Via Box Office Mojo:

1. High School Musical 3: Senior Year $15,035,000 / $61,753,000
2. Zack and Miri Make a Porno $10,682,000 / $10,682,000
3. Saw V $10,110,000 / $45,837,000
4. Changeling $9,407,000 / $10,087,000
5. The Haunting of Molly Hartley $6,009,000 / $6,009,000
6. Beverly Hills Chihuahua $4,747,000 / $84,061,000
7. The Secret Life of Bees $4,000,000 / $25,287,000
8. Max Payne Fox $3,700,000 / $35,550,000
9. Eagle Eye $3,400,000 / $92,534,000
10.Pride & Glory $3,260,000 / $11,616,000


And, Noah's Arc: Jumping The Broom is doing great business. In its first weekend, it earned an amazing $33,000-per-screen (second to Clint Eastwood's Changeling This weekend saw a still-impressive $14,818 per screen. [IndieWire]

After Elton, which has become my new favorite website (after this one, of course,) has an interview with the brilliant and beautiful Darryl Stephens, star of the "Noah's Arc" television series and now the movie "Noah's Arc - Jumping the Broom."

On why the show was canceled: I will say that I understand that Logo has a lot of people that they‘re trying to appeal to within the LGBTQ community. A show like Noah’s Arc is not the cheapest show to produce. Looking at a show like Shirts & Skins, it’s much more cost-effective for them to do a show like that as opposed to this big narrative with wardrobe budgets and sets and shooting in Vancouver. If they feel like they’re going to make more money on a show that doesn’t cost as much, that’s what the network is going to do.

On the treatment of gay marriage in the movie: The universe of Noah’s Arc really comes from a place where gay is not the issue. The point is that these are people who have friendships and relationships and jobs, and children and issues that everybody else has. The legal and civil rights aspect of gay marriage isn’t even our concern. We’re already established that we’ve gone out of our state to get married. That’s the one nod to how ridiculous that in the United States of America same-sex marriage is not legal in most states.

But beyond that, the movie is about . . . when you’re committing yourself to someone, you’re committing yourself to them in a lifelong loving relationship. You have to deal with all these issues about whether or not you’re ready, about whether or not this person is “the one,” whether or not your friends are going to support you. It’s not really about the fact that these are gay people. Yeah, these are gay characters, yeah, they’re black men, but they’re living the same lives that everyone else in the world is living.

Read the entire interview with Stephen's and his co-star Jensen Atwood.

After Elton has a great review of the new movie, Noah's Arc: Jumping the Broom, based on the origingal Logo series Noah's Arc.

Noah’s Arc: Jumping the Broom is a ferociously funny, witty, and sexy bookend to the groundbreaking television series of the same name which aired on Logo (AfterElton.com’s parent company) for two seasons. Playing like an extended version of the most well-written and acted episode of the show, the film version successfully extends the scope of the series to fit its big-screen surroundings.

The film takes its title from slavery-era slang for getting married (a broom was literally jumped over in view of witnesses due to the lack of access to other signifiers), and also jumps forward in real time two years after the events of the Noah’s Arc series finale that found Wade and Noah inching back together after a serious motorcycle accident.

Noah's Arc: Jumping the Broom opens in select cities today.