too, will refrain from attempting to improve upon that. However, I would like to send a current of schadenfreude to the Weinsteins: it is openings like this that add a little bit of vinegar to the honey of The King's Speech. Now if only there was a way for Williamson and Craven to make Scream 5 elsewhere...

Max Braden: I just can't believe these movies made it to theaters instead of Saturday afternoon cartoon windows. The cgi looks *so* cheap, and they come across as weak knockoffs of the Shrek franchise. I like to think that even six-year-olds had some discerning taste here.

Jim Van Nest: Max, you're dead on. I can see how the first one made it to theaters...they were jumping on the computer animation bandwagon. Make a movie and throw it against the wall...who knows, it might stick. But to actually spend the dough to do it again? Well, that's just dumb.

Woof.

Kim Hollis: Dylan Dog: Dead of Night opened to $$754,779 in 875 locations. Say something funny about Dylan Dog: Dead of Night. Feel free to use alliteration.

Edwin Davies: Cult comic crashes cacophonously while erstwhile Evil Ex evaluates career choices.

Joshua Pasch: Remember when these two guys were in Superman Returns together?

Bruce Hall: I still resent the fact that my emails requesting the title be changed to "Dylan Dog Dead of Dawn" went unanswered. I feel absolutely anguished at the almost absolute absence of alliteration.

Josh Spiegel: Dylan Dog: Dead of Night does disastrously. Duh.

Max Braden: Dylan Dog is Dead on Arrival, Lays Giant Turd on Hollywood Yard.

Kim Hollis: No alliteration from me (I know, I know), but I just have to note that perhaps the funniest thing about Dylan Dog is that it was *overestimated* by $130,000 so when actuals came in, it was that much worse for the studio. I don't even think this thing will make money on home video.

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