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IW made $56M on Thursday, which is the 3rd biggest first Thursday OS, behind Fate of the Furious ($58.9M) and Star Wars: The Force Awakens ($58.6M). If we discount Half-Blood Prince, for whose first Thurday I have no data, IW's 2-day total is the biggest 2-day OS total.

Yeah, I know. I'm not suggesting that this has anything to do its overall gross in the future. It's just interesting from a historical point of view that no other films have achieved this on their first day.

Its opening day overseas ($39M) is the third biggest ever, only behind Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince ($45.9M) and Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows – Part 2 ($43.6M).

Amazing result Is the list posted by @Proxima Olive the all-time list (incl. Quo Vado) or are there some missing? P.S. I think its result in Italy in particular bodes well for its opening day Greece (although we will probably know on Monday the earliest).

I want it to beat FF7 OS

So the teams are independent from the Derby? As in, even if we lose, we can keep playing the Derby but we won't be part of this competition?

What country is this?

Below BP in NA, me neither. But below BP worldwide, yes.

I'm in

Weekend 12–15/04/2018 Ranking Title Weekend admissions % change from last weekend % change from last holiday frame (i.e. incl. Monday) Total admissions Week 1 A Quiet Place 15,316 +91.7% +11.7% 43,199 2 2 Rampage 12,323 – – 12,323 1 3 Peter Rabbit 9,018 +224% +63.8% 41,018 3 4 Game Night 6,583 +278% +42.2% 17,356 2 5 Sherlock Gnomes 4,591 +271% +63.9% 32,256 4 6 Midnight Sun 3,761 – – 3,761 1 7 Leo Da Vinci: Missione Monna Lisa [English-language Italian] 3,691 +264% +72.2% 14,795 3 8 Unlocked 3,499 – – 3,499 1 9 Ready Player One 3,366 -3.4% -39.6% 40,062 3 10 Tomb Raider 2,700 +25.6% -27.1% 115,097 5 Source: http://www.grandmagazine.gr/ngine/article/3954/box-office-akra-tou-tafou-quiet Weekend 19–22/04/2018 Ranking Title Weekend admissions % change from last weekend Total admissions Week 1 A Quiet Place 7,519 -50.9% 61,433 3 2 Rampage 5,724 -53.6% 24,157 2 3 Peter Rabbit 4,322 -52.1% 45,049 5 4 Amityville: The Awakening 4,089 – 4,089 1 5 Game Night 3,915 -40.5% 25,396 3 6 Sherlock Gnomes 2,789 -39.3% 35,278 5 7 Leo Da Vinci: Missione Monna Lisa [English-language Italian] 2,680 -27.4% 17,807 4 8 Midnight Sun 2,405 -36.1% 8,405 2 9 Isle of Dogs 2,272 – 2,272 1 10 Unlocked 2,175 -37.8% 7,842 2 Source: http://flix.gr/news/box-office-19042018.html The last two weekends have been very quiet. Excluding Easter weekend, they are the two lowest weekends of the year so far, in terms of admissions, selling just above 80K and 50K admissions respectively. 'A Quiet Place' has achieved 3 consecutive weekends in first place and is by far the least-attended film that has achieved this feat in the last 7 years (at least). This can only be explained by the fact that the whole industry has completely tanked. Hopefully, 'Avengers: Infinity War' will infuse some life in this otherwise dead market next weekend.

Easter Weekend 05–08/04/2018 Ranking Title Weekend admissions % change from last weekend Total admissions (by Sunday) Monday admissions Week 1 A Quiet Place 7,989 – 7,989 5,726 1 2 Ready Player One 3,485 -77.0% 29,436 2,086 2 3 Peter Rabbit 2,784 -74.0% 23,203 2,722 2 4 Tomb Raider 2,149 -73.0% 107,456 1,553 4 5 Game Night 1,740 – 1,740 2,891 1 6 La Ragazza Nella Nebbia [Italian–German–French] 1,573 -74.7% 11,345 1,205 2 7 Sherlock Gnomes 1,238 -74.2% 22,798 1,563 3 8 Red Sparrow 1,213 -70.9% 155,107 807 6 9 Pacific Rim Uprising 1,056 -80.2% 31,616 726 3 10 Leo Da Vinci: Missione Monna Lisa [English-language Italian] 1,014 -71.2% 7,348 1,129 2 Source: http://www.grandmagazine.gr/ngine/article/3942/box-office-pasxa-sto-xorio-adeies-oi-ai8ouses Important correction for the previous weekend: 'Leo Da Vinci: Missione Monna Lisa', which ranked 9th for the weekend was omitted. This has now been corrected. This week it ranked 10th. As expected, this weekend, Easter weekend in Greece, was the quietest of the year so far, selling a grand total of 27,567 admisssions. It was almost as quiet as Easter 2016 (20,457 admissions), while last year, 'The Fate of the Furious 8' inevitably raised the weekend's total admissions to 70,230. So far, 'Tomb Raider' has crossed 200K admissions and 'Red Sparrow' became the second-biggest film of the year, while 'A Quiet Place' managed a quiet opening at #1. Next weekend will see a rebound due to cinemas being empty (and most of them closed) on Great Friday and Great Saturday (last two days before Easter). Monday (a holiday) sold almost the same number of tickets as the entire weekend: 23,871. Three films managed to sell more tickets on Monday than on the entire weekend: 'Game Night', 'Sherlock Gnomes' and 'Leo Da Vinci: Missione Monna Lisa'.

