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When I heard there would be a movie titled Gambit scheduled for release in October of this year, I got psyched. Gambit was always one of my favorite of the X-Men and while I thought Taylor Kitsh was fine playing the Cajun mutant in X-Men Origins: Wolverine, the part was very small and the movie, while entertaining, is not great. I thought to myself 'with a whole film to himself, origin story and all, this character can be incredible.' However...

Turns out Gambit is a romantic comedy starring Cameron Diaz and Colin Firth. It is written by the Coen brothers so not a 100% letdown, but pretty disappointing nonetheless. Well, I guess I'll just have to wait for the X-Men reboot around 2028.

-Jay 

 
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I said in my predictions this weekend's box office race could be close. Well, it looks like I was very wrong. Snow White and the Huntsman put up an estimated $20million on Friday alone! I didn't expect it to crack $40million for the whole weekend, and now it would appear to be a lock to pass $50mil. Very impressive; I guess I wasn't the only one who thought it looked very entertaining.

MIB 3, meanwhile put up a solid $8.3mil while the Avengers took in an additional $5.6mil which is enough to pass The Dark Knight for 3rd on the all-time domestic chart. I figured it would do well but if you told me in April that the Avengers would be top 3 all-time I would have called you nuts. Congrats to Whedon and Co.

-Jay