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So what's up with this Skype thingy?

Huh, this burger I made turned out pretty great.

Jesus, I hope Neighbors is a bit frontloaded. 41 million is fine. I'm still not sure what I was thinking when I took the MNO bet. Probably thought a) it opened later in the month and it would open in more than 1k theaters.

Skype chat? Sounds fun. I'll probably show up and not speak.

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It was ambiguous, which is why I asked about it several pages ago. It would have made more sense to word it as an either/or thing: Either you answer 1 question (+8000/-5000) or you answer all 5 questions (+20000/-25000).

I'm only liking this because you showed him The Incredibles... Not because the reaction was adorable.

What number do you really want?1 The Nut Job $3,438 18% 101 -59 $34 $64,251,538 16 Open Road

Does Sony have anything to do with what deadline said?

I actually think that would make more sense. Call that day zero. I think that's what happened for Iron Man. It earned 3.5 million, which wasn't included in the first weekend gross.

1. How to Train Your Dragon 22. Big Hero 63. The Boxtrolls4. Edge of Tomorrow5. Maleficent6. Inherent Vice7. Jupiter Ascending8. Cinderella9. Fas7 & Furious10. Into the Woods

It's Ladies Day. Women get a discount on tickets.

Context matters, though. In the film nudity is (ideally) part of the package, and should serve multiple purposes for character and plot, even if, yes, there is a degree of titillation there. These sites put it just in the titillation category.

Skyfall v Charlie's Angels: Full ThrottleSpider-man 3 v Michael Jackson: This Is It [abstain]]Spider-man v Total Recall (1990)Spider-man 2 v Jumanji2012 v The Fifth ElementThe da Vinci code v Charlie's Angels [abstain]The amazing spider-man v Grown UpsHancock v Something's Gotta GiveMen in black 3 v Bad Boys 2Casino royale v Jerry MaguireMen in black v Cloudy with a chance of meatballs 2 [abstain]Quantum of solace v XXXThe smurfs v The Tourist [abstain]Angels and demons v SaltMen in black 2 v Resident Evil: Afterlife [abstain]Godzilla v My Best Friend's Wedding [abstain]Hitch v Stuart LittleThe karate kid v The pursuit of happyness [abstain]Hotel Transylvania v As good as it gets [abstain]The smurfs 2 v Air Force one

The last day of daily reports was last Thursday, after 161 days. That's actually a super long time for Disney to do daily reports. They usually stop after about 3 months.

$260m.

True. It's a different run. I'm not saying that to try and spin this positive. I'm saying that it's more difficult to predict how it's going to progress because it's behaving differently.

Harsher Wednesday drop than the past several Summer starters. But none of them had anywhere close to that sort of boost on Tuesday. Comparison points are difficult.

1 The Amazing Spider-Man 2 $4,123,636 -34% 4,324 -- $954 $107,139,985 1 Sony / Columbia I sure hope nobody beat me to the number.

Cool. I'm in 14th. Thanks to the super punishing SOTM this week, that is likely to be the highest I'll end up at. Actually, looking at the instructions for the SOTM, if you answer all five and get one wrong, does that just mean you lose 25k, or do the individual point questions count as well? (i.e. you get 4 right for 32k points, one wrong for -5k, and then the penalty for getting any wrong for -25k, so a net of 2k.) If that's the case, it's actually not so bad. Granted, it does put the range of scores you could get anywhere from 60k to -50k that way, so if it goes bad for you, it goes really bad.

Bears isn't a debacle. It's got great legs for a DisneyNature release. It's already beat a 3x OW multiplier, and probably has a few million to go. So it'll outgross African Cats, and could get close to matching Oceans. Considering it had the smallest OW of any of them, that's pretty impressive. (It is surprising it's still playing so widely, so I expect it'll see a pretty sharp theater dropoff this weekend, though.)

And that's why Frozen is so far behind Spirited Away. It's interesting that HMC had such a huge drop in week 9. If Frozen avoids that, it should be pretty clear sailing.

Only one movie has ever missed $200m after opening to $75m or more: Wolverine Origins. Two others managed to miss the mark after grossing over $70m OW: The Simpsons and Fast & Furious. Ironically, both of those are regarded as big success stories. So legs aren't everything. If we're looking at films that earned similar amounts OW that also followed up franchise entries with mixed reception, both Harry Potter 3 and PotC4 would suffice. On the good side, both of those earned between $240m and $250m, even though they were down from the previous entries. However, HP3 was very well regarded, which probably mitigated a lot of the potential loss. And PotC4 opened over a holiday. Both also were later in the summer, so they had some weekday benefit that Spidey isn't likely to see. So while Spidey isn't likely to get quite to those heights, it probably isn't going to sink super fast, either. The reception is quite a bit better than Wolverine Origins had, after all. It's probably going to end up somewhere between 210 and 230.

Well, fine. NOW they post it. It's supposed to be first.

Oh, sad. No dailies for The Nut Job. End of an era.