The first 3 months of the year have already passed. Based on weekend admission figures only, 2018 is trailing all 3 previous years (2015, 2016 and 2017) by 5-11%. It is still early to tell what will happen by the year's end and the difference is so small in absolute numbers (100-200K admissions) that sometimes all it takes is a single weekend to make a difference. The leading film of the year is by far 'Fifty Shades Freed', even though it is the least successful film of the franchise. Have a look at 2018's Top 10 here.

What should we expect for Coco's next weekend? An increase? Will it stay flat again?

Not only that, but even when all the numbers are up to date, country-specific number do not add up to the overseas total, because BOM receives the gross in local currency for each country and converts it to dollars based on the last weekend's exchange rate, which is totally stupid, since most of a film's gross has not been made on the most recent weekend but over a number of weekends. A very good example was DM2 which had a total of about $45M in Brazil and within 2 weeks, this total dropped (!) to $35M because of fluctuations in exchange rate. The take-home message is to completely ignore country-specific totals.Country-specific weekend figures are usually accurate but not always (in Greece, I can say for sure that BOM often gets it wrong).

Weekend 29/03–01/04/2018 Ranking Title Weekend admissions % change from last weekend Total admissions Week 1 Ready Player One 15,183 – 15,183 1 2 Peter Rabbit 10,727 – 13,670 1 3 Tomb Raider 7,969 -57.5% 99,796 3 4 La Ragazza Nella Nebbia [Italian–German–French] 6,209 – 6,209 1 5 The Strangers: Prey at Night 5,770 – 5,770 1 6 Pacific Rim Uprising 5,343 -61.6% 27,144 2 7 Sherlock Gnomes 4,798 -59.8% 18,631 2 8 Red Sparrow 4,167 -50.2% 150,344 5 9 Leo Da Vinci: Missione Monna Lisa [English-language Italian] 3,524 – 3,524 1 10 You Were Never Really Here 3,318 -50.4% 13,030 2 Source: http://flix.gr/news/box-office-29032018.html http://www.grandmagazine.gr/ngine/article/3929/box-office-spilmpergk-stin-korufh-isxno-to-sunolo The weekend box office has sank to new depths this year, with total admissions less than 80,000. All holdovers in the Top 10 dropped by more than 50%. And while newcomers collectively made up more than half of the weekend admissions, all films had small openings, resulting in an overall quiet weekend. Next weekend is Easter weekend, during which Friday and Saturday are dead quiet, so the weekend gross will drop even more. A 2-week period of school holidays starts today (Monday), meaning that animated and family films may see a boost to their sales. I have not mentioned the #1 film yet (and for that matter, any specific film's title), only because it doesn't seem to matter at all in these doldrums. 'Ready Player One' tanked in comparison to NA and China. The film's video-game vibe had already been addressed by 'Tomb Raider' 2 weeks ago and the futuristic virtual-reality element probably doesn't resonate with Greeks, who have to face the hard reality of poverty, unemployment and existential threats to national security (apologies for the digression into politics). 'Tomb Raider' will soon top 100K admissions, which 'The Shape of Water' has just achieved. 'Red Sparrow' has crossed 150K admissions and will soon surpass 'The Post' to become the second-biggest film of 2018. In other news, 'Coco' has now achieved a multiplier north of 8.2. This is better than any Pixar film (data exists for films since 2003), beating 'Finding Nemo'. This stands even when you include the 3–D re-release (28,110 admissions) to the original release (340,731 admissions), which makes the multiplier 8.09. 'Ferdinand' (11.9x multiplier) had surpassed Blue Sky Studios' best mulitplier a long time ago ('Rio 2' at 5.2x). 'Coco' has a small chance of beating 'Zootopia' (139,122 admissions) and 'Moana' (140,905 admissions). 'Ferdinand' has a small chance of beating 'Smurfs 3' (156,267 admissions) and 'The Boss Baby' (158,090 admissions).

