Ben Stein’s much-balleyhooed documentary Expelled (our review here) brought in a respectable $3.1 million this weekend, which was 9th - nothing close to Michael Moore’s $23 million opening for Fahrenheit 911, but considerably better than the other doc that bowed this weekend: Where In the World is Osama Bin Laden from Super Size Me’s Morgan Spurlock.
Expelled only opened on 1,052 screens giving it an average of just under $3,000 per, which would make it a solid fifth on the screen-average list. Spurlock’s pic had an average of $1,405.
The top three B.O. earners this weekend were Forbidden Kingdom ($20.8M), Forgetting Sarah Marshall ($17.3M), and Prom Night ($9.1M).
I saw an advance screening of the movie ”Expelled: No Intelligence Allowed” last night. It’s a film put together by intellectual heavyweight/gameshow host, Ben Stein. Seriously, this guy is brilliant, and hilarious. Generally speaking, the film attempts to challenge the academic elitist establishment for attacking our freedom. Specifically, the film sets out to debunk Darwin’s theory of evolution, and exposes certain scientists who have been blacklisted for even talking about the concept of Intelligent Design. The movie was compelling, but I couldn’t always keep my finger on why it was. Was it because of the clever humor dropped in at just the right moments (usually in the form of old movie, or instructional film footage)? Yes. Was it because there really seems to be a problem with certain scientists being fired from their jobs for expressing even the possibility of A. I.? 
Doomsday - This one might have flown under your radar until a couple of weeks ago when Rogue Pictures started bombarding us with some pretty interesting looking trailers. It stars a relative newcomer Kate Beckinsale look-alike named Rhona Mitra, who you may have seen in…well, probably nothing. This Mad Maxian flick looks to be half “I Am Legend” and half “28 Days Later”, which is not a bad thing to be.
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