Shark Tale came in # 2 this weekend with $14 Million, down from the previous weekend of $22 Million, down from the second weekend of $ 37 Million, down from the first weekend of $ 48 Million, and is currently at a gross of  $137 Million. (Notice that one figure quotes WEEKEND Figures that the Industry uses extensively, while the Total gross of course includes During The Week revenues.)

"Shark Tale" has one more weekend before Disney/Pixar's "The Incredibles" debuts on (Nov 5th). Less than a week later,"The Polar Express" (Nov. 10) and "The Sponge Bob Square Pants Movie" (Nov. 19). (See More on "The Incredibles" and "The Polar Express"  below)

The Grudge came in #1 with a stunning $40 Million, in it's first week, and another DreamWorks film "Surviving Christmas" with our "friend" James Gandolfini, came in
# 7 in it's first week w  ONLY $4.5 Million, with some AWFUL reviews!!!!!!!!

Poor DreamWorks. :(

$ 200  Million is a MUST for "Shark Tale" to be even Not considered a Bomb. It was hoping at first to match Shreks $867 Million, but that was quickly "downsized", coincidentally or not with CARRES efforts. It has $75 Million in Production Costs, PLUS Distribution Costs of 35%, PLUS Marketing Costs, that have exceeded any other Film currently in Release!!!!!!!!!

Also consider Abe Foxman's ADL effort vs "Passions of Christ". Abe has a TON of Money, Influence, and Contacts, and "Passions of Christ" went on to Gross $609 Million, made with $22 Million.

ADL, the GOLIATH goes up vs Mel Gibson, the David, and gets CRUSHED!!!!!!
CARRES, the 97 lb weakling goes up vs DreamWorks the GOLIATH, and DreamWorks is licking it's wounds.

Who was more successful,  Abe Foxman or our CARRES??? :)

In the latest animation from the creators of hit flick Toy Story, a family of superheroes are attempting to live a quiet life in the suburbs after entering a witness protection scheme to hide them from the baddies.

Unfortunately for the world, their dysfunctional family problems make each super-team outing an adventure, of sorts.

Every Pixar picture has outshined the last, and I have no doubt that this will do so. This movie however, is very different from the other Pixar pictures. This has a much more adult feel, which is all good. Also, this is the first time that “death” is evident.

Mr. Incredible & Elastigirl (Craig T. Nelson & Holly Hunter) are superhero’s who fall in love, and with all their superhero friends as witnesses (including Samuel L. Jackson as Frozone) get married between gigs saving the world.

Mr. Incredible has a young stalker/fan named Buddy, who wants to be just like Mr. Incredible, but Mr. Incredible shuns him, for obvious reasons. In the days of rampant lawsuits, all the superhero’s are forced in to an identity protection program, which forces them to live like normal people.

So Mr. Incredible and Elastigirl spend the next 15 years as Bob & Helen Parr, raising their 3 kids, Violet, Dash & baby Jack Jack. Violet & Dash both have received the superhero gene’s from their parents, and Jack Jack appears to be a “normal” baby.
Dash is a brat, super speedy and likes to use his powers where as Violet, a teenager, is slightly dark and wants to be normal. She’s like one of those goth teens.

Bob has been working in insurance, under a persnickitty boss voiced by Gilbert Gottfried. This is NOT the life for Bob, who is fired after witnessing a mugging but not being able to do anything about it and then launching his boss through several walls. Bob is then approached by Mirage (the under-worked Elizabeth Pena) to do some supersneaky superhero work. Bob is duped, and trapped on an island by a grown-up Buddy, whose moniker is now “Syndrome”, a self-made, and somewhat twisted superhero, with an evil agenda.

Helen finds out the whereabouts of her husband from Superhero designer extraordinaire Edna Mode, who quite frankly is the funniest character in the movie. She’s like a mixture of Linda Hunt and Edith Head and apparently voiced by Bird. A freaking riot! Helen takes off to save her husband, finding out too late that Violet and Dash have stowed away on the jet she has borrowed.

At one point, it’s quite certain to Mr. Incredible that his family has been killed, and his emotions consume him. Eventually the family is reunited, along with Frozone, in time to save the world from Syndrome pretending to save the world. The superhero’s are once again praised, but choose to live out their existence somewhat incognito, although more than willing to fight the forces of evil when duty calls. Loved the movie, loved it loved it loved it. The animation was great, especially the island and water scenes.

All the actors were great. Loved Holly Hunter, she was fantastic. I don't really have anything negative to say. Overall, I'd say that Disney has a much needed hit on their hands.

The "Polar Express" is an enchanted scene: A wide-eyed boy runs through the observation car of a 1950s locomotive steaming across the Arctic Circle to visit Santa Claus as two other children sing about Christmas cheer.

Tom Hanks stars and Robert Zemeckis directs while taking his biggest leap yet, an artistic and financial wager that very well could create a new film genre somewhere between animation and live action.

Adapted from Chris Van Allsburg's slim but richly illustrated children's book of the same name, "The Polar Express" was made almost exclusively with a method called performance capture, which drops digitized human actors into a computer-animated world. The technique has been used in some video games and to a limited extent in earlier movies; Warner Bros. says "Polar Express" is the first feature made solely with the process.

Zemeckis spent some 20 months making the $170-million "Polar Express." The G-rated movie faces tough competition from other family-friendly films, opening just five days after "The Incredibles" and nine days before "The SpongeBob SquarePants Movie." It has been a year and a half in post-production.