The Panda

A truly evil troll goes to the Wikipedia page that explains point-price elasticity, reverse P / Q fraction to Q / P.

It got changed back, it was good while it lasted

Game of Thrones brings out the quality in actors we never knew existed

Dragons are practically T-Rex’s with wings and fire. There’s a reason GoT is Emilia Clarke’s most popular property.

Realistically, I think around a SMH IM is the worst case scenario from here and id suspect an I2 IM is about as good as you could expect. So that’s around a 115m-155m realistic range the weekend could fall under

TOG’s right about this. If you look at OW ranges from previews within +-1.5 or so of FK’s preview you could get as high as 175m, but also as low as 84m Given that range can definitely be narrowed by knowing the type of movie JW:FK is. Where it gets with different IMs (remember summers are a bit more internally frontloaded, so take that into consideration when looking at non summer comps) TLJ: 75m RO: 82m Solo: 92m BvS: 93m Suicide Squad: 100m IW: 101m DP2: 103m AoU: 107m Civil War: 110m JL: 111m SMH: 116m Ragnarok: 130m GOTG2: 132m Doctor Strange: 139m IT: 141m Logan: 143m WW: 144m I2: 152m Deadpool: 160.2m BATB: 165m JW: 174m Dory: 226m I was only doing this to show how little info preview numbers really give you in reality. There’s some obvious extremes there that won’t happen (like DORY or TLJ/RO/Solo, etc) but it shows how much of a range those previews could technically have when you look at all the recent big hitters.

The difference there was that I2 was having an unprecedented record smash weekend for an animation. JW2 is following JW. People melted down when AoU opened at 192m following a record breaking opener. I don't necessarily think this is any way a disaster for Universal, it'll end up being profitable enough to greenlight a sequel, but it doesn't really seem like any sort of triumph either.

I don’t think it’s a disaster by any means. But there’s people here gloating about it as if it’s about to break records. Just found it kind of odd.

I still don’t see how a sub-150m OW from a sequel to a record breaking is all that great? It’s only looking good now in relative comparison to some of our more pessimistic predicts.

I think 12-14m places JWFK somewhere in the 100-130m range for the weekend. It’d really depend on how well it plays through the weekend

Jurassic Park 3 is better than some dinosaur movies

I’m eight minutes into the new Kimmy and I already have to pause it because of the cringe (in a good way). I also had to watch that Little Girl, Big City Video twice before going on

That surcharge is interesting. MoviePass 1. Gives you “unlimited” movies a month for $10 a month 2. No Premium seating 3. If “popular” movie means something opening weekend, that could mean $8 extra a month if you see a new release each week. 4. Possibility it won’t still be here at the years end AMC 1. 3 Movies a week for $20 a month 2. Includes premium seating and concession discounts 3. No popular movie surcharge as of now 4. Limits you to AMC. 5. Will safely still be here 6. You can reserve seats If you don’t care about Dolby or IMAX (or your AMC lacks them), if you don’t buy concessions to much, if you don’t care about reserve seating, and/or if you simply have a better theater preference MP would probably be the better deal while it’s here. Unless you’re seeing more than 4 “popular” movies a month. If you’re seeing more than 4 “popular” movies a month, that alone would make the AMC deal better (if there’s a decent one close to you) as you could see them, in whatever form you want, be able to reserve seats and have a discount on concessions if you ever want them. The worst thing about the AMC deal is I’d feel tied to a specific theater. But if I were to choose between them the reserved seating and Dolby make up for whatever marginal monthly price you have to pay (especially since the MP price would feel more like 12-16 dollars since I usually see big movies on OW)

Those reviews make it sound like somebody shat all over a Villeneuve masterpiece

I’d also rank Madison Wolfe third below Portman in Annihilation and Collette (who kind of takes the whole thing) for best actress of the year, so far.

I watched I Kill Giants, I had no idea there was a Monster Calls Cinematic Universe. It was a solid B until the lat act which was a solid A. So I’m not sure if I’d go B+ or A-. Good indie film that fits into the “child imagines monsters/fantasy stuff to cope with trauma” genre.

So... why did The LEGO Ninjago Movie get a one day re-release at one of my local theaters?

That's still different than the fact his predict pre-numbers was 150m. I'm only saying that because he has a reputation of bragging about a perfect track record when he's far from it.

Also signed the person who thought BvS was doing over 225m OW (plus your JW OW predict was not 208m, it was 150m)

14-15m would be okay, it’ll really depend on how frontloaded this one is compared to the first.

Still salty we didn’t do a megathread like this for the actual biggest film of the Summer (Year eve?) last weekend

Pretty much using IO’s holds instead of Dory, since its weekday holds have been more in-line with IO than Dory

So Thu: 17.8m (-10%) Fri: 28.5m (+60%) Sat: 40m (+40%) Sun: 30m (-25%) Wknd: 98.5m

I believe they were over by 0.2m, hardly way off anyways.

Incredibles is up by around 17-18% last time I checked