Weekend Box Office Estimates (U.S.)
May 20 - 22 weekend
1 - Pirates of the Caribbean: On Stranger Tides N/A $90,100,000 TOTAL: $90,100,000
2 2 Bridesmaids Universal Pictures $21,058,290 TOTAL: $57,517,530
3 1 Thor Paramount Pictures $15,500,000 TOTAL: $145,406,000
4 3 Fast Five N/A $10,630,570 TOTAL: $186,219,155
5 5 Rio 20th Century Fox Distribution $4,650,000 TOTAL: $131,646,651
6 4 Priest Sony Pictures Releasing $4,600,000 TOTAL: $23,683,000
7 6 Jumping the Broom Columbia TriStar Motion Picture Group $3,700,000 TOTAL: $31,300,000
8 7 Something Borrowed Warner Bros. Pictures $3,425,000 TOTAL: $31,428,000
9 8 Water for Elephants Fox 2000 $2,150,000 TOTAL: $52,427,574
10 9 Tyler Perry's Madea's Big Happy Family Lionsgate, The Tyler Perry Company $990,000 TOTAL: $51,756,990
The rest after the jump.
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It's hard to feel bad for someone whose doomsday predictions caused so much anxiety, but 89-year-old Harold Camping's recent admission that he's "flabbergasted" the world didn't end last weekend sounds somewhat pitiful.
"It has been a really tough weekend," Camping said Sunday, after emerging from his Alameda, California home for the first time to talk to a reporter from the San Francisco Chronicle. "I'm looking for answers ... But now I have nothing else to say," he said, adding that he would make a full statement. I mean really would anyone take this guy seriously?
Thomas(notes) was drafted in the sixth round by the Chicago Bears, but the lockout leaves him without much to do right now. The athletic, hard-hitting linebacker out of West Virginia University is still in Morgantown, keeping in shape and spending time with his family.
Every day, Thomas helps his 7-year-old brother Jared get home from school. Riding the same bus as Jared is an eighth-grade girl named Joslyn Levell, who happened to grow up in Chicago as a Bears fan and now lives in Morgantown. Joslyn has spina bifida and uses a wheelchair.
With assists from the bus driver and J.T.'s stepmother, Thomas got on the bus one day to say hello to Joslyn. They hit it off immediately. From NFL.com:
As J.T. met a Bears fan in his hometown, Joslyn explained to him that she'd had a rough week because all of the boys she asked to the dance declined. Thomas melted.
"I hugged her and signed a few things and we talked for awhile and she cried a bit," Thomas recounted. "I gave her a hug and told her everything would work itself out."
It did. J.T. asked her to the dance himself.
"I was nervous that by the time I reached out, she might have had a date and would have to turn me down," he said.
Joslyn gladly accepted the invitation. And another fell good storyu for the week.
