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Quo Vado is having a hard time surpassing Avatar

If Mojo is accurate, the film made sth like $6M there. Impressive.

Sunday was SW7's final day in China. Final tally is $125.3M. I think the film can just about reach $1B OS (minus China) but it will need really good holds.

$6.89M weekend in US & Canada $1,102.4M total overseas

Weekend 28-31/01/2016 Ranking Title Weekend admissions % Change from last weekend Total admissions Week 1 The Revenant 61,478 -27.1% 193,494 2 2 Creed 20,744 N/A 20,744 1 3 The Boy 18,380 N/A 18,380 1 4 The Danish Girl 16,250 N/A 16,250 1 5 Ένας Άλλος Κόσμος (Enas Allos Kosmos; aka Worlds Apart) [GR] 14,633 -29.4% 616,444 7 6 Νοτιάς (Notias) [GR] 12,801 -52.4% 112,947 3 7 Un gallo con muchos huevos 6,472 -25.1% 16,356 2 8 Barbie: Spy Squad 5,851 N/A 5,851 1 9 The Little Prince 5,778 -25.0% 95,559 5 10 The Brand New Testament 5,728 N/A 5,728 1 Sources: http://www.grandmagazine.gr/ngine/article/2907/i-epistrofh-tou-leonarnto-xana-stin-korufh-tou-box-office http://freecinema.gr/greek-box-office-the-revenant-is-strong/ There were no holidays this weekend, since the day of the Three Holy Hierarchs (January 30), on which all schools and universities close, fell on a Saturday. Nevertheless, most films had minor drops despite the big number of new releases. DiCaprio had no difficulty holding on to first place with an impressive sub-30% hold. Crossing 300,000 admissions will be a breeze for the Oscar contender. Its second weekend was on par with that of 'Inception', 'Shutter Island' and 'The Departed'. It is also leading the latter two in total admissions in the same time in their run, but not the prior because it had previews. I think a final total around 350,000 admissions is the most likely outcome, which is great for the first blockbuster of the year. The performance of newcomers was also quite surprising: 3 of them scored between 16,000 and 21,000 admissions and 5 of them finished in the Top 10 (with another at #11). 'Creed' led the pack, despite earning less than some hoped for. It is generally true though that films with black leads rarely break out in Greece. The most impressive newcomer was definitely 'The Brand New Testament' which scored the biggest per-theater average of the weekend (636 admissions per theater) from 9 theaters. The most disappointing was 'Alvin 4', which finished at #11 and was even out-grossed by 'Barbie'. It is a well-deserved position for the film though, as this franchise has carried on for far too long. Among other holdovers, it is important to note that 'Worlds Apart' moved ahead of 'Notias' in weekend earnings, rounding up the Top 5. It also crossed 600,000 admissions last Wednesday and will almost definitely surpass 650,000 admissions by the end of its run. On the other hand, Tasos Boulmetis's 1st directorial effort since 'Touch of Spice' plummeted more than 50% in its third weekend and may not even reach 150,000 admissions. Animated holdovers had excellent drops of less than 30%. 'The Little Prince' will surpass 100,000 admissions next week and 'The Good Dinosaur' surpassed 'Spongebob', to rank as the third biggest animated film of 2015. By next weekend, it will also surpass 'Jurassic World' to enter 2015's Top 10. 'The Big Short', 'Star Wars 7' and 'The Hateful Eight' all had drops around 50%. Next week will see the release of the first Greek 3-D film, 'Μαγικός Καθρέφτης' ('Magic Mirror') and 'Fifty Shades of Black' among others. I have my reservations for both, not limited to the continued popularity of 'The Revenant', but it will be interesting to see if either of them will become a success.

Now that actuals are in, Star Wars earned $13.5M overseas. Excluding China, the drop was a small 30%. If it continues this trajectory it could earn an additional $35-45M, leading to about $1,125-1,135M. Even if say it ends up at $1,140M, it would not be enough to top FF7, but very close and very impressive nontheless. Overall, WW total is headed for slightly more than $2,050M.

Wait are you sure that Minions is above Age of Ultron in Avatar ER? Were the exchange rates so different in May and July 2015?

Will SW7 out-gross Minions in rubles?

Impressive Jan increase. Anything above $9B for the year will be great.

KFP3 opened on par with its predecessor in South Korea. The Chinese New Year is bound to help it reach a higher total though.

So approx. 40% drop in non-China OS. Hopefully actuals are even better!

This drop in gross is so tragic though. Even the last one only had a partial rebound which was still pretty pathetic compared to the first film of the series.

More like $9.5M weekend in US and $12.5M elsewhere.

New movies released this weekend: Creed Alvin and the Chipmunks: The Road Chip The Danish Girl The Boy Barbie: Spy Squad Interruption [GR] Mediterranea [Italian] Le Tout Nouveau Testament [French, Belgian, Luxembourgish]

Is 'The Good Dinosaur' being released in China?

Is 'The Good Dinosaur' being released in China?

