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Seriously? Not gonna happen, i'm afraid. It's gonna drop over 40%. I see BOFA doing between $21m and $24m this weekend. Most likely $22m - $23m.

I had hoped for over $10m but whether it's good or bad depends on friday's gross. If it drops minimally that's okay, if it drops similarly to ROTK we would have a rather steep weekend drop.

Doesn't look that good to me if we compare it to Frozen, which sold over twice the amount of tickets. I guess it's gonna make as much money as DOS - half the amount Frozen did.

Mediocre? Difficult to say. It doesn't look like to gain on DOS this week. Hopefully, it won't lose more ground.

75%

$439.3m as of December 31

damehood lol

Who the heck came up with "dame"? How can one be so invested in one person. Seriously creepy...

I doubt it very much. Hobbit should drop about 20-25%. Last day of the year should be slightly bigger than Christmas Eve for Hobbit, which means over $6m.

Are you aware of what you are doing? Pushing expectations. If those will not be met you'll get the scorn of all the fanboys. You better believe in what you are saying...

Maybe not 15m. But about 10m.

Will BOFA make it to $20m?

MJ is so last month.

Please read the post where i tried to explain to you why that is a flawed way of comparing. Thank you very much.

Well, DOS did only $29m more after this weekend. BOFA, being a weekend earlier in its run, will definitely make more than that but i don't see it making much more than what AUJ did, which was $40m.

But it helped. We are mainly talking about a difference not much higher than $10m, maybe $15m, when arguing about how much BOFA can gross in the end.

ROTK had Oscar push. $275m is the best we can hope for.

Its week to week drops keep being better than ROTK's. The Hobbit has sexy, hairy legs.

We were brothers in arms in regards to Hobbit. However, i can't follow you to that cesspool of mediocre fluff, that are Marvel superheroes. I hope USD gets even stronger next year.

So... nobody has said anything about it, how's the exchange rate between USD and China's RMB?

Well, "similar" to me sounds like the effect is pretty close to "actual" 3D. Maybe you didn't mean that. Sorry about that. For the human brains movie 3D is pretty much real 3D - one image per eye, slightly offset. That's how real 3D works. We are not so much manipulating 2D images, at least not when shooting native 3D, the stereo cameras are our eyes. RealD, IMAX 3D and what have you are then techniques used to feed those images to our eyes.

But it's nothing like actual 3D, where it's actually like a window to another world, something that has depth, that goes into the screen and sometimes stuff that you feel like it's so near you can touch. If you can't see the huge difference, i dunno what to say. Check your theater setup?

That weekend should have been $10m higher. Dunno what happened here. Hopefully, actuals will be a tad higher again. It's always the 3rd weekend that screws everything up, last years it was the same with DOS. The Hobbit: The Battle of the Five Armies weekend 1: $122.1 million [37 markets] / $122.1 million weekend 2: $109 million [59 markets] ($269 million) / $358.1 million weekend 3: $89.2 million [62 markets] ($405.1 million) / $573.6 million (est.) The Hobbit: The Desolation of Smaug weekend 1: $135.4 million [49 markets] / $209 million weekend 2: $97.4 million [56 markets] ($278.4 million) / $406 million weekend 3: $99.7 million [62 markets] ($424.8 million) / $616.1 million weekend 4: $58 million [64 markets] ($527 million) / $756.6 million weekend 5: $22.2 million [62 markets] ($566 million) / $802.8 million (est.) The Hobbit: An Unexpected Journey weekend 1: $138 million / $222.6 million weekend 2: $96 million [59 markets] ($288.5 million) / $438.6 million weekend 3: $106.5 million [62 markets] ($464 million) / $686.7 million weekend 4: $57.1 million [65 markets] ($561 million) / $824.8 million weekend 5: $26.2 million ($609.3 million) / $887.5 million

Agreed. Now i don't expect it to come close to the first one money wise but that's okay. It'll still make a boatload of cash. Avatar sequels never will be "in trouble". They are going to be huge.

I've heard similar phrases in regards to IMAX, that "the picture is so vivid that it appears 3D". At the end of the day, it's a flat image.