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Nativity 2 and SLP had good drops, SLP must have better weekdays compared to N2 which is unsurprising as kids film tend not to do good business during term time, ROTG did fine, it'll have good drops from now til Christmas,

1.7-1.8m is slightly off from Puss in Boots last year but not good as there isn't as much competition.

How is ROTG doing? I saw it and thought it was decent and TBH the kids competition is poor this Christmas unless you count Life of Pi.

I'm unsure how HFR is achieved, I'm guessing it's a software upgrade for digital projectors so I wonder if Cineworld which IIRC all digital will be able to show The Hobbit but have yet to confirm it.

A Christmas Carol and Arthur Christmas had extraordinary legs, ACC's advantages were being a known title and it had 3D screens to itself until Avatar. Arthur Christmas managed to increase or have small drops even against family films like Puss in Boots and Happy Feet 2.

Nativity 2 did surprisenly well, guess the lack of kids films and David Tennant helped it. SLP did okay, it should have good legs.Rise of the Guardians is out Friday but I'm thinking it will underperform.

That's decent but would have been good to be top three, wonder what number 3 is?

I went to SLP on Friday and it was packed. Wonder how it has done?

Universal will market Les Mis heavily and its a known property with big names.

I imagine £30-35m is likely for Les Mis, dunno if itll be as big as Mamma Mia!

Argo must have good weekday considering it only opened to £1.3m, The Indian films did very well although they would have been 6 day opening as Diwali fell on the 13th but any Indian film to crack the top five is impressive.

Considering they didn't have a mega hit like The Avengers, TDKR or Hunger Games, they've done very well.

Argo's doing alright, I thought it'd struggle, I think over $50m is looking likely OS which for a film of its nature is pretty good.

47% is a decent drop considering it was against Twilight, the competition next week is only Gambit, Nativity 2 and Silver Linings Playbook which won't much as make an impact so it'll be the same top 2.Argo had a great drop of only 20% from its weekend total and 40% from its 5 day total so its finding its audience,

ROTG could get a few mornings and afternoons on weekends but it was never slated for IMAX originally but Dreamworks have it in a few places in the US. IMAX next year is looking good with Star Trek into Darkness and Catching Fire with IMAX shot scenes and then films like Man of Steel, Pacific Rim etc

Don't think Rise of the Guardians has IMAX so Skyfall may get back those screens. I think BD2 will be number 1 again next week, drop wise 50-60% would be fine.Skyfall did help boost the box office as it was down due to the Olympics and Euro and a weak September. Here's hoping for 2013 to do well but its going to be tough for it to match the heights of the previous two years.

I'm guessing Skyfall has lost screens to Twilight elsewhere but it seems to be selling well, I'm guessing it should £2.5m today although would be good If it did £3m or more which might be difficult with BD2.

Twilight hasn't got near the same fanbase as HP plus HP like Bond is British so its resonated more with people here. £7m OD is still great,

Christmas will be very heavy competition with The Hobbit, Life of Pi, Jack Reacher etc it'll probably be running but it'll won't have as many showtimes and screens.

The UK run was fine but it is difficult for a foreign film to do huge numbers.

The Complete Twilight Saga works out at £3 a ticket so it's a bargain for the fans, they've done similar marathon with Potter although that was on a daily schedule, I imagine Lionsgate will do it with The Hunger Games films when they get to Mockingjay part I and II.

The budgets for animation is really high especially at Pixar where it can almost $200m, I know Pixar develop new techniques for each new film but I wonder if we may see a time where Disney will try and cut costs with CG Animation especially as films like Ice Age and The Lorax are just as successful and are made for under $100m.

For any film to do over £80-90m is amazing in itself considering how competitive the market, Avatar was a global hit everywhere in the world, the OS gross of nearly $2bn shows that and it's still the highest grossing film in the US. Before DH2 and Toy Story 3, the highest grossing films after Avatar with £93m was Mamma Mia with £69m then Titanic before its rerelease was also £69m so to outgross both of them by £22m was incredible.Looking ahead, I think the next big hit apart from The Hobbit will be Les Miserables which opens in January, I think if it is well received, I think it easily do £30m+ although it depends on The Hobbit's momentum but we have seen films like Sherlock Holmes and Alvin 2 do £20-25m against strong competition like Avatar,

Avatar was a huge hit, it has tiny drops and increases for the few weeks of its run, Its unfair to say it didn't well in comparison to Skyfall,

Skyfall has made up for the lackluster August and September we had. November's way up on last year as was October and December is looking like it'll be a good month as well.