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Bob Marley, Dune 2, KFP4 all overperform in relative to expectation before their presale opened. Now GxK is added into the mix. Outside of superhero genre, WB actually has very consistent wining steak.

Ok hold I guess?? Against an big action flick. - (3) Dune: Part Two Warner Bros. $1,900,000 -1% -12% 3,437 $553 $241,283,160 28

On the closer look if you clicked in, there are 47 reviews posted already. 35 fresh and 12 rotten or 74% fresh.

In line with general audience reaction here in Malaysia. They are quite positive and people are getting what they expected from a monster-flick, it is solid four-quad crowd pleaser.

Being a half-Chinese production, Meg 2 also decrease from Meg 1 in China from 150m+ to 118m, and the sequel actually feature one of the biggest star in China- Wu Jing, which in theory, should have been a big plus point for the sequel. Dune 2 recently bucked the downward trend though, but that is coming off from way lower base.

If even KFP4 collapsed more than half over there, nothing much else people can hope from this market. GxK could be the first Monsterverse movie since Godzilla 2014 with its domestic BO gross higher than in China. Kong, KOM and GvK all had China BO bigger than in domestic.

Lol, if a Japanese production costs 15m, there some be some labour abuse going on here but please remember, the 200m marvel films didn’t stop VFX artist in Hollywood to voice out against their exploitation too. People act like working environment with Hollywood is any much better because of their massive 200m budget but the reality is, it is just isn’t. Negative news continue to surface or got worse here too in Hollywood.

Meanwhile, the domestic run seem to finally over after 35 weeks, 140k shy from 330m

the fact it is closing the gap to under 1b yen is already unexpected success. The whole Oscar buzz totally changed the trajectory. Before Oscar nomination the movie was around 5.5b but leg out to >7bn finish, all started 3 months after the initial release! HDYL on the other hand, added extra 200m into its 9.0bn, now it is looking to close at around 9.3bn. Should at least beat another Ghibli film Arriety but it still hurt the movie isn't able to cross 10bn.

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This statement is certainly not true. Unlike publicly reported BO, which subject to peer reviews, the so-called “sources” does not face the same scrutiny and a lot of time it was just a “claim” where no one can cross examine or even bother to address. That is why I never buy that WB inflated dune preview grosses claim and i believe it is merely a round up. In the case of GB, the odd ones is Saturday number , which conveniently put GB:FE above GB:A for OW and this indeed serve a “criminal” motive, especially the unusual low Monday number fit the theory.

That depend how industry peers choose to respond. When paramount fudged their number for Transformers 2 and 4, it did cause some industry backlash and was widely reported and debated since everyone has the access to the behind the wall data know they are lying, but in the case for ghostbuster, there isn’t any noise at all, meaning the industry likely think the “margin of lying” is acceptable and isn’t too far from reported 45m.

After Covid, the holiday bump, including Christmas to New year, have become generally weaker. But after the multiple strong Saturday increase, this year holiday bump could be stronger.

The Saturday number does look very odd to me because they came in way higher than estimate, almost by a million. This is unprecedented as most of the difference between actual vs estimate should be from Sunday. And Sony does have a reason to "fudge" the number so that they can have OW bigger than GB:A (45m vs 44m) but I am not sure why they think they need a million to achieve that. Friday and Sunday number looks alright and sensible though.

Up almost a million from estimate for Saturday? Unlikely Saturday estimate run that far from actual. This could be a typo.

KP3 did 150m+ in China and this round I doubt it can even reach of that. Still I don't think we will see big drop on the worldwide basis. There are several key markets still to release, including France, Australia, the UK and Korea.

I am quite impressed by how steady each ghostbuster movie made during OW no matter how intense was the discourse (2016 version), or unmemorable like GBA, and now critically panned GB:FE. Looks like the movie has successfully positioning itself as family-friendly franchise. I mean, look at that great Saturday bump. Speaking of Saturday bump, dune, Kp4 and now GB:FE all indicate we are entering next phase of recovery, where casual moviegoers start coming back in the larger scale.

quickly approaching top 7 of all time

Last Friday was partially inflated by spring break, that is why the weekend dailies hold was worst on Sunday. Saturday increase will be stronger this weekend.

So the losing some PLF to ghostbuster really did hurt Dune

Feel like Oscar win really bump Godzilla-1 late legs to an unexpected level. 7bn is no longer out of reach. Not really the same for how do you live?