"Super 8" early screenings total over 1.5 million, plus box office stats for the weekend

     Screenings for the Abrams-Spielberg brainchild project Super 8 have met the weekend with not only glowing reviews, but also quite a bit of cash.  Preliminary earnings are already surpassing 1.5 million.  And critics on rottentomatoes.com have it at an 82% approval rating.  

     All things considered, I can't help but feel this movie will literally be Cloverfield and Close Encounters of the Third Kind fused together.  Not that there's anything wrong with that.  It'd be like if Darren Aronofsky and Michael Bay produced a movie about a ballerina addicted to heroin that transforms into a robot and goes to space to drill on an asteroid.

Box Office Stats for the Weekend: 

X-Men: First Class - $55.1 million

The Hangover: Part II - $31.4 million

Kung Fu Panda 2 - $23.9 million

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