'Wolverine' looks to dominate weekend

April 29, 2009 Many of Thursday night's roughly 1,500 midnight performances for "Wolverine" have sold out, so Fox domestic distribution president Bruce Snyder expressed cautious optimism Wednesday over the Hugh Jackman starrer's weekend prospects. "With the presales for tonight's midnight shows and what we understand the presales to be for the weekend, we expect to have a wonderful weekend at the boxoffice," Snyder said. Despite the long shadow "Wolverine" will cast over the marketplace, distributors discovered several years ago that the early start to summer breaks on many college campuses can lend an early-season heft to all sorts of younger-skewing pics.

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