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Nah. If they did that, it would look bad on them.

@No Prisoners I'm seriously surprised that I'm doing better than the median entrant in the derby. I guess I haven't forgotten everything!

They turned out 3 movies a year because they basically had two animation studios at the same time. The PDI unit closed after the Penguins movie bombed. As a side note, the Penguins of Madagascar movie and Minions both had short turnarounds because they were spinoffs, and could be written without thinking of the main series.

According to Box Office Mojo: Friday11 NEW IN THEATERS DISTRIBUTOR RELEASE Almost Christmas Comedy Universal 2,200+ Arrival Sci-Fi Paramount 2,200 Shut In Thriller EuropaCorp 1,850 Doesn't look like intense competition to me. Doctor Strange is probably going to win this weekend.

Your Name is probably going to get the same amount of reviews.

Don't see your point. It's a niche title.

Loved by the rotten tomatoes crowd, though: https://www.rottentomatoes.com/m/miss_hokusai/

My skills are rusty. I might be lucky to avoid last place.

Yeah, maybe. It's the optimistic outlook, though. $82m x 3= $246m dom?

Uh, are we supposed to think it was cheaper than that, or more expensive?

I was talking about Calendar Gross: CALENDAR GROSSES INDEX BY MONTH | INDEX BY YEAR | MONTH-TO-DATE Jan - Feb - Mar - Apr - May - Jun - Jul - Aug - Sep - Oct - November - Dec Year Total Gross Change Movies Avg. #1 Movie Gross % of Total 2012 $1,090.6 +26.7% 236 $4.6 Breaking Dawn Part 2 $242.7 22.3% 2013 $1,071.2 -1.8% 237 $4.5 Catching Fire $282.1 26.3% 2009 $994.7 +10.8% 224 $4.4 New Moon $233.3 23.5% 2014 $966.4 -9.8% 230 $4.2 Mockingjay Part 1 $225.7 23.4% 2002 $928.1 +14.9% 234 $4.0 Harry Potter / Chamber of Secrets $193.4 20.8% 2003 $904.4 -2.5% 227 $4.0 The Matrix Revolutions $133.3 14.7% 2008 $897.4 +19.8% 225 $4.0 Madagascar: Escape 2 Africa $159.1 17.7%

This is going to be the biggest November ever.

Early buzz on Moana is that it's not as great as Zootopia, going by the tweets posted on this thread: http://forums.boxofficetheory.com/topic/10372-moana-112316-teaser-trailer-on-page-33/?do=findComment&comment=2726594 Zootopia is now the obvious frontrunner. Shame that I haven't seen Kubo, so I don't quite know how the competition stacks up. It's been quiet from Sony about The Red Turtle as well.

@Pypa94 Holy crap, what theater is still showing Zootopia?

Anyone going to watch this in a Dolby Cinema? http://www.dolby.com/us/en/movie-finder/upcoming-movie-details.html?rid=12386480&tmsid=MV008321120000

Knock on wood.

After a three month absence, I've entered something in the derby. Hopefully, I haven't lost all sense.

Intentional.

Typical Illuminati response is better than the dumpster fire some people expected. Including me.

Well, it did debut in France a week before.

I think Zootopia had quite a lot of buzz before its domestic debut.

I think that this is going to do about $500m outside of US+Canada. Kind of like Zootopia, except it will make less in China.

Or a weekend that we'll watch at all.

Yeah, but why would you give Trolls $170m domestic?

I don't know why you're saying "probably" $500m worldwide. Home and Penguins of Madagascar failed to make over $300m outside the USA+Canada, so I don't see how Trolls will do much better.