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Well AS is definitely reaching a much broader audience than most R-Rated films, but Passion will probably forever reign supreme there. You had youth groups going, churches carrying literally vans full of people every Sunday, and all sorts of stuff. I'm sure a few folks have taken their kids to see AS but comparing it to Passion is kind of unfair. If we compare it to anything adjusted, I'd compare it to two of the most recognizable R-rated blockbusters- T2 and Matrix Reloaded. Both adjust to the $370-390 million range and it looks like AS is headed that way. This is no doubt gonna end up as the most incredible box office run in who knows how long.

Now for the test for whether or not it will hold up well or end up being a one weekend wonder.

It would be really awesome to see American Sniper leg it out to $300 million after this already mind blowing weekend.

All I remember about Piranha was the pornstar cameos.

More like karma for bombarding people with mostly mediocre-quality films three times a year. It definitely isn't because of one of their stronger and highest grossing series.

Hey, look. A mid-budget R-Rated non-franchise pic just opened to $90 million. Got to say that might be my favorite thing about all of this.

I don't know. Sell outs could end up with a spillover effect and I don't think football is going to deter everyone. A lot of people might go see AS before the games start. Also tomorrow is a holiday so this Sunday automatically has that going for it. 28% seems reasonable, even if a bit too optimistic.

Eh, yeah I guess. Still, I highly doubt that book had anywhere near the hype the YA novels and such have. Basically I'm just saying this is hugely fucking unprecedented but it's so awesome it's happening. This is going to go down as a hell of a box office story.

Seriously. Who ever would have thought American Sniper would open to $80-90 million? A non-franchise, non adaptation R-rated 2D film is about to open on par with the biggest franchise openers of 2014 in the middle of January. It is the telling of a true story, but if that were a guarantee for a huge opening there would be a ton of films opening higher than they do. This is nothing short of incredible. Not only that but this HAS to be taking the "original film" (not a sequel or adaptation) OW record, right?

What's more is it should have a pretty good Sunday with Monday being MLK Day. If it stays above $30 million for Saturday I think $100 million 4-day is happening.

Oh snaptitties.

Wow. I'll be honest- this is a good thing as far as potentially getting more big R-Rated titles go. With this being incredibly massive and 50 Shades probably looking to be huge, hopefully Hollywood will realize R-Rated tentpoles definitely do have a place. The fact that this is an R-Rated film about to make a $75-80 million OW in the middle of fucking January is incredible. Definitely an awesome way to kick off 2015. Hopefully this won't be the last of the unexpected hits of 2015.

Oh it'll be huge no doubt. I just don't want everyone to get all disappointed if the actual numbers end up being $21-23 million.

That $30 million number might be a bit skewed, remember last time Eastwood released a film daytime business was so huge that by the time Rth's late updates came in we had a drop of like 50% or something. Obviously Sniper is playing to a much wider and broader audience but never underestimate Eastwood's power to bring in the old folks/early daytime dollars.

Holy fuckamoly

Should be a good weekend. Sniper is going to be huge, Wedding Ringer should do okay, I think being the only legit family draw right now should help Paddington as well. Blackhat might get lost in the shuffle though.

Holy shit. $50+ million 5-day here we come.

Jesus, the only BP nom I've seen so far is Birdman. I haven't seen American Sniper so I can't comment on quality but it getting the nom over Gone Girl makes little sense.

I wonder if Interstellar has enough to make it past TMNT and 21JS, they're at $191.2 and $191.7 million and Interstellar has $184.8 million after a $1.15 million weekend. Seems kind of unlikely that it'll churn out $7 million more after that, but it should come close.

I still need to watch Boyhood but this will probably be good.

Surprising no one.

The past several years have been the "year of the mega sequel". It's nothing new.

I honestly don't know how people are still seeing Taken movies.

My opinions on the original films hasn't changed but I've got a new order on them all now- Spider-Man 2 - 5/5 Spider-Man - 4.5/5 Spider-Man 3 - 2.5/5 The Amazing Spider-Man - 2.5/5 The Amazing Spider-Man 2 - 2/5 I rewatched Amazing Spider-Man not long after I first posted that and I have to say I couldn't finish it then nor the other few times I've tried to rewatch it. It really is a dull, lifeless film especially when compared to the 2002 film which does everything way better. Garfield tries and I respect him for it but the material just isn't there and overall he and Stone aren't given a whole lot to work with.

Tangled was actually quite the home video beast in 2011 ( well as far as 2011 standards go). Pretty sure it outsold both How to Train Your Dragon and Despicable Me, at least initially.