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Cynosure, I don't think you should even bother to answer.

My point is that the film might gross less than The Dark Knight Rises worldwide, so there really should be no wild celebrations. And anyone comparing it to FF7 must be kidding cuz that film made $1.5B WW, which BvS will never reach. However, it is definitely a win for WB. It will make a profit and it clearly shows that there's an audience for DC team-up films (and the brand is apparently immune to critic's reviews: Green Lantern, Man of Steel and now BvS). I even have to admit I wasn't expecting $1B WW (since the foreign audience was a wildcard). Obviously, with China's growth the $1B mark is easier and easier to reach.

Disney crossed $1B in overseas gross this weekend. For the past three years, Disney has been the second-biggest studio of the year. This time, it will again have to fight an uphill battle with Fox, but I think it's got a lot of chances to finally finish in first. Last time it achieved this was in 2003, thanks mainly to the one-two punch of Finding Nemo and Pirates of the Caribbean: Curse of the Black Pearl.

5-day gross for BvS was $5.8M or 5.2M€. I don't have any comps though, sorry.

BvS's 3-day gross is $4.4M or ¥500M. Forecast was spot on.

If Zootropolis reaches £20-21M by the end of the holidays, it will be in good shape to reach the £30M mark by the end of its run. I think that's doable.

That record is pointless because on its opening weekend, AoU did not open in all countries. BvS opened in all countries (except Polan and Myanmar) so obviously its OW would be higher. To be precise, these are the numbers when you add up all territories up to the film's first Sunday in each of them: Age of Ultron: $429M (incl. a 6-day $156M from China) - w/o China: $273M Iron Man 3: $315M (incl, a 5-day $65M from China) - w/o China: $250M Marvel's the Avengers: $259M (incl. a 2-day $19M from China) - w/o China: $240M BvS: $254M (incl. a 3-day $57.3M from China and w/o Poland*) - w/o China: $196.7M *Poland's gross is negligible - might add about $2M to the gross. Another comment I wanted to make. This is part of the Deadline article: “The reviews did not matter at all,” an exec told me this morning. “Every market is over-performing.” Completely ridiculous. First of all, we don't know yet that reviews didn't matter. Let's see what the mulitple will be. But if we were to use the daily changes within the weekend and comapre to Furious 7 (exactly the same circumstances): In the US & Canada, the OW-to-OD ratio for FF7 is 2.18 and for BvS is 2.07. The OD-to-midnight ratio is also lower for BvS. Overseas, the trajectory of FF7 based on Friday's gross would predict a $265M opening for BvS, yet the film only made $254M (estimate pending confirmation obviously). The celebration that it opened higher than FF7 and that it broke the OW record for the Easter weekend is also pointless because FF7 wasn't released in China, Russia or Japan on its Easter weekend.

I enjoyed 'Brides' and 'Little England' ('Nyfes' and 'Mikra Agglia' are the transliterated titles) but they are quite heavy emotionally. I'm surprised you liked 'Mustang', I might watch it in that case.

So is Zootopia guaranteed to reach 2B rubles?

Furious 7 dropped 55.3% from its opening. It made $250.5M on OW and then $198.7M on its 2nd weekend (incl. opneers: $68.8M from China, $15,9M in Russia and $2.1M in Poland). Holdovers made $111.9M on its second weekend. BvS OW will include Russia and China (and Japan - in which Furious 7 was released later). Therefore even with a $270M OW, it should be happy to reach $750M.

WB reports that BvS had an opening day six-fold bigger than Zootropolis (Zootopia's title in the UK), which means the latter made £1-1.15M on Friday. Is that number good/bad?

Is an extension a realistic possibility?

If it follows Furious 7's trajectory, it should earn around $260M by Sunday. (FF7 may have a higher 3-day cume, but BvS's Friday figure is higher)

Biggest first Friday at the overseas BO Movie Friday Cume after Friday 1. Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows Part 2 $75M $157.5M 2. Batman v Superman: Dawn of Justice $67.2M $115.3M 3. Jurassic World $60M $130M 4. Furious 7 $59.2M $120.6M 5. Star Wars: The Force Awakens $56.8M $129.5M 6. Pirates of the Caribbean: On Stranger Tides $46.2M $92.1M

The Zootopia gross is incredible. How long does it have left before leaving theaters?

$415.9M by March 24th

Zootopia?

Interesting article about the Greek hits of the last 15 years: http://www.kathimerini.gr/851782/article/politismos/kinhmatografos/h-timh-toy-ellhnikoy-sinema The numbers may differ slightly from the ones I've posted on the first page. Which source is right, I cannot know. The report mentions that 'A Touch of Spice' (1.3 million) is the biggest Greek film ever with a claim to second place shared between 'Loufa kai Parallagi: Seirines sto Aigaio' and 'Safe Sex' (~1.2 million). Non-Greek films we know for sure reached 1 million admissions are 'Titanic' (~1.9 million) and '300' (1,210,022). The article also reports that 'Brides' sold ~680K admissions, which means that 'Worlds Apart' has not surpassed it.

New films released this weekend: Το Κυπαρίσσι του Βυθού (To kiparissi tou vithou; aka The Cypress Deep Down) [GR] Επόμενος Σταθμός: Ουτοπία (Epomenos Stathmos: Outopia; aka Next Station: Utopia) [GR] Batman v Superman: Dawn of Justice A Perfect Day [Spanish] Chocolat [French] Eva no duerme [Spanish-language Argentinian] Thsi weekend clearly belongs to 'Dawn of Justice' but it will be interesting to see how other films will hold.

33% on RT with 137 reviews. That number really shocked me. I don't think I'm waching the movie in cinemas anymore...

Agreed, but the average Pixar movie is significantly better than the average movie of any other studio. Not just that, the average Pixar movie is very good. You are gambling against the odds when you think a Pixar film won't be good. On the other hand, you are gambling against the odds when you think that a DW, Sony Blue-Sky or Illumination film will be good. Obviously there are outliers but the best you can do is assume it won't be good. The very few times it will be good, the word of mouth will make sure you'll find out. THe only point I disagree is about Minions vs IO. I think it make perfect sense to not use the argument that a movie earned more money therefore it was a better qulaity film. There are hundredsof example that show the contrary.

Being Russia, you never know. The film could drop 80% next weekend. It will defo become #2 though.

These charts are interesting but it would be useful, if possible, to show the cumulative gross for each film too.

I wouldn't call Gods of Egypt a "huge hit" but it was decent I guess. What do you mean by "Panda made about the same on OW"? Are you referring to the first movie? I think matching Deadpool would be pretty good although it should really come closer to 100K admissions, being Batman vs Superman.

Not true. Toy Story 3 has the 2nd best mulitplier but the first is Shrek 2. http://www.boxofficemojo.com/alltime/weekends/