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It's less about the competition and more about the Sunday. While Friday and Saturday are probably due for 40% drops, Sunday will see a pretty big bump over last Sunday, which keeps the Weekend decline down, probably under 30%. The following weekend will have another good Sunday hold, due to the holiday. It looks like it's going to end right around the GotG/MJ1 mark.

While the Lone Survivor comparison for Monday and Tuesday pointed to a 23.5m weekend for AS, the Wed comparison is closer to 21.5.

Lone Survivor had a post-SB weekend a little over 8 times the comparable Tuesday, which would indicate about 23.5m for AS. The comparable for Monday is about the same.

The weekdays in general have been pretty lackluster. It did have a nice Friday and Saturday increase over the weekend, though. A weekend around 22-23m seems pretty likely. JA coud possibly beat that, though it's not definite.

1 1 - American Sniper WB $31,850,000 $30,660,528 $-1,189,472 -3.7% 3,885 $248,942,000 $247,752,541 6 2 3 +1 Paddington W/Dim. $8,505,000 $8,267,864 $-237,136 -2.8% 3,303 $50,540,000 $50,303,258 3 3 2 -1 Project Almanac Par. $8,500,000 $8,310,252 $-189,748 -2.2% 2,893 $8,500,000 $8,310,252 1 4 4 - Black or White Rela. $6,456,000 $6,213,362 $-242,638 -3.8% 1,823 $6,456,000 $6,213,362 1 5 5 - The Boy Next Door Uni. $6,093,000 $6,081,045 $-11,955 -0.2% 2,615 $24,684,000 $24,672,380 2 6 6 - The Wedding Ringer SGem $5,700,000 $5,690,243 $-9,757 -0.2% 2,820 $48,100,000 $48,133,366 3 7 7 - The Imitation Game Wein. $5,173,000 $5,010,913 $-162,087 -3.1% 2,402 $67,955,000 $67,792,549 10 8 8 - Taken 3 Fox $3,650,000 $3,745,914 $+95,914 +2.6% 2,533 $81,353,000 $81,449,144 4 9 9 - Strange Magic BV $3,441,000 $3,361,664 $-79,336 -2.3% 3,020 $9,899,000 $9,819,784 2 10 10 - The Loft ORF $2,879,000 $2,747,342 $-131,658 -4.6% 1,841 $2,879,000 $2,747,342 1 11 11 - Selma Par. $2,670,000 $2,567,642 $-102,358 -3.8% 1,714 $43,578,000 $43,475,569 6 12 12 - Into the Woods BV $1,942,000 $1,902,385 $-39,615 -2.0% 1,725 $124,388,000 $124,348,417 6 13 13 - A Most Violent Year A24 $1,701,000 $1,512,224 $-188,776 -11.1% 818 $3,169,000 $2,980,129 5 14 14 - Birdman FoxS $1,515,000 $1,479,629 $-35,371 -2.3% 976 $33,237,000 $33,201,627 16 15 15 - Game of Thrones (IMAX) WB $1,501,000 $1,464,932 $-36,068 -2.4% 205 $1,501,000 $1,464,932 1 16 16 - Mortdecai LGF $1,425,000 $1,439,268 $+14,268 +1.0% 2,648 $6,844,000 $6,858,533 2 17 17 - The Hobbit: The Battle of the Five Armies WB $1,280,000 $1,290,933 $+10,933 +0.9% 910 $251,678,000 $251,688,921 7 18 18 - The Theory of Everything Focus $1,000,000 $983,098 $-16,902 -1.7% 805 $30,600,000 $30,583,543 13 - 19 - Night at the Museum: Secret of the Tomb Fox $835,000 $823,312 $-11,688 -1.4% 763 $109,788,000 $109,775,951 7 - 20 - Unbroken Uni. $780,000 $751,805 $-28,195 -3.6% 800 $113,874,000 $113,846,230 6 - 24 - Wild (2014) FoxS $550,000 $550,192 $+192 +0.0% 418 $35,669,000 $35,669,597 9 - 23 - The Hunger Games: Mockingjay - Part 1 LGF $545,000 $550,253 $+5,253 +1.0% 490 $335,123,000 $335,127,925 11 - 25 - Black Sea Focus $464,000 $456,872 $-7,128 -1.5% 313 $516,000 $508,797 2 - 26 - Big Hero 6 BV $452,000 $453,974 $+1,974 +0.4% 336 $218,056,000 $218,057,399 13 - 29 - Spare Parts LGF $325,000 $324,423 $-577 -0.2% 295 $3,117,000 $3,116,458 3 - 34 - Running Man (2015) CL $205,000 $186,926 $-18,074 -8.8% 20 $205,000 $184,926 1 - 33 - Interstellar Par. $200,000 $191,614 $-8,386 -4.2% 158 $186,666,000 $186,657,114 13 - 35 - The Woman in Black 2: Angel of Death Rela. $165,000 $170,297 $+5,297 +3.2% 217 $26,156,000 $26,161,793 5 - 39 - Two Days, One Night IFC $154,000 $134,817 $-19,183 -12.5% 64 $611,000 $592,006 6 - 41 - Blackhat Uni. $114,000 $116,725 $+2,725 +2.4% 236 $7,828,000 $7,830,210 3 - 44 - Boyhood IFC $89,100 $72,924 $-16,176 -18.2% 131 $25,071,500 $25,048,817 30 - 42 - Big Eyes Wein. $81,000 $86,089 $+5,089 +6.3% 137 $14,190,900 $14,195,944 6 - 46 - Dumb and Dumber To Uni. $67,500 $70,035 $+2,535 +3.8% 131 $86,112,000 $86,114,730 12 - 52 - Timbuktu Cohen $50,000 $45,110 $-4,890 -9.8% 4 $58,300 $53,216 1 - 53 - Nightcrawler ORF $44,400 $42,048 $-2,352 -5.3% 105 $32,361,400 $32,359,117 14 - 57 - Top Five Par. $23,000 $22,089 $-911 -4.0% 69 $25,306,000 $25,305,352 8 - 59 - Citizenfour RTWC $18,300 $17,767 $-533 -2.9% 30 $2,519,100 $2,518,650 15 - 63 - The Gambler Par. $14,000 $12,934 $-1,066 -7.6% 34 $33,569,000 $33,568,716 6

