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In terms of the weekend, how did Dory do, and how does it compare to Minions 5th weekend

Weekend 28-31/07/2016 Ranking Title Weekend admissions % Change from last weekend Total admissions Week 1 Ice Age: Collision Course 11,864 -58.4% 157,179 3 2 Quo Vado? [Italian] 11,257 N/A 11,257 1 3 Maggie's Plan 7,782 N/A 7,782 1 4 Cien años de perdón [Spanish–Argentinian] 7,228 N/A 7,228 1 5 Ghostbusters 5,191 N/A 5,191 1 6 Un homme à la hauteur [French] 4,827 -62.5% 24,412 2 7 Bad Moms 4,673 N/A 4,673 1 8 Star Trek Beyond 3,765 -63.9% 20,285 2 9 Our Kind of Traitor 3,313 -67.1% 17,704 2 10 The Shallows 2,959 -54.3% 14,185 2 Source: http://freecinema.gr/greek-box-office-quo-vado-tops-a-poor-weekend/ During another dismal weekend, the 'Ice Age' franchise demonstrated that it hasn't (yet?) become a frozen fossil in Greece – in contrast to nearly every other country in the world. However, it did experience another precipitous fall despite retaining the weekend's top spot. Its third weekend is 39% smaller than its predecessor's and its total is 17% behind. Based on its predecssor's trajectory from week 3 onwards, 'Collision Course' may reach 227,000 admissions, but it looks like it will be far more frontloaded – at least until everyone returns from their holidays in end-August, but by then 'The Secret Life of Pets' (August 18) and 'Finding Dory' (September 1) will have arrived. The second biggest film of the weekend was more of a surprise; beating its American competitors, the Italian record-breaker achieved a decent debut (let's not forget it's late July) from only 13 screens. The third and fourth-place finishers were equally satisfactory, showing on only 15 and 14 screens respectively. 'Ghostbusters' and 'Bad Moms', on ther other hand, were totally embarassing, earning about 5K admissions each from 45 and 27 screens respectively. What is really helping the non-American films do so well is the large number of summer (outdoor) cinemas, to which audiences are drawn by nostalgia and, of course, the cooler evenings, that make the experience much more pleasant (after a day of exhausting heat). As for holdovers, none of them really managed to stick around, with the average drop being about 60%. I'd never thought I would say this before, but I want September to come quickly (the box office is so boring).

Poor Dory

I think Ice Age's dom share will also fall below 10%

Incredible how badly it flopped.

Not so fast there. We're not sure it'll decline

That too

That being said, SLOP just opened to $7.1M in Germany and $5.4M in France (the latter is higher than Dory), so maybe we can return to our generally disappointed state for Dory's performance.

Germany will make much more than $18M. The first one was massive there and since it's not opening during the summer, it will avoid the good-weather weekends that destroyed it in France. I think that's the biggest problem with Dory: the holidays are a better time for most European countries to open these animated blockbusters – or at least fall (see Italy, Germany, France). So personally, I remain very optimistic for Italy, Germany, Greece and others that open in fall.

Toy Story 3's £11.49M Fri-Sun opening is the biggest for Pixar. Previews were £9.7M. Excluding previews, it earned £64.3M 64.3/11.49*8.2=45.87 That is just under the £46.0M of TJB. Hopefully FD can hold stronger than TS3 and come closer to £50M.

Dory seems to have passed my test from last week but it still needs another sub-10% drop and increases on Obon week if it is to achieve any notable total.

I don't even understand why they decided to release FD and BFG so close to each other. That was clearly some bad scheduling - not just in the UK - elsewhere too.

New films released this weekend: Cien años de perdón [Spanish–Argentinian] Bad Moms Maggie's Plan Ghostbusters Quo Vado? [Italian] Die Angst des Tormanns beim Elfmeter [German–Austrian] Funny Face Brzezina [Polish] Father's Little Dividend With 'Ghostbusters' being the only (still unlikely) contender for first place, I see a threepeat for 'Collision Course'.

