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Maybe Disney wants to get to 699,999,999

Indonesia is pretty crazy for Marvel movies. Probably as crazy as S. Korea.. except it doesn't quite have the legs.

Well, Marvel is a marvel.

BOM uses the current exchange rate to convert the whole revenue of a country. In China's case, the rate has dropped steadily, dropping the actual revenue. The revenue from China should be at $375M or so. So OS-China is still less than 1B.

This should play like Harry Potter-DH1 and 2. Almost all people who have watched IW would like to see the conclusion of the story. While some deaths might be reversed, the directors and screenwriters clearly said that there would be consequences, and that would bring out curiosity factor and hype with it. Moreover, there are still impending doom to come, the end(s) of main Avengers that is more "final" than the first movie. Let's say, 2.2B.

I've tried to see it. It's like watching Minions.

I still do not get why people like Lego Movie. First, it's product placement whoring - and I still think it's obscene to do that. The second thing, of all the beautiful animation you can make, why do you make it look like blocky legos? Why? Why?

Well, we know Tom Cruise is more popular than Pratt. Hm, is this going to make less than "The Mummy"? Less than $27M?

Some possible translations for Solo? Hero, daredevil, opportunist, swashbuckler, traveler, adventurer, wanderer Swashbuckler doesn't seem too bad.

Well, perhaps SH movies "help" increase SH awareness and in some sense then help each other? BP also got help from IW in the Dom. Although that one is in the same universe.

This is not delving into too technical side of things. Of course, to compare apple-to-apple with other territories, we need to have everything gross (with fees). Usually it does not matter if we use the midpoint exchange rate or the company/producers' exchange rate - except in this case, it matters because it's at the $200m threshold. I don't really care whether IW got $199.7m or $200.4m, but it's a good lesson about how boxoffice dollars are being counted - so that's why it's a good discussion point.

So, CBO or SARFT will decide the official yuan number, which is 1272.7m. Disney will decide the $ equivalent using the intercompany weighted average exchange rates, which we don't know. Disney probably will not announce this as it probably relates to tax and other financial calculations. This is probably lower than the midpoint of the conversion rate - as you don't exchange currency at exactly the midpoint if it is being converted from one to another. Hence, the $ amount announced by Disney is probably lower than $200m. But had it been converted by the midpoint conversion rate, it would have been more than $200m.

So, Tuesday increases a bit from Monday. Is there a discount Tuesday?

Are the numbers in gross revenue or net?

Awesome! How about WOM? Better than BP?

In domestic market, Coco had many competitors for Top of Mind with Thor:R and Justice League, before being hit hard with the screen count when The Last Jedi came out. By the time TLJ's OW storm had passed, Coco could only recover a bit to crawl to 200M+.

Preview: $35.01M Friday: $63.01M Saturday: $66.01M Sunday: $55.01M Total OW: 219.04M

Based on the average ticket price, Black Panther might lead the weekend in euro: around e1.63 million vs. e1.57 million.

Thanks. That is a cool site.

Hey Olive, thanks always for the numbers. Where do you get weekend actuals from Japan? Does mimorin site compile that number?

Deadline is saying BP is higher than 50S this weekend.

From Hollywood Reporter: Black Panther is also making a major push overseas, where it is likewise out-performing expectations (American films with a black cast are perceived to face challenges internationally). The movie is opening in virtually every major market timed to its U.S. launch — exceptions are Russia (Feb. 22), Japan (March 1) and China (March 9) — and has collected a mighty $81.5 million through Friday. The U.K., where Black Panther launched on Tuesday, leads so far with $14.4 million, followed by South Korea ($14.3 million), Australia ($4 million), Brazil ($3.8 million) and Taiwan ($3.5 million).

Really nice run!

It is Chinese New Year's week. Good hold.

I saw it with my two kids and we enjoyed the movie a lot. It sometimes felt long, because it was long - but it was really enjoyable and we got some fast-paced moving stories. I enjoyed it more than TFA, which felt long as well, but it really was just introducing characters, played the nostalgia feeling and did not have any actual meaningful story, except the last part of the movie. TLJ gave a bunch of ooh moments too. So, while the audience might say yea or nay after the first watch, I think people will think of TLJ as a positive step forward for the SW franchise.