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45m would be a disaster all things considered. Should comfortably cross 50m+ and will probably be close to 40m with just Friday and Saturday (and yes, that accounts for it dropping on Friday.)

Can we expect a decent increase when actuals finally drop next week or is it more that Sony will add it into a different day? This has been quite consistent with them going 250k or so under what yall have rallied around.

Whats crazy is the lack of depth beneath Sing 2..... thats a make your eyeballs hurt level of dropping instead of the holiday floating all boats. Matrix will be lucky to hit 40m+ at this rate.

I will gladly take the more rare Boxing Day increase - would rather be wrong that way then over estimating **edit** Misunderstood EC, increase being from estimate, not Christmas Day.

Exceptions are not the rules? There is a reason that Studios release their films in the US how they do. Christmas Day is statistically the biggest box office day of the year - regardless of which calendar day it falls on. A few films (of minor significance) increasing on Boxing Day is an exception but the day in total is always down from the 25th. Other countries, particularly in Europe are the opposite since Boxing Day is the main out of the house holiday (same with Canada in years past.)

That $260m number is a wonderful sight 🤩 Now to see where it ends up between now and January 1st.

😆🤦‍♂️🤦‍♂️ well then my error, I assumed of course that he was talking NWH.... what I get for not making sure before posting... The romance angle of SM1 is awkward rewatching it now, back in the day it was just fine.

Glad to know that Charlie is still Charlie and Spidey didn't hoodwink him (I'd have been shocked if you really liked it.) Lol means I will probably really enjoy it then when I can finally see it. As for the OW Amazing and sets up well for a potential massive gross. The rest of the top 10 so sad and makes my heart hurt.

19 year old me seeing an R rated film for the first time in theaters and it was Departed... back in the BOM days when the forum was as a whole really looking forward to it.... perfect introduction to Scorcese.

There was a comment in the tracking thread about Eternals show times increased like 30%, this weekend. So couple that with the lack of any new demographic appreciate films and it has a good hold before dying next weekend.

Oy..... this thread is a prime example of why some of us avoid the weekends....

Its normal? All the films are way down from the inflated grosses of last week. Per normal the kids films look even worse. ?

And the inflated Friday? Not saying Sing 2 didnt hurt, it very much did. But, it would have been much more noticeable on a regular weekend.

Most of Texas is off all week as well - I'd say all, but you know there has to be an odd District in a state this large lol.

That Sunday hold was always way over optimistic on Disney's part. The overall hold considering word of mouth and such is actually solid, all things considered.

Solid holiday today - will probably lead to bland Fridays, especially for the kid flicks but more than made up by the extra weekdays. For the sake of box office, would love to see Clifford's 5-day top 15m.

Correct. Its also an indication of the staffing shortages that @EmpireCity has talked about. Less shows on the weekdays overall will make the weekdays seem worse than usual.

Everyone is also forgetting that last Tuesday was election day in many areas including the New York Metro area. Election holidays impact box office in a positive way but always looks bad the following week. The family films will look especially harsh week over week today.

I wont get a chance to watch Eternals in theaters, so will refrain from a review of my own. That said, I have never had an MCU that my social media circles are just tearing apart.... on both sides of the social and political spectrums. Its very confusing lol the few friends that enjoy the arthouse side were actually less hard then the average joes. Definitely not a film that is reverberating well in middle America. Not what I expected pre review drop. That said, the opening is solidish only if we dont look at ticket prices compared to the past / compare exclusively with the pandemic films.

I mean, even with rotten holds, if WB plays the sony game or even the GvK game they will drag it to the 100m mark. Question becomes do they feel they will need to or will iy happen naturally.

Whoops my memory is way off then on the day of week. Studios tend to hate Halloween hitting on the weekend and with good reasons. But makes for wonderful statistics discussions later.

Wanna see some fun with Halloween and Sunday holds from us old timers, look at 2008 when High school Musical 3 opened 🤣🤣 just an amazing Sunday in a bad way. *edit* that may have been weekend 2 for HSM3

Saturday will need to either be unusually strong or Halloween have no effect on Sunday to keep the Dune drop from the 60% mark. Either way its a solid hold for the film and all its detractors, just not the OMG amazing that some have argued for. Hopefully I will finally get to see it today.

This was always the "calm before storm" weekend of the month but yuck...

I mean, there are a few significant drops yesterday for older skewing films, but not in a way that makes sense for Dune. Short of the how much impact the PLF that were lost for Soho previews last night 🤷‍♂️ maybe it will have an unusual Friday in a good way, but not likely. Again anything over 17m is a good hold so we shall see.