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An anonymous distributor quoted by Variety is calling it a “train wreck.” An apparently unprecedented seven films are opening in wide release on Friday, and it’s not going to be pretty. For starters, Steve Mason at Fantasy Moguls is predicting that Disney’s comedy “Beverly Hills Chihuahua,” a movie I don’t even want to think about much less see, is going to lead with around $30 million at over 3,000 location. The only other opener expected to achieve much of a foothold is Sony’s much-promoted “Nick & Norah’s Infinite Playlist.” Mase thinks this pandering teen comedy will ride the coattails of “Juno” only to the tune of $15.3 million at around 2,300 rock venues, good for second place behind holdover “Eagle Eye.” Single-digit openings are predicted for Miramax’s dreadful “Blindness” ($4.5M and No. 5 at 1,700 asylums) and Universal’s so-so “Flash of Genius” ($4.1M and No. 6 at 1,000-plus dealerships). Finishing out of the money and the top ten, prognosticates Mase: the unscreened-for-critics conversative spoof “An American Carol” ($3M at 1,600 rallies), near-dead MGM’s despicable “How to Lose Friends and Alienate People” ($2.5M at 1,750 locales) and Warner’s expansion of Ed Harris’ western “Appaloosa” to over 800 corrals ($1.8M). Mase doesn’t even offer a prediction for Larry Charles’ shock doc “Religulous” with Bill Maher, which Lionsgate has speaking in tongues at a semi-wide 500 mosques.

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