That's different. Hangover III was the follow-up to the second movie, which was almost universally disliked, but still was a huge hit due to goodwill from the first movie.
I agree, but passing Titanic might become difficult if it drops 50%+ this weekend. Not that beating Avengers isn't a phenomenal result, I'm just saying.
I think it's awesome to re-release all those classics in theatres even for just one weekend or so. I can only imagine how awesome it must have been to see Raiders in the theatre at that time. I know my theatre here in Germany is doing a Back to The Future Marathon later this year. I'll definitely be a part of that.
So, I guess Rth's update suggests JW is gonna add another record to its list, right? It just needs to increase around $1m from estimates, which is very possible.
Regardless where JW ends up, this year is miles better than last year already. And the second half of the year looks really strong, too. SPECTRE, FJG2 and Star Wars should all do at least 5m admissions, perhaps quite a bit more.
These last couple weekends remind me why I love following box office. You'll never know what's gonna happen. Two movies possibly making 100m on the same weekend!!! Think about that.
He does get predictions right relatively often, so who knows. I'm just jealous of all of you because Inside Out won't get released here until October 1st.
Doesn't that pretty much guarantee it's crossing $1 billion this weekend? And wouldn't it break another record with that (fastest movie to $1 billion)?
I don't believe in 600m yet. It has a lot more competition than Avengers had. Inside Out is gonna take away some familys, the week after that Ted 2 is gonna steal young adults. A total around TDK's gross seems reasonable atm.
That's interesting though. I would've guessed May is the record-holder, and it seemed to me like a new OW record in June is almost unheard of, but apparently it's not.