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Eh? HTTYD2 was at $40M *last* weekend, now it's only at $39M? Was there a sudden drastic change in the dollar-pound exchange rate?

What, were they afraid people would confuse it with the 2004 movie? So eventually, will we get Knights of the Roundtable: Brave Sir Robin? :PBut seriously, I think this is so they can have some kind of "franchise" banner. I don't know why "King Arthur" wouldn't have worked for that, but I'm not earning a six-figure salary to come up with ludicrous titles like Batman v Superman: Dawn of Justice or Jungle Book: Origins, so what do I know...

I think this is actually one of the biggest (good) surprises of the year.

Loving both those ideas. Even taking into account that it's a remake of a Japanese horror movie, when I first saw the TV spot for One Missed Call, I thought to myself "This seems more like a PARODY of Ring-type horror movies."And speaking of ridiculous telecommunication-themed horror, I will also nominate Pulse.And as to The Fifth Element: Do I enjoy it? Yes. Would I enjoy riffing it? HELL yes.

Actually, comparing the release dates of the two that are on IMDB, in most markets the two will be spaced farther apart than they are domestically - for example, Russia gets BH6 on 23 October and Penguins on 27 November; Brazil gets BH6 on Christmas and Penguins on 15 January.Also, quite a few markets are getting BH6 *after* Penguins. Significantly, most of Europe gets BH6 in late January-early February 2015, a couple months later. So both of them are going to have more breathing room than they will in the U.S./Canada.The only markets so far that have dates for both where they're closer together than the 3-week domestic gap are Malaysia and Singapore (2 weeks), Czech Republic (1 week) and New Zealand (6 days - BH6 on Boxing Day, Penguins on New Year's).Australia doesn't have a date listed for Penguins yet, would it be expected to be the same as NZ?

Oh man, I saw the ads for the mail-order video set of that all the time on Nickelodeon and/or Cartoon Network.Would it be too sadistic to suggest Oogieloves?

And if it IS adjusted, this weekend is the worst, both in terms of top 12 and cume, in over TWO decades: http://www.boxofficemojo.com/weekend/?yr=1994&sort=sumgross&order=ASC&adjust_yr=2014&p=.htmYou youngins don't remember when early May was the deadest part of the year....

From what I'm seeing, the Sunday estimates that Rentrak and the studios get from China can be quite off.Last weekend, HTTYD2 was reported as having a China cume of $57.3M even though we had more accurate tracking through the week that placed its cume at ~$63M. The next day, the official weekly numbers came in from China, and suddenly the cume was bumped up to $63.2M - in line with the numbers we already had access to.I just checked Deadline, and they give Rentrak's China cume estimate for EX3 as $33M. No, I don't know why their OS cume is only at $88M; even with only $33M added onto last weekend's $59M OS total, it should add up to at least $91M. Maybe last weekend's Rentrak cume estimate turned out to be too high?Either way, when the China weekly numbers come in, I expect the China cume and OS total to both magically jump up.Oh and note that they say that Rentrak has EX3 at #2 behind Apes, but that Fox's own sources have Apes in second place - meaning Fox's people may actually have a more accurate China estimate for EX3 than Rentrak does...

Since Sony (not SPC, Sony proper) has no new wide releases, and all of their other holdovers are past the threshold where they stop reporting estimates and just report Mon-Sun actuals once a week, maybe they decided "Screw it, it's not worth the time to estimate one re-release holdover playing in 700 locations, we'll just wait until actuals."

If EX4 gets made at all, I wouldn't be surprised if it ended up being a (perhaps Chinese co-funded) "Expendables in China" affair with Stallone, whatever American cast members he can still round up, and Jet Li, plus Jackie Chan, Chow Yun-Fat, Andy Lau, Donnie Yen, Michelle Yeoh......actually, that might make things more interesting. I know Donnie Yen actually said he approached Chan and Li about a Chinese Expendables-type movie, but if Stallone could actually put together such a team in an ACTUAL Expendables, who knows? If the franchise is dead in America, might as well try to move as many tickets as possible in Asia...

Well, China run is basically over I guess. Only $3M gained for all of OS from Thu-Sun (unless Fox International got a lowballed China estimate again, like they did the last two weekends).

So has Hemsworth become the DiCaprio to Howard's Scorsese?

EDIT - Saw that Turtles increased 218%, not 300%.

How can a movie only sell 10, or 6, or ZERO tickets on a given day, across the entire country? How many screens is Dragon playing on now?Not upset, just highly curious (especially if it went from 6 to 0 to 304 back down to 10)

So did Tom Hanks, Toy Story 2 was part of his streak.

NFL season kickoff, maybe?

Goffe, this DOES have the same director as KFP2, Jennifer Yuh Nelson.

Great example - India is the most local-dominated non-U.S. market in the world. (Second place is probably Turkey - where Avatar wasn't even the highest-grossing release of 2009!)

Puerto Rico, Guam, U.S. Virgin Islands, etc. are U.S. territories, so my understanding is that all grosses from them are supposed to be counted as domestic.

It is actual - my point is that BOM's OS totals are always less than the official for studios that double-count PR. (It's already counted as part of domestic.)That's why the studio announced $600M on Tuesday but BOM didn't consider it to have crossed $600M until now.

Knowing Hollywood, there's a good chance they do Westernize it to SOME degree. And it will probably not do very well in America, or in Japan...but will then overperform in China. Just a hunch.

Don't forget Brick Mansions, that was also bigger in China.

BOM got an updated mid-week OS number of $427,966,446, which pushed their WW total to $602,059,934. (Again, I assume this has Puerto Rico subtracted out on the OS side, as TalismanRing explained earlier in the thread.)

Raul Julia gave his all in that movie - he knew he was dying, but he still turned in a heck of a performance.

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