The Panda

Actual Top 15 1.Star Wars: The Force Awakens - 760m+ 2.Jurassic World - 652m 3.Age of Ultron - 459m 4.Inside Out - 356m 5.Furious 7 - 353m 6.Minions - 336m 7.Mockingjay Part 2 - +-270m 8.The Martian - +-227m 9.Cinderella - 201m 10.Spectre - +-200m 11.Mission Impossible: Rogue Nation - 195m 12.Pitch Perfect 2 - 184m 13.Ant-Man - 180m 14.Home - 177m 15.Hotel Transylvania 2 - 168m Daddy's Home may break in as well if it legs well. My predictions were not totally awful, I had some bad ones and some good ones.

Anyone else having problems with the post box where you can't always edit your posts, or it'll glitch and you can't type anything in it?

Depends on where. DFW metroplex? Not so much, however we didn't get the bulk of the problems. It's not so much the open spaces, but the cities throughout them like OKC, Amarillo, Santa Fe, etc. However, I do think the weather could have even affected the metroplex as we're starting to get freezing rain (it's supposed to turn into snow this night/early morning), and we had a bad tornado and some flooding yesterday.

The storms pretty big though, especially for the midwest, where this kind of blizzard and extreme winter weather is fairly abnormal.

And this is where I am done with this conversation. Kal was entertaining at first, now his illogical rants are giving me a headache. Time to just let the crazy man rant to himself.

Finding Dory - 522.7mm (145.2m OW) Rogue One: A Star Wars Story - 520.4m (165.2m OW) Batman v. Superman - 422.6m (172.5m OW) Captain America: Civil War - 421.7m (165.4m OW) Suicide Squad - 400m (145.7m OW) Moana - 342.3m (72.4m OW) Fantastic Beasts and Where to Find Them - 285.4m (110.4m OW) The Jungle Book - 235.8m (70.4m OW) Doctor Strange - 228m (78.9m OW) The Secret Life of Pets - 219m (62.4m OW) Zootopia - 215.8m (52.4m OW) Independence Day: Resurgence - 206.6m (75.4m OW) Deadpool - 203m (72.5m OW) X-Men: Apocalypse - 188.5m (70.4m OW) The BFG - 177.7m (47.5m OW) Inferno - 164.4m (37.8m OW) Kung Fu Panda 3 - 160.8m (48m OW) Bourne 5 - 143m (45.4m OW) Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles: Out of the Shadows - 142.3m (51.2m OW) Assassin's Creed - 141.5m (40.2m OW) Star Trek: Beyond - 135.3m (50.1m OW) Passengers - 134.3m (24.2m OW) Warcraft - 132.8m (50.1m OW) Alice: Through the Looking Glass - 130.6m (47.5m OW) Billy Lynn's Long Halftime Walk - 125.4m (24.5m OW) The Magnificent Seven - 123.2m (35.4m OW) The Girl on the Train - 121.7m (27.4m OW) Central Intelligence - 118.1m (31.5m OW) Ghostbusters - 116.9m (42.5m OW) 13 Hours: The Secret Soldiers of Benghazi - 115m (34.5m OW) Storks - 113.4m (28.2m OW) The Boss - 112.1m (32.5m OW) The Conjuring 2 - 110.7m (45.2m OW) Miracles From Heaven - 110.5m (28.4m OW) Neighbors 2 - 108m (35.4m OW) Sausage Party - 102.2m (28.3m OW) The Angry Birds Movie - 102.1m (31.5m OW) The Great Wall - 100m (31.2m OW)

I think the Midwest Blizzard is likely causing Sunday to be weaker than estimates. As the blizzard dies down we should see stronger holds to make up for it. (Like Avatar, lol)

Ironic that everything Kal said Avatar had to face that TFA didn't have to face, TFA is actually facing that right now. Over 70m+ of new releases in competition, and a major snow storm in the Midwest that is likely affecting its Sunday and Saturday numbers. Silly Kal is silly.

I haven't seen anything to indicate negative WoM, I think it's just how you feel about the film helping your judgement. At least my audience was enthusiastic about the movie and got people talking, in a good way. Getting people talking is good for WOM.

