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A $60 million cumulative gross by the end of the Memorial Day weekend is still reasonable, but the film&#8217;s tab will now presumably come in well below the $75 million that many had forecast.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Prince of Persia: The Sands of Time,&#8221; meanwhile, did nothing to electrify the box office, landing in third with $10.2 million; holdover winner &#8220;Shrek: The Final Chapter&#8221; was second with $11.3 million and has a good chance of outpacing &#8220;Sex&#8221; by the end of the weekend.<\/p>\n<p>Also in the top five were &#8220;Iron Man 2&#8221; ($4 million) and &#8220;Robin Hood&#8221; ($2.9 million).<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"adace-sponsor":[],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v21.1 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/wordpress\/plugins\/seo\/ -->\n<title>&quot;Prince of Persia&quot; 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