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Wanderlust Bombs at the Box Office After Nude Bait-and-Switch

Call it The Curse of The Change-Up : Another film that tried to fool viewers into buying tickets to see a nonexistent nude scene has bombed at the box office. Wanderlust opened this weekend to generally positive reviews and absolutely terrible box office receipts, coming in at number eight after Act of Valor , The Vow, This Means War and four other movies that had already been in theaters for a week or more, including Ghost Rider: Spirit of Vengeance . And if you can’t beat the sequel to a Nicholas Cage movie widely considered to be the equivalent of gouging your eyes out with flaming pokers in its second weekend, then you know you’ve got problems. Some are blaming Jennifer Aniston ‘s flagging star power for the film’s weak performance. If “flagging star power” is code for “nude fake-out fatigue,” then we heartily agree. JenAn’s been playing this game with her male fans for several years now, and the next time she claims to have shot a nude scene for a movie…well…let’s just say we won’t take it with a grain of salt. We’ll take it with a truckful. You’ve burned us one too many times, Jen, and our lust has wandered away. Get the skinny on Wanderlust right here at the Mr. Skin blog!

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2010 Box Office Receipts: 3-D Surcharges Are Alive and Well

The year-end box office receipts are in, and Hollywood fell just short of last year’s record-setting $10.6 billion haul. While ticket receipts still broke $10 billion, overall attendance this year dropped a whopping 5.36 percent, making 2010 the second-lowest-attended year of the last decade. This drop, along with the fact that awful 3-D conversion of Clash of the Titans finished just outside the top 10, suggests that audiences this year were totally down with that 3-D surcharge. Also interesting is the fact that almost half of the top 10 films of the year, including the number-one ranked Toy Story 3 , were CGI animation. Watch your backs, bankable actors!

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2010 Box Office Receipts: 3-D Surcharges Are Alive and Well