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$220M - $235M. FF6 had a 3 days opening at $98M, a 4 days opening at $117M and finished its run at 238,679,850

When will we have a first estimation of saturday's numbers ?

I think it will reach it but i also think Maleficent will be deadly for a lot of movies cause it will have families, women, young and old and even men because of Jolie...not your typical Disney movie but a four quadrant Disney one that many people underestimate. It will hit every target of the population and therefore hurt more movies.

lol...with June coming and the tough competition, it will be a blood shed ... I think a lot of movie will fall hard next week already.

June is very crowded so it will be difficult.

Propbably but what i mean is that domestically its potential growth is likely to be well contained because it is set in a maturity/saturated point in its life expentancy curve.

Agree. XMen is a mature sequel. At some point it reached its growing point and won't gain much more new aficionados but instead keep the strong fanbase it has acquired since the first movie. Yes, it was rejuvenated with a new concept mixing the two teams and with 3D thrown in the mix, so it was about to add a little more dough, especially abroad with new expanding markets. But the fact that it won't top XMen3 ow domestic, even with 3D showed that most definitely it had already reached its maturity point and won't increase much (admission wise) like MCU sequels (bar probably IM3 that should stabilize in case of apotential 4th movie) do as they are still relatively recent and on the increase process within their life expentancy.

Sure it was and this weekend is Memorial day. Spidey should at least do what TTDW did.

They both lost around the same amount of theaters but CA2 was coming from a lesser theater counts, so the drop was expected to be even more severe. Spidey is in its 4th weekend versus 8th so i thought it should have held better at this stage of its run, especially with a Memorial day weekend. Hell, it will have around a $8m weekend gross for three days while TTDW (which opened lower) at the same stage had a...$11M gross with CF and Frozen releases...

Can't beleive Marvel's once biggest character, the one that had an opening weekend above $100m, then above $150M before any other CBM did may not only end up being the least domestic gross this year between them, granted GOGT makes better) but also may fail reaching TA's OW during its entire run... This is just embarrassing and i hope Sony rethink thoroughy what they are doing with that character as he deserves so much better.

I think Maleficient will break out bad and may diminish its potential gross prematurely.. I have been seeing huge posters after huge posters, trailer after trailer, TV clips after TV clips for more than a month now and in my theater, it's the only one that huge above any other while DOFP is barely noticeable. I have looked at the numbers of seats for DOFP of and it was 1/5 full, 10 minutes before the movie at 4 pm while the next session, an hour later had only a dozen of places taken with more than 500 still available. The only ad campaign that was as huge as Maleficent was for TASM2. Disney has been pulling all the plugs with that movie and with Jolie's face, it could be severly lethal. I think it will play the trouble maker for a lot of recent releases and drive families, young and old alike.

I think Maleficent is a wild card, will blow and exceed expextations...i really do. I think the movie will be better than most people think. I think Jolie star is an asset that will guarantee excessive returns in a majority of big markets, including Japan. I definitely think it could reach $450 - $500M overseas and go even higher if the movie is great and really breaks out.

Sure, it's not and i beleive it will gross higher than any previous Xmen but $550M overseas is extremely difficult to do for any movie...it's high popularity in every single market. That's some Harry Potter, TASM1 and FF7 territory. I don't see it pulling that kinda of universal high popularity even with spectacular reviews.

$400 - $410M OS

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Exactly. It did $31M this week, $22M of which is China. So, it did $9M elsewhere. Where are those extra $40M to be found with Godzilla fully out a few days ago and Dofp released in two days in a lot of european countries, then in three days in the rest of them and in latine america, then on friday in China and Asia ? TASM2 has basicly 48 hours before it is removed in a majority of theaters where it has been running since April the 16th and then for the residual left has to compete with direct competitor DOFP, Godzilla and a bunch of newcommer in the form of local releases. In my opinion, $40m is dead in the water. It had a chance if it had hit $475M+ this weekend like i said last week. It may even struggle to hit TASM's $490m if it completely falls in China when opposed to DOFP this coming weekend.

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How ? Its theater counts in a lot of countries is reduced (like one per day in two theaters in my city). That movie has been out since April the 16th in a majority of countries. CAP2 stayed in my cinema three whole weeks. Spidey has had one session per day for the past week and is closing on tuesday nigh after 5 weeks as DOFP will be released on wednesday then Maleficent on the next one. Quite frankly, it will need for it to stay three extra week with no new releases to add those extra $40M. Only China may add a little more money but anywhere, i don't see it.

Well in a lot of countries it will be mostly closed on tuesday night (ity opened on Aoril teh 16th and a lot of countries pull out movies after 3 to 6 weeks while tyhe last two weeks, theater counts is extremely reduced) as Dofp is kicking it on wednesday. It can still pull a lot of cash in China, especially on weekends but Dofp will also be released there. Quite frankly i don't see it pulling another $40M, unless it is still largelly in theaters for the next three weeks which it won't with DOFP opening this wednesday and Maleficent opening the next one..

How to add $40 M ? It's closing in a lot of countries where it opened 5 weeks ago as DOFP is opening on wednesday already with Godzilla taking its full gear and Maleficent is right at the corner, within 10 days.

i don't think so. it's closing in many markets (it's entering it's 6th week). I don't see it making $40M with Godzilla, DOFP opening as early as wednesday and Maleficent. I think it has maybe $20 - $25M at most.

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Closing abroad with Godzilla and the upcoming Xmen DOFP and Maleficient. I don't see it reaching $700M. It has maybe $20 M left at best on the foreign front and needs around another $50M at home to reach it.

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