{"id":16139,"date":"2011-08-01T17:50:27","date_gmt":"2011-08-01T16:50:27","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.scifinow.co.uk\/?p=16139"},"modified":"2011-08-01T17:50:27","modified_gmt":"2011-08-01T16:50:27","slug":"cowboys-and-aliens-almost-out-smurfed-at-the-weekend","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.scifinow.co.uk\/blog\/cowboys-and-aliens-almost-out-smurfed-at-the-weekend\/","title":{"rendered":"Cowboys and Aliens almost out-Smurfed at the weekend"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.scifinow.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/08\/Cowboysandaliens.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"alignright size-medium wp-image-16140\" title=\"Cowboys and Aliens\" src=\"http:\/\/www.scifinow.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/08\/Cowboysandaliens-300x225.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"225\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.scifinow.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/08\/Cowboysandaliens-300x225.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.scifinow.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/08\/Cowboysandaliens-768x576.jpg 768w, https:\/\/www.scifinow.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/08\/Cowboysandaliens-616x462.jpg 616w, https:\/\/www.scifinow.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/08\/Cowboysandaliens.jpg 2000w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a>Cowboys and Aliens just narrowly beat kids&#8217; nonsense The Smurfs at the weekend, taking nearly $36 million versus The Smurfs&#8217; $35.6 million. Cowboys was apparently below studio expectations, so its chances of becoming a franchise will likely rest on its international reception \u2013 The Smurfs, I&#8217;m sure, will develop into a Chipmunks-sized cultural nightmare.<\/p>\n<p>Harry Potter also passed the $1 billion mark over the weekend, a huge number for the film, and already the highest-grossing entry in the popular series of film adaptations. It is the best one, after all. Maybe people are going to see it again.<\/p>\n<p>Unfortunately, Transformers: Dark of The Moon will also cross that billion number this week.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Plus, Deathly Hallows Part 2 hits a box office milestone. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":16,"featured_media":16140,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"MSN_Categories":"Uncategorized","MSN_Publish_Option":false,"MSN_Is_Local_News":false,"MSN_Is_AIAC_Included":"Empty","MSN_Location":"[]","MSN_Add_Feature_Img_On_Top_Of_Post":false,"MSN_Has_Custom_Author":false,"MSN_Custom_Author":"","MSN_Has_Custom_Canonical_Url":false,"MSN_Custom_Canonical_Url":""},"categories":[1,140],"tags":[1244,323,82],"acf":[],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/www.scifinow.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/08\/Cowboysandaliens.jpg","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.scifinow.co.uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16139"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.scifinow.co.uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.scifinow.co.uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.scifinow.co.uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/16"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.scifinow.co.uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=16139"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.scifinow.co.uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16139\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.scifinow.co.uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/16140"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.scifinow.co.uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=16139"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.scifinow.co.uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=16139"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.scifinow.co.uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=16139"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}