Rudolf

How many action pics openend recently the week before Memorial Day?

The Avengers 1 dropped 13.5% for their Tuesday 3 years ago TA2 now under 60% of TA1 in the dailies. If it does approximately 50% for the rest of the run, it will finish with about 450 DOM

I remember some posts, where fans were quite sure that AVATAR was going down - so the comparision is legal

less than 1/3rd of what AVATAR did on 2nd Tuesday - pathetique AVATAR made $500m after 12th day will TA2 make significantly more than $100m?

only 35% drop to last SAT? Has that ever happened with a 100m opener? edit: SM1 dropped 30%

Batmen breaking OW records again and again

so comparing TA2 as percentage of TA THU 148% FRI 95% SAT 81% SUN 88% MON 70% TUE 74% WED 69% THU 70% FRI 72% SAT 71% SUN 79% why this sudden increase on Sunday?

OS TA2 is doing allright, but DOM is rather disappointing: Mo to We it did less than FF7 did.

TA2 is already very froantloaded compared to TA ________TA_______TA2 Thu 18.7 27.6 Fri 62.1 56.9 Sat 69.6 59.0 Sun 57.0 46.0 Mon 18.9 following this progression the Monday BO of TA2 should be around $14m

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yes, but was the effect of the fight not different for eastcoast and westcoast? it did hurt LA more than NY? so probably the fight was during the best BO-time on the westcoast?

because of the time difference?

isn't it should have gone to ...?

so TA2 is even now more front loaded than TA as expected? ________TA_____TA2 Thu 18.7 27.6 Fri 62.1 56.9 Sat 69.6 63.0 Sun 57.0 ?

Mexico is even more into men wearing colourful costumes than the USA. Just look how mexican wrestlers are dressing up.

China had a higher OD than USA+Canada for FF7. Could Avangers2 also have a higher maximum dayscore in China, because $60m look doable for them?

Shouldn't one divide the numbers in real midnites,post 10 o'clocks, post 9 o'clocks, etc Otherwise it is comparing apples with oranges or pine apples.

The France BO is almost as bad as the German BO of Home. If China does not contribute lots of money, Penguines $373.5m WW won't get beaten by much by Home. DreamWorks fate won't be saved by it. Funny US stockanalyst haved not realized this. For them Home is still the "homerun", they want to see in it, because Home did better than expected at home.

Home opened with $8.5m more than The Croods, but after 4th weekend The Croods were $142.4m and Home is predicted with $141.6m. With $54m OW-estimate Home looked like a surprise hit for DreamWorks, but it will not even be another Croods for them, because OS is not so good outside English speaking markets (no Jim Parsons or Rihana to hear).

the first 3 did not even have VHS or piracy

lion king? Lion King is based on Hamlet, but similar things can be said about most movies. Frozen was a very clever adaption of a HC Anderson fairy tale. Some critics have pointed out, that very potent pictures of lion king were diretly taken out of a Japanese comic book (stolen). TLM simply looked unappealing to nonEnglish speaking people. (It made less than $130M there, where over 90% of all people live).Even second or third rated animated movies make compareable money here Cloudy With A Chance Of Meatballs 2 made about $123M.

I see. For instance. In th 70s in Germany they casted a famous shot putter as Siegfried in a Niebelungen Saga movie (you probably know this story). He was not even an actor just a big guy. He gave quite a decent performance (but without starting a movie career). In my opinion one of the best versions of this story. Two famous sportsmen of Austrian decend (Johnny Weismüller and Arnold Schwarzenegger) started their careers as stunt casts. If their celebrity status helps a movie being made, why not? Would you say, that Home's cast was unecessary for the movie?

USA+Canada larger in area but less than 1/4 the inhabitants of China

Why is stunt casting so bad? For Shrek casting Eddie Murphy worked wonders (his German voice sounds very similar by the way). Those actors earn a lot of money, but they seam to despise those castings. I think it was Chris Rock, who made fun of how much "undeserved" money he got for just a few lines speaking with a cracy voice (at some ceremony or another). The secret of good animation creation is giving your characters a soul. A main part of that is the voice. But also mimic and gestures are important. If remember correctly for Aladdin they had small little Tom Cruise in mind (but without motion capturing).

If DWA knows how important the voice actors are for their success, why don't they invest similar dilligence and money in looking for voice actors in the different OS languages? Ice Ages' German success is mostly due to Otto Waalkes voicing Sid. Sheldon Cooper is well known in Germany but not so much is Jim Parsons. How could he? In DWA's shoes I would have sent Jim Parsons along with his different voice actors (at leat for the major markets) around the world. He could have mentioned Home in talk shows, where people wanted to see the actor behind Sheldon Cooper. If DWA wants a franchise out of it, the efford would have been worth it. In the end Home will not make so much more than Pinguines WW.