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If you take Catching Fire's midnight gross out of its opening weekend, it only dropped -43.9% this weekend. I don't care if it was a holiday weekend or not....that is extremely impressive for a 150M+ opener.

It kind of fascinates me over how that managed to happen. I mean, ticket prices are so so so much higher than they were in the late 90's early 00's. And they held these records for 12 and 14 years? Of course, adjusted for inflation Potter and Toy Story still retain their records.

Congratulations Catching Fire for breaking the Thanksgiving record! Although, at this point I think Sorcerer's Stone deserves a bit of recognition. It held this record for......wait for it.............12 YEARS!!! Longer than Titanic's stay at #1 as the highest grossing movie of all time....which felt like an eternity. Crazy how a film from so long ago still held a record like this. Surely when it broke the record back in 2001, very few people thought it would still have the record all the way into 2012.

That Saturday increase doesn't make any sense. It increased more than 15%! Even THG didn't didn't increase that much. I think we all reacted a little too soon. 400m may still be attainable.

150M+

Especially when you consider that the OD record is historically broken nearly every year. Its 43.5m haul at midnight is phenomenal....and with a December release date for SW7 it might be 2016 or beyond before the midnight record is broken.

Lol. Catching fire could end up making only 50m more than gravity. Who would have predicted that 2 months ago?

Looks like COS was the perfect comparison.

This is what I'm seeing Midnight: 25.2m Friday: 69.5m (44.3m) Sat: 47.5m Sun: 30.5m OW: 147.5M

So if Catching Fire does follow DH1's trajectory it would make about $135m this weekend. And then end up with about 330M DOM. That would be less than COS adjusted for inflation. And about on par with POA for admissions. Buttt....let's wait for actual Friday estimates before we all go crazy. :/

WHHATTTT??? Like DH1??? So, sub 140M OW? Ok that would be bad. TIME TO PANIC!!!!!!!!!!! LOL

Most critics have a very superficial understanding of the Potter universe and don't really care about the characters like the fans do. Because it was Part 1 of the finale they were probably expecting it to be more fast paced and after HBP focused so much on character development they were likely hoping for more action as well. Thus giving it a bad review. Basically, their opinion means fuck all to me. Any true fan of the series would recognize DH1 as one of the best films in the series.

Twilight is the biggest midnight player out there. 4 out of the top 6 midnight performances are from that franchise. Is it really that delusional to assume that it would make a few extra million had it been released in the summer?

Eclipse made 4M more than NM at midnight. Why do you think that is? Probably has something to do with its summer release date. Then, BD1 and BD2 went back to Nov and both of those movies increased by like 3% over Eclipse. Hmmm. You can't just say that BD1 and BD2 did so well at midnight that it would be illogical to expect it to have done better in the summer. DH2 has shown that a 2D movie can make up to about 36-37M at midnight. And time and time again, we have seen summer tentpoles do ridiculous midnight numbers...TDK, HBP, Eclipse and DH2 were all record breaking midnight films. NM is the only film to break the record outside of the summer season....and it didn't exactly blow past the previous record by all that much (26m vs 22m)

New Moon's OD was insane. Had it been released in July it likely would made over 30M from midnight....in 2009 $$$....without IMAX. Crazy.

This midnight number for Catching Fire validates my theory that films perform better at midnight in the summer versus the winter season. I know many of us had that hunch, but this number really makes it quite obvious. DH1 was also expected to make around 30M and "disappointed" when it only did 24m...and now we're seeing the same thing happen with Catching Fire. Therefore, I think it would be safe to assume had Breaking Dawn Part 1 and 2 been released in the summer they would have made around 32-34m at midnight...

I doubt SW7 will break the midnight record with a December release date. Now, if it was released in the middle of July, I would see it topping 40m with ease.

Anyone who says 180M is disappointing for Catching Fire deserves to be shot.

This looks to be right on target for about 100m this weekend. I think it'll fall short a little with about 98m...

I loved this film. Not as good as the novel it's based on, but it definitely provided an emotional punch. This film receives way too much unnecessary hate IMO8/10

Cloudy up +26%? :/

Fotr: 5/5TT: 5/5RotK: 5/5King Kong: 4/5The Lovely Bones: 3.5/5The Hobbit: 3/5

Gravity - 5/5Y Tu Mama Tambien - 5/5Children of Men - 4.5/5Prisoner of Azkaban - 4/5A Little Princess - 3.5/5

This is still on target for 300m. And I don't know why people are upset with this number. If any day confused me it was Tuesday which was down -40% from the Tuesday before. However it improved yesterday with a Wednesday to Wednesday drop of -34%, and I expect it to keep going down for a about a -30% drop this weekend.

That's a 40% drop from last Tuesday! A great number, but not gonna lie, I didn't expect it to drop that harshly.