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I think the studio can live with lower takings for one movie when they have two movies (MJ).

I dunno , maybe to make Money?

13.2 Wednesday (less lol but still lol)

But you have to look at the daily gross, without midnights / previews. It's only $13-14m, TTT was over $20m, much higher base to work with. Thursday might be lower than your $12m. Or look at it like that, ROTK had a 5-day to total multiplier of 3. BOFA won't have Oscar buzz and wins. With $85m 5-day, that would amount to less than $255m, might be quite a bit less.

Could be slightly lower even. I think it's unlikely now to reach DOS total numbers.

Damn, i had hoped for $27m.

My life is complete!

You are doing a great job. Btw, switch LOTR with comic-book movies and i would almost agree with you (there are actually a few good comic-book movies).

No, they had late evening shows as well.

What did the first 2 make? A tad above $20m if i remember correctly?

And he loves the Hobbit movies.

baumer is secretly a Hobbit loony.

I think 30m is out of question. DOS did 22m for the day but that was friday. Wednesday will have much lower evening attendance. My guess is around 15m.

The Hobbit: The Battle of the Five Armies weekend 1: $122.1 million [37 markets] / $122.1 million 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

So what's that about: $2.5m is not a lot and it's not like the exchange rate changed so much, so how did they come to that conclusion? It doesn't make sense.

According to that deadline article... I don't understand. Are they referring to local currency? Also... Something doesn't add up.

I know. Too bad. Too bad for other countries, too. Europe would have been about 10% higher.

I like that Brazil increase. Other than that, it's pretty much on par with DOS. Let's not talk about Russia.

Anyone having a list of markets to compare Hobbit 3 launch with Hobbit 2? Basically, it did open to about the same number then, i guess.

That is not even news worthy. It's just some fans campaigning for him directing and him saying "i'd be up for it". Not gonna happen.

How is DADT a box office success, with a budget of 35m and probably another 35m for marketing? Even if it's just 50m combined, they only get half its box office, they are barely breaking even, if at all.

I hope not. Do something new! He's not Vader where everything revolves around him and the Empire, he's more like the Joker. Once is enough.

Toy Story - i don't care

First world problems...

I have been saying this since i saw CF but everyone was like shut up, it's awesome.