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This is a chart of the films with the biggest multipliers: by Corpse Best Multipliers (¥1 billion Earners / Wide Releases) [1998 - July 2015] 01. 33.34 - Frozen (Mar., 2014) 02. 30.37 - Spirited Away (July, 2001) 03. 26.99 - Princess Mononoke (July, 1997) 04. 26.13 - Avatar (Dec., 2009) 05. 23.21 - Departures (Sept., 2008) 06. 19.96 - Les Miserabes (Dec., 2012) 07. 16.44 - The Cat Returns (July, 2002) 08. 16.15 - The Eternal Zero (Dec., 2013) 09. 15.69 - Monsters, Inc. (Mar., 2002) 10. 15.26 - Big Hero 6 (Dec., 2014) 11. 15.25 - The Last Samurai (Dec., 2003) 12. 14.98 - Ponyo (July, 2008) 13. 14.84 - Howl's Moving Castle (Nov., 2004) 14. 14.81 - Always: Sunset on Third Street (Nov., 2005) 15. 14.25 - Confessions (June, 2010) 16. 13.96 - Bayside Shakedown: Save the Rainbow Bridge! (July, 2003) 17. 13.83 - Thermae Romae (Apr., 2012) 18. 13.64 - Crying Out Love, in the Center of the World (May, 2004) 19. 13.09 - Harry Potter and the Sorcerer's Stone (Dec., 2001) 20. 12.98 - Summer Wars (Aug., 2009) 21. 12.88 - Ted (Jan., 2013) 22. 12.51 - The Wind Rises (July, 2013) 23. 12.50 - The Phantom of the Opera (Jan., 2005) 24. 12.48 - Pirates of the Caribbean: Curse of the Black Pearl (Aug., 2003) 25. 12.24 - Finding Nemo (Dec., 2003)

Hi @tokila!! Welcome to the forum. Japan is indeed probably the slowest burning market there is. Total grosses are rarely below 5 times the opening weekend gross and can go much higher - even more than 10x in a few cases.

I think it can reach $1 billion by day 11 or 12 (Saturday or Sunday).

According to Deadline, the film also achieved the biggest Monday on record in UK/Ireland, France, Denmark, Finland, Norway and Ukraine.

According to Box Office Mojo, Star Wars 7 is now at $288.1M in NA and $322.7M elsewhere. Monday gross: $40.1M in NA and $41.7M elsewhere. Record for speed: 6 days to $600M worldwide (previous record: 7 days - Jurassic World) UPDATE: I think both are Monday records. In NA, record belonged to Spider-Man 2 and overseas the record was HP7-P2's $41M (http://www.boxofficemojo.com/news/?id=3212&p=.htm)

That's like a 79% drop from Sunday, right? Is this normal for Mondays? Seems like a terrible drop.

Weekend 17-20/12/2015 Ranking Title Weekend admissions % Change from last weekend Total admissions Week 1 Ένας Άλλος Κόσμος (Enas Allos Kosmos; aka Worlds Apart) [GR] 95,343 N/A 95,343 1 2 The Good Dinosaur 27,160 N/A 27,160 1 3 Bridge of Spies 8,290 -53.9% 122,617 4 4 Ουζερί Τσιτσάνης (Ouzeri Tsitsanis) [GR] 7,473 -68.2% 95,751 3 5 Carol 5,799 -33.5% 32,287 3 6 Spectre 5,480 -53.0% 474,962 6 7 The Hunger Games: Mockingjay – Part 2 3,647 -63.3% 118,399 4 8 Goosebumps 1,659 -58.9% 7,691 2 9 Mune, le Gardien de la Lune (French) 1,453 -73.4% 14,271 3 10 Hotel Transylvania 2 1,427 -60.8% 163,972 9 Source: http://flix.gr/news/box-office-17122015.html Records did not fall this weekend, but 'Worlds Apart' still had one of the biggest openings for a Greek film. It fell slightly short of Papakaliatis's directorial debut 'What If...', which opened to 98,790 admissions. There is however little in the way of 'Worlds Apart' in the weeks ahead, possibly up until the January 14, when 'Νοτιάς' ('Notias') opens. This bodes well for the film, which is aiming to be the first, and possibly only, of the year to reach 500,000 admissions. With the school holidays coming up, which in Greece last from December 23 to January 7, this is a particularly lucrative period at the box office. The other only opener that got into the Top 10 is 'The Good Dinosaur', Pixar's second 2015 film, which quite expectedly failed to lure the crowd. I apologise for not having a complete list of animated opening weekends but it's safe to say that this was below average. Among the 5 Hollywood animated films of the last 4 months, it only managed to earn more than 'The Peanuts Movie' (18,672 admissions) and was way behind the next biggest opening, 'Hotel Transylvania 2' (45,815 admissions). Here is a table with the openings of all Pixar films that opened from 2003 onwards: Pixar Opening Weekends Inside Out 62,766 Ratatouille 62,000-65,000* Up 57,008 Toy Story 3 56,358 Finding Nemo 46,000 Wall-E 41,787 Cars 2 38,970 The Incredibles 38,700 Cars 38,000-40,000* The Good Dinosaur 27,160 Brave 21,040 Monsters University 19,138 *The tickets sold in Athens only (42,620 for 'Ratatouille' and 26,000 for 'Cars') were extrapolated to the nationwide figure seen above, based on the average nationwide-to-Athens ratio of the other films. (source: http://cine.gr/article.asp?topic=Box%20Office&page=16178) One important thing to note is that 'The Good Dinosaur' is the only one of the above films that opened on the weekend before Christmas, which could mean a greater mulitple. My estimate is that the film can't go much further than 150,000 admissions and will probably earn far less though. In holdover news, the market was obliterated, with only one film dropping less than 50%, 'Carol', which I see heading towards an impressive 50,000 admission total. Even if it misses that though, it's still a success since it's been playing in 9 theaters up to now and just expanded to 22. Holdovers will take another hit next weekend with the release of 'Star Wars: The Force Awakens'. Since many distributors only report box office figures after the end of the holidays, wait for a full analysis of this year's box office around that time.