Like, I understand spectacular is a more specific (and better) version of good. I just don't get why there should be criticism of somebody who says they're good numbers for not being more enthusiastic. 153m is a spectacular 2nd weekend number, but with how the weekdays played out it doesn't seem as spectacular in comparison. So I understand why people might say good or solid, when they were hearing 160-180m thrown around all week. Im excited to see the actuals.

But isnt a spectacular number also a good number?

1.I was talking about what interested me, not what I thought would be a big hit 2.Sub 300m isn't bad... 3.Most of those films I don't see flopping. Much to learn, you do.

On an off-note, 2017 looks a lot more fun blockbuster wise than 2016 The Dark Tower LEGO Batman Beauty and the Beast Skull Island Ghost in the Shell Guardians of the Galaxy 2 Star Wars Episode 8 Kingsman 2 Wonder Woman Uncharted War of the Planet of the Apes New Nolan Movie Pirates 5 (with competent directors) Spider-Man Done Right? New Alien? Coco Ready Player One Avatar 2 All of those look like really fun blockbusters, and I'm sure a few I didn't mention will turn out good (and some of those will turn out bad) Then again, I though 2015 looked a lot more fun than 2014, and 2014 turned out to be (overall) a much better year than 2015.

So pretty much your major blockbusters are going to be a little higher, and non-blockbusters are going to be a little lower. I think, in general, it's best just not to compare admissions of 2015 to a different generation like the 90s. Where Star Wars has things like IMAX, 3D, etc. in its favor, it also has things like pirating (especially later in its run), early VOD releases, and such working against it. If we're going to give Titanic's admissions the high IMAX/3D/PLF boost, it'd also be fair to give Titanic's admissions a cut from pirating and early VOD releases, as a leggy run of its level wouldn't be possible in todays market. Even Avatar (a fairly newer movie) would have hard time replicating its run in the 2015 market compared to 2009.

But how would you do so? Different movies do different amounts in 3D, IMAX, and PLF. If you're adjusting it to the average ticket price, you are adjusting it to IMAX, 3D, and PLF factored in. If you adjusted it higher than the average ticket price, then you are over adjusting the movie and giving it a bigger advantage over the newer movie you're comparing it to.

But there's no way you can actually determine how much another movie would have made if it had IMAX or 3D or PLF. It's true, a larger amount of SW's box office is IMAX than a comedy with no IMAX, but it's also selling out lower cost theaters as well. The comedy likely is lower than the average ticket price listed, and a large blockbuster is likely at the average ticket price. A major case where a movie's ticket price might be above average is something like Interstellar. A movie that was selling an abnormal amount of IMAX tickets for its end gross. Even near the end of its run. Also, as SW goes on in its run, it's going to sell make more of its money in lower price theaters than premium theaters, as it slowly loses its premium theaters to other movies. It is very much fair to compare admissions of Star Wars to Titanic by just using the average ticket price. What wouldn't be as fair is comparing the admissions of a 2015 comedy to a comedy of the 90s using the average ticket price.

That doesn't matter, average ticket price is what really matters (as it's affected by the IMAX screens).

If it hits 1.1B DOM, safe to say, the ship sank.

But that'd be implying it isn't bigger than Avatar (and it will be domestically). Domestically, it'll be the biggest since Titanic at the least.

I'm pretty certain TDK admissions adjusted (accounting for 3D, which it wouldn't have had anyways because its a Nolan movie) would have been around TA-JW level.

770m doesn't sound right. I really doubt TDK adjusts that high even if you take IMAX and 3D into consideration.

It'll be well past TDK admissions by Sunday

I'm holding out a secret hope it beats Star Wars adjusted, but it'd need some truly monstrous holds over January. The fact that it's going to beat Avatar should be wow enough.

I'm confused? When has solid ever been a term for disappointment? Ive already expressed it's a fantastic number. It's not mindblowing based on how the movies been performing, but that doesn't make me disappointed. It's like saying I don't think a movie is worth seeing unless I give it an A+