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    Wednesday Numbers | Despicable Me 2 - 34M | The Lone Ranger - 9.67M | Kevin Hart - 4.9M

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    Although I'm not cheering for TLR to flop, I do think that if a SEQUEL fails to deliver the quality of its predecessors badly, is terribly rushed, or is an outright moneygrab, then there's nothing wrong whatsoever for fans of the franchise to blast such lameness. This happens a lot in the gaming industry, take this year's SimCity for example, because the product is such a unfailthful crap, huge numbers of fans of the series rooted for it to fail and in the end it sort of did.

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    Wednesday Numbers | Despicable Me 2 - 34M | The Lone Ranger - 9.67M | Kevin Hart - 4.9M

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    1. Despicable Me 2 (Universal) NEW [Runs 3,957]Wednesday $35.1M

    2. The Lone Ranger (Disney) NEW [Runs 3,904]Wednesday $9.7M

    3. Monsters University (Pixar/Disney) Week 2 [Runs 4,004]Wednesday $5.2M

    4. The Heat (Fox) Week 1 [Runs 3,181]Wednesday $5.2M

    5. Kevin Hart: Let Me Explain (Summit/Lionsgate) NEW [Runs 876]Wednesday $4.7M

    ‘Lone Ranger’ Opens To Disastrous $9.7M, ‘Despicable Me 2′ Destroys Rivals For $35.1M And #1 Wednesday; ‘Let Me Explain’ $4.7M

     

    Are those the latest numbers? DM2 over 35 and MU above 5 that's not bad.

    Despicable Me 2 (2013)

    in Review That Movie! (Spoilers Allowed)

    Posted · Edited by DespicableMEnions

    8.5/10 or B+/A-. Superb entertainment value. Numerous jokes and gags for all age groups. Pacing is fairly consistent (meaning, fast) and it's just so much fun. This is a film that tries to maximize the fun factor even though it might compromise whatever heart or seriousness some of the critics are on about because they know at the end of the day its the fun that sells tickets for a fim like DM2. The kids I encountered in the cinemas absolutely go crazy every time a minion sequence takes place. Plenty of teenagers and young adults there too, many of them also laugh hysterically on several occasions (not as hysterical as when I saw in This is the End obviously but still very impressive). Not sure how the majority of parents and older audience react to this since they tend to not laugh out loud like the younger viewers but judging from the faces I see when they leave the show, most of them must be pretty satisfied too.

    UK Box Office Thread

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    Seriously, I've been living in UK for the most part of last five years, except every summer when I return to China so I know how you guys perceive your weather and how you media particularly the Daily Mail reports it, but this is just pure gold. 33C is a 'heatwave'???????? :o Every inch of land in Central, Eastern, Northeastern and Southern China is quite a bit hotter than that between May and early September and it doesn't stop people from going to cinemas on a colossal scale. I know the weather in England this year so far has been horrible and colder than usual but this is still normal temperature for this time of year, seriously the way the UK media tells weather stories is just hilarious, if not a bit pathetic.

    Rant over, don't get angry with me just expressing a 'cultural shock' that's all  :rolleyes: .  Will THAT many people be spending time on beaches and doing outdoor stuff instead of watching movies just because of this? It's not like people have been staying indoors this past month due to terrible cold or something.

    Wednesday Numbers | Despicable Me 2 - 34M | The Lone Ranger - 9.67M | Kevin Hart - 4.9M

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    True that fri/sat jumps won't be as big as normal, but the Thursday drops will also be much smaller than normal so it evens out. DM2 won't drop more than 20% on Thursday. Even MIB2 only dropped 11% on the 4th back in 2002 when the calendar fell the same. And it wasn't an animated movie.

    Fairly small Thurs drop, followed by a sizable increase on Fri and possibly minor decrease on Sat (aka 2002) and another -20% or so on Sun.

    Using the 32 number and MIB2's 2002 opening, if DM2 follows a fairly mediocre run thoughout the week then the 5 day breakdown could be around 32/26/31/29/24 = 142m, totally doable and still massive enough to push for 400m.

    Wednesday Numbers | Despicable Me 2 - 34M | The Lone Ranger - 9.67M | Kevin Hart - 4.9M

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    Posted · Edited by DespicableMEnions

    I don't think they could have if they wanted to. There was some STRONG evidence that the site was hacked and all of that data corrupted. They didn't just get rid of the forums--they got rid of everything on the site that related to having a user account. A major site doesn't just up and do that without warning.

     

    They may not have killed the data themselves, but they covered it up. I even got that "don't ask too many questions that I can't answer" vibe from Ray when I was in contact with him during the days Mojo was down. I'm almost positive that his bosses at IMDb just covered up the hacking with the "oh, this is what we planned on doing all along" story.

     

    They were willing to piss off forum users as long as their general reputation remained in tact.

     

    That's my theory, at least.

    Sigh yeah I remember those rumors. I just wish (hello Ted you here me?lol) there could be some place where we can re-visit old threads of epic win/fails and see people's reactions to breakouts/bombs instead of trying hard to put fragments of memory to one incomplete piece.

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