Having posted the biggest ever day at the UK box office on Thursday, Star Wars: The Force Awakens recorded the second biggest opening of all time and the biggest-ever Fri-Sun tally. Disney’s continuation of the space saga scored a tremendous $50.5m (£33.9m) debut from its 660 sites (a record wide release), including $14.46m (£9.7m) from Thursday [Dec 17]. That marks the biggest ever four-day opening ahead of Jurassic World’s $28.8m (£19.35m). And having taken Harry Potter And The Deathly Hallows: Part 2’s record of biggest day ever, The Force Awakenshas now overtaken that film’s biggest-ever Fri-Sun tally of $35.38m (£23.75m) with a stunning haul of $36.06m (£24.2m) over Fri-Sun. It’s all the more impressive given how big the film’s Thursday was. Second to Spectre, but three of the biggest days ever The Force Awakens did, however, fall short of the all-time record opening achieved by Spectre of $61.5m (£41.3m), but that did come from seven days. Officially,The Force Awakens will rank as the second biggest opening ever, but will likely still make more across its first seven days than Spectre. The Force Awakens posted the biggest Saturday of all time with $12.96m (£8.7m) and the biggest Sunday of all time with $12.67m (£8.5m). They also rank as the third and fourth biggest days of all time according to figures from Rentrak, meaning it has three of the top five days ever at the UK box office. The film also achieved the biggest IMAX weekend of all time with $5.03m (£3.38m) from its 42 sites, with every single day bigger than IMAX’s biggest day of all time which was Jurassic World’s $849,000 (£570,000) on its first Saturday. http://www.screendaily.com/news/the-force-awakens-scores-record-breaking-505m-uk-debut/5098272.article?blocktitle=LATEST-UK-BOX-OFFICE-NEWS&contentID=40073

Speaking of which it'll be very interesting to see if and who will manage to form a government since no party has an absolute majority.

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I don't understand what any of this has to do with the fact that Disney may have intentionally underestimated the film's opening weekend, but I'm not intending to continue this discussion any further.

The so-called "norm" is completely irelevant. This is exceptional. Just think logically: the 30% drop from Sat to Sun (for NA) is way too high for this period of the year and also for most big openers (that aren't Twilight or Hunger Games). Also, the overseas OW is way too low given how much it made the previous days. It will definitely come closer to $300M. Any comp trajectory (F7, HP7-P2, JW, POTC4) suggests so. Disney is trolling us. EDIT: and if our opinions don't count at all for u, maybe the fact that Deadline says the same thing. Deadline has never done this before as far as I remember.

It's surprising that despite the crisis, the box office is booming in rubles

Of course not dollars. Even if ER was more steady, it's the local currency that matters. Thanks a lot!

The fact that it got so close (and might actually beat) the record, despite burning off demand on Thursday and posting the biggest single day ever outside the weekend, makes it even more impressive. I assume Sandwell couldn't fit all that into 140 characters.

I'm surprised that Mexico isn't into Star Wars that much...

Weekends in Russia are 4 days right? And could someone please post the top 10 biggest opening weekends (or more if available)?

Disney is completely trolling us like the time they reported $200M and $178M for Avengers and then said actuals are $207M and $185M.

WW OW record is going down.

The Sunday estimate for NA is too low. The OS weekend is also low. I don't buy it. Wait for actuals tomorrow. I bet they'll be way higher.

Fingers crossed that it can break JW's Sat record. Although I can live with $66M too.

The first Avengers is really not far behind if you think about it. About $30M less than JW in NA and $120M less than JW in other markets, which can be contributed wholly to China ($90M vs $230M).

It is also exactly enough to make the worldwide gross exactly $250M (including the $129.5M from overseas). Another record broken (previous 3-day worldwide gross record was Deathly Hallows - Part 2's $248.6M)

@Rth in how much time will you have a decent estimate?

For Star Wars (in yen) Best-case scenario: 10th biggest OW (tops Attack of the Clones, but not Revenge of the Sith) Worst-case scenario: 14th biggest OW