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About what I expected from Guardians. This is roughly what I expect the week to look like - Mon - $5.4 (-58%) Tue - $6.4 (+18%) Wed - $4.7 (-27%) Thurs - $4.1 (-12%) Fri - $7.3 (+78%) Sat - $10.2 (+40%) Sun - $6.9 (-32%) $221 million total by next Sunday.

... That's a fake laugh.

Baumer will be so happy.

Star Wars is the most culturally significant film franchise in the US. That Disney marketing machine is going to be in full force for the 2015 Holiday season. Toys/collectibles, interviews, extensive media coverage, probably lots of theme park promotion, etc. If Abrams & co. deliver in the quality department, SW7 definitely has a real chance at topping Avatar. Giving the film TPM's ticket sales (if it is a quality film, I do believe it can be the first film since to cross the 80 million ticket threshold) and adding on the average 3D/IMAX boost gets it right at $750 million, actually. If you don't admit that it is at least a very solid possibility, you're in denial.

Okay, I guess that explains this I found on my FB feed -

It's exactly that though, a wildcard. It could so super high or super low. No one really knows right now.

So is there a possibility Expendables III comes in under both TMNT and GOTG this weekend?

Bay is here to stay.

That is pretty debatable.

In the age of Thursday night previews inflating opening weekends as well as the established Marvel brand name, 55% is a pretty damn good drop for Guardians. Hopefully it will continue to stabilize this weekend. I'd be happy with a low 40% drop but maybe it can sneak a 39% or 38% drop if Expendables doesn't hurt it too bad.

One thing I've noticed, despite having a slightly smaller OW and smaller second weekend, thanks to late summer weekdays, GOTG is pretty much on par with IM1's gross at the same point.Of course, as summer weekdays start to lose power in the coming weeks (whereas IM was GAINING the weekdays as its gross went on), I do expect it to fall behind a solid amount.

I think $275 million is happening. Labor Day weekend will be a huge help.

Thanks Rth!!! That puts GOTG above $42 million and a 55% drop. Nice!

It's still way too early for a lot of these, but the ones in bold I'm fairly certain will land in my predicted area. 1.) Star Wars Episode VII - $650+ million 2.) Avengers: Age of Ultron - $570 million 3.) The Hunger Games: Mockingjay Part II - $430 million 4.) Bond 24 - $350 million 5.) Jurassic World - $335 million 6.) Inside Out - $315 million 7.) The Good Dinosaur - $280 million 8.) Tomorrowland - $265 million 9.) Fast 7 - $260 million 10.) Mission Impossible V - $240 million

Shit. I totally forgot to include Jurassic World. I knew I was forgetting something big. Bye bye for now, Tomorrowland.

1.) Avengers: Age of Ultron - $217 million 2.) Star Wars: Episode VII - $185 million 3.) The Hunger Games: Mockingjay Part II - $175 million 4.) Bond 24 - $108 million 5.) Fast 7 - $107 million 6.) Jurassic World - $87 million 7.) Ant-Man - $82 million 8.) Inside Out - $80 million 9.) Minions - $72 million 10.) Mission: Impossible V - $71 million I really have no idea about more than half of these. EDIT:: Forgot about Jurassic World.

Here it is, if anyone is interested in reading it: http://variety.com/2014/film/news/martin-scorsese-backs-kodak-on-film-stock-production-1201274982/

Seems that way, though it wasn't exactly a big boost in theaters. I wonder if the big switch to digital has been killing dollar theaters. There seem to be less of them these days.

Those damn, murderous Apes.

Just have Ninja Turtles II take place in China.

TF5 needs to bring back the twins. I don't think there is any coincidence that the only Transformers film to do $400 million featured them.

Why would GOTG drop 57% next weekend?

Pretty much on par with CA2.

The article is a year old, but this is definitely signifying a pretty shitty future for cinema.