It's like Robin Hood: Prince of Thieves, with Robin Williams playing Kevin Costner, Dustin Hoffman playing Alan Rickman, and Dante Basco as Christian Slater.

1 American Sniper $2,645,109 -38% 3,885 180 $681 $250,397,650 6 Warner Bros. 2 Project Almanac $584,909 -52% 2,893 -- $202 $8,895,161 1 Paramount 3 The Wedding Ringer $531,564 -32% 2,820 -183 $188 $48,664,930 3 Sony / Screen Gems 4 Black or White $517,822 -47% 1,823 -- $284 $6,731,184 1 Relativity Media 5 The Boy Next Door $470,690 -53% 2,615 13 $180 $25,143,070 2 Universal 6 Paddington $470,225 -74% 3,303 -52 $142 $50,773,483 3 Weinstein / Dimension 7 The Imitation Game $444,324 -42% 2,402 377 $185 $68,236,873 10 Weinstein Company 8 Taken 3 $325,157 -43% 2,533 -376 $128 $81,774,301 4 Fox 9 The Loft $249,979 -29% 1,841 -- $136 $2,997,321 1 Open Road 10 Selma $235,289 -39% 1,714 -332 $137 $43,710,858 6 Paramount 11 Strange Magic $218,404 -71% 3,020 0 $72 $10,038,188 2 Disney 12 Mortdecai $143,060 -44% 2,648 0 $54 $7,001,593 2 Lionsgate 13 Into the Woods $133,136 -64% 1,725 -545 $77 $124,481,553 6 Disney

Oh, correct. I did bad math.

AS down about 46% from last Monday.

