As much as I am looking forward to this, I am not sure about its boxoffice prospect. It's been 15 hrs and it has mustered only 700+K views on jimmy Kimmel official youtube channel. The retweets and likes on twitter are also very very weak. It has only 11k followers on official twitter channel.
You guys need to realize that Peter Jackson's Kong had lots of buzz, anticipation and hype surrounding it, but it was a major BO dissapointment.
I don't feel the excitement for this movie as much as that and the 2014 Godzilla. And yet Godzilla did only 500+ WW after big opening weekends.
Unless this gets amazing reviews and wom is great, I am afraid the WW BO won't even match 2005 Kong or 2014 Godzilla because the excitement for it is simply no where to those movies 4 months out. Moreover, people have LOTS of great choices that month.
March 3rd - Logan
March 10 - kong
March 17 - beauty&beast
March 23 - arthur, power rangers
March 31- ghost in shell
Kong is sandwiched between two big movies...last wolverine film which should make solid money and a disney EVENT in its second weekend..the last time another Disney movie (Narnia) released close to Kong, it didn't turn out well...this disney movie is locked to open to 200+M and 2+ billion worldwide..