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After a few more weeks of not having any openers to play with, KIDS Fund comes limping slowly with a hunchback with Igor (IGOR).

Currently, the marketplace is flooded with all sorts of types of sub-par releases. There are flicks for chicks, movies for men who love movies, and this weekend, even a film for self loathing people who want to injure themselves with a Dane Cook "comedy".

But won't someone think of the children?

That being said, Igor isn't exactly going to have an easy time making bank for itself and by extention us.

As long time followers of KIDS Fund, you already know our seething hatred for all things Walden. Typically, they take a fine selling children's novel and then destroy it with a lackluster movie that often doesn't make any money.

Well Igor has a similar problem. It's being released by The Weinstein Co.

Now, I actually kind of like the distributer. They often produce films that very few others would even dare to touch. But, ask yourself, when was the last time you can remember them putting out a kid flick?

Exactly.

Tracking hasn't been very good either. NotFabio (our own personal box office guru, so to speak) recently posted it listed with the number 8 beside it. Yeah, 8 million. Certainly in line with what many films are making these days opening weekend, but not really something worth writing home to Master about.

Currently hovering around 30 bucks a share, HSXers seem to be slightly more optimistic.

Originally I was thinking closer to 13-15 for the animated feature in a box office completely devoid of anything for the kiddies, but I think I'm starting to see the light. It's September. It's Weinstien. And, well, even with their "Halloween comes early" push, it feels much more likely that Igor is liable to fall flat on his face than soar to the skies. Maybe kids will just have to wait until Beverly Hill's Chihuahua (BCHI)comes out Oct 3rd to get back to the silver screened babysitter.

So with that, we're marking our predictions down and calling this one 5-7 million and a short.

In other news: Recently, Disney called off their 5pm Thursday afternoon showings for High School Musical 3 (HISM3). While I still haven't found anywhere the reason that may be, it certainly changes our feelings on the October opener.

History told us that anything that early would be added to the weekend multiplier, not multiplied (Pirates 3). And with the property so hot, we figured that'd take a serious chunk of change out of what the price should be. This not being the case anymore, we're willing to bet there is a lot more upside to this stock than down. The largest October opening weekend of just a hair under 50 million set by Scary Movie 3 may be in trouble.