Win Some, Lose Some

Okay KIDS Fund Watchers - we have good news and bad news.

Bad news first. No wait, I'd rather you experience the disappointment we did. Good new first!

Twilight was majorly front loaded. $35M on Friday, $21M Saturday, and $12M Sunday. This was the pattern we had hoped for. Bolt was a stupid short, which we called right. Not sure if it was Twilight, or just the fact that it ran out of advertising money some time in August, but bottom line is it had a sad $26M weekend and its Blockbuster Warrant (don't know what this is? you're missing out on easy money!) is now worthless.

Bad news time! Twilight was majorly front loaded, but the end result was still a long with a $69M weekend. This is surprising for Summit Entertainment, whose next biggest money-maker was Never Back Down with a total of $24M, followed by Fly Me to the Moon (3D) at $12M. What a gold mine! Someone at Summit is getting a big promotion for securing book rights early on.

But wait! There is more good news to wash away the foul taste of bad news. We have played everything pretty well post adjust (with a dry kids market, look for these to be making good money over the Thanksgiving weekend) as well as picked up Twilight 2 (Bad Moon Rising). We are a mere cold cash or two away from crossing H$70M and getting that elusive delist.

Sadly Thanksgiving is not kiddie movie time. Neither is the following weekend. After that we have Desperaux and Yes Man (I think we can play that one. Qale?). Happy trading!

(Qale edit: As goofy as Jim Carrey is, I think Yes Man is not quite kiddy enough for us. While we probably could get away with it, I'd rather say NO to Yes Man and focus more on Adam Sandler's "Bedtime Stories." Did I just say that? Oh crap!)