'The Good Dinosaur' is nearing $300M. It's still got Japan and Hong Kong to go. Hopefully if it holds well in the countries where it was released in January and if it reaches a respectable total in Japan ($30-40M), maybe it can out-gross 'Home' ($386M). Deadline sources mentioned a projected total of $385M in early December, hopefully it can match that.

Weekend 21-24/01/2016 Ranking Title Weekend admissions % Change from last weekend Total admissions Week 1 The Revenant 84,298 N/A 84,298 1 2 Νοτιάς (Notias) 26,908 -35.8% 87,880 2 3 Ένας Άλλος Κόσμος (Enas Allos Kosmos; aka Worlds Apart) [GR] 20,740 -38.9% 588,870 6 4 Un gallo con muchos huevos 8,646 N/A 8,646 1 5 The Big Short 8,354 -45.8% 58,727 3 6 Star Wars: The Force Awakens 8,051 -53.8% 428,147 5 7 The Little Prince 7,708 -30.1% 88,557 4 8 The Hateful Eight 6,940 -62.7% 80,919 3 9 The Good Dinosaur 6,456 -32.8% 175,239 6 10 Steve Jobs 5,090 N/A 5,090 1 Greece went crazy for DiCaprio once again this weekend, with 'The Revenant' scoring the third biggest opening for a DiCaprio-starring film since 2002. This is not just a testament of DiCaprio's popularity in the country but also of the effect that Oscar nominations or awards can have on moviegoing. Thanks to Joel M for providing the list of DiCaprio openings in the above post. I wonder what numbers 'Titanic' did on its opening. I felt that 'The Revenant' made the numbers I was expecting for 'Notias' (regardless of how rational or not those expectations were). It is also one of the biggest January openings. It ranks 9th biggest since January 2003, but 11th if you count the 2nd weekends of 'The Island' and 'The Curious Case of Benjamin Button'. I also think it would've been two spots lower down if 'Intolerable Cruelty' and 'National Treasure' had had 4-day weekends. January openings Rank Title Opening admisisons Release date Notes 1 The Curious Case of Benjamin Button 122,000 22/01/09 2 Sherlock Holmes: A Game of Shadows 112,857 05/01/12 3 Astérix aux jeux olympiques 110,000 30/01/08 Est. 4 The Tourist 99,212 13/01/11 5 The Last Samurai 96,600 16/01/04 3-day weekend 6 Νήσος (Nisos; aka The Island) [GR] 96,500 07-10/01/10 2nd weekend 7 Sherlock Holmes 87,805 14/01/10 8 Twilight 87,500 01/01/09 Thu 01 – Tue 06 Jan: 130,000 9 The Curious Case of Benjamin Button 86,900 29/01/09 2nd weekend-Est. 10 National Treasure: Book of Secrets 85,000 03/01/08 11 The Revenant 84,298 21/01/16 12 Intolerable Cruelty 80,000 02/01/04 3-day weekend 13 Tangled 77,247 06/01/11 14 National Treasure 76,000 14/01/05 3-day weekend 15 Το Γαμήλιο Party (Gamilio Party; aka Bang-Bang Wedding) [GR] 75,814 17/01/08 'The Revenant' will have good holds from now on. I doubt the competition of the coming weekend will hurt it much. 200,000 admissions are, in my mind, a foregone conclusion and 300,000 is likely based on DiCaprio's track record. 'Notias' had a rather bigger drop than expected (again these expectations are too high), whereas 'Worlds Apart' continued its march to 600,000 admissions and beyond unabated. All other new openings were disappointing ('Un gallo con muchos huevos', 'Steve Jobs', 'Los héroes del mal'). 'The Big Short' and 'The Hateful Eight' had rather big drops despite their Oscar nominations. The target of 100,000 admissions is in jeopardy for both, unlike 'The Little Prince' which will likely reach that figure. The latter and 'The Good Dinsoaur' had excellent drops (less than a third). It is now almost guaranteed for 'The Good Dinosaur' to break into the 2015's Top 10. This weekend it surpassed 'Hotel Transylvania 2' to rank #12, behind 'The Spongebob Movie: Sponge Out of Water'). It will be facing fierce competition next week, not just because of the large number of films entering the market - and thus stealing its screens - but also because two of them are animated: 'Alvin and the Chipmunks: The Road Chip' and 'Barbie: Spy Squad'. But even 50% drops from now on can get it into the Top 10. 'Star Wars 7' is still trailing 'Spectre' in its 5th weekend and it has become quite clear that it won't surpass that film. No big news in films below the Top 10.

So w/o China, it dropped about 44%. Not bad.

