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And so everyone is forced to come back down to Earth. The important thing to remember is that these are still incredible numbers.

Well, sure. Obviously Guardians isn't gonna beat Hunger Games Part 17 or whatever but beating everything that came before it this year would still be insane (if it happens).

If Guardians of the freakin' Galaxy beats the opening weekends for Transformers, Captain America, Spider-man, Godzilla, X-Men, Apes, etc. (all basically established franchises with very well known characters) that will be TOTALLY INSANE. Box office story of the year without a doubt and one of the biggest box office stories of the decade. We will have soooooo many superhero and sci-fi team-up movies coming our way. Haha.

If this movie does 80 m OW, the trades will write about what a huge success it is and rightfully so. This forum will be crying in its collective beer though. WHAT A FLOP! lol.

Umm, what about it looks so terrible to you?

Exactly. Cap 2 did 10 million on a Thursday night in early April! This did 11 million on a Thursday night in late July! Apples and oranges.

Yep, August record is gonna get murdered. People are getting ahead of themselves with the rest of this talk though.

Anyone seriously thinking that 90 m OW is the floor is setting themselves up to be disappointed. Sorry. Think of 75 m OW as the absolute floor and set yourselves up to hopefully be very pleasantly surprised.

Hate to point out the obvious but 100 m OW is anything but a lock. It's a lot easier to make $11 million from Thursday showings at the end of July than it is to make $10 million from Thursday showings in early freakin' April and Cap 2 still didn't make it to 100 m OW. That said the number is incredible and I do think that a 80+ m OW is pretty much locked.

I will be annoyed if this thing just barely beats Cap 2's OW. It's gonna be so close.

An eight year break between movies would help too.

Looks like this could be a pretty close showdown between Cap and Spidey in terms of the OW at least. Go Cap!

Solid number for Cap. Cool.

My theater cancelled all of its late shows because of the weather (Regal in upstate NY). My friend's theater did the same (Regal in north NJ.) This is not going to be a good day for The Hobbit 2: Electric Bugaloo or the box office in general.

So is this going to beat TDKR? I hope not.