Looks good for Guardians. It's a better jump than CA:CW. This means that with CW numbers from this point on GOTG2 will hit $268m. My guess would be $270m as a final number.
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The movies based on some of my favorite books ranked very low as I saw so much unfulfilled potential. Yates took a couple movies to figure Harry Potter out, and he imo eventually had the second best handle on the feel of Harry Potter. I think Columbus did the best at adapting the books, but he also adapted two of the weaker stories. Fantastic Beasts brought the magic back, and may have been my favorite movie of the series potentially because it was not overshadowed by a novel.
This was one of my favorite movies of the year. It felt almost more book lile in certain aspects, which imo gave it a different flow then many movies. This could seem offputting but as someone who loved the Potter books much more than the movies I enjoyed this film more than all but 2 of the Potter films. A+
I think Kubo was just released at a time when there were just to many movies in theaters. It needed more than just a family audience to succeed, especially when the family audience already has so many more cutesy animated films to see. Maybe an off-peak release date could have kept it from being burried. Sausage party on the other hand has the Rogan name, and with his audience's age group an R rated animated film does not seem like such a strange idea.
Maybe we in our bubble of movie fandom are in the minority thinking CW>>>AOU. Maybe the people who see one or two movies a year cared more to see AOU than CW. I mean with how many films the average forum member views per year compared to the average person we do have a somewhat different perspective. ..
For the Domestic theater loss, Keanu(+600 theaters), Ratchet and Clank(+800 theaters), and BvS (-500 theaters) will likely lose screens first, as would Mothers Day when it plummets post Mothers Day. I think Zoo should continue to have a solid grasp on its screens for a couple more weeks.
About Europe, yes the drops were bad, but not only is it in its second weekend and thus the worse drops on this weekend then holdovers, but also good weather has a much bigger impact on box office in Europe than in the US. I wouldn't be surprised if CW has <10% drops in Europe next week.