Posted 1:31 AM by Scoobie Davis

Religulous/An American Carol Postscript
Last week, I wrote about the relatively strong showing of the Bill Maher film Religulous at the box Office compared to the heavily-promoted right-wing film An American Carol.

Last weekend's box office confirm previous trends, Religulous had a higher box office with $2,200,000 than Carol with an anemic $1,505,000--despite the fact that Religulous is showing on roughly one-third of the screens (note: Religuous added an additional 66 screens).

What is more revealing is the box office dropoff from weekend one to the second weekend. A rule of thumb is that if the dropoff is less than 40 percent, the film is doing fine. Religulous had a 35 percent dropoff while Carol reduced its traffic by 58.8 percent.