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by John S.W. MacDonald | October 6, 2008 Last week, we predicted that New Yorkers would defend Woody’s honor against the latest onslaught of fall films and keep Vicky Cristina Barcelona safely ensconced in the top ten. We weren’t entirely wrong. Though Vicky’s earnings fell more than 35 percent, Woody Allen’s latest stubbornly held on in tenth place during its seventh week in theaters. None of the opening films in this week’s list did spectacularly well on their own, but the five of them together—led by Peter Sollett’s Nick and Norah’s Infinite Playlist—managed to knock Vicky down five spots to the bottom of the pack. In other words, the city’s moviegoers simply replaced one of the most-recognizably New York filmmakers in the world with one of its most recognizable stories: boy meets girl meets big city meets rock ’n’ roll.... [read full story]
