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Sometimes – more often than I’d care to admit – I’m wrong about just how the weekend’s box office will play out. But I’m rarely gobsmacked like I am this week. I expected G-Force](http://www.cinematical.com/2009/07/24/review-g-force/) to be part of the Disney live action also rans – at best, I thought it would put up Race to Witch Mountain](http://www.moviefone.com/movie/race-to-witch-mountain/33071/main)-type numbers; maybe $24 million. And I thought that it would handily be beaten by the well-liked *Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince](http://www.cinematical.com/2009/07/14/review-harry-potter-and-the-half-blood-prince/)*, coming off a franchise record opening.
That is not how the estimates have it. As of Sunday, the guinea pig spy movie is ahead of Half-Blood Prince by just over $2 million: $32.2 to Potter’s $30. Potter tumbled over 60% from its opening – actually not the biggest drop-off in series history, which honor belongs, strangely, to* Prisoner of Azkaban*. Though I wouldn’t shed any tears for the folks at Warner Bros., what with the film’s worldwide gross breaking $600 million, the drop is a bit of a disappointment for the well-reviewed sixth film. G-Force, I guess, is a triumph for talking CGI animals and 3D.
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