Well, Well, look at this. After.. oh.. roughly 3 weeks, The Passion of the Christ has re-taken the number one spot after dropping to the number 5 spot last weekend. Why didn’t I say anything about that last weekend, you ask? Well, you silly spring weather person, I was in the tropics faring much better than you. Y’know, white sandy beaches, unlimited cocktails, blue oceans, 100 degree weather.. yeah that sort of thing. That was me.
I digress.
First, this past weekend: The Passion punched it’s way into the list of top 10 money-making films ever made, edging “Forrest Gump” out of the all-time number 10 slot by about 1.16 million dollars. – Putting it in the money-pulling ranks of: Star Wars, Jurassic Park, Finding Nemo, and The Lord of the Rings Trilogy. Now, this past weekend found the film at the number 5 spot, but it’s not too often a film drops past 3rd place and retakes 1st — usually this only happens when everything else completely sucks. But with Walking Tall and Hellboy still in their first week, it’s a little surprising. Now granted, it didn’t retake the #1 spot over a weekend or anything, which is where the numbers really count, but The Passion has been taking in roughly 1 – 1.7 million dollars every weekday for the past month now and it’s been holding pretty steady. 
And with a mediocre selection of movies opening this weekend: the best choices being “The Alamo” and “The Whole Ten Yards”, and with it being the religiously significant Easter weekend, the Passion has a pretty good chance of actually catching the number #1 spot yet again. (not saying it will, but if it’s ever gonna happen, it’ll be this weekend).
And, on a completely separate note, a travel tip: If you can’t speak Spanish, you can still go a long way in a tropical country if you keep saying “Pina Colada”.
I woke up and saw this out my window every day. Am I gloating? I’m gloating, aren’t I?
