2012 was just a beast of its own, especially for its time.
For me, it was the beginning of the mega - overseas grosses with Russia and China starting to dominate and other markets beginning to emerge. Then Avatar came along...
I seriously can't believe we've just had a 90m weekend. The best part of all this is that literally not one single person saw this coming. Not one single person.
What I'm trying to say is that, you could release SW7 in December and it make $XYZ, but we have no actual way of ever definitively proving that a September release would reduce its revenue.
As long as it's content people want, anything can be released any time of the year.
You could release SW7 in September and still make a fuck tonne of money.
BOM has put their predictions as 86/101.
If this doesn't prove that you can open to big numbers any time of the year so long as it's content that people actually want, then I don't know what ever will.