I'll be generous this time... Box Office - Dal: 26/03/2018 Al: 01/04/2018 Posizione Film Nazione Distributore Incasso Presenze 1 READY PLAYER ONE USA Warner Bros Italia S.P.A. € 2.032.413 289.546 2 IL SOLE A MEZZANOTTE - MIDNIGHT SUN USA Eagle Pictures S.P.A. € 1.232.929 193.914 3 PETER RABBIT USA Warner Bros Italia S.P.A. € 786.721 130.882 4 PACIFIC RIM: LA RIVOLTA (PACIFIC RIM: UPRISING) USA Universal S.R.L. € 780.257 121.633 5 CONTROMANO ITA 01 Distribution € 721.481 108.265 6 UNA FESTA ESAGERATA ITA Medusa Film S.P.A. € 618.052 105.343 7 TONYA (I, TONYA) USA Lucky Red Distrib. € 616.774 91.390 8 IO C'E' ITA Vision Distribution € 597.904 89.105 9 METTI LA NONNA IN FREEZER ITA 01 Distribution € 544.286 87.735 10 TOMB RAIDER USA Warner Bros Italia S.P.A. € 424.789 66.219 Box Office - Dal: 01/01/2018 Al: 01/04/2018 Posizione Film Nazione Distributore Incasso Presenze 1 CINQUANTA SFUMATURE DI ROSSO (FIFTY SHADES FREED) USA Universal S.R.L. € 14.375.518 2.042.643 2 JUMANJI: BENVENUTI NELLA GIUNGLA (JUMANJI: WELCOME TO THE JUNGLE) USA Warner Bros Italia S.P.A. € 10.262.810 1.504.666 3 A CASA TUTTI BENE ITA 01 Distribution € 9.069.404 1.409.450 4 BENEDETTA FOLLIA ITA Filmauro/Universal € 8.466.875 1.304.083 5 COCO*** USA Walt Disney S.M.P. Italia € 8.456.656 1.310.653 6 LA FORMA DELL'ACQUA - THE SHAPE OF WATER USA 20th Century Fox Italia S.P.A. € 8.359.857 1.298.979 7 COME UN GATTO IN TANGENZIALE*** ITA Vision Distribution € 7.555.815 1.145.436 8 BLACK PANTHER USA Walt Disney S.M.P. Italia € 7.131.214 1.055.171 9 WONDER*** USA 01 Distribution € 6.987.452 1.115.645 10 THE POST USA 01 Distribution € 6.379.029 1.000.454 ***2017 films

I am the thread manager and I tend to change the title whenever there is news about the Italian box office. I do not have time to look up stuff myself about the Italian box office and I don't speak Italian so it would not be the easiest thing to do. I don't think anyone should be complaining that I haven't changed the thread title, since there have only been 2 posts in the last 2 months. Seriously, this thread is a joke and I'm sure there are Italians or Italian-speaking people that visit this forum so it should really be their responsibility to post stuff here. When they do that, I will update the thread title accordingly.

I thought it needed about $45M from Japan. It's at $780M atm and in most other markets, Coco wrapped up its run.

So Coco dropped. Utterly disappointing...

Weekend 22–25/03/2018 Ranking Title Weekend admissions % change from last weekend Total admissions Week 1 Tomb Raider 18,761 -53.5% 81,750 2 2 Pacific Rim Uprising 13,906 – 13,906 1 3 Sherlock Gnomes 11,929 – 11,929 1 4 Red Sparrow 8,374 -35.8% 140,760 4 5 You Were Never Really Here 6,686 – 6,686 1 6 Mary Magdalene 5,471 – 5,471 1 7 Tadeo Jones 2: El secreto del Rey Midas [Spanish] 3,254 -65.0% 57,481 5 8 The Hurricane Heist 3,036 – 3,036 1 9 Peter Rabbit 2,943 – 2,943 0 10 The Death of Stalin 2,065 -59.7% 18,762 3 Source: http://flix.gr/news/box-office-22032018.html On what ended up being a horrific weekend, Lara Croft raided the tomb (and the dead box office) once again. Uprisings and detectives were no match against her and despite a record of 6 releases entering the Top 10, cumulative admissions reached a new low for 2018, falling into five digits at around 95,000. This total was, however, identical to last year's. 'Tomb Raider' will most likely top 100K admissions, so it has certainly been successful enough. 'Pacifim Rim 2' and 'Sherlock Gnomes' both had dismal openings compared to their predecssors ('Pacific Rim' and 'Gnomeo and Juliet'), which opened to 16,701 admissions in September 2013 and 20,456 admissions in February 2011, resepctively. The latter's opening is even worse when you consider the complete lack of competition. Other openers were even more disappointing. 'You Were Never Really Here' had the best per-screen average, at 446 admissions. Conversely, 'Red Sparrow' is doing well and may soon become 2018's second biggest film, behind 'Fifty Shades Freed'. 'Tadeo Jones 2' experienced its first big drop, while another animated film, 'Peter Rabbit', had very quiet previews despite being available on 44 screens nationwide.

