BiffMan

Agreed, seems to be an inherent inertia to get back to 'normal' post-massive-OW numbers.

Yes, just having fun and trying to stay with the spirit of today's post. He said best legs, I believe also in jest, so I just yang'd his yin. I think that's what the kids are calling it these days... When something opens this huge, legs aren't as relevant, that's just the +/- 10% icing on the stupid-huge cake. 😉

To be fair, it also has the worst legs of any film to open north of $258M... Point taken, uncharted territory is inherently somewhat unpredictable.

Massive increase! $1B is back in play!!!

Indeed. Seems like the worst outcome for all of us would be if EG becomes predictable

I don't think there's any actual meat in KFC these days...

Did someone forget to sacrifice the live chicken? Or at least a bucket of KFC? Mmmmmm.... chicken....

Thus tacking yet another BV property on the list. Add in Toy Story 4, Frozen 2 and Episode 9... Hell, maybe even Artemis Fowl... How far down the final top 2019 list will we have to go for the first non-Disney movie?

Dat 9th week alone....

Puerto Rico comes through again!

In the absence of Monday spillover and Tuesday discounts, the Wednesday and Thursday screen counts will probably be as close to 'normal' as we get for now.

China run through Sat is going be lots of fun to watch.

The great thing about cinema is anything could be created anytime. I agree the economics of today make it significantly more challenging, but the other thing most of the movies on that list had in common is they offered something unique at the time and people got swept up in it. Not seeing something on the horizon is different than saying it won't happen. Creativity can always happen.

Movies earlier in the year = more toy and home video sales during the holidays. Likely still nets out considerably in their favor.

That's a next-level mindf*** right there. We are unworthy

Please don't misunderstand, I like the movie and have watched it plenty of times at home since. I've also seen several of the MCU movies 4+ times in the theater, CW just didn't happen to be one of them. Different strokes, and I'm good with that. 🙂

I loves me my Marvel movies, but CW was not a fun movie and therefore not one I'd pay a premium to see multiple times in a theater. It also didn't tap into the 'gotta see what all the fuss is about' GA potential like BP.

It's entirely possible Avatar will manage a generational leap. I hadn't watched it since the theater, but in prep for an upcoming Disneyworld trip, showed it to my 14 year old daughter a few months ago, and she was *hooked*, just crazy into it and wanted to watch it again and again. We get to Disneyworld, and she is just gaga over AvatarLand. Has watched it several times since. Would have never predicted that, so can't rule out Avatar 2 and beyond finding their own audience without needing to rely on nostalgia (if they're well made).

Important bit is that it'll look like $207/257/357m in any summary. Precision math can look the other way on this one....

I'd like to take a quick moment to thank this community for making this type of box office discussion possible. Minimal vitreol, delight in the yin/yang of predictibility/surprise, and enjoyment at the wonder of it all. I stumbled onto this group in 2008 at BOM, the same year a certain audacious franchise got underway. Blockbusters give us the joy of shared experience and this community gives us another tangential shared experience. Perfectly balanced, as all things should be.

Surely Puerto Rico must have right around $1m in delayed reporting, no?

I could see the OW record getting beat again before some of those later weeks Titanic records eventually get eclipsed from inflation. That 9th week one... damn. https://www.boxofficemojo.com/alltime/weekends/moreweekends.htm?page=9&p=.htm

90% market share boggles the mind... 350/389m top 12 DOM. https://www.boxofficemojo.com/alltime/weekends/num1marketshare.htm

Indeed

I just completely *love* underlying data point stuff like that, thank you for sharing!