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KP4 is basically pulling a mini-Minion surprise. The audience score is rising to 86% as well.

After China OD, 700m++ is more or less around the final range lands. Being a Friday International Woman Day opener got presale inflated. Saturday's walk up so far is equally tepid as OD and now there is a slight chance that sequel could make less money than the first one, so don't expect China to do heavy lifting job here unless the WOM effect kicks in. The West still chugging along very great. Italy's Friday was just 27% down from last week and Germany is looking for minimal 15-20% drop. No matter how, I don't expect overseas % to be much higher than 60%.

I am actually quite curious Panda' Saturday increase. From the start of 2024, I just got a feeling Saturday increase has been stronger and "closer" to pre-pandemic norm but the lack of big opening is hard to test out my theory. Last week Dune had a 41% Saturday increase from Fri, and that is an unusual strong first Saturday bump post-Covid that neither Batman, TGM, JW4 or Avatar 2 or GOTG3 got, and it is not like these movies are poorer received than Dune 2. If Panda too posted stronger Sat bump than usual, that should set a healthy trend for 2024 as a sign of casual moviegoers are coming back indeed in bigger fashion.

The walk up is disappointingly awful in china for its OD. Probably around $6.3m OD and beaten by the an holdover.

I just realised the first Dune has a higher top critics score (7.7/10) than Dune 2 (7.6/10).

But friday is International woman day, which is a big moviegoing day in China. Typically movie jump >100% on this day, which probably lead to some frontloaded sales.

Yeah, I was kind of shocked to see a OW this high. But meanwhile, KP4 actually beat Dune 2 in Malaysia when both opened this past weekend despite Dune 2 having far higher ATP. So we probably underestimate the franchise strength.

I mean, the movie is after all, a German-language movie starring German actor. I believe many would just assume this is a German movie that got big Oscar moment, making the movie far more “appealing” to local.

But if the studio or comscore never released an actual figure like Sony, the hell they “verify” this is an actual? You still don’t get it, the final actual number given by WB is above 100m, and that is the way they reported their international actual with the figure ending 000.

But WB seldom to almost never reported an actual BO with random detailed number like $99,783,744. All of their international update are round up figure ending with 000 so I don't know how the numbers got that "actual" number.

Don't follow the numbers international gross, they are consistently wrong.

If meme trend keep going , I suppose the younger demo will have better showup rate soon.

The wonder of the year. Will timeliness eventually backfire?

I was hoping for a 200m start but Asian and LATAM simply isn’t good enough. Like in Malaysia, dune isn’t even getting second place on the latest weekend chart, not only beaten by KP4 and the first place belong to a local language film.

“Angel says it spent $6.4 million to market the availability of the free tickets, as well as $1.1 million on third-party fees to facilitate the plan. In all, the number of tickets given away totaled 1,827,634 seats. Harmon said major theater circuits including AMC, Regal and Cinemark had verified the seat stats. “

I tried to look for answer elsewhere but couldn’t. How exactly Paul turn the table against feyd in the final duel? We clearly saw him being stab quite badly but because of the editing and camerawork’s, I can’t really tell what was going on in the end of the duel.

Apparently there are two sampling conducted by cinemascore and postrak. ERC reports the % from cinemascore with male at 59% but postrak has male at 63%. Quite from deadline below: “Hope is that more women turn out in the days to come: CinemaScore reports that 41% came out, which is a greater share than what PostTrak shows(37%).” Postrak male % keep dropping from 68% to 65% and now 63%, suggest the female audience are responding to stellar WOM.

But ERC already reported a 59% male before Saturday even begin in their Friday estimate post. That is when postrak was reporting a 68% male show up in preview but go down to 65% after Friday number rolled in. Gender split typically won’t move much over the opening weekend and if it did indeed drop to 59%, that would be one of the biggest shift we ever seen and to be frank, I don’t see what element in dune 2 to garner that change in direction.

From deadline where they quote posttrak. “The question: do more of the Zendaya fans come out and does this turn into more of a date night film than it is: 20% came with their partner/spouse while 11% brought a date versus 21% who went alone and 17% who brought one friend. Women under 25 at 10% attended, and they gave the Timothee Chalamet, Austin, Butler, Zendaya pic an 85% to the 93%-plus grades of the other demos. Dune: Part Two is dude leaning at 65%. “

Did ERC do their own demographic sampling? If not they have been reporting lower but wrong male % at 59% vs postrak 65%.

I think it is very important to remind everyone that aquaman2 was a Wednesday opener whereas dune 2 is a Friday opener which naturally give latter the advantage when come to presale.

“The box office data org also reports that family groups came out more on Saturday and their activity was much higher with the more economically priced standard format ($13.94 average price overall per ticket vs. premium average price ticket of $17.43). Families constituted 13% of the audience, an increase from Friday’s 5%. “While both days predominantly attracted non-family attendees, the increased percentage of Family Groups on Saturday suggests a slight shift in the audience composition, making it more diverse in terms of household types,” says EntTelligence. Also, when comparing family attendance and adult age group variances across IMAX, standard, and large format screenings, the standard format drew 19% family attendance versus that group’s attendance at Imax (8%) and PLF overall (12%). “

Friday is slightly higher than previous report. Date Rank Gross % Change Theaters Per Theater Total Gross Days Feb 29, 2024 P $12,000,000 3,400 $3,529 $12,000,000 Mar 1, 2024 1 $32,350,000 4,071 $7,946 $32,350,000 1 Mar 2, 2024 1 $28,850,000 -11% 4,071 $7,087 $61,200,000 2 Mar 3, 2024 1 $20,300,000 -30% 4,071 $4,986 $81,500,000