BOX OFFICE: ‘Knowing,’ ‘Man,’ Propel Fairmount to Top

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PLANE PROPHECY: A commuter jet crashes before the runway at a Boston airport, just like a child’s numbered paper pulled from a time capsule said it would. It’s part of the creepiness of Knowing, the No. 1 film in the nation, which plays exclusively at the Fairmount Cinema 6 in Sebring.

PHOTO COURTESY OF SUMMIT ENTERTAINMENT

SEBRING, March 22, 2009 – The Fairmount’s run at the top as Highlands County’s most popular movie theater continues, if the national box office is the measuring stick.

The top two movies at the box office for the weekend of March 20-22 both played at the Fairmount Cinema 6: Knowing and I Love You, Man. The former was king with projected earnings of $24.8 million, while the latter was No. 2 with earnings of $18 million.

No. 3 was Duplicity, with $14.4 million. The only other film that grossed in double digits was Race to Witch Mountain, which earned $13 million.

Watchmen continues its plummet toward watchlessness. This perverse film that features male frontal nudity lost another 64 % in ticket sales. One hundred theaters dumped the bomb in just its third week. It continues to play at the Carmike.

Every movie at the Fairmount placed in the Top Ten except for Doubt, which was released last year and has just come to Highlands County. It is an excellently acted film worthy of your viewing. It stars Meryl Streep, Phillip Seymour Hoffman, and Amy Adams.