Great Balls of Money!

This Movie Poster Monday we'll be reviewing "Moneyball". This week's five points of the poster are:

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1) Put Brad Pitt on any movie poster and "the ladies" will approve. Well, at least most ladies will approve, the others will just move on to the next movie poster. The bold "Pitt placement" in this poster will surely add a $10 million bump to its opening weekend.

2) Little known fact that about 2% of the American population are what's known as "Sleeper Baseball Movie Viewers" or SBMVs for short. These are people who have been programmed by a secret government black-ops group to watch all movies about baseball. Originally created during the Roosevelt administration these sleeper agents keep America's game alive in the cinema. Things that will activate them? Images of baseball diamonds, bats, balls, gloves, hot dogs, beer and Kevin Costner. Contrary to popular belief these agents do not own copies of "The Catcher in the Rye".

3) Brad Pitt showing his leading movie poster actor status by doing the complex over-the-shoulder movie poster pose. This is an extremely dangerous move for any actor, as some actors are completely unidentifiable from the side (i.e. - Kate Hudson)

4) Name dropping usually works, but in this case it does nothing for this movie poster. It might be based on a true story, but sounds like they never made a movie poster for it so I really can't carry over the experience I had from the other movie poster.

5) Making Brad Pitt's name five times the size of everyone else's is a good move because his name is the most symmetrical of all the starring names listed. People like symmetry, it's been proven that symmetrical faces are viewed as the most attractive, and for this reason it adds aesthetic appeal to this poster.

In conclusion, based on this thorough analysis I predict that "Moneyball" will gross $25.9 million in its opening weekend.