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The Friday opening numbers for Gangs of New York aren't out yet, but the movie's a bust. Mediocre reviews, and the movie's expected US gross has slumped in trading on the Hollywood Stock Exchange. Insiders, the main participants in the exchange, are now betting the movie will make only $35.6m in the first four weeks of its US release. Harvey Weinstein of Miramax had said the studio needed a US gross of $55m to make money on Gangs, which seemed just about possible before word-of-mouth turned bad. Now, for Weinstein, it's all riding on Chicago, a musical, of all things.
GANGS [HSX]