Weekend Box Office: what we're all NOT doing this weekend.

According to Box Office Guru's Friday Estimates, not many of us are heading to the theaters this Labor Day weekend, and can you blame us? The weather is beautiful, this is technically the final weekend of the summer and, for myself, I have way too much music to add to the iPod to bother seeing such leftovers as the ones that were trotted out yesterday.

The Sandra Bullock comedy, "All About Steve" (a film that was shot over two years ago and has a whopping 6% approval rating on Rotten Tomatoes), looks to have tied with last week's champ "The Final Destination" for the top spot yesterday and possibly for the long weekend. "Steve" nabbed an estimated $3.6 mil yesterday, roughly the same as "Destination", which dropped a predictable 67% from its opening day the week before. Look for both to finish in the neighborhood of $14-17 mil by Monday night.

NERD ALERT! The Gerard Butler actionier "Gamer" opened with $3.3 mil on Friday and looks to reach roughly $13 mil for the weekend. I saw the trailer for this film before "Terminator: Salvation" in May and found the two minutes of ADD-esque, ear-shattering footage to be enough of a chore to sit through. Sitting through another 100 minutes or so could only prove suicide-inducing.

As expected, Mike Judge's workplace comedy "Extract" (see my mini-review from a few days ago below) opened with a tiny $1.5 mil and will be lucky to make it to $6 million for the holiday weekend. "Extract" isn't a bad film by any means, but it's not something one has to drive out to the theaters to see. Then again, neither are any of the films I've already mentioned in this article. If you have to see one of the new films that came out this weekend, make it this one. At least you'll walk away entertained and not feeling like you and your wallet were just violated.

As for the holdovers, watch for Quentin Tarantino's "Inglourious Basterds" and the sleeper hits "District 9", "Julie and Julia" and "The Time Traveler's Wife" to hold close to what they grossed last weekend. This should bring "Basterds" up to around $95 million, "District" up and over the $100 million milestone, "Julie" to roughly $78 mil and "Wife" to a very healthy $53 million.