May I let you in on another little secret? If Attack of the Clones doesn't make it to $285 million, even McCauley Culkin (Home Alone) will beat it! That would be a travesty! That's what this article is all about. I want Star Wars fans out there to see AOTC this upcoming weekend like it was the premiere weekend. Okay, I'm not expecting an $80 million weekend but please don't let this movie fall down another 50% to $10 million. Let's show our support for George Lucas who has brought a series of movies to our lives that stretches our imagination to a galaxy far, far away.

Mr. Lucas created these first two episodes with money right out of his pocket, and has said that if the movies don't make enough money, he won't be able to make the next installment. So let's show our support and go out and see the movie two or three times again this weekend. We'll make Thursday night the new opening night for this movie. Go out and see it on Thursday and then go out and see it over the weekend again. Maybe we can all secure another $20 million+ weekend for Attack of the Clones so that the movie can at least make it to $320 million, beating Harry Potter.

We all know that this movie is something very special. People that I have talked to have said that this installment is the best Star Wars ever, yet the weekend numbers are falling every week. So, to all Star Wars fans out there, once again I plead you to go out and see this movie again this upcoming weekend. Just go and see it at least once. Tell all your friends to go see it with you again. We can't have Harry Potter and McCauley Culkin beating Star Wars, can we?

UPDATE: (by Jason Kaplan)
Despite the goodwill and enthusiasm of so many grass-roots, fan based Star Wars drives to 'save' AOTC's box office, ultimately it's like trying to win a national election by running around a neighborhood block.  Sure there's plenty of Star Wars fans, the movie did make several hundred million worldwide, but fans only account for a portion of the total box office take.  Hypothetically, more 'fans' saw AOTC then saw Spider-Man, but more people saw Spider-Man.  It sounds like a play of words, but it comes down to advertising.  Spider-Man did an excellent job advertising and managed to score plenty of free press on magazines, newspapers and TV shows.  AOTC kept a relatively low profile, especially compared to Phantom Menace.  By the way, 'it's better than Phantom Menace is NOT an adequate selling point' for most people.  Point in fact, marketing works.  The fans alone could not get AOTC to $400 million (that's roughly 67 million fans, or 6.7 million fans seeing it 10 times).

Those are the numbers, if you want to argue about quality, that's a whole different article....