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Elemental might still cross the 2m admissions mark.

Yes it is. From may until the past week, Top 10 movies made 2,5m more admissions compared to 2022. Source: http://www.insidekino.de/DTop10/23/DTop23AUG3.htm On the left side is a y2y comparison. Overall the year isa ste into the right direction with numbers close to 2018/2019. I don't think the rest of the year will hold pace though.

It dropped because it got big spillover business on Barbenheimer OW and lost capacities the following weekend.

This one is definetely outpacing the original in Germany. Yeah, bad weather helps, but it's a big surprise. France looks to open in the same region as the first movie as well.

That's not the whole story. Problem is, that people are extremely focussed on eveneing shows now and don't compromise in chosing afternoon/matinee showings instead. Also the running time is obviously not very late night friendly, but as many cinemas don't do them anymore...well, with no offer, there's no room for growth. It's not only a german phenomenon, though. It's pretty much also the reason, why Barbie scored such a great Sunday in the US.

Of Course. Inflation is making up for it in box office terms, but admission wise it probably ends up around "The Good Dinosaur". Disney + and Covid were a deadly combo for kids and family entertainment in theaters.

Yeah well, Elemental is obviously having great legs and is having a great support by the first bad weather weekend in ages, but the sad truth is, that it will just barely crawl past 1m admissions and is battling Cars 3 as the 19th best Pixar-Admissions, only beating "Onward", "The Good Dinosaur" and "Toy Story 4". I mean, how the mighty have fallen from the golden Pixar age in Germany.

It's a reasonable prediction, though. I gues The Lion King as one of the recent summer monsters did a 5,15 multiplier from OD. I think BArbie might be just a slight bit more frontloaded than that.

Any It's not the first movie targeting a certain and "forgotten" crowd that breaks out. Every now and then there are those faith based movies that score alongside the mainstream. Any idea though, why tuesdays don't do much for the movie? Might it be due to it playing exceptionally well in rural areas outside of chains with no cheap tuesday?

I know, but it started with not being updated after early deadline estimates long ago and there basically never was an update with the latest numbers.

Isn't there any way to pin all the current essential box office information anywhere in these weekend threads, instead of having to fight through pages of pages? Following the "Insiders" doesn't always help, because it doesn't always link to their only posting in the topic. I would really appreciate it.

We are seeing some very nice and leggy runs for TF7, Elemental or No Hard Feelings here. Elemental obviously as a stand out, but NHF clearing 50m with a 15m-Start is some nice relieve on a low scale for the Studio as well.

It won't do 8,8m with 2,5m on friday, that one should be quite sure.

Close to $9m for Indy would be amazing.

Yeah well, with Joy Ride having a tough time as well, the comedy genre really is in danger to even survive at the movies.

Why wouldn't you just suggest to have the discussion they obviously put some thought and time into to another and more fitting place, instead of such a condescending statement?

Interesting, isn't it? I never said it was a conspiracy movie. It leads the viewers to the conspiracy theories the makers are spreading. That's the whole point of the movie. First step: Tell them a story about child trafficking, something horrible and very real. 2nd step: Use their emotion to tell them about Adrenochrome and Elites eating those children on other platforms. People will tell you that way too often, but unfortunately those people aren't dumb and know what they do. They are again and again underestimated and belittled. Their biggest strenght.

I will never understand how people in this day and age aren't able to use all the options to educate themselves and instead believe the unbelievable. The result ist a movie like " Sound o Freedom", a propaganda medium for QAnon, being successful. Humanity is regressing and this is only the beginning. Nothing wrong with telling a story the movie does, but just like the persons behind it, it's selling proven lies as the truth and is nothing else but an instrument to give certain consiracy theories more substance, packed in a successful movie that HAS to be right. Well, it's also a democratic choice to regress, so everybody is obviously free to believe and watch what they like.

How would a 5 Million opener take away family audience? The holds overall are pretty weak this friday. Cinema we knew is about to die. The emptier the cinemas get, the heavier and faster the downfall strikes. Those inflated dollar-results can't cover up the decline any longer. The theaters are empty and finding a sold out show is getting rarer and rarer.

I don't think so. Pirate movies were a tough sell for years at the BO and even the opening of Pirates wasn't great with a $70m over 5 days. You can't chop off a big piece of a success movie and expect it would still work. The tone Depp set was what the whole movie is all about and it just connected with the audiences and made the movie complete. Imagine the movie with Russel Crowe as Jack Sparrow and while it would still be a good movie to look at, I don't think it would have been a great experience with a darker and less fun tone.

Very good hold for Elemental. This should be able to leg out to more than $125m now.

I'm very concerend about kids movies. It seems like parents learned to save time parking the kids in front of a tv watching streams instead of going to the movies as a family experience. The problem is: Those kids are the future of cinema. If they don't learn to go to the movies from the beginning, tey won't start at the age of 16. Those kids might be lost forever and that's pretty much the worst case for movies and cinemas. Yes, I know that Mario was a smash, but the amount of kids movies overall playing in theaters is tiny nowadays. I guess it's not too easy to figure out why Pixar is hit that hard. Other movies will be on streaming too, but I guess it's still a big part of the problem. As for No Hard feeligs: I really hope it gets better later. I was so rooting for themovie. Poeple seem to have forgotten how great comedies are when watched in a theater instead of at home on Netflix while scrolling through your Instagram. I don't want every genre to die until only Superhero movies are left.

And Sunday is Fathers's Day, so it could basically be flat or even increase on sunday.

With $25m on Friday, I think that Transformers might just land at $60m for the weekend. Not too shabby to be honest.

I still love the first Transformers. The late 2000s were also the greatest time for CGI. They are perfect and so well done and harmonize with the whole material. Well, that was when films were shot on film.