The movie release calendar in any given year often telegraphs box office expectations, and this weekend offered a perfect example. Even thought Aaron Horvath and Michael Jelenic's The Super Mario Galaxy Movie debuted last week, there was no thinking that the film was going to be a one-and-done performer, even with the primarily negative response from critics, and studios made plans accordingly. Kat Coiro's You, Me & Tuscany and Daniel Goldhaber's Faces Of Death arrived as counterprogramming (much like Kristoffer Borgli's The Drama did 10 days ago), but there was never any doubt that the new Nintendo feature would repeat as #1 in the domestic Top 10.
