The second weekend of May is sometimes thought of as having a weird jinx, because there have been a number of flicks released this weekend that haven't done very well and/or outright bombed, many times because they were overshadowed by the second weekend of the much higher profile summer opener movie.

A lot of times this has made opening a new flick in the top spot tough, and that's certainly going to be a problem for the week's solitary flick which has to face the second weekend of Marvel's The Avengers , the biggest opening flick of all time (by roughly $40 million).

Oddly, it's Warner Bros. who have had the most bombs on this weekend and yet they're daringly releasing the 8th collaboration between director Tim Burton and actor Johnny Depp, their comedic take on the '60s cult television show Dark Shadows (Warner Bros.) into the weekend hoping it doesn't join some of their others.

This is Burton and Depp's first flick since their global blockbuster hit Alice in Wonderland for Disney, which opened with $116 million in March two years ago and went onto become Depp's biggest non-"Pirates" flick and Burton's biggest flick ever.... See Complete Article @ Coming Soon