"300" Beers on the Wall!

Even with all of the insane cocktailing that went on over this "holiday" weekend (by the way, did you notice how everyone is all of a sudden a little Irish?? Any excuse to get hammered, darlings?)... by the way, call me O'Roxie. I digress ... where was I? Oh, yes, even with all the 4-leaf frolicking that went on around the U.S. the surprise hit of the year, "300" still continued to dominate the box office (even though 70 percent of its audience -- young males -- probably were hammered the second time they saw it!). Here's the low down on those sexy Spartans and the other new movies (Sandra hung in there despite less than flattering -- well, downright HORRIBLE reviews of her new "Premonition" but again, critics schmiticks!!).

The battle epic 300 took the No. 1 spot for the second-straight weekend with $31.2 million, according to studio estimates Sunday. The Warner Bros. movie, the story of vastly outnumbered Spartans defending against Persian invaders, shot past the $100 million mark after just a week in theaters, bringing its total to $127.5 million. Disney's road comedy Wild Hogs also crossed the $100 million mark, remaining the No. 2 movie with $18.8 million to lift its total to $104 million. Sony's paranormal thriller Premonition, starring Sandra Bullock as a woman whose husband is killed one day but turns up alive and well the next, debuted in third place with $18 million. The weekend's two other new wide releases had modest openings. Universal's fright flick Dead Silence — the tale of a maniacal ventriloquist dummy, from director James Wan and screenwriter Leigh Whannell, the team behind the original Saw horror hit — debuted at No. 4 with $7.8 million (um, I don't care if no one saw this...the dummy scares the Roxster, fyi). Fox Searchlight's I Think I Love My Wife, a romance starring Chris Rock as a bored hubby drawn to a temptress (Kerry Washington), premiered in fifth place with $5.7 million. Rock also co-wrote and directed the movie (bless his heart).

Apparently, darlings, bad weather on the East Coast and the NCAA basketball tournament (whatever the h-e-double-hockey sticks that is!), combined with traditional partying on St. Patty's Day, put a bit of a damper on the box office, particularly among young males who are the main audience for 300. Interesting tid bit for all of you drunk Bostonians: In Boston, with its heavy Irish-American population, crowds for 300 were down 70 percent on St. Patrick's Day compared to the previous Saturday, while the drop in the rest of the country was just 49 percent, said Dan Fellman, head of distribution for Warner Bros.

Even so, overall box office rose, with the top-12 movies taking in $102.4 million, up 10.5 percent from the same weekend last year. And Rox canNOT wait until the summer blockbusters start showing up on cereal boxes, McDonald's toys, and somehow on an iPod, of course, especially Spider-Man 3 and Harry Potter!! Loving you and yours and those tight leather undies the washboard-abs-of-steel-men from 300 continue to prance around in. Ah, Hollywood!!