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Top Gay-Related Theatrical Releases

1. Milk ($2 million; $17.3 million after 6 wks; $6638 per screen)
2. High School Musical 3: Senior Year ( $243,418; $90 million after 11 weeks; $295 per screen)
3. Antarctica ($6,033; $16,312 total after 7 wks; $6,033 per screen)
4. Ciao ($3,138; $22,944 total after 5 wks; $1,046 per screen)
5. Were the World Mine ($1,632; $88,788 after 10 wks; $544 per screen)

Analysis and more rankings after the jump!

Snicks may already be feeling all humbug-y, but the rest of us are still eagerly sucking down the eggnog, engaging in a week-long bender of holiday cheer (and willfully oblivious to the post-Christmas letdown that will surely hit us on Friday like a brass nutcracker in the, well, nuts).

What's my favorite part of the holidays? In addition to the antiquated holiday specials, it's the labored "holiday episode" of my favorite shows. You know the episode I mean: the one where the main characters learn a Christmas-related lesson, usually after being "snowed in" and unable to go "home" for the holidays, or else after being visited by three ghosts, played in painful cameo-like fashion by the show's put-upon secondary characters.

Weirdly, most shows seem to only do one or two "holiday" episodes no matter how many seasons they run, which they then proceed to rerun each year in the "Christmas" slot. I guess even they can only take so many sweltering Julys where they have to pretend it's Christmas and snowing outside.

But the Christmas lessons learned are a little different on most of our favorite "gay" shows. How so? Find out after the jump!

Welcome to the AfterElton.com Ranking Roundup, a regular feature where we round up the rankings from various sources as to what is, and isn't, hot in gay male entertainment!

Top Gay-Related Theatrical Releases

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1. Milk ($2 million; $4.5 million after 2 wks; $20,000 per screen)
2. Zack and Miri Make a Porno ($250,000; $31 million after 6 wks; $915 per screen)
3. High School Musical 3: Senior Year ( $244,722; $89 million after 7 weeks; $387 per screen)
4. Dostana ($31,000; $1.2 million after 4 wks; $3016 per screen)
5. Were the World Mine ($9,784; $50,323 after 6 wks; $3261 per screen)
6. Noah's Arc: Jumping the Broom ($9,015; $526,259 total after 7 wks; $1,803 per screen)
7. Save Me ($4011; $79,530 total after 14 wks; $4011 per screen)
8. Ciao ($2,672; $2,672 total after 1 wk; $2,672 per screen)
9. Breakfast With Scot ($770; $36,919 total after 7 wks; $770 per screen)

The big news of the week, of course, is that Milk continues to clean up in limited release. As the critics' awards are announced in the days and weeks ahead, the producers clearly hope to "go wide" by capitalizing on the buzz and acclaim, exactly as Brokeback Mountain did.

More ratings and analysis after the jump!

How gay are animated Christmas specials? Pretty gay. But waaaaay too much has already been written about gay-esque characters such as all the misfits in Rudolph the Red-Nosed Reindeer, Sally-avoiding Linus in A Charlie Brown Christmas, and Jingle and Jangle in The Year Without a Santa Claus.

Yes, yes, we get it — Hermey doesn't fit in among the "elves," because he wants to be a "dentist."

Please. That's the low-hanging gay fruit of animated Christmas specials. Surely you expect more from us here at AfterElton.com than to harvest that tired crop yet again this year.

So let's dig a little deeper into the gay subtext of 60's animated holiday cartoons and stop-motion Christmas puppetry, shall we?

Click onward for some equally gay Christmas special moments that you just may have missed!

Welcome to the AfterElton.com Ranking Roundup, a regular feature where we round up the rankings from various sources as to what is, and isn't, hot in gay male entertainment!

Top Rated Gay-Themed TV Shows

1. Dancing with the Stars, ABC Monday/Tuesday (21/20.6 million viewers)
2. Desperate Housewives, ABC (15.6 million viewers)
3. Brothers & Sisters, ABC (10.2 million viewers)
4. Rosie Live, NBC (5 million viewers)
5. Holiday in Handcuffs, Family Channel (3.1 million viewers)
6. As the World Turns, CBS (for week ending 11/17, 2.65 million viewers)
7. True Blood (season finale), HBO (2.4 million)
8. Entourage, HBO (2 million)

As always, ratings for Brothers & Sisters dropped off considerably from its lead-in, Desperate Housewives (which introduced a new gay sub-plot on Sunday). But B&S is still performing very strongly in — and winning — key female demos, and it's the number one non-sports show for all young adults (it's up against NBC's Sunday Night Football).

The whole world knows that Rosie O'Donnell's first — and probably last — foray into the variety show (which included newly-out guest Clay Aiken) tanked in the ratings, but it still beat the one of the few remaining airings of the now-cancelled Pushing Daisies.

A repeat showing of last year's Holiday in Handcuffs, starring an oft-shirtless Mario Lopez, did surprisingly well. The Family Channel TV movie includes a small gay sub-plot.

As the World Turns was up 5% (for the week ending 11/17), but is still down more than 10% from this point last year, sparking cancellation rumors.

More ratings and analysis after the jump!

Welcome to the AfterElton.com Ranking Roundup, a regular feature where we round up the rankings from various sources as to what is, and isn't, hot in gay male entertainment!

