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Chris Nolan’s  Interstellar  topped the Friday box office with a $17 million, giving it $19.15 million since Tuesday night. Disney’s animated  Big Hero 6  earned a terrific $15.83 million and will probably top the charts for the weekend.  As expected, it was a pretty big Friday for both new releases. Chris Nolan’s  Interstellar  had a somewhat odd unique schedule, going out in 249 film-only theaters and racking up around $2.15 million prior to its national roll-out on Thursday at 8:00pm, where it grabbed another $2.7m from pre-release previews. So when I tell you that the film earned $17m on “Friday,” I’m including the $2.7m in Thursday sneaks (per usual) but not including the $2.15m in early previews over its first 48 hours. So for the moment, the Matthew McConaughey/Anne Hathaway/Jessica Chastain/Michael Caine outer-space adventure has earned $19.15m at the end of its first regular day of business. This is all worth clarifying becau...