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Deathly Hallows Part 2 gets bumped out of Top 10 WW today after spending almost 8 years on the list.

So it looks like Infinity War is the only one on this list with a normal working Monday. The others, while not official holidays per se, had a large percentage of people off work/school (particularly TFA and RO). TOP NON-HOLIDAY MONDAYS Note: This chart only shows $8 million+ days, regardless of sorting. Rank Title (click to view) Studio Single Day Gross Theaters Average Date / Days in Release Gross to Date* Final Gross* 1 Star Wars: The Force Awakens BV $40,109,742 4,134 $9,702 12/21/15 4 $288.1 $936.7 2 Rogue One: A Star Wars Story BV $32,085,637 4,157 $7,718 12/26/16 11 $318.1 $532.2 3 Star Wars: The Force Awakens BV $31,362,029 4,134 $7,586 12/28/15 11 $571.4 $936.7 4 Jurassic World Uni. $25,344,820 4,274 $5,930 6/15/15 4 $234.2 $652.3 5 Avengers: Infinity War BV $24,740,117 4,474 $5,530 4/30/18 4 $282.4 $678.8

Getting that close to the Monday record without any sort of holiday boost is incredible.

Interest seems a lot lower than for the main films on Maoyan, and Vin Diesel's exclusion from this film will turn off some fans of the franchise. I'm guessing it will still perform very well for a spin-off but won't come anywhere close to the heights of F7 and F8. Likely a similar drop off that Bumblebee experienced from the peak of the Transformers films.

Very tragic. Same cause as Luke Perry's death a month ago.

Don't think the multiplier will be as high for Detective Pikachu. Bumblebee had no serious competition until its 6th weekend, which helped a lot with screen retention and legs.

Weird that they reported nationwide for Captain Marvel but only Bangkok + CM for Endgame.

I think his next film is The Voyage of Doctor Dolittle.

If Endgame is on a trajectory for a finish in the mid-high $900 million range, I think Disney should do everything in their power to push it to $1 billion and make history. I was surprised they didn't try with TFA to be honest. There probably won't be another chance like this again for a very long time.

I'm seriously at a loss for words. First estimates pegged the opening at $300-330 million, then we got a late night update from Deadline updating to $349 million, and now this morning the highest projections (from BOP) are up to $370 million OW?

2.865x multiplier off Deadline's estimate gets Endgame to an even $1 billion DOM.

And even that was 2.97x, which is pretty much a 3x in my book.

After the Beijing premier, Gavin mentioned that the distributor expects $150 million total.

I know this sounds absolutely crazy, but imagine if Endgame actually pulled off the same multiplier as The Avengers. 😱 It's hard to imagine a worse multiplier than Infinity War with that CinemaScore.

If that happens, Endgame could hold the #1 position until Aladdin.

I agree. Unless Maoyan goes over 9.5 or under 9.0 now, I don't think it will have any effect on legs.

I can't believe I'm actually starting to believe in >Avatar WW. With Endgame managing to break out even in Europe and Japan, OS should see a substantial boost from Infinity War. Extrapolating from the opening data suggests the WW record is possible, but I just have no idea what to expect of legs for a film this enormous.

I was very skeptical previously, but Endgame wouldn't even need an unrealistically high multiplier to beat TFA with that kind of opening.

That would have been insane. Because of the variable ER, Hollywood films have so far only crossed $200 million in China and Japan.

BOP is predicting $113 million OW/$390 million total. Basically on par with Toy Story 3 unadjusted opening but worse legs.

What kind of total is Endgame aiming for? £100 million?

Transformers 4 actually. 😉

Looks like I may be getting my wish.

Here are the top 10 opening weekends (Sat+Sun) from 2008 onwards. This was when Japan stopped including previews in the opening weekend. According to Corpse, these sometimes included an entire week of previews which would greatly inflate the opening weekend numbers. It will be interesting to see where Endgame places.

How much higher do you think that number would have been on Thursday?