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I get OS and WW totals for films are difficult to compare when you have like 50 different currencies, but performances in one market by different movies should be looked at in their own currencies - I think at least for the big markets there are reports in local currencies and when comparing OW's if it was a 5-day weekend or a 3 day, 'cause comparing just dollars with no context is pointless, IMO. I realize that it'll take a little more time to do, as various reports have to be looked at, but the results will be useful.

What breakdown does it need for this - something like 450 mil DOM and 650 mil OS? I guess the second weekend drops OS will show if that's possible.

Just a question - why are things compared in US dollars (I know this is the money the companies get), but for statistical reasons shouldn't the compartments be done in local currencies?

TA's first day, which was 6 something millions wasn't included in the weekend number as it was Wednesday.

And there are many people here who before it opened thought 200 million very possible, which the midnight number (the only one that can't be argued being affected) showed its not. Sorry if I don't take the argument "many people here thought" very seriously. I also think that some Friday business that wasn't realized due to the shooting could have moved towards Saturday and Sunday, so while it's lost on Friday, it's still in the OW. And while the shooting does have an effect, there are no concrete economic facts to support something more than around 10%. Everything else is just wishing on both sides - those that want it higher or lower.

Talking about TDK, not the TDKR. And there is a official number for that, which doesn't land it into the top 5 or 10. ;)ETA: I'm looking at the numbers in local currencies, not dollars.

30 million lost only because of the shooting? Somehow I find that hard to believe. You are comparing increases in markets that had nowhere near the record breaking that the USA OW of TDK had and using it here? It's not something you can compare so easy.

Market capacity. In the USA TDK was already very high (biggest weekend ever at the time) while in those two countries it was big, yet nowhere near the top 5 (in AUS something like top 10, while in the UK top 20). That leaves a lot of room to grow in OW compared to USA.

12th after TA.Snow White and the Huntsman $443,070 -33% 1,641 -1278 $270 $147,988,210 5 Universal

Rank* Title Monday 7/2 Tuesday 7/3 Wednesday 7/4 Thursday 7/5 1 THE AMAZING SPIDER-MAN Sony / Columbia 4,318 $850,000 -- / n/a $850,000 / 0 $35,016,884 +4019.6% / $8,110 $35,866,884 / 1 $23,335,925 -33.4% / $5,404 $59,202,809 / 2 $15,814,761 -32.2% / $3,663 $75,017,570 / Monday?

From BOM or from you, 'cause that makes half your argument invalid.

http://www.boxofficemojo.com/news/?id=3401&p=.htm

Exactly, I see only movies with over 60%-65% to be defiantly skewing towards one direction, be it male-female or older-younger.

53 vs 47 is not skewing female, its almost even. (about SW)

Witness 85

Obviously with those numbers, as I said I just found it curious.

Avatar even higher, I know, but I just found it curious about the holidays, nothing against the other movies.

TSS had Labor Day Weekend and Titanic and Avatar MLK Weekend in their 5th weekends (the last two would have managed 20 even without the holidays).

1 Avatar Fox $42,785,612 5.7% 3,285 $13,025 $749,766,139 12/18/09 2 Titanic Par. $30,011,034 5.0% 2,767 $10,846 $600,788,188 12/19/97 3 The Sixth Sense BV $22,896,967 7.8% 2,775 $8,251 $293,506,292 8/6/99

Yet people are supposed to be rational and excluding first weekend over demand, like with TA where sometimes its difficult to find 2D tickets, after that its their choice to give that money. So if in a financial crisis people are willingly giving more money, that shows how much they want to see a certain movie.

It has had no IMAX share for the last two weeks. ;)Can we see the estimations you do, 'cause with the ones I've done its closer to 64 millions, than 61.

Yes, but those are non-holiday non-Friday Top opening days. Prometheus is a Friday day opening, so its way back, not Top 5 or 10.

But those are 2D right? And the two new releases are 3D, so they'll need more 3D screens for them, from TA and MIB.

I'm guessing time - at 14.00 hours?

Or maybe the just liked this movie very much?