I've taken all the films since 2001 and expressed their gross as a percentage of that year's global box office revenue. A bit irrelevant to the thread but didn't know where to put it. Oh and sorry for the mistake but I've used a comma instead of a period for decimals. I've only used the initial runs of films w/o re-releases. For 2015, I used the provisional figure of $38 billion Rank Title WW Gross Year WWG/Global BO Revenue 1 Avatar 2754,0 2009 9,4% 2 Harry Potter and the Sorcerer's Stone 974,8 2001 5,7% 3 The Lord of the Rings: The Return of the King 1119,9 2003 5,5% 4 The Lord of the Rings: The Fellowship of the Ring 871,5 2001 5,1% 5 Star Wars: The Force Awakens 1888,5 2015 5,0% 6 The Lord of the Rings: The Two Towers 926,0 2002 4,7% 7 Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets 879,0 2002 4,4% 8 Jurassic World 1669,0 2015 4,4% 9 Marvel's The Avengers 1519,6 2012 4,4% 10 Finding Nemo 867,7 2003 4,3% 11 Pirates of the Caribbean: Dead Man's Chest 1066,2 2006 4,2% 12 Spider-Man 821,7 2002 4,2% 13 Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows Part 2 1341,5 2011 4,1% 14 Furious 7 1515,0 2015 4,0% 15 Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire 896,9 2005 3,9% 16 Avengers: Age of Ultron 1405,0 2015 3,7% 17 Pirates of the Caribbean: At World's End 963,4 2007 3,7% 18 Shrek 2 919,8 2004 3,7% 19 Star Wars: Episode III - Revenge of the Sith 848,8 2005 3,6% 20 The Matrix Reloaded 742,1 2003 3,6% 21 The Dark Knight 997,0 2008 3,6% 22 Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix 939,9 2007 3,6% 23 Frozen 1276,5 2013 3,6% 24 Transformers: Dark of the Moon 1123,8 2011 3,4% 25 Spider-Man 3 890,9 2007 3,4% 26 Iron Man 3 1215,4 2013 3,4% 27 Toy Story 3 1063,2 2010 3,4% 28 Star Wars: Episode II - Attack of the Clones 649,4 2002 3,3% 29 Alice in Wonderland (2010) 1025,5 2010 3,2% 30 Pirates of the Caribbean: The Curse of the Black Pearl 654,3 2003 3,2% 31 Pirates of the Caribbean: On Stranger Tides 1045,7 2011 3,2% 32 The Chronicles of Narnia: The Lion the Witch and the Wardrobe 745,0 2005 3,2% 33 Skyfall 1108,6 2012 3,2% 34 Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince 934,4 2009 3,2% 35 Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban 796,7 2004 3,2% 36 The Dark Knight Rises 1084,9 2012 3,1% 37 Spider-Man 2 783,8 2004 3,1% 38 Monsters Inc. 525,4 2001 3,1%

New movies released this weekend: Steve Jobs The Revenant Un gallo con muchos huevos [Mexican] Los héroes del mal [Spanish] Jakob der Lügner [East German - Czechoslovakian (1974)]

ScreenDaily report for Italian box office 2015: http://www.screendaily.com/box-office/italian-box-office-up-10-in-2015-local-films-fall/5099075.article?blocktitle=INTERNATIONAL-BOX-OFFICE-NEWS&contentID=40079 In the top 10, the only American studios are Disney and Universal.

One-and-a-half months less waiting. Hooray!!!

I think it would have to reach at the very least $1070M by Sunday to have chances of beating FF7 OS

I thought this is a good point to evaluate the run of 'The Good Dinosaur' (being a Pixar fan, although I haven't seen the film). These are the Pixar films for which I've got records. For the ones where I provide ranges, I used the mid-point of the range to calculate the mulitple. PIXAR FILM TOTALS Title Total Multiple Finding Nemo 334,000 7.26 Ratatouille 312,019 4.91 Inside Out 310,104 4.94 Up 211,570 3.71 Toy Story 3 202,242 3.59 The Good Dinosaur 167,911 6.18 Cars 150,000-165,000 4.04 Wall-E 147,357 3.53 Cars 2 140,825 3.61 The Incredibles 120,000-130,000 3.23 Monsters University 90,000-100,000 4.96 Brave 85,905 4.08 As we can see, 'The Good Dinosaur' has done quite well, given its underwhelming opening (3rd lowest), finishing in the middle of the bunch. Its OW-to-total multiple is the 2nd highest (after Finding Nemo), showing how the release date can influence a movie's trajectory. It is the first Pixar film to be released on the pre-Christmas weekend, with most being released in late June or in September. The only other to be released in December is... Finding Nemo. Yeah, the multiple may be very high because of word-of-mouth but the subsequent holiday period definitely must have helped. All in all, 2015 was good year for Pixar in Greece, with (most likely) two films in the Top 10. In fact, it is interesting to note that since 2003, the years when more than one animated film made it into the Top 10 were the following: two animated films in 2006 and 2012 and three animated films in 2011 and 2013. If 'The Good Dinsoaur' makes it into the Top 10, 2015 will have three animated films in the Top 10 and it will be the first time that two of them are from the same studio. (At this point most of you are probably asleep, so I'll stop talking) UPDATE: I couldn't help but make one more comment. The fact that multiple animated films started appearing only lately in the Yearly Top 10 begs an explanation. My hypothesis is that, because of the crisis, people have stopped going to the movies so often. However, there is one category of moviegoers, children, which is always more prone to movie advertising, and another category, their parents, who can't help but take them to the cinema every once in a while for fun. Therefore attendance for family films has dropped relatively less than it has for other films, and as a result, these films have creeped up the ranks.