Top Gay-Related Theatrical Releases

1. High School Musical 3: Senior Year ($2 million; $86.9 million after 5 wks; $868 per screen)
2. Zack and Miri Make a Porno ($1.6 million; $29 million after 4 wks; $1314 per screen)
3. Dostana ($220,179; $985,433 after 2 wks; $3016 per screen)
4. Were the World Mine ($19,192; $21,786 after 4 wks; $6,397 per screen)
5. Noah's Arc: Jumping the Broom ($18,729; $482,638 total after 5 wks; $3,746 per screen)
6. Breakfast With Scot ($770; $36,919 total after 7 wks; $770 per screen)
7. Tru Loved ($745; $7,892 total after 6 wks; $373 per screen)
8. Otto; Or, Up with Dead People ($240; $6,793 total after 3 wks; $240 per screen)
9. Cthulhu ($32; $15,213 total after 14 wks; $32 per screen)

There's plenty of gay indie fare on the list this week, though most of the movies are playing in very limited engagements in only a smattering of cities. Success is decidedly mixed. The festival hit Were the World Mine is packing 'em in as it expands from a single theater to three, with an impressive $6,397 per screen average, and Noah's Arc: Jumping the Broom continues its solid release. But those gay indie movies that have taken critical drubbings, including Breakfast With Scot, Tru Loved, and Otto; Or, Up with Dead People, are doing disastrously, with total grosses in the low double or even single digits.

Cthulhu, the gay horror movie starring Tori Spelling, made only $32 for the whole week, at a single theater at the tail end of another disappointing run. Dostana is a gay "Bollywood" movie that debuted impressively last week, though receipts have plunged 71% in this its second week, suggesting word-of-mouth may not be strong. Is the gay content upsetting Indian-American audiences?

More ratings and analysis after the jump!

Welcome to the AfterElton.com Ranking Roundup, a regular feature where we round up the rankings from various sources as to what is, and isn't, hot in gay male entertainment!

Top Rated Gay TV Shows

1. Dancing with the Stars, Monday/Tuesday (17.1, 15.6 million viewers, down 10%)
2. Survivor: Gabon (12 million viewers, down 8%)
3. Brothers & Sisters (10.1 million viewers, up 10%)
4. Ugly Betty (8.9 million viewers, up 3%)
5. As the World Turns (for week ending 10/31, 2.5 million viewers, down 12%)
6. Privileged (1.9, unchanged)

Brothers & Sisters' ratings may be up from last week, but they're down from this point last year — probably due to a weaker lead-in from Desperate Housewives, which is also down (B&S's terrible storylines probably aren't helping).

Ugly Betty's ratings were down last year, but now that it's reaching an all-time creative high (and now that Lindsay Lohan is gone!), viewers may — knock on wood — slowly be creeping back.

More ratings and analysis after the jump!

Javier Beltran (left) and Robert Pattinson in Little Ashes

Stars such as Will Smith and Jake Gyllenhaal have played gay on their way to international superstardom, but Robert Pattinson, currently best known as Cedric from the Harry Potter movies, has the order reversed. This Friday, he opens in Twilight, the eagerly-awaited adaptation of the first book in the bestselling teen vampire series, and it's widely expected to make him a star.

But come winter (in the U.K.) and spring (in the U.S.), we'll see him starring as Salvador Dali in Little Ashes, a small British movie about the passionate friendship/"bromance"/love affair between the famous "straight" painter and his gay playwright friend Federico García Lorca.

More pics from the film after the jump!

Welcome to the AfterElton.com Ranking Roundup, a regular feature where we round up the rankings from various sources as to what is, and isn't, hot in gay male entertainment!

TV Cancellation-Watch List

TV By the Numbers argues that what gets a scripted broadcast network show canceled is its rating in the 18-49 demo (the rules are different for non-scripted shows, which have lower production costs). Numbers divides a show’s season-to-date rating in the key demo by the network average to determine a Renew/Cancel Index. Here are the shows of gay interest with that index, in the order they are likely to be canceled by the end of the year, from most likely to least likely:

The following shows are likely to be canceled soon:
1. Pushing Daisies, ABC (.65)
2. Dirty Sexy Money, ABC (.69)
3. Lipstick Jungle, NBC (.73)
4. Privileged, CW (.88)

The following shows are unlikely to be canceled:
5. Ugly Betty, ABC (.92)
6. My Name is Earl, NBC (.98)
7. Brothers & Sisters, ABC (1.23)
8. How I Met Your Mother, CBS (1.26)
9. Gossip Girl, CW (1.51)
10. Desperate Housewives, ABC (1.98)

Check out movies and more TV ratings after the jump!

Philip Winchester and Tongayi Chirisa/All photos courtesy NBC Photo: Kelly Walsh

In these heady days of Survivor bromance and cheeky gay in-jokes on Supernatural, it's hard not to get excited about a new television retelling of Robinson Crusoe, the classic 1719 novel by Daniel Defoe that is rife with hilarious-in-retrospect homoerotic subtext between the shipwrecked main character and his distracting native "man-servant" Friday.

So what can we say about NBC's new Crusoe, which returns tonight (at 9/8c)? Can we say, "Damn, they actually went there!" Or "Finally a gay male version of Xena's famous lesbian subtext!"

Find out after the jump!