"Gangster Squad" looks the part, but it's so superficial it practically evaporates before our eyes.

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Still, "Gangster Squad's" second weekend was better than the debuts of new releases "Broken City" and "The Last Stand, " which both flopped out of the gate.

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Time Warner said "Gangster Squad" and "Jack the Giant Slayer" fell short of expectations in theaters and the company had fewer TV shows available for licensing abroad.

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The trailer, for "Gangster Squad, " a period crime film, had played before some "Dark Knight" screenings, but not in the Aurora Century 16 Theatre where the shooting took place.

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Both films played primarily to older male audiences (who are also seeing "Zero Dark Thirty" and "Gangster Squad"), and they may have cannibalized each other over their first three days.

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Within 24 hours, Warner Bros had pulled the trailer for Gangster Squad from cinemas, and the film's release date was pushed back by six months so the scene could be reshot.

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While Anthony Mackie is often cast as the virtuous token black guy in ensemble pictures (see The Gangster Squad, Abraham Lincoln: Vampire Hunter, or The Adjustment Bureau), here he gets to cut loose a little playing a genuine rogue.

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The film, expected in theaters in July and starring Ryan Reynolds (Van Wilder, Green Lantern), Paul Giamatti (Sideways, John Adams) and Michael Pena (Gangster Squad, Tower Heist), depicts a snail that, through some strange turn of events, manages to become capable of great speeds in the aftermath of a freak accident.

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