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Box Office: Magic Mike Slow Dances After Valentine’s Day Bump From Adding 600 Theaters

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“Magic Mike” is having a slow dance in its first week of release.

After a desultory opening over the weekend, “Magic Mike’s Last Dance” starring Channing Tatum got a bump on Tuesday. For Valentine’s Day, Warner Bros. added over 600 theaters. The result was a jump of 137% in ticket sales. Cool.

But on Wednesday, Mike got spiked. Sales fell 57%, basically back to where they were on Monday, but now stretched over those extra locations.

The word is, “Magic Mike” will dance on over to video on demand in the next couple of weeks and theaters will decrease in numbers.

Meantime, Marvel’s “Ant Man” part 3 starts in previews tonight. The Paul Rudd led film has terrible reviews — 51% on Rotten Tomatoes, which always loves Marvel movies. All eyes will be on tonight’s take.

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Roger Friedman
Roger Friedman
Roger Friedman is the founder and editor-in-chief of Showbiz411. He wrote the FOX411 column on FoxNews.com from 1999 to 2009, where he covered Michael Jackson, and previously wrote the "Intelligencer" column at New York magazine in the mid-1990s, where he covered the O.J. Simpson trial. He also edited Fame magazine. His bylines have appeared in The New York Times, The Washington Post, the New York Daily News, the New York Post, Vogue, Details, and the Miami Herald. He is a voting member of the Critics Choice Awards (Film and Television branches), and his movie reviews are tracked by Rotten Tomatoes. With D.A. Pennebaker and Chris Hegedus, he co-produced the 2002 documentary "Only the Strong Survive," which screened at Directors' Fortnight at the Cannes Film Festival.

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