http://www.culturesnob.com/2008/05/bopr_april_18_27#comments en Copyright 2008 http://www.sixapart.com/movabletype/?v=4.12 http://blogs.law.harvard.edu/tech/rss Welcome to summer movie season, now officially begun on the first weekend of May thanks to our friends at Iron Man. That blockbuster wannabe will be followed in short order by Speed Racer, Narnia's second installment, and Indiana Jones before Memorial Day.

Closing out the ever-modest spring movie season, Forgetting Sarah Marshall notched one outright victory and one shared victory in our Box Office Power Rankings, scoring a mild upset by tying Baby Mama in last weekend's rankings.

Looking ahead, May looks pretty safe in terms of box office; you should be able to predict the champion in our rankings with little risk of being wrong.

June, on the other hand, looks to be full of potential critical and commercial flops: The Happening, The Incredible Hulk, Get Smart, The Love Guru — and that's just in two weekends. Even Pixar's Wall-E looks a little risky, but then again, I thought nobody would go see a movie called Ratatouille.

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