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@Baumer Since I can't reply on the Monday #s thread, I'll reply here: I wish that ends up being true but SLOP will still come freakishly close to IO – and that's what worries me.

SLOP has once again fallen behind IO in daily grosses (4.2M vs 5M). I can't wait for the moment when the cume falls behind as well.

Pets wasn't actually hit that hard from BFG. It only dropped 40%.

No Monday numbers

Weekend 21-24/07/2016 Ranking Title Weekend admissions % Change from last weekend Total admissions Week 1 Ice Age: Collision Course 28,512 -52.7% 127,557 2 2 Un homme à la hauteur [French] 12,879 N/A 12,879 1 3 Star Trek Beyond 10,433 N/A 10,433 1 4 Our Kind of Traitor 10,075 N/A 10,075 1 5 The Shallows 6,469 N/A 6,469 1 6 Retour chez ma mère [French] 3,217 -61.1% 15,295 2 7 A Hologram for the King 3,080 -12.4% 25,983 3 8 The Legend of Tarzan 2,944 -57.1% 45,048 3 9 Money Monster 1,843 -53.9% 60,736 4 10 Bone Tomahawk 1,637 N/A 1,637 1 Source: http://cine.gr/article.asp?topic=Box Office&id=16784 Another quiet summer weekend where another 'Ice Age' sequel monopolizes cinematic audiences. The fifth instalment of the franch-ice dropped big though, in a similar manner to its predecessor, which fell 50%. That film still had a larger weekend by 16% and a larger 11-day total by 13%. If 'Collision Course' follows 'Continental Drift's trajectory from now on, it will earn 260K admissions. In the meantime, 'Un homme à la hauteur' managed to be the top new opener this week, even outrunning 'Star Trek Beyond', which opened on more than double the screens (32 vs 75). The threequel posted the lowest debut of the series as yet, with 'Into Darkness' selling 11,275 admissions on opening weekend (~30K-admission total), a number less than half of the series original 'Star Trek's 25,070-admission opening (~50K-admission total). I assume the series was dead anyway, otherwise they wouldn't risk opening it in the middle of the summer (and one week after an 'Ice Age' sequel). 'Our Kind of Traitor' also did really well from just 15 screens, almost beating 'Star Trek Beyond' and way ahead of 'The Shallows' (50 screens). Finally, 'Bone Tomahawk' and 'Babettes Gæstebud' (1,560 admissions at #11), both did really well from just 3 screeens. As usual, holdovers crumbled to the ground, with the exception of 'A Hologram for the King' which had a very light drop, although its total is not expected to reach any respectable level. This is the 8th consecutive weekend (essentially since the start of June) that had a higher admission total compared to last year. My estimates put this year's lead at 5.3% and it is in good shape to retain this lead or, in the worst-case scenario, end up around the same admission levels as 2015.

At least it surpassed Deadpool by Sunday

That's beyond the point. The point is that, for whatever reason, Dory is being oversahdowed, and it is unlikely to get much further than $1B. Even crossing Zootopia could be difficult, let alone Toy Story 3 (Is there even a 1% chance of reaching Minions? – I think that ship has sailed)

I'm hoping Dory rebounds next week – as in, drops less than 10% or even increases. Otherwise, this isn't going well.

It's quite depressing that China is still its biggest market, since it's actually considered a disappointment there. Pets just broke animated records in Argentina and opened big in other LA countries. Dory's run is being overshadowed here and there by other high-achievers, which makes Dory look so underwhelming. The only hopes left are Germany and the UK, which can generate monster-size grosses when people want to ($100M+). It is of course unlikely to happen with Dory but we can only hope.

What about Dory?

New films released this weekend: Star Trek Beyond The Shallows Un homme à la hauteur [French] Bone Tomahawk Our Kind of Traitor Babettes Gæstebud [Danish] My Favorite Brunette The Seven Year Itch