The Last Witch Hunter and Riddick didn't do great but didn't affect Fast. I guess Vin has to do one bad movie in the years that a Fast film is released.
I'm thinking Lego Batman will have a $85-90m OW though $100m wouldn't be a surprise. It'll do much better than The Lego Movie OS although I'm not expecting a huge increase.
I wonder if La La Land will hit number 1 once it goes wide? I'm listening to the soundtrack and loving it so far, it doesn't come out in the U.K. until January which is annoying
Buying Lucasfilm and Marvel helped Disney because their live action slate apart from Pirates wasn't up to much. Owning your IP rather than licensing it makes
more money for the bottom line since you keep all the profits
Amazon Studios have made some great acquisitions with Manchester by the Sea, Love and Friendship, Paterson etc they're one to look out for along with A24
Ghost Protocol did $15m on its limited release, enough for third place, it was risky putting it in December but it did pay off beating Sherlock Holmes domestically and internationally.
I wonder if Disney or WB would put a superhero film in December? The last time we've had a superhero film that broke out big in December was Superman just under 40 years ago.
It can still get to £55-60m because of Christmas holidays, I don't see huge drops happening until Mid January
£17m in December is still fantastic, only TFA has done better and that was an anomaly in terms of December openings
To be fair, TFA being the first Star Wars in a decade plus the original characters returning meant it was always going to be huge, Rogue One was never going to match that, it'll still be the biggest OW of the year and likely the biggest film of 2016
That seems the most plausible reason, it's interesting that the UK doesn't use the US title as its Fast and Furious 8 in the U.K but they've done that since Fast and Furious 5
Not just 3D but also PLFs like IMAX, 4DX etc we've seen an increase in the number of IMAX screens which likely had contributed to the increase in the average