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    Weekend estimates: CF-$74.5; FRZ-$66.7; Thor2-$11.1

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    If we're talking about lengthy records, Toy Story 2 held on to that Thanksgiving OW for a solid 14 years until Frozen topped it this weekend.

    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.  

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    Weekend estimates: CF-$74.5; FRZ-$66.7; Thor2-$11.1

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    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. 

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    Nov 22-24 #s CF: $158,074,286 actual | Dark Knight triumphant after all

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    I have to admit, it's pretty incredible that HP8's opening day record is going to stay intact for at least 4 years.

    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. 

    THG Catching Fire $25.25m Thursday Previews

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    DH1 has the lowest % among all the Potter films with 78%. So fucking stupid. 

    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. 

    THG Catching Fire $25.25m Thursday Previews

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    I disagree with this completely.  The problem with this board is that there is no perspective.  When Twilight sequels all get crazy midnight numbers, too many people think that is now the norm for a big film, when in reality many have lost perspective.  DH1 was the penultimate in the series, so the rush factor was big but nothing close to DH2.  And to further disprove your assertion that it is harder in the winter to make 30 mill at midnight, NM, BD1 and BD2 opened in November and they did 30 mill or close to it at midnight.  So it has nothing to do with the time of year it opens, but rather the rush factor.  Just think for one minute how big a 30 million midnight is.  We're used to it now but in 2009 when NM did almost 29 mill, it shocked the industry.

    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)

    THG Catching Fire $25.25m Thursday Previews

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    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...

    Wednesday Numbers (10/16/2013)

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    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.

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