James

The guy who discovered fire about 350.000 years ago.

For a few seconds I though you were the real Tele and that your Methuselah-like age finally got to you

Yeah. 1.4-1.5b is what I expect too.

What's your DOM/OS breakdown?

I said it before: people don't realize how much of a factor nostalgia was for TFA, DOM and OS. OS will drop for SW8 to TFA just as JW2 will drop a lot from JW. I see SW8 around 750-800m OS. Also, R1 is looking to have an even bigger share of the WW gross coming from DOM than TFA had. I wonder if EP8 will continue that trend.

Unless China follows the rest of the world and massively drops from TFA (which it shouldn't), 525m should happen. I think 540-560m is where it will land. Of course, it depends on the holds, but it's as accurate a prediction as you can get from what we got so far.

On Sunday? That's great. So about 6m for the weekend? That's Sat. Sorry.

Not only that. Sometime there are 5-days-OWs and they count it as an ordinary OW. BOM is not exactly reliable when it comes to OS BO. Studios will also report the OW as a 3-4-5 day, because they are interested in the headlines. But Corpses's OW articles, which are posted here by Olive, always report on the 2-day Japanese OW. It's good to keep that in mind for comparison's sake. Talking particularly about RO, the overall drop will likely be bigger that in the rest of the world, which is s surprise. Corpse is expecting around 40m, which is down almost 60% from TFA's 98m. Of course, it's all dependent on WOM. FB was initially expected to do 60m max. Not it is locked for that and will go for 70s or even more.

Japanese weekend is only Sat-Sun.

So R1's first Sunday is only slightly bigger than FB's last Sunday, which was it's 3rd Sunday. That goes to show what a beasts FB is. Also, the 40% something drop this weekend is quite good considering it faced 2 massive openers. Is any big movie opening next week? If not, I think FB has a chance to recover.

Omg omg omg omg omg omg. I'm freaking out! Holy shit! I'm more excited for this and the next season than for any movie next year!

I thought top end means higher end. So he thought 65 max 3 hrs ago. it remains to be seen whether that changes.

If top end is 65 then it means my 62m Fri prediction might actually come true lol

It still bothers me how critics slammed FB... Especially given some of the higher scores on that list...

We shall see.

Because it is the second biggest presales seller by far and yet it barely beat BvS and CW for midnights.

One good thing that came out of this, at least from my point of view, is that it settled once and for all the presales-OW-frontloaded-aspect-of-SW. It is very clear that SW has the most rabid fanbase ever in the US and that they buy tickets in advance a lot. On another note, now more than ever I keep my 132-133m prediction (if it follows TFA exactly it would be 130m). And if Baumer's club succeeds (and I think it will), I think we will have a very interesting run on our hands because 1b would truly be far from guaranteed. -58% overall OS drop from TFA so far.

Also, @Heretic, never doubt my prediction powers again when it comes to UK BO

It depends on how RO holds methinks. It's OD is behind FB (FB did 4.4m) and FB did have some very good legs. But whoever wins, they will be closer than anyone here thought.

Lol people stop. i am used to how modern movies look. And I love it. that's it.

For me anything that makes me stare at it because it looks out of place means bad vfx. And I didnt say I dont respect those movies. but they are unwatchable to me.

They were decent. Certainly better than ANH.

Lol. people, I'm not saying ANH isnt hugely important for movie history. But good VFX is Interstellar or Jupiter Ascending.

Cheesy dialogue, awful acting ( vader and leia phahaha), awful vfx.

The OT is unwatchable. ROTS and AOTC are good. TFA is decent/meh, TPM is bleah.