over the four-day weekend, is estimated to make $57 million. we have not seen numbers like that in some time. you know, the studio, first they thought it might be higher then a little lower. they settled on $57 million. they re about $50 million plus going into today. it s been a big movie for them. by the way, it s not far off the numbers they would have predicted pre-pandemic. it really has people optimistic about what the future is for the box office. people are going back to the movies. also, the second place movie this weekend cruella did about $30 million and it s also streaming. those are really good numbers. there s a couple movies, and the theaters are really the studios are really excited about what s to come. f-9 opens in a couple weeks and that s a movie the studio said they would not sell to streaming because they thought this would make an impact at the box office and get people back
bret: awarded to our guest james patterson. thanks for being here. i m happy to be behind the bible. bret: how was that? for starters one of the award winners was the military band. the music was terrific. the president was gracious. we had my son there and wife it was wonderful. great event. bret: i want to put up on screen just how many books have you actually written. it s 277 books. 400 million copies sold. 218 titles on the new york times best seller list. 95 titles ranked number one on that best seller s list. i don t know where that numbers come from. it seems high. we will go with it. every time they give me award like this i know they want me to retire. it not happening. bret: new book out. alice cross. best selling series. couple movies.
best selling series. couple movies. along came a spider. bret: that character has been ever present for you. i love alex. alex loves me. it s good. nice relationship. bret: you also wrote a book in 2016 that s getting a lot more look back and that is about jeffrey epstein. yeah. that book really got some eyeballs now in the wake of everything that s happened since it me amazes thing in 2008 the trial didn t get that much coverage. i brought the book out in 2016. we had hundreds of young girls being molested. had the injustice in terms of epstein getting the 13-month sentence i couldn t get it picked up very much. it was interesting. we had almost all of what had happened. obviously he hadn t killed himself yet and it kind of amazed me. when it really got picked up, which was fascinating and you will appreciate this is when people started