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Weekend Box Office Results, December 2-4, 2005

• Aeon Flux opened #2, on the high side of the latest prediction range, but far below what was once hoped. It seems to be headed for about a $35 million total, which will be considered a failure because of a reported $60 million production budget.
  
• Potter slowed a bit faster than expected by the prognosticators, but the Potter films' grosses have always been front-loaded, so that's no real surprise, and the latest Potter is still running well ahead of the others. Potter should lose its grip on the box office next week, when Narnia opens.
  
• Everything else seemed to be business as usual.
  
• Consistent with last week, the Top 12 aggregated about the same amount as last year's top 12. (Last week was up about half a percent from the previous year. This week was down half a percent.)