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You'd assume everyone posting in this thread had the boxoffice twitter on autorefresh

Furious 7's Chinese gross is well ahead of the domestic number, but $383M is a typo. It was sitting at $363M after Saturday, and last sunday's gross was like $11M. Unless it magically had a 80% increase, the gross should be closer to $370M after today.

What I meant is that I think that Furious 7 will be more or less wrapped up before Age of Ultron even releases.

Does that matter? How many days before Furious 7 loses all of its screens in China because that's what China does? Probably this coming week.

The number we have been waiting for!

His post is a joke based on a post made on the videogame forum NeoGAF after Final Fantasy XIII was announced to be coming to Xbox 360 (the series had previously been exclusive to Sony Playstation for over a decade). It became a meme on gaming forums. Here is the original

Has there been much evidence that the move to 7-9pm Thursday previews has increased preview tallies over the old midnight releases? I was under the impression that people just didn't bother staying up for the late shows anymore now that they had the choice.

Mojo has TDK at $469.7, Indy 4 at $469.5, and Mamma Mia! at $465.7. I went off their figures. It was definitely close.

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I think it's always best to be conservative with Chinese gross until we have some numbers, but I fully expect China to more than make up for any domestic decrease. Which means that Age of Ultron should have no problem passing $1.5B if the rest of the foreign markets hit $800M (or basically make what the last film did). If the Domestic drop is less than $100M, foreign minus China markets won't even need to match the last film.

2002, 2004, and 2010 are the only years where the #1 WW film didn't have the #1 OS take since 2000.

Age of Ultron would need to decrease overseas outside of China by at least $50M (vs Avengers), need to decrease domestically by about $125M, and need a lower end Chinese gross based on current expectations (say $150M total) for Furious 7 to have a shot worldwide.

Toy story 3 EDIT: It was 3rd that year OS behind Alice and HP 7.

Even with a healthy decrease, domestic gross is going to give AoU a $150-200M lead on F7, so I don't think many people were doubting that.

AoU might very well end up with a smaller overseas take than Furious 7, but it is still pretty cool that we are likely going to get two $1B+ overseas films this year, considering that we've only had two in history so far, and that the USD is so strong against foreign currency at the moment.

I would imagine that China will be strongly in Furious 7's favour though. AoU could end with $250M there (which would be 3rd of all time I believe) and still be short nearly $100M.

It seemed as though you were trying to equate the two though, saying both are only missing 3-4 main markets that first weekend. Furious 7 was ONLY missing 3-4 markets, even if two of them were large. Age of Ultron might only have a couple large markets left to launch in (China, Mexico, Japan if they feel like showing up), but cumulatively those other 30+ markets are going to be a lot bigger for age of Ultron than Russia and Japan were for Furious 7. Japan is barely a major market for most hollywood films these days. Furious 7 is going to end with like $20M there. That's not significantly higher than the film's take in Malaysia.

It is opening on May 12th. What I meant is that May 12th is a Tuesday I believe. So that "first weekend" will actually be most of a week. Also, Iron Man 3 opened to over $64M in its first 5 days in China, so the chance of AoU opening to only $50M in 6 days is non-existant.

Furious 7 didn't even have small markets left to open in after that first weekend really. Its first weekend was 64 territories. Last weekend it was only up to 68 territories. Chile, Spain, Malaysia, Peru, and Thailand might not be huge markets, but together they made the first Avengers movie over $50M. Mexico and the ~35 smaller markets opening up next weekend will add up to a decent amount cumulatively.

If AoU hits $200M this weekend overseas, than a complete rollout would have been well over $300M. China's opening on a Tuesday I believe, so I would imagine that AoU's take there through Sunday will pretty close to $100M, if not higher.

Furious 7 opened in 64 territories that first weekend. I think it was pretty much a global release minus Russia, Japan, and China.

I live in Markham (previously Windsor and London) and I don't think I have ever met someone who actively follows the CFL.

More Canadians actually care about the Stanley cup though. Many of the people I have been with during superbowl parties care more about the commercials and the half-time show than the game.

I don't post here very often, but I started following box office numbers around the time that Titanic released. I can't remember if Titanic specifically got me into the hobby, or if that is just the earliest notable film I remember following, but it was during high school before Mojo existed. EDIT: Actually, it must have been before that, because I remember The Lost World breaking the OW record earlier in 1997.

That number seems way off given that this thread was reporting a gross in that neigbourhood as of Friday