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If only studios took the same formula for OS BO. Like 1 yen = 1 USD or 1 IDR = 1 USD or 1 Zimbabwe monopoly money = 1 USD. We will not have any more BO flops.

FYI this came up in Canada BO thread but this is the most shocking thing I have learned about Box office in ages. Basically studios are making CAD = USD for Canada BO !!!

More i think this has to be the craziest BO info I have learned and following BO for almost 3 decades, I thought I have known it all. Even WW total for movies are no longer valid !!!

For Panda to hit 50m OW, it needs to basically double the walkups that Trolls 3 had. That did slightly over 65K walkups at MTC1. So 130K walkups. I think that would be tough to do in March. Let us see how things go tomorrow before we assume anything.

Dune 2 MTC1 Day 8(Friday) - 73308/755501 1405317.88 4420 shows Day 9(Saturday) - 100087/788924 1787976.65 4607 shows Its maintaining 80/90% of daily pace of last week. Similar ratio will takeit 195K for Friday for 14m ish 2nd friday, 22m saturday and 15m Sunday for 51m 2nd weekend 🙂

Saturday increase is still more impressive but this is under 10% drop from Monday. Its set for 50m+ 2nd weekend.

Kung Fu Panda 4 MTC1 Previews(T-1) - 27688/456367 411864.48 3144 shows +5527 Friday - 47914/810715 708369.90 5454 shows +12040 Definite growth after the drop yesterday. Previews seem to close around ~ 50-53k. Probably around 700K at MTC1 if you discount for some kids tickets. Its going to under index at MTC1 but still dont see more than 3m in previews. Let us see how walkups go tomorrow. Friday also grew well. Probably looking 80K finish by the time shows start. If it doubles that we are looking at ~9m True Friday. Let us see if walkups are even better than that. Saturday is probably the key. Dune almost increased 40% last week and so have to say 15m saturday and 12m Sunday can happen unless Oscar have some impact. May be even 100% increase if that is possible for mid 40s OW. Let us wait and see.

Good point. Did not know that. So what kind of IM we are looking from OD. @Issac Newton said 70-80m yuan OD is expected at the moment.

Wait. They are counting CAD as USD. So all records have a huge caveat !!!

Is this CAD or real $

Dune under indexed compared to say Oppenheimer or say some DCEU Super hero movies. That said Panda should do that even more as its not Imax/PLF driven at all.

Canada is still tiny % of overall weekend for big movies. Later in the run they make bigger difference as movies are leggier in Canada.

Lightyear had higher ATP than what I am seeing for Panda and Panda's ATP will keep going down with most sales being on 2D plus any discounts for kids tickets. Its not getting a proper PLF release. Dune is keeping most of them at MTC1 for sure.

One aspect in regards to comps is ATP. Wonka had much higher ATP than what Panda is having. Elemental, Trolls, Migration are great comps for sure as they also had similar ATP to what KFP will end up at.

I like to be conservative.

To me it obvious from yesterday. Its Imax/PLF have similar sales for entire week and WOM is out of the world. Why will it drop like a Super hero movie or normal blockbuster. We should be comping this with Oppenheimer which dropped on tuesday and then had a mild wednesday drop.

Yes. PLFs are flat for a while. That is why its not going to have big drops. Even shows even 2D shows are showing good occupancy in big markets I checked. its riding the strong WOM at this point. I think everyone will realize it after the upcoming weekend for sure.

Dune had strong walkups over the weekend. Normally I would say you are right but movies in 2nd weekend tend to be slightly less presales driven. We will see for sure.

I am thinking high 40s 2nd weekend. Its presales are extremely strong for this weekend.

Dune 2 MTC1 Day 8(Friday) - 57379/753179 1120101.37 4399 shows Day 9(Saturday) - 79744/787133 1449116.54 4595 shows Friday is up like 110% from Panda while saturday is around 150% higher than Panda. Dont know how Panda can beat Dune this weekend. It should be interesting.

Ok. We will see. I am thinking 20% or tad lower.

Impossible.

Charlie is off here for sure. No way it does just 150m this weekend based on presales.

Xfinity offer has been around for a while and its for Fandango and so not specific to any TC. As long as your theater sells tickets through Fandango you are good and I think most chains do that these days.