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I assume Hidden Figures' budget is reasonable enough that it can make it back from domestic because I suspect it won't fare as well OS likewise with Fences.

Could Hidden Figures do Revenant OW numbers? Unlikely but a $30m OW wouldn't surprise me. Sully did $1.34m but that had IMAX as well

Ready Player One doing over $200m domestic wouldn't surprise me

Dunkirk to make over $250m domestic and $700-750m WW and Wonder Woman to open with $125m and $340m domestic

True although Ab Fab was successful for them OS making a nice profit from just the UK alone. Amazon Studios had a great year along with STX.

Focus seems to have faltered in the last year, their only successes were through the Gramery label with The Forest and London has Fallen and critical success with Kubo and Nocturnal Animals.

Paterson is a great film, I saw it a few weeks back and thought Adam Driver was excellent in it.

The PTA for Dangal is insane, that's better than Lion which was in 200 more cinemas.

I think The Mummy will be $50-65m OW more in line with Cruise's Mission Impossible films. Wonder Woman has more chance of repeating number 1 than The Mummy making over $100m on its opening weekend.

I did think Han Solo might move to December 21st but December 13th is more likely so there is breathing room between it and Mary Poppins Returns. Mortal Engines will probably move to the 18th December, 21 December or Christmas Day. I'm sort of surprise Disney hasn't scheduled Episode IX yet, It's likely December 19th or December 12th 2019. Wicked currently scheduled for the 19th but I suspect it'll move back to avoid Episode IX.

None of the Boxing Day openers did much during the holidays, it'll be interesting how the NYD openers fare. Moana's competition was Ballerina and Monster Trucks, none of which made much of an impact. It still has two full weekends until Sing previews where it can still make some decent money.

It's on par with what I'm thinking as well although I wouldn't be surprised if it does open lower say $120-125m but with the same total of $325m.

The first film's budget was on par if not a tad lower than the average blockbuster at the time. Even Michael Eisner was concerned about the budget only for Bruckheimer to point out that the competition was spending the same if not more. It was a hugely risky project for Disney which paid off handsomely as everyone at the time wrote it off

Not only that but the likes of Bruckheimer probably are on hefy fees as well.

I don't think anyone thought Bad Santa 2 would be a hit or Zoolander or Huntsman..

I think Wonder Woman will hurt Pirates OS as well as domestic

Apple weren't even the first, Motorola ditched it for the Moto Z. It's only a matter of time really. I was looking at the UK box office and for me, the biggest surprise of last year wasn't The Jungle Book, Deadpool or even Fantastic Beasts but Bridget Jones's Baby! When you consider that it was 12 years since the last film, I thought it would be a moderate hit but it outgrossed the likes of Batman v Superman, Captain America and Dory. The BFG also did very well despite flopping elsewhere but that wasn't as surprising as Roald Dahl is revered in the UK.

Technically Rogue One is by a sliver and Jungle Book was already outgrossed by Bridget Jones.

£1.8m over seven days which is terrible for a family film.

Both are doing very well, it's only a difference of A$450,000 which isn't much so they're complimenting each other rather than one destroying the other. Moana is doing vastly better in NZ though.

I've enjoyed most of the films Disney has released this year, WDAS and Pixar are still the gold standard in animation and even though they are lacking in originality in the live action department, I loved The Jungle Book, the Marvel films and Rogue One. 2017 looks like they'll easily beat 2016, maybe even 2015.

Chris Hadfield is an inspiration, there needs to be more people like him,

I'll be curious to how Assassin's Creed fares, I imagine it'll be very frontloaded but I won't be surprised if it claims number 1 this week due to being released today but it'll probably fall hard

Sing's OS total isn't great but it does still have a few markets left. I did think it might do $300-350m OS but it might just miss it unless it overperforms in the remaining markets

Still pretty awful for Monster Trucks since it was a 7 day opening. Likewise for Why Him and Collateral Beauty.