That's quite optimistic.
I don't think that the market is so abysmal.
There is forecasts like this one for Russian market, and some experts believe that they are completely wrong and market will stop growing after screen count hit ~3500 mark(x9 for China )...
Ekinobilet gives 2.316m for Sunday, total: 5.35m for the weekend versus Disney's 7.8m.
So, in future we can plus ~45% to ekinobilet numbers to see result close to actual.
I think they also wanted to give Carrie more space, and Thor itself, because 2 weeks before HG, like in US, is not enough.
So, ekinobilet numbers are off by a light year.
7.8m is pretty good, not great, but quite well.
And the main question remains, will the formal OW beat the preview OW? I still think it's not gonna make it.
It's snowy today:
Yep, i totally overestimated, and i thought i was underestimating, lol, that's why kinometro didn't even try.
Well, ekinobilet shows $1m 886k for Saturday.
Total for now: 96.8m RUB/ 3.01m USD. Currency 1 USD = 32.18 RUB
This numbers is may be nowhere near actuals, but 7m for the weekend is the top.
Actually, he did, i watch F1 since 2011 because of him, as many others, interest raising dramatically, actually; Russian Time, Marussia, Russian GP, Petrov, Kvyat, Sirotkin(probably won't be in F1 next year though). Sponsorship - yea, that's not so easy, but that's the other thing.
Shouldn't be, there were plenty of showings in normal theaters.
That's ok)
So unjustified, i'm happy with 1,5$ cheapest ticket(average less than 10$) in a theater with screen bigger than most of the LieMaxes, 2 3d projectors, hfr, etc.
This is a very special situation, even with Monday 14m is really strong expectation, 30m was sure thing long before, it's not about start, it's about legs.
You can expect what i said earlier, looks like "kinometro" knows less))
Actually, i'll increase to ~14m for whole preview, and at least 10m for the weekend, there are many midnight showings tonight, some of them are sold out, so i think even that might be low.
It looks like Thor getting all IMAX screens, and not only, very, very wide "preview", so this weekend is pretty much OW, next weekend it'll fall, although there is pretty much nothing coming out.As for Ender's Game, anything above 3m+ OW will be surprise, there is huge possibility of not making even 5m in total.
It's a min. mark...
http://forums.boxoffice.com/index.php?/topic/3024-russia-box-office-stalingrad-ahead-of-iron-man-3-unbelievable-but-true-soon/?p=1073024