The retail group was weak Monday, with Best Buy, the electronics merchant, down 5.3percentt, at $37.66, after Goldman Sachs downgraded it to neutral.
And a trading statement went awry in January, sending easyJet's shares south by 17% in a day – a "very, very weak day" for the stock market generally, McCall points out defensively.
The buddy romance's haul of £1.12m, including weak Wednesday and Thursday previews of £250,000, compares with Role Models, which took more than double this tally (£2.33m, including £523,000 in previews) when it opened on the second weekend in January.
But television ratings are notoriously noisy, distorted by imperfect monitoring and by the imperfect science of statistical extrapolation, so he was on guard against drawing lessons from a strong Thursday, or a weak Monday.
The financial sector was also weak Monday, on the back of solvency concerns for Bear Stearns which were sparked after Moody's downgraded parts of securities issued by the broker backed by Alt-A mortgages.
Bank shares were weak Tuesday, just a few weeks before the anniversary of last year's financial Armageddon, when Lehman Brothers failed, AIG had to be rescued by the Federal Reserve, and Merrill Lynch was tied to Bank of America in a shotgun marriage over the span of a few days.
But even Pixar on a weak day is still better than much of Hollywood.
The mind of a person of uncertain purpose grows weak day by day and becomes so unsettled that he can think of nothing except what is in his mind at the moment... we lose our soul.
O'Leary said the EgyptAir disaster, in which a passenger jet with 66 people aboard crashed into the sea between Paris and Cairo last week, had also affected bookings: "It has already had an affect on business, bookings were weak on Thursday, Friday, Saturday.
While Orange Wednesday produced a barnstorming £1.5m, the weekend saw takings dip from a solid Friday (just over £1m) to a weaker Saturday (£777,000) and even weaker Sunday (£662,000).
