It May Be Getting …
… uneven reviews, but moviegoers lined up to see the latest installment of “Pirates of the Caribbean” this weekend. The Johnny Depp-starrer led this weekend’s take.

Here’s this weekend, by the numbers:

Name: Weekend: Total:
Pirates $90.10M $90.10M
Bridesmaids $21.06M $59.52M
Thor $15.50M $145.41M
Fast Five $10.63M $186.22M
Rio $4.65M $131.65M
Priest $4.60M $23.68M
Jumping The Broom $3.70M $31.32M
Something Borrowed $3.42M $31.43M
Water For Elephants $2.15M $52.43M
Madea’s Big Happy Family $0.99M $51.76M

This weekend’s New York Times, meanwhile, has a big take-out on “Network” screenwriter Paddy Chayefsky and an in-depth look at the notes he left behind:

“LAMENTING the lack of “satirical clarity” in the screenplay he was laboring on in the early 1970s, Paddy Chayefsky was mad at himself and American television viewers at large. He was seeing the venomous spirit of the era of Watergate and the Vietnam War infiltrate every program the broadcast networks offered, from their news shows to their sitcoms, and he concluded in a typewritten note to himself that the American people “don’t want jolly, happy family type shows like Eye Witness News”; no, he wrote, “the American people are angry and want angry shows.” He had set out to write a comedy, but if his film script was funny at all, he said, “the only joke we have going for us is the idea of ANGER.”

You can read the full story here.