It's beginning to look a lot like Christmas.

While last weekend's Delgo was a complete disaster, it was such a tiny disaster, we didn't even feel it fall off the face of the earth with its...

WORST WIDE OPENING OF ALL-TIME.

Ick! Talk about your lump of coal.

Moving on to bigger though perhaps not necessarily better things, this weekend we see the opening of Not Another Rat Movie.  Otherwise known as The Tale of Desperaux (TDSPR), this flick has been experiencing a dip with its stock price for a while now.

Part of that has been due to the omni-present tracking that placed the film squarely in the mid-teens range.  Part of that is many many films have been adjusting down lately and that makes everyone gun shy.

The ads aren't very engaging, especially as compared to Bedtime Stories (BEDTM) and there is that whole weird rat thing going on that came up with last year's Ratatouille.

We feel that this animated flick will open soft and then do quite well for itself as the younglings are out of school for the rest of the year.  Put it at around 16 million and call it a day.  That still makes it a short from it's current as of this writing price of 48 bucks and some change, so the security may need some careful watching before halt to make sure we're on the right side of the adjust.

In other news: We only could find one itsy bitsy little Nominoption for this year.  All of our hopes and dreams are riding on Wall-E scoring a nomination for Best Adapted Screenplay. (N9OWA) Good luck lil' guy. We're counting on you.