The Fast and the Furiosa

RTH gave us both (no picture for WH, 5.2 mil. Passengers was apparently 7.3 mil because that's the number of passengers at that airport for January or something lol)

7.3

I imagine because there were some previews for it yesterday. There were at my theater

Lost more theaters, but even then PTA was lower than I expected. Perhaps it lost showtimes, but my theaters still had a screen all to Moana so who really knows

I was referring to its lower than average PTA increase (20%). It's PTA held fine when it lost 500 theaters on Wednesday. Lost 300 yesterday and 100 more tomorrow. Just surprising is all. I'm not dense, just thorough

Moana just died holy moly

Today I learned that a comedy with Bryan Cranston is more frontloaded than Assassin's Creed

Yeah if that weekend actually came into fruition, we can lay to rest the debate on why the holiday season gives films good legs. Yeah, part of it is lower OW to an extent, but it's more that you have insane weekdays and holidays where pretty much everyone has off. As long as your film doesn't suck, you're good to go

That seems really low to me, are we going with a Mike and Dave multiplier here?

What kind of Friday can we expect from a 975k preview number? 5.5 mil with previews?

Do you have a reason for the drop? I haven't seen a lot of movies that do that on a Monday Boxing Day.

I think it's more of a guideline rather than a rule. I don't expect a perfect match as well, so I'm going on the lower end multiplier wise. Probably around 88 mil for me

Especially because it made 50+ Mon-Wed lol

I saw a chart recently where it said that when Christmas falls on Thursday, it's jump from Wednesday Christmas eve is the largest compared to any other day when Christmas falls (coincidentally when it's on a Sunday, you get the lowest jump, but then get a bigger boost from a Monday Boxing Day). Can't seem to find it though. That would cast the NATM3 comp in some doubt

If I see another commercial with the pig tripping again...

I would say the daily trends for the weekend will closely match 2011. Trying to predict weekdays is a total crapshoot though

There are a couple reasons why December releases don't dominate the all-time box office. Studios were deathly afraid of opening big tentpoles during this time period. 1. Lower Opening Weekend. Doesn't sound as good press wise. Holiday shopping tends to force box office goers to take a "wait-and-see" approach to films. 2. Reception has bigger impact. Due to a lower opening weekend, in order to "match" the expected gross from a summer release, you need good reviews in rder for legs to carry through the holidays. Now as we have seen really recently, the time period it takes for this to manifest has decreased. But before, you couldn't get away with having bad reviews during December. You lower your OW and then WOM kills you. Suddenly, you're left with much less than you would have gotten had you just opened in May. 3. Weather. This is a factor often overlooked. The unpredictability of blizzards and icy roads can really hurt box office grosses. Sun time fun time as they say. You can block the road to a movie theater with snow, you cant melt the building

These guys on r/boxoffice may as well be movieman and co. with their logic

No way huh? Only a Sith deals in absolutes

R1 will have ridiculous weekdays for a couple weeks. Those other two films did not

That wouldn't really make sense from an economic perspective, but hey maybe someone started a weird trend

That's a question I've been wo That's a question I've been wondering for years lol

I think it's going to be Wednesday because of the new releases crowding the box office for a bit

This thread for most of the week for me

Yep, no competition certainly helped SS. Rogue One's competition appears to get weaker by the minute as we approach Wednesday