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If Uncharted manages a 15 mil Friday (including Thursday sneaks). What are we thinking the rest of the week looks like in terms of the multiplier?

I think it's interesting that Poppins daily numbers so far are playing more like a leggy adult drama than a standard family Disney live-action . It makes sense though given it's a musical, has some awards buzz, and has 50 years of heavy nostalgia touching pretty much everyone over the age of 30. The fact that families can bring their kids is icing on the cake but the driving force for going to see it are the adults. It's why silly folks like Scott Mendelson immediately started writing off the film as a disappointment after the Wed-Friday opening and then changed their tune shortly afterwards. He was incorrectly expecting a blockbuster kids movie.

Aquaman: 16.5 Poppins: 8.7 Bumblebee: 7.2

Poppins: 6.9

About 11 million Saturday. 22 percent drop from Friday. The matinees were strong and then it collapsed at night it seems. The Friday acted more like an event than we thought it would but I still think it will have legs in the coming weeks.

They haven't dropped much at all. Beyond the initial 40 and change estimate on Friday night it hasn't swayed more than a million or so.

Yeah if you thought Mamma Mia 1 was fun, there is basically no way you wouldn't enjoy this one. It's basically just a better version of that movie.

As of now, Mamma Mia is running pretty much exactly in line with yesterday so expect a pretty flat Friday - Saturday number similar to the first Mamma Mia which had a 0.2% drop on its first Saturday. Equalizer is currently running about 15% ahead of yesterday but that's to be expected. Curious to see what the night brings.

Fallen Kingdom: 11.4

By ugly do you mean right in line with expectations / exceeding expectations given the huge Tuesday? There's a long list of top grossers that dropped more than 33% from Tuesday - Wednesday even without the Tuesday increase Jurassic had. I outlined a few of them earlier. Were people expecting a drop in line with a sleeper hit or something? This is a mega blockbuster and it's behaving like one.

Fallen Kingdom with 12.3m is a Tuesday to Wednesday drop of 33%. I'd argue that's better than expected given the huge Tuesday. Wonder Woman: 35% drop from first Tuesday (14.3) to Wednesday (9.3). Deadpool 2: 35.2% drop from first Tuesday (12.4) to Wednesday (8.03) Thor: Ragnarok: 43% drop from first Tuesday (10.8) to Wednesday (6.1) Someone explain to me how a 33% drop on a Wednesday for FW is "ugly"?

For those saying this sequel is unnecessary, unwarranted or are just generally confused by Universal giving it a greenlight are forgetting the studio's much publicized strategy of taking films and nurturing them into a franchise without having to make expensive IP purchases. They don't shy away from making sequels to modest successes and they believe (rightly so) that if you take what worked, throw away what didn't, and focus on making a better movie, there is huge potential. Look at The Purge, Pitch Perfect, Fast & Furious, and Neighbors. I respect that they don't immediately give up on modest successes. Also, how awesome that we have three amazing female actors headlining a movie like this?

Haha. Yes. I got the point. Whoopsy. The idea that it was the step-child of the MCU, failed to perform well at the box office, has since been largely ignored by the rest of the films in the series, and contained a pivotal character that was recast for Avengers still shares some similarities with what I believe Dracula Untold will be to Universal's shared universe.

Dracula Untold was definitely there to test the waters for the shared universe but Kurtzman, who has been tasked with nurturing the MSU has said Mummy will be the real kick-off and whether or not Evans has a cameo in Mummy is still up in the air. Let's not forget Incredible Hulk (2008) was technically the start of the MCU and that didn't exactly set the world on fire either with Marvel basically starting the character from scratch anyway despite the fact that it is technically canon.

Bourne 5 next year will do absolutely enormous business unless it's an absolute stinker. Secret Life of Pets is going to be huge as well which will give them a brand new franchise to build on. The real wild card starts in 2017 when Universal launches their first Monsters Shared Universe film hits. If Kurtzman can make that Mummy reboot good then Universal will be in an awesome spot going into the next few years.

Colin and Steven had a meeting with Donna Langley and the goal is for Colin to have a very rough script by August. Colin isn't directing the sequel but he will be very involved just like Spielberg. And if Spielberg doesn't like the script, the studio won't set the date yet. In other words, this won't be like the Furious films. We'll be getting a sequel and it's all happening quickly but the cameras won't start rolling until both Donna and Spielberg are happy.

Blackhat was funded 100% by Legendary Pictures as well. Both Seventh Son and Blackhat were strict distribution deals for Universal in 2015. As Above, So Below was also 100% Legendary so they have been on quite a sad run lately. Ted 2 was 50% Media Rights Capital and 50% Universal. Jurassic World was 75% Universal and 25% Legendary.

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Jurassic World - 11.7 - (70%) Inside Out - 10.4 (-59%)

Bring on Jurassic World!

Monday: San Andreas: 4.78 (-70%) Mad Max: 1.65 (-63%) Pitch Perfect 2: 1.41 (-66%) Tomorrowland: 1.29 (-71%) Avengers: - 1.07 (70%) Aloha - 0.85 (-66%)

I haven't been on the forums in a while but from my perspective a 30% Wednesday drop seems expected.

WEDNESDAY: Furious 7 - 9.32 (-30%) Home - 3.32 (-23%) Cinderella - 1.42 (-21%) Ged Hard - 1.2 (-22%) Insurgent - 0.97 (-24%)

Way too early for anything meaningful. As would be expected both Spongebob and Kingsman are currently ahead of the Duff and Time Machine in the matinee grosses while McFarland is currently even with Spongebob. Doesn't mean much at this point since McFarland is obviously a matinee movie while Duff and Time Machine are the opposite. I'll say this though, Hot Tub Time Machine's very early numbers look pitiful to me even side-by-side with the matinee numbers for the first film.