corngrower87

I have read that ‘A Knock at the Cabin’ is taking all of the Dolby Screens anyway as it is in their contract with universal. Not sure about other PLF formats though. Box Office Mojo, for whatever it’s worth, is saying it will be wide.

My local Regal survived the cut again, and I’m honestly surprised no better than it’s kept up. I don’t go there often unless the showtimes are more convenient, but I really don’t want to see it close. Maybe I’ll have to make it more of a priority it support it.

From Thursday’s number, my guess for the rest of the week is: Wednesday $2.1 Thursday $1.9 Early weekend guess: Friday $4.3 Sat $9.5 Sun $6.5 ($20.3 weekend total) If that holds, TGM will shave between $9 & 10 million off of Avatar’s lead before Monday. (The corresponding Monday for TGM is inflated as it was July 4th.)

States may all give the day off, but not everyone got to stay home. Some companies consider MLK Day/ President’s Day/ Veterans Day, etc. to be “floating holidays” and you only get one or two off and you have to chose which one(s).

The only example I can think of is the 2009 season when Baltimore beat New England 33-14 in the wild card round.

It seems like that happens more often than not.

I don’t know how wide spread it was, but we had an ice storm last year over MLK weekend. I was one of the few idiots brave enough to go to the cinema. (Full disclosure: I saw Scream)

Friday’s jump will have to be bigger if this the Thursday to Thursday drop is anything close to what it did drop this past Thursday…

Don’t forget the loss of PLFs, which will start with Knock at the Cabin and Dolby, and then it will start losing IMAX screens with Titanic’s rerelease. As PLF heavy as this film has been playing, I can see the first weekend of February having a steeper drop and the second weekend of February having a huge drop. Especially with the Super Bowl that weekend as you said.

Sunday actually has more NFL games, and arguably those have a bigger draw than yesterday’s.

I think we’ll have a fairly good idea after next weekend. It will just be a regular three day for Avatar, but the sixth weekend for Maverick was the Fourth of July inflated four day. It will be very telling going forward what the gap is then, especially with the loss of so many PLFs on the horizon for Avatar.

It is. It will be even more interesting to see the hold tomorrow. Not only are there three games, but you could make the argument that the games tomorrow have more appeal. People will want to watch Buffalo because of Hamlin. The Giants represent the nation’s largest market. Rivals in Baltimore and Cincy. I personally think Sunday will dip a little more than some expect because of it. Then again, the way the numbers have fallen so far it’s anyone’s guess.

Nothing disappointing about Avatar’s numbers at all. Anytime in this environment a film can get to $600 plus million domestic and over $2 billion worldwide is impressive. Had Cameron not made those comments about break-even before the film’s release, I don’t think anyone could objectively look at the numbers and say it’s anything other than a massive success. Agreed. If that’s the criteria then every modern film would underperform. TFA wouldn’t crack the top 10 and Endgame wouldn’t crack the top 15. Not a good standard to use when the era being compared aren’t apples to apples. Yeah, I don’t see either the Vikings or the winner of the Cowboys/Bucs game doing much of anything against the 49ers.

It looks like it’s going to get the lions share of PLFs that week. Couple that with Valentine’s Day, I would be surprised if it didn’t make some coin that week.

Halloween would be the only other date that comes to mind, but I agree. Friday the 13th definitely was a boost.

Two games Saturday. Three on Sunday. One Monday night.

Scary how fast it goes, isn’t it?

I know. Titanic is now older than films that mom and dad showed me when I was a kid that came out when they were in school. In the mid to late ‘90s, films like Star Wars and Halloween felt old. (Not that I didn’t love those films) I guess that means I’m old now too…

And Titanic is closer to those two in time than we are to Titanic.

My local theaters that have multiple PLFs are starting to split them off. M3gan got one last weekend. This weekend Plane is siphoning one off. I know that not every theater has multiple PLF screens, and those that don’t still are showing Avatar. But the big multiplexes that have 2,3, & 4 PLF screens are starting to show other things as well, when a week ago Avatar had all of those screens. This may not be widespread and may end up being completely anecdotal, but if it’s happening in my backyard it’s probably happening somewhere else. It’s just a question of whether or not it is enough to shave some off of the gross.

Don’t forget the Titanic rerelease is going to take at least some of the plf screens. The IMAX twitter confirmed on 11/18 that it is getting an IMAX release.

I think we’ll have a much better idea where Avatar 2 will end up relative to TGM after the next (6th) weekend. At that point we’ll be at the 4th of July boost that Mav had, and we’d also have a non-holiday weekend and another set of weekdays from Avatar to go off of…

Atom tickets has it listed as “an IMAX event.” There are a few other theaters listing it as on their IMAX release schedule. I think it’s safe to say it will at least get some PLFs… https://www.atomtickets.com/movies/titanic-25-year-anniversary-an-imax-3d-experience/338123

Very much looking forward to seeing this in the cinema again.