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I just hope someone had the good sense to remove... THAT scene. As good as the book was, it was instantly less good for having that scene.

Hot trash, though.

Except that one market (the US and Canada) accounts for 29.5% of worldwide ticket sales. So HP's relative performance was slightly above average at best. Unrelated note: Where does the gif in your sig come from?

Depends on what she can do. ... Okay, now I'm wondering what kind of sex could possibly be worth that much. I wouldn't pay that much to have a threesome with Kendall and Kylie Jenner.

Yeah, I'm sure he'll be crying into his stacks of money while a $5,000/hour hooker blows him.

Might as well try my hand at predicting the rest of Power Rangers' week... Wednesday: $2.22M (-37.3%) Thursday: $2.21M (-0.740%) REAL FIRST WEEK TOTAL: $47.5M DOMESTIC TOTAL AFTER FIRST WEEK: $51.1M Friday: $4.27M (+93.6%) Saturday: $5.65M (+32.3%) Sunday: $3.42M (-39.5%) SECOND WEEKEND TOTAL: $13.3M (-63.6% real) DOMESTIC TOTAL AFTER SECOND WEEKEND: $64.4M

Might as well try my hand at the rest of the week... Wednesday: $2.22M (-37.3%) Thursday: $2.21M (-0.740%) REAL FIRST WEEK TOTAL: $47.5M DOMESTIC TOTAL AFTER FIRST WEEK: $51.1M Friday: $4.27M (+93.6%) Saturday: $5.65M (+32.3%) Sunday: $3.42M (-39.5%) SECOND WEEKEND TOTAL: $13.3M (-63.6% real) DOMESTIC TOTAL AFTER SECOND WEEKEND: $64.4M

My last-minute Tuesday PR prediction: $3.43M.

PR's first Monday drop was better than Jack the Giant Slayer's but worse than Allegiant's. Using those two films as performance guides for the next week, it will end up with a second weekend of $14.7M (going by JtGS) or $14.2M (going by Allegiant).

I'm going to play it safe and give my most pessimistic estimate for Power Rangers: $13.0M. And that's if it takes the same plunge as Allegiant, which had extenuating circumstances that thankfully don't apply to PR. Likewise, my most pessimistic DOM prediction is $87.9M.

I'm just spitballing, but my guess is that they wanted to distribute the film.

Wait, so P&A costs were included in LG's 25% exposure on Power Rangers? Hell, in that case a profit is all but assured and it's only a matter of whether LG thinks the return is big enough or not. Even if it follows Jack the Giant Slayer's horrible performance, it would still end up with $88.4M DOM and $9.7M from the UK. That would translate into roughly $51.9M going to LG's pockets.

If PR follows Allegiant's performance, then next weekend will end up around $13.1M.

Cool. There's not many 70mm theaters out there that aren't IMAX nowadays.

To be fair, what else have they got goin' on?

Okay, how likely is it that Power Rangers will perform like Allegiant did? Throwing out Thursday previews, that's a 2.48x multiplier, which would translate to ~$91.5M DOM for PR.

Question for those very familiar with box office performance: What is going to keep Power Rangers from performing similar to GI Joe 2? They both opened on the same weekend in March, both are based on children's franchises, both follow installments that underperformed (granted, PR's was all the way back in '97), they both fall under similar genres, and they both pulled in $40.5M on opening weekend. And GI Joe ended up with a 3.03x multiplier. Is there any reason Power Rangers can't do the same?

The 2K projectors are pretty good, but the only thing that makes it IMAX is the branding. It doesn't hold a candle to a giant screen with a 70mm projector. However, for a movie to get the full effect of an IMAX presentation, it has to be shot on 70mm film. There's only been two wide-release films in the past quarter century that were shot entirely on 70mm: The Master and The Hateful Eight. And neither of them were actually shown in IMAX theaters. As such, it's largely not worth seeing movies in IMAX, unless you just want the picture to be bigger.

You would think BO.com would have taken that into consideration though, which is part of why I'm asking. The only thing new since those projections were last made are the OW gross and the audience reception, both of which were either neutral or positive.

Mods, is there any sort of justification we can use to ban this idiot? I'll doctor some photos if need be.

You honestly think the hardcore PR fanbase is big enough to afford almost six million tickets? The largest fan forum only has about 50,000 people in it.

In their long-term forecast, BoxOffice.com gave Power Rangers a 2.89x multiplier (specifically, $38M OW and $110M DOM). With this new OW estimate, that would translate into about $117M DOM. Has anything really happened to change that?

The various audience indicators suggest that the word of mouth on PR will be fairly solid as well.

$14.75M for PR? So the real day-to-day is a 29.8% increase. That's pretty good. So long as the Sunday drop is 30.2% or less, it'll make it to $40M for the weekend.

I would call a $40M OW "sub-optimal". It's not horrible, but it's not great either.