Almost epic in how bad it is. Nothing about the film works. There are plot points, but no narrative arc that makes sense. Things happen. And then other things happen for no rhyme or reason. Even for a Transformers film, it's on a whole new level of random happenstance. Characters lack motivation or development. They waffle between emotions for no reason, often acting out completely at odds with what's going on around them. Characters also appear and disappear for no reason. There are several scenes where I wondered where the Autobots, who had been present just moments before, had wandered off to, despite all the explosions and peril going on around their friends. The Transformers themselves feel completely under-utilized. At times they just exist as vehicles, without any interaction. At others they spout unmemorable one-liners with no connection to the scene at hand or even realization that there are other characters around them. Even the Bayhem is lackluster. I'd like to say that Bay is learning to try different things, but without his trademark layered construction, it mostly looks boring and generic action. More than a few times I thought "no, that looks exactly like they set off some fireworks". Perhaps the most damning is that the one character who has continuity with the previous films, Optimus Prime, doesn't feel like he's the same character at all. Peter Cullen gives it his best, but the rousing Optimus speeches are unmemorable, and most of the rest of the time he's shouting "I'm going to kill you!" for no good reason. It's almost impressive that they could make a film worse than TF2. I have to wonder if that's what they were trying to do. Mostly, I came away wondering if anyone actually cared about this film. The actors only rarely engage, the technical construction is lackluster. It just seems like everyone was bored and showing up for a paycheck. If there's a film where nobody involved is engaged why should I be? 1/5.

No! Disney never makes mistakes! It is the perfectest most beautiful company and I whisper to it at night and hope it will respond.

NOT A RECORD!

Probably Thursday. It should be right around 260 then. Friday at the absolute latest.

Where are the nominees listed? Not in the first post or in the title.

Man, we suck, people. Me included, since I didn't see Inherent Vice in time to bump Interstellar down a slot or two on my list. People's Choice awards, indeed.

Oh, thank god it's not #1.

I've watched the whole season and loved it. It's upper-tier television, for me. The season ending was pretty damn daring, so I hope they get a second season to do more.

This is going to take some work.

Yes. Anything skewing "male" will probably see a drop of around 75% on Sunday. Last year's top 10: 1 2 Frozen BV $2,119,450 -54% -26% 2,754 $770 $359,635,842 73 2 3 The Nut Job ORF $1,615,221 -59% -57% 3,472 $465 $49,911,445 17 3 1 Ride Along Uni. $1,562,935 -76% -70% 2,867 $545 $92,698,470 17 4 5 That Awkward Moment Focus $1,032,663 -73% - 2,809 $368 $8,742,109 3 5 4 Lone Survivor Uni. $887,350 -77% -74% 3,285 $270 $104,789,886 40 6 7 Labor Day Par. $856,075 -64% - 2,584 $331 $5,175,282 3 7 9 I, Frankenstein LGF $787,686 -58% -65% 2,753 $286 $14,724,493 10 8 6 Jack Ryan: Shadow Recruit Par. $716,220 -75% -69% 2,907 $246 $38,878,417 17 9 11 August: Osage County Wein. $573,903 -61% -59% 2,319 $247 $31,580,844 38 10 8 American Hustle Sony $550,277 -76% -69% 2,216 $248 $133,481,413 52 11 10 The Wolf of Wall Street Par. $481,172 -74% -69% 1,607 $299 $103,927,541 40 So, yeah. AS is probably going to pull around 4-4.5m on Sunday.

On the high end. It's more likely to pull closer to 31m.

My brother was onscreen for all of about three seconds. Those were, perhaps, the most enjoyable three seconds I've ever had watching a film. 5/5

Yeah, no. I'm going to go by the release when it could have actually been seen. It got an actual release in February 2014, ergo it's a 2014 film.

Ugh. Just looked at the list I sent grim and I hate it already. I just saw Inherent Vice and if I'd been able to post the list now, it would have made my top 10. Here's what I would have sent, waffling between films I really enjoyed personally and ones I thought were very well constructed: I'm keep flipping my #2 and #3 back and forth.

Precisely. Mine weren't ranked for any category. I just wrote them down as they came to me.

The only two that would make a bit of difference are BP and Best Actor. The latter isn't happening, and the former is incredibly unlikely. The technical wins it might get aren't going to boost business.