on its face. Like Dwight McCarthy falling out a window down a couple stories on to concrete and requiring a new face, Sin City's old one was not enough to draw any interest from even the fans that made the 2005 film a hit. Nine years of waiting turned a $29.1 million opening into $7 million. That's not good.

Robert Rodriguez has gone from the wunderkind that turned a $7,000 budget into the career launcher that was El Mariachi into the guy that has probably cost Harvey Weinstein more money than anyone. The initial Sin City and the first three Spy Kids notwithstanding (his four highest grossers), Rodriguez was also part of the Grindhouse debacle, budgeted at $67 million with his pal Quentin Tarantino and now Sin City: Aof those films, Sony could be looking at its fourth straight loser. But at least it opened better than Sin City.

Tales of the Top 10 (or How Guardians of the Galaxy Is Number One)

For the first time since the first weekend of the year when Frozen did it, a film has leapt back into the number one slot after multiple weeks in release. Ninja Turtles had held on to the top spot at the box office for the past two weeks, but the Guardians of the Galaxy are back in front in their fourth week of release. It didn't take until August 25 or 26 as predicted last week for James Gunn's film to be the top summer film in the U.S -- it only needed the weekend