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A2 WED week-to-week drop is -58%, PIB2's is -50%. The latter dropped -19% last WE while A2 did -32%. If A2 is crumbling (relatively), so is PIB2.

FRI 7.5m SAT 15m SUN 12.5m

This would really surprise me. In 2017 pretty much all movies dropped better, much better in some cases, during MLK weekend compared to the weekend before, except maybe movies that lost a lot of showtimes. And it makes sense, since you go from a normal weekend to a holiday weekend, whereas the weekend before is the other way round. I'm expecting big bumps on FRI and SAT.

It just dropped a great -32% coming off a holiday weekend, only 5% more than the freak of nature A1, but because we had the first day where everyone is back to school / work and probably sports deflated the day slightly we are suddenly writing eulogies? Relax...

-20% is 36,5m. Didn't do math, just going by past precedents (much better drops on MLK weekend compared to previous weekend).

Only a couple percent better drop than last week where it came off a holiday weekend? Even with playoffs i think it'll be more like -20% for 3-day.

Apparently with very limited showtimes so don't expect too much. Somebody in the China thread posted it but no source.

Should be fine as A2 friday jump will probably be close to twice as big compared to last week.

The pace might slow down a little bit. Last weekend was still inflated due to a holiday, especially in Europe where A2 does best.

What, you gave up on it beating NWH DOM? Disappointed...

I can already see it, M3gan vs Chucky.

Which is a shame. Some people don't like subs but i like being able to read them when i miss some spoken words. Imagine listening to OV Bane in DKR...

Number of shows for OV versions are small but OV with subtitles is almost non existant.

Well, agree to disagree. I'd rather have picture instead of black bars. Btw, 1.33:1 would have black bars on the sides. I would not like that, at all.

1.78:1 is better because you get more picture. That's like saying "i prefer cinemascope to IMAX".

He's thrown in the towel.

Guys, we have learned 14.5 is a fake number that gets thrown around a lot.

But there are no real numbers yet just early trending based on preliminary data. I'm sure when they are comfortable putting out a number they will and post it in the title like they have always done. EDIT: Of course right when i write this, numbers get posted...

This is normal because some of that THU gross counts towards the weekend. In some countries the weekend goes from THU to SUN, so 4-day.

Who opened that can of worms, anyway? Sure, EG might be bigger in terms of admissions because it sold a lot of cheap(-er) tickets in some big developing markets with billions of people. I'm sure there are also some obscure Chinese movies that sold hundreds of millions of tickets. But to come here and argue that EG's run was at least as impressive as A1's? Sorry, you would be absolutely wrong. I mean, just look at what the top-lifetime-grosses list looked like in 2009 and compare that to 2019 or today. The only films on that list in the top 30 that were released prior to 2010 are Avatar and ROTK. Yes, it is absolutely easer to make big bucks today than 13 years ago because the market expanded. As for A2, without Covid (mainly China) and the war (Russia / Ukrain), it would have grossed about the same as EG.

So you are saying Avatar was responsible for the downward trend.

IMAX is PLF with a brand name.

I'm not even that hung up on whether it beats TGM tbh, i just wan't it to cross 700m. It has a nice ring to it.

As usual, we should get first numbers on sunday evening.

2nd 168m 3rd 190m