I take it from the title you added to this story that you are happy Julia Roberts's film will get clobbered. Did you actually read the story and see that it will only be in 450 theaters across the country, as opposed to National Treasure being in over 3,000 theaters? It's called wide release vs. limited release. It isn't likely that a film like Closer will ever come close to making as much money as National Treasure, but at least understand why the difference in this week's box office.
Right. It's called a movie that makes money vs a movie that doesn't., or a movie that clobbers another movie. If the Roberts film can't draw crowds -- which is why they're only showing it in a few movie houses -- then that's another way of saying it's going to get clobbered -
Closer is the wrong title for this movie. It should be Closed. The same way Julia's mouth SHOULD be when talking about politics.