RotK's 3rd set of weekdays dropped 80% from the 2nd, Avatar's dropped 60%. I'm thinking this will about split the difference but lean towards Avatar because of the day of the week that new years falls on.
My gut says Mon,Tue,Wed this week will be low to mid 20's, Thursday about a 30% dip, and the 4rd weekend in the 90-95m range. Overall roughly 40% off from last week.
If it does $164m or more then it will have the 4th highest normal-business-hours-FSS.
Avengers, JW and Ep7 are all at about $190m, and then Ultron at $163.7m
My gut (edit: not guy, oops) says if today looked bigger than Monday we would have gotten an early indication from someone like we got yesterday.
But I've underestimated TFA all the way up until now so chances are I'm wrong here too
If accurate and if the last 33% was all cheap matinees at $7 per ticket that would put the admissions at around 19.75 million for the domestic opening.
Is there any way of knowing how accurate the $57m is for Thursday previews? I wouldn't be surprised if it was off quite enough to make Friday the biggest ever for normal business hours, but it could just as well go the other way.
So it finally looks like FSS will be bigger than ThFS. That's good.
Also kind of unfortunate we'll never know how accurate the $57m preview number is. It's so big that even a slight discrepancy could give TFA the biggest or second biggest Friday proper.
Not sure about the rest of what you wrote but BO.com says 12.6% was IMAX: http://pro.boxoffice.com/latest-news/2015-12-18-north-america-thursday-night-report-star-wars-the-force-awakens-crushes-record-with-57m-launch-into-hyperspace-pacing-for-first-100m-opening-day-in-domestic-history
Would put it right at $30m for an opening of 238, and almost $31m for mid-240's
RotK had a 30% drop but that wasn't affected by midnights, previews, or opening day demand. I think after removing previews Ep7 will have at best a 35% drop for 120m which is just over a 50% drop from "OW".
So yeah, I'm in.
Even with Star Wars opening it didn't drop that much.
Dec 6 to 13: +28.6m
Dec 13 to 20: +15.4m
Another 20m through new years weekend maybe? I think it has a good chance of reaching 870 total
Daily breakdown:
Wed - $14.1m (known)
Thu - $58.6m (known)
Fri - $56.8m (known)
Sat - $95m????
Sun - $68.4m???
Total - 279
Seems really high for Sat and Sun. Even shifting 5m over to both Th and Fri would still have Sat and Sun pretty high.
3.5X multiplier is average. I'd be surprised to see higher than that for Ep7 considering the Thursday preview number. But I definitely expect it to beat Titantic
It's only a disappointment because yesterday when DL said 130-145 so many people grabbed onto the 145 like it was guaranteed, talking about Friday proper being 88m.