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Good point. I forgot about all the old Disney classics that resonate for me *shudder* more so than most Pixar movies. 101 Dalmations, Bambi, Snow White, Sword and the Stone, Lion King. The very epitome of CLASSICS.

I don't get the black people reference in relation to Thor 2. LOL

Huh? I was talking about Thor 2. LOL

National holiday?

Teach me Master Jedi, Why was it expected? Why does this Tuesday make $200m+ even more likely?

Hawkeye for sure.

Top 10 (adj) ten years ago: (millions) Cat in the Hat - $51.169 Gothika $25.750 Elf - $24.986 Master and Commander - $20.310 Love Actually - $11.540 Matrix Revolutions - $9.39 Brother Bear - $7.138 Looney Tunes - $5.627 Scary Movie 3 - $4.186 Radio - $3.495

Do you mean Oceans 11/12/13? I just finished watching Oceans 11 (1960). Great movie. That should be on the list...

Beejoli is my hero. Get him!If Madeas Christmas underperforms, and I predict it will, it will be because it is a sucky movie.

Her = my dating story. My current gf is a bot

How can I forget Ben Hur. Was GWTW a global, worldwide hit???

I wouldn't be surprised if they keep Despicable Me 2 in theaters through Christmas. It's still making money.

Let's see if the weak weekdays (can you say that 3x fast? ) continue for Thor 2...

@ladyevenstar22 - why not both? I was struck by how dramatic the movie was. I can't bring myself to call it a Comedy. It's a Dramedy. There are a few intense tear jerkers. I heard and saw several people sniffling. So a dramedy it is. I really liked seeing the cast back together again. I knew TBMH would open big because The Best Man is probably in the top 5 of DVD viewings among movies aimed at black audiences (Friday and maybe Barbershop being others). There was always good reception to the trailers. My worry is that this will be frontloaded, but $100 million is still possible. The sequel is a logical progression of the original films' storyline. Mainly because the cast are all 40-somethings and 14 years have passed and so the issues in the movie are more mature and weighty. Everyone has families, some are dealing with the pitfalls of life (physical, financial, etc). Don't get me wrong, there is a good deal of sophomoric humor (probably too much) but I thought the more mature storyline made sense and I wouldn't mind a 2nd sequel in 14 more years, when they are in their mid 50s. Howard, as always, steals the show. Everybody though did a fine job. $$ well spent.

Most importantly, it outgrossed its predecessor, something Iron Man 2 didn't do. On a side note [*]Iron Man 3 dropped significantly below $400m in adjusted numbers, even though it came out just 6 months ago. [*]Captain Phillips jumps from $97m to $100m hahaha

FWIW, not counting Thursday/midnight showings, Thor dropped 51% this weekend.

Despicable Me 2 is still showing great legs. Incredible late run. http://www.boxofficemojo.com/movies/?page=weekend&id=despicableme2.htm

John Carter was not as big a money loser as everyone initially thought.

I could not agree more. People like Gitesh who are predicting $250m are ignoring the weak weekdays and post-Thanksgiving drops, not to mention two behemoths going after the exact same audiences. Still, $200m+ is fantastic.

What is Thor's drop minus the Thursday night OW numbers?

TBMH showtimes sold out for the next two hours! It is now 9pm

Good point Baumer

I had 27.5 and that was too low. Wow

Wow. 360+ comments for a non holiday Wed thread

And it needs to have a serious budget. The amount of CGI/FX needed to realize the Mushroom Kingdom and do it right would be on the order of Avatar. Just like Mortal Kombat may get revamped based on a Youtube video, I hope the same for Mario.