James

I disagree. Legacy of the Force is probably the best S series out there. It is dark, grim and realistic and profoundly political. I don't see why a series called Star Wars should be anything else.

Side note, but is anyone else annoyed with Disney and TFA fucking the SW-Extended Universe cannon. Things were looking so nice with Legacy of the Force and Fate of the Jedi book series. UGH.

This doesn't seem to bad, does it? I really don;t have a point of reference though.

The Accountant is also rotten and that had insane legs. I doubt reviews matter much for this movie, other than it's Oscar chances going away.

Lol, you people are insane if you think RO won't have a serious (even if temporary)drop against 3 new wide openers. And comparing it with TFA? What competition did TFA had on it's first Wed?

So what? 12-12.5m for tomorrow?

Holy shit, this looks amazing!

I see. But I for one love the way DCEU is. Same with Star Trek. AC remains to be seen, but I think I'll like it. Seems like my type of movie and I never played the game so I don;t have expectations.

Lol, what's up with you and this movie? You seem to just hate it's mere existence. Which is quite silly considering the talent it involves. Are you a fan of the games?

Nailed this one. My next prediction: King Arthur will do a lot better than most people expect it to. Kong will make more than 550m WW.

Around a 37% drop on Monday. And a 35% one on Tuesday. So quite good considering the screen loss.

Serious question: why do you guys expect a 20-25% Wed drop when most of you give it a big increase on Tuesday and, aside from Wed being Wed, there will be 3 new wide openers? Isn't a 30%+ drop all but guaranteed?

Done.

Actuals increased a bit both DOM and OS: Total Lifetime Grosses Domestic: $207,681,095 28.9% + Foreign: $510,300,000 71.1% = Worldwide: $717,981,095

I've seen both WB's and Sony's Logo. We know WB is distributing DOM. Is Sony distributing OS?

WEEKEND BOX-OFFICE We just had a big overall weekend (which was expected), but some disappointing individual performances. - Rogue One: A Star Wars Story opened on top with $440k, coming from 199 screens, which is the widest release ever, beating The Force Awakens' 182 screens record. Because it is distributed by Forum Film Romania, we have no admission figures for it, but a careful estimation puts it at 83.896 admissions for the 3-day weekend. That is a huge 52% fall from The Force Awaken's record breaking $954k (and 175.584 adm) OW. It is also the weakest top-opener we had on this particular weekend since 2011's Mission: Impossible - Ghost Protocol, behind all The Hobbit movies and, of course, behind The Force Awakens. The closest comparison for it in terms of OW is The Hobbit: And Unexpected Journey, which debuted in 2012 with 88.636 adm (and $549k). That movie ended with 409.933 admisssions and over $2.5m. Rogue One won't come anywhere close to that, since WOM is not nearly as good (after only 3 days it stands at 8/10 on Cinamagia, compared to AUJ's 8.6), the ER is way worse than in 2012 and competition is huge. All in all, Rogue One has no chance of defeating Suicide Squad's $2.09m for the yearly crown and I also doubt it will beat The Jungle Book's $1.81m. Actually, I think even Top 3 is not achievable (it would have to beat Deadpool's 1.63m for that). Shocking to say the least, considering every forecast had it pegged for a easy win this year. - Office Christmas Party had a nice -38% hold and reached $360k. With holidays up ahead, it should at least double that, if not more. A place in the yearly Top 20 is all but assured. - Sing is the second disappointing debut of the weekend, with 21.837 admissions and $98k. That is a bit less than half of what The Secret Life of Pets did on OW. Still, with holidays up ahead and it being an animated movie, $500k at least should happen, which would be decent for an original animated movie. - Allied held well (-39%) and now stands at great $444k. It should end it's run with at least $700k. - Underworld: Blood Wars dropped 46% and reached $448k. It should also end up with at around $700k. - Moana was down 40% from last week and the total is a good $449k. - Incarnate fell 48% for a pathetic $78k after 10 days in play. - Fantastic Beasts and Where to Find Them felt Rogue One's arrival the strongest (it lost it's premium screens), falling 60%. Still, with $983k it is now the highest Wizarding Word movie ever and it should end up with about $1.1m. - Trolls also dropped hard (-55%). The total is an amazing $1.09m. - And Bad Santa 2 closes the top, reaching a so-so $338k. Top 10 Next week's openers: - Passengers - La La Land - Les beaux jours d'Aranjuez This year, just like in 2011, Christmas falls on a Sunday, which means huge drops (60-80%) are in store for all holdovers seeing how on Sunday all theaters will be closed and on Saturday showtimes will be limited (so basically the only full day is Friday). That is why it is pretty much impossible for any movie to open big on this weekend. Still, Passengers has some very nice presales so an opening around 20.000 admissions might be possible (which would be huge for this weekend). The other 2 movies should end up under 10.000. This next weekend will also represent the end of 2016 as a box office year, since we are only getting weekly BO updates. That is kind of unfortunate, seeing how I was hoping for a huge last weekend to propel the yearly admissions past 13m. But we'll see. Might still happen.

Sing is family competition. And SW is supposedly a 4-quadrant franchise. So they overlap quite a bit.

Those were all flops. Sing alone should beat the combined OWs of all the openers TFA had.

Is this prediction taking into account the competition? Sing, AC and Passangers all opens on Wed. On @Rallax's chain, Sing has bigger presales than Moana did through the same point. And Why Him? is opening on Friday. The only competition TFA had was Daddy's Home. On another note, very nice hold for FB. It increased a lot on Sunday from estimates. So an under 50% weekend drop.

Lol, I'm dying at some of you with the trailer views numbers. Views come from multiple platforms. YT is only one of them. GotG2 was weak on YT but was a MONSTER on FB. Wonder Woman was huge on both. Kong is a beast on FB. Also Lego Batman will be enormous. Anyone doubting that is insane. It will be the first big animation of the year and it will feature Batman. And won;t have competition for weeks. 300m is a lock for that one.

OS it will.

It actually depends on the movie. FB had a 3-day opening in the UK. RO had a 4-day opening and so on. The longer the OW, the smaller the multiplier, because of already burnt demand. For these markets to hit 500m, they would need an overall 3.7x multi. Thake the UK for example. With it's opening it is expected to do around 65-70m there. That-s a 3-3.3x multi. And that only had a 4-daty opening. The markets which had 5-day opening won;t do anywhere close to a 3x multi. You see what I mean?

A lot of those markets had 4-5 day openings so the multis will be muted even with holidays. 420-450m from those markets sounds about right.

I'm seriously trying to decide whether the new Tele is a trolling or the universe is playing some kind of joke