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  1. There will be a few hundred thousand between these two for sure. Neither hitting $30 million though by the looks (maybe Panda JUST hits the number)
  2. $250 million locked up for Dune now. $280-300 million range finish I would think.
  3. The Fall Guy campaign just lit a match tonight. Gosling is going to be all anybody is talking about this week, they’ve just got to capitalise on it now
  4. Panda doing serious numbers whilst Dune storms to $250 million area is great news all round. Do I want Dune to top $300 million? Hell yeah. Panda being a big hit is great for the overall business though. Make no mistake. Strong weekend. We’ve turned a corner for sure.
  5. Cineworld IMAX? I’m in London next week and thinking of seeing it in there as have never been in that screen. I know Odeon have the 70mm but that’s not IMAX ratio and the BFI is sold out whilst I’m there pretty much. Recommend it in that flagship Cine screen?
  6. In my nearby multiplex in the U.K. they’re already taking bookings for a fourth IMAX weekend of Dune, the weekend Ghostbusters opens. IMAX exclusively Dune too.
  7. 48% PLF 🤣 What does that tell you? Nobody wants to see this thing in a flea pit Build more premium screens morons!!
  8. yeah. As long as they can crow ‘Doubled Part One’s OW’ then that will be more than satisfactory for them.
  9. Over or under Oppenheimer’s $82.5 million? It’ll be close.
  10. I’m reminded of that great poster that came out promoting the Star Wars Trilogy Special Editions in 1997 ”Three reasons why they build movie theaters” The trailer stated a generation had only seen Star Wars on the tv screen. “If you’ve only seen it this way, you haven’t seen it at all”. They were of course correct, and now we have a sci-fi epic in Dune Part Two that is every bit the experience of Lucas’s trilogy. Only they didn’t build enough theaters for people to see what it was made for. These early numbers are good of course, but the reason they’re not bigger is there isn’t enough screens to see it on. Simple as that. That should be the industry’s takeaway from opening weekend. The gargantuan PLF slice is literally screaming at them to invest in how people want to see event movies in 2024 and beyond.
  11. it’ll be the same the world over. I’d bet you could look at any major theater chain in most countries that have PLF and see the standard screens totally sparse of crowds who are not showing up unless they can see it in PLF. The PLF auditoriums relatively sold out days and days out. It is a massive problem. It’s all well and good saying that they’ll wait until they can get a ticket, but there’s no better time to get these people in than the hype of opening week. New PLF contracted event films are coming in a couple of weeks and it’ll be out of the screens people want and should be able to see it in. Tons of potential ticket buyers then not bothering. I cannot fathom why the entire industry is not ploughing capital into the theatres to reap the rewards. It is insane to me. Cinemas for decades had the luxury of having an experience you couldn’t get at home. Now, even with amazing home theatre options, the business has the luxury of PLF to dangle infront of ticket buyers. Only they don’t seem to want to capitalise on it!?! The format is almost single handedly holding the business up, when it should just become the norm for at least two or three screens at every major multiplex.
  12. PLF ratio is absurd from what I’m looking like in the UK. Pre-sales rock solid in those screens all week and into the following week. People want to see it the full premium way, and will wait if they have to. Yet again we have a movie that will prove multiplexes need to get more of these screens. It should be a priority for the business
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