Hey, sorry, I totally forgot about this. I've seen some other films by the same director ('God Loves Caviar' and 'El Greco') and I did not like the films at all. Their plot was ok, but the directing, the absolute lack of music in the background and the uninteresting dialogues made the films really bad and it's a shame because these stories had great potential. Furthermore, with regard to 'Kazantzakis', I totally disagree with the message of the trailer that his dispute against the Orthodox Church is analogous to "light vs darkness". I don't even know what the dispute was about but when it is defined in those terms, you can tell that the portrayal of this dispute will be very biased towards one side. I'm not saying I'd never watch it but I don't really care for it at all.

What should we expect for Thursday? Big drops?

1. When do the school holidays start? Is this week the first week. 2. I really hope Coco increases next weekend 3. Can someone let us know how the weekdays are going?

Weekend 15–18/03/2018 Ranking Title Weekend admissions % change from last weekend Total admissions Week 1 Tomb Raider 40,350 – 40,350 1 2 Red Sparrow 13,039 -44.4% 123,670 3 3 Tadeo Jones 2: El secreto del Rey Midas [Spanish] 9,284 +7.1% 53,455 4 4 The Death of Stalin 5,120 -28.7% 15,147 2 5 The Shape of Water 4,129 -59.3% 96,850 5 6 Death Wish 4,033 -56.3% 20,496 2 7 Black Panther 3,682 -45.9% 145,602 5 8 Gringo 3,540 – 3,540 1 9 Three Billboards Outside Ebbing, Missouri 3,269 -39.3% 102,219 9 10 Jusqu'à la garde [French] 2,813 – 2,813 1 Source: http://flix.gr/news/box-office-15032018.html A tomb and the box office were successfully raided this weekend. Cumulative admissions (114,259) were up from last week but down from last year (135,821) by 16%. Lara Croft almost matched the opening of the previous 'Lara Croft' film, from 2003. Overall, its opening was average for a video-game adaptation, as seen below: Video-game adaptations Title National OW Release date Total admissions Multiple Prince of Persia: The Sands of Time 60,569 Thu 20 May 10 176,791 2.92 Assassin's Creed 53,502 Thu 5 Jan 17 133,185 2.49 Lara Croft: The Cradle of Life 43,000 Fri 3 Oct 03 > 108,000 2.79* Tomb Raider 40,350 Thu 15 Mar 18 – – Warcraft 36,787 Thu 9 Jun 16 96,591 2.63 Angry Birds 32,214 Thu 12 May 16 94,718 2.94 Resident Evil 2 (2004)** 24,238 Fri 22 Oct 04 65,128 3.03*** Need for Speed 20,048 Thu 20 Mar 14 70,465 3.51 *For this calculation, 120,000 admissions were used as an estimate of the final total. **This is the biggest 'Resident Evil' film, both in terms of opening weekend and total gross. The performance of the rest can be found here. 'Resident Evil: The Final Chapter' (2017) sold 25,749 admissions in total. ***For this calculation, 73,500 admissions were used as an estimate of the final total. 'Red Sparrow' and 'Three Billboards' crossed 100K admissions. The prior has surpassed all Jennifer Lawrence films, including all 'X-Men' films and all 'Hunger Games' films, except for 'Mockingjay – Part 1' (128,094 admissions). 'Red Sparrow' will top that too over the coming week. Oscar Best Picture winner, 'The Shape of Water' had the sharpest drop of the Top 10. Perhaps, after it won the Oscars, word got out into the mainstream that it is actually not as good as the hype suggests (this could also explain the not so impressive hold of last weekend), although I've got no data to prove this theory otherwise. 'Tadeo Jones 2's monopoly of the animated market will end next weekend with the arrival of 'Sherlock Gnomes', although it has done quite well even if it plummets next week. 'Death Wish' clearly had worse word-of-mouth than 'Death of Stalin' as their relative ranking got reverted on their sophomore frame. 'Black Panther' has officially achieved the best multiple of the MCU. It will surpass 'Iron Man' any day now and could even top 'Iron Man 2' (154,360 admissions). Nothing of note for the two other openers near the bottom of the chart.

I guess all we can do is take into account anyone who admits they were influenced strongly by a certain story. James Cameron says he was influenced specifically by adventure novels by Edgar Rice Burroughs and H. Rider Haggard and more generally from "every single science fiction book" he had read in his childhood. Disney also admits that Frozen was based on The Snow Queen. Illumination Entertainment does not admit that SLOP is ripf-off of Toy Story and apart from the general premise, there is not much else in common. One exception is probably The Lion King, which is a clear rip-off from Kimba, The White Lion.