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He's right, though. The Minions are super manufactured: http://www.jasonporath.com/2014/12/the-rise-of-the-hashgag/

Yeah, that 60% boost is crazy huge. And I believe RotJ still has the adjusted wide opening per theater average well in hand to this day. Which is more impressive when you consider how many fewer screens theaters had back then.

The margins of victory: Title Date Weekend Increase $ Increase % Jaws 6/22/1975 $7,061,513.00 - - Star Wars 8/7/1977 $7,195,573.00 $134,060.00 1.90% Jaws 2 6/18/1978 $9,866,023.00 $2,670,450.00 37.11% Star Wars 7/23/1978 $10,166,336.00 $300,313.00 3.04% Every Which Way But Loose 12/24/1978 $10,272,294.00 $105,958.00 1.04% Superman 12/31/1978 $10,363,384.00 $91,090.00 0.89% Star Trek: The Motion Picture 12/9/1979 $11,926,421.00 $1,563,037.00 15.08% Superman II 6/21/1981 $14,100,523.00 $2,174,102.00 18.23% Star Trek II: The Wrath of Khan 6/6/1982 $14,347,221.00 $246,698.00 1.75% Return of the Jedi 5/29/1983 $23,019,618.00 $8,672,397.00 60.45% Indiana Jones and the Temple of Doom 5/27/1984 $25,337,110.00 $2,317,492.00 10.07% Beverly Hills Cop II 5/24/1987 $26,348,555.00 $1,011,445.00 3.99% Indiana Jones and the Last Crusade 5/28/1989 $29,355,021.00 $3,006,466.00 11.41% Ghostbusters II 6/18/1989 $29,472,894.00 $117,873.00 0.40% Batman 6/25/1989 $40,489,746.00 $11,016,852.00 37.38% Batman Returns 6/21/1992 $45,687,711.00 $5,197,965.00 12.84% Jurassic Park 6/13/1993 $47,026,828.00 $1,339,117.00 2.93% Batman Forever 6/18/1995 $52,784,433.00 $5,757,605.00 12.24% The Lost World: Jurassic Park 5/25/1997 $72,132,785.00 $19,348,352.00 36.66% Harry Potter and the Sorcerer's Stone 11/18/2001 $90,294,621.00 $18,161,836.00 25.18% Spider-Man 5/5/2002 $114,844,116.00 $24,549,495.00 27.19% Pirates of the Caribbean: Dead Man's Chest 7/9/2006 $135,634,554.00 $20,790,438.00 18.10% Spider-Man 3 5/6/2007 $151,116,516.00 $15,481,962.00 11.41% The Dark Knight 7/20/2008 $158,411,483.00 $7,294,967.00 4.83% Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows Part 2 7/17/2011 $169,189,427.00 $10,777,944.00 6.80% Marvel's The Avengers 5/6/2012 $207,438,708.00 $38,249,281.00 22.61% Jurassic World 6/14/2015 $208,806,270.00 $1,367,562.00 0.66%

If you mean percentage-wise, no. Ghostbusters II beat Indiana Jones & the Last Crusade by 0.4% in 1989. In dollar value, also no, but it could be the smallest increase since Jurassic Park beat Batman Returns by $1,339,117.

I gotta say, it's pretty fantastic to see BKB completely lose it twice in one summer.

Assuming the F/Sa actuals don't fluctuate a bit, of course. It's definitely in the realm of possibility, but I wouldn't say it's a given. Most underestimated film is such a strange record to have stood for 12 years.

Could do it. It needs to be bigger than $212,248,082.

That's two years and four days. The shortest records are for Every Which Way But Loose and Ghostbusters II, both of which held the record for 7 days. Logically, that's the minimum. I suppose Every Which Way held the OW record for longer, though, since it lost the weekend record to Superman's 3rd weekend. So, Ghostbusters II. Shortest OW record holder in history, and the film which broke the record by the lowest margin.

So looking back at the previous OW records, it looks like the smallest percentage increase (and dollar increase) in the past 25 years was actually Jurassic Park, which improved by a scant 2.9% (and a little over 1.3m) over Batman Returns. In order to not have a smaller increase, Jurassic World would need at least 213,518,782 for the weekend. Of course the smallest increase of all time was in 1989, when Ghostbusters II, which improved by just .4% over Indy 3. JW would need to hit under 208,271,664 and still take the record to do that, a margin of less than a million of TA1. Ghostbusters II also held the record for the shortest amount of time: 1 week, before it was crushed by Batman. Whatever happens, it's likely JW holds the record for longer (assuming it gets it). Unless we're all massively unaware of how big Inside Out is going to be.

Neither did The Avengers. Hell, most films that get the OW record aren't really deserving. But they get there on populist appeal, not quality. So you get middle-of-the-road fare that isn't really challenging things. Occasionally there's something that crosses over and you'll get a TDK (or original JP), but that's the exception, not the norm.

Huh. I was gone all day and missed a hundred pages. Record? Yesno?

Mediocre. Jurassic World is a collection of a shaky plot points, poorly fleshed out characters, and sometimes head-scratching nods to the original. It's fine as a breezy summer afternoon movie, but there's little that sticks as particularly good or memorable. Given that Trevorrow's directing debut was such a character driven piece it felt strange to see all the weak motivations at play here. Pratt and Howard do the best they can, but there isn't a whole lot for their characters to work with. D'Onofrio's Hoskins does some enjoyable grand-standing but even he can't make his character more than a mildly shady opportunist, unlike Wayne Knight's Nedry who was greedy and despicable and most of all specifically active about driving the plot forward. Even the one thing I was really hoping for to be great: Michael Giacchino's score, felt sub-par. The integration of John Williams' original themes was ham-handed and their specific use had me scratching my head. Overall, despite the impressive visuals, the film lacked tension to really get me invested. It's never did anything to make me hate it, but there's little to love, as well. 2/5. 3/5 if I'm feeling charitable.

It's better than JW, surely.

Mockingjay Minions The Walk Ted 2 Max Southpaw The Martian (Not in that order.)

Since the wreview was the same as TA1's midnights, does that mean this is going north of 80m?

79/65/59 would put it at 203. 76/60/40 would put it at 176.

Even if I'm lukewarm on the film, this is impressive. Most impressive.

Well, I guess it was okay. It had moments that were exciting and funny and whatnot, but as a whole it felt half-baked. None of the character motivations were really developed enough to make me care. In a few weeks, I may have forgotten about most of it. Kinda like AoU.

Time for my viewing. Hope it doesn't disappoint.

Yes, because the early numbers for AoU were below what it actually came to. Oh, wait...

Jesus, you're really gunning for the title of biggest pessimist on the board.

Huh. Stronger previews than I expected. So that's at least one BSG answer wrong.

It could be something like that. While I haven't seen it for a new release, I have seen single-screen theaters get a movie in for one week if their current showing is doing less than expected. It's possible some places were disappointed with Tomorrowland and got an agreement for a single week of Spy.

You're not sure about Peanuts? Seriously?

AoU and Tomorrowland are likely to be hit much harder than MMFR. Poltergeist is probably going to get shelled.