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May 11 2007 12:00am EDT

The Week (5/7-5/11) By the Numbers

5: Number of Mexican directors--including Guillermo Del Toro (Pan's Labyrinth), Alfonso Cuaron (Little Children) and Alejandro Gonzalez Inarritu (Babel)--looking to make unprecedented collective deal with a studio; five pictures for around $100 million. By the way, they're still looking. (Monday)

70: Percent of all pirated Warner Bros. titles, released over the past 18 months, that originated in Canada, leading the studio to cancel all promotional and word-of-mouth screening there until the Canadian government makes it illegal to bring camcorders into theaters. (Tuesday)

2,500,000: number of viewers that ABC, NBC, CBS and Fox have lost in the past year. (Wednesday)

32: Number of state attorneys general that called for the MPAA to give films containing smoking an R rating unless they reflect the dangers of the habit or the person smoking on screen is a historical figure. (Thursday)

175,000,000: High-end box office estimate of the four-day opening weekend gross for upcoming Pirates of the Caribbean: At World's End, which hits theaters May 25th. (Friday)


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