SATURDAY�PM/SUNDAY AM,�3RD UPDATE: In terms of box office grosses but not necessarily box office quality, Summer 2011 roared in with overperforming hits like
Fast Five and
Thor and
Bridesmaids, then gained steam with
Pirates Of The Caribbean: Dark Of The Moon and
Transformers 3 and and�
Harry Potter And The Deathly Hallows Part 2. But now it's leaving with a whimper, not a bang. This was one of those weekends when studio executives didn't even bother coming up with excuses�about why their movies were stillborn. Instead they just held their heads and�moaned.�Anecdotal reports reaching me from all over showed that moviegoing�redefined the terms "soft" and "flat". As one studio exec told me, "It looks like a ghosttown in theaters."�And yet�no less than four wide-release studio films opened Friday. There was some initial confusion over Top 5 order, but the�movies sorted themselves out.�DreamWorks' holdover
The Help (which needs none) started Friday as the No. 1 movie and ended that way Sunday to distributor Disney's delight. But there was widespread disappointing over the failures of�Dimension/Weinstein Co's
Spy Kids 4D, Nu Image/Millenium/Lionsgate's
Conan The Barbarian, and DreamWorks/Disney's
Fright Night which wound up�all bunched together between a dismal $8M and $11.5M behind another holdover,
Rise Of The Planet Of The Apes. Not surprisingly,
Conan and
Fright Night received only 'B-' CinemaScores while
Spy Kids managed a 'B+'. Focus Features tried but couldn't get its romance
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