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I am wondering how other smaller communities did attendance-wise comparing "Ice Age 2" to "Ice Age 3".

I was down in 3 communities about 30%, Which, considering this is my busy time compared to early April when "Ice Age 2" played. I only see this being economy related (I do not get busier when economy poor, as too many free and natural things to do in my area for families). Apparently admission was down a bit on a national basis since dollar-wise they both performed about the same so far, and many theatres ticket prices are higher.

"Ice Age 3" did a little bit below "2" here. However, "3" took a whole week to get there. We were still running weekends-only when "2" came out. It's opening gross only took 3 days to achieve. By that measure, "Ice Age 3" was down by around 40%.

Still, a decent Summertime booking. I've had much worse.

At our small town single screen we are down 40% from Ice Age 2 to Ice Age 3. Our economy has stayed fairly stable, so that's not the reason it's down for us. Been trying to put my finger on what the cause is. But so far no luck.