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No Reservations is still hanging in there, dropping 40% to $3.9 million and a $32 million total. And finally, Daddy Day Camp opened really poorly in tenth place with $3.5 million from 2,332 theatres for a dreadful $1.9k average, $5 million since it's Wednesday opening, and a crushing 2% rating on rottentomatoes.com (my favorite review comes from Minneapolis Star Tribune's Colin Covert, who writes: "Some would argue that kids aren't as jaded as adults, and will enjoy an agonizingly unfunny experience like Daddy Day Camp just fine. Using the same rationale, you could feed them Alpo.") 
But even though this appears to be another soulless summer sequel, desperately trying to squeeze ever cent out of a concept that was tired the first time around, I'm kind of sad to report those numbers. See, I like Cuba Gooding Jr. I know most folks would like to take that Oscar back and beat him over the head with it for Boat Trip, and I sympathize. But I really think he deserved that statue for Jerry McGuire (a movie I'm otherwise not very fond of), and he has an intensity in some of his earlier performances that borders on brilliant. Check out Judgment Night if you don't believe me. The sad truth of it is, like John Travolta, Gooding is a really talented guy with terrible taste in scripts, but I look for him to have a Travolta-like comeback in a few years, probably playing a bad guy.
And DDC was directed by Fred Savage. I mean, come on...The Wonder Years? How could you not want good things for the guy?
Anyway, that's it for this week. Check back next Monday when The Invasion proves that getting a Hollywood hack to do reshoots on your movie is always a bad idea; The Last Legion...well... opens; and Superbad turns out to be a sleeper hit, making Judd Apatow even richer. See you then.