Fair enough.

NBC's got some good shows, though not many I'll grant. But Community is IMO the best comedy on broadcast right now.

I've only read two of Reynolds books so far (Revelation Space and Chasm City) and although I'm not comfortable with his distaste for the label (since it smacks a bit of literary elitism) I can kind of get where he's coming from.

Foundation has usually been considered a space opera, however.

I understand the ending of Fringe has been scripted for about a year now, so maybe Abrams has learned his lesson?

I think The8thDwarf assumed you were referring to the long-awaited but essentially dead-in-the-water The Memory of Shadows, which nearly moved into production before difficulties between Warner Bros. and Stracyznski (and the death of Richard Biggs) killed it.

"I was hoping they were trying to make some kind of point/parallel with the... Spanish... Monarchy?"

"You don't find a lot of people smiling in pre-20th Century portraits."

Wasn't there an episode on South Park with a similar premise to this erroneous one? Pretty early on, I think.

That could be it. As I said, it's confusing. Why would you include more than one column for tickets sold in a chart that's about opening weekends?

"Regardless, great summer for movies, no?"

I know what you mean, though recently (as of The Captains) he's beginning to show some extended wrinkles. But other than that it's true, he looks very much like he did thirty frakking years ago.

"It blows TDK out of the water for me by a wide margin"

Actually, the chart says that A New Hope sold the most tickets. But if you're looking at dollar earnings, The Avengers still made more (even with inflation accounted for).

I think what a lot of people are missing (both the complainers and the supporters) is that there are so many different ways to measure a movie's success (as io9 itself pointed out awhile back). Do you measure the amount of money it took in? Do you adjust prices for inflation (and is that fair given the greater…

It depends if we're looking at money or tickets. The price of tickets has risen more than the value of the dollar, so technically, ANH still sold more tickets.

GWtW is the adjusted king if A) we're only looking at domestics (which in this case we are) and B) we are looking at total gross rather than weekend gross (which we aren't).

Even if we adjust for inflation though, The Avengers did better its opening weekend than Harry Potter or Avatar. There hasn't been that much inflation since 2009.

I prefer that method myself as well. According to boxofficemojo, that puts A New Hope back on the top.

IIRC even Whedon doesn't really want to go back and make another Firefly movie. He's just been burned too many times on that front.