Updated Russia numbers including Sunday. http://kinometro.ru/blog/2012/05/long-weekend-may-3-9-estimates/458mln RUB 4day and 522mln RUB including previews.
Yes, and don't forget John Carter opened on March, 8. Three days ouf of four people were free from work. And the Avengers should gross at least the same amount Monday-Wednesday, most likely more. $15-15.5m OW still looks pretty good.
A friend of mine told me that The Avengers dropped on Friday. Maybe up to 20%. Not so good actually. It could have stayed flat at least. But this is not official obviously. Nothing official till Thursday or Friday. Only more or less rough estimates.
Kinometro provides OD grosses only since July, 2010.
For the Avengers the key point is 7day gross through Wednesday. After that even $10m can't be assured.
Actual numbers are much lower but they are still pretty good.http://kinometro.ru/blog/2012/05/thursday-may-3/100 mln RUB or $3.41m A friend of mine from kinometro expects at least 450-460 for the weekend ($15.3-15.5 mln) and 950-1000 mln RUB by Wednesday ($32-34m).
John Carter grossed $6.1 with opening on National holiday, March, 8. And finished with $16.67 for the weekend. 2.73 multiplyer.
But this time it should be at least between 4.5 and 5. So The Avengers could be anywhere between $18m and $21m. With all things considered simply incredible number.
PotC4 still has the highest ever daily gross with 247 mln RUB on Saturday. That's $8.43m by the current exchange rate and nearly $9m by exchange rate from last year. With working Saturday this is out of question now.
According to some very early preliminary reports OD numbers might be close to Pirates of the Caribbeans 4 last year or even higher. That would be simply incredible. Stay tuned.
It's hard to tell. On Monday-Wednesday is should make at least the same gross as in opening weekend. Then it will drop like a stone on week 2 and again on week 3.
With 13mln for the weekend it could be like $2m (previews) + $13m + $13m (Mionday-Wednesday) + 5m (2nd weekend) + 1m weekdays + 1.5 m (3rd weekend) + 1.5m till the end.
Around 37m total. That would be pretty strong actually.
Besides weekend prediction from Kinometro you can also see weekend predictions from our box office game on Kinopoisk.http://www.kinopoisk.ru/level/96/In the main table you can see the average prediction for ten movies. If you click on the results you could see weekend prediction of any player.