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I thought Lion King could play in the EndGame/Awaken game and doing that much with that reception do not contradict that.

How many predicted LK second weekend under incredible 2 when reading the cinemacon type of reactions a year ago ?

It is an interesting question, why decide to have Lee loose a fight in such a way and show him sprout non sense about is hands being registered weapon.

Really good above Inglorious Bastard, should go above 40M

That would be really really good considering Bastard made 13m from a 12.5m true Friday vs 11.05 for Hollywood. Similar hold to Inglorious Bastard (that had excellent legs) would give it 11.5M

I imagine that it is certainly possible to have an better experience because of some hype/manipulation technique, a bit like the old study that showed people that find a stereo sounded better if you sticked a Sony sticker on it, Coke taste better to many when they know that it is coke, brain scan do show this. In the Penn & teller series they did the experiment to cut a banana in half, made it taste test in a outdoor market presenting one half as a regular banana the other half an a biologic one, many people did find the "bio" half more tasty and I would imagine that it is quite possible that same can happen to a movie goer watching a movie, tasting wine, fancy restaurant (again the Penn&Teller on the false fancy restaurant worked really well). Star Wars is probably way more fun opening night, an sport even drunk at a bar with friends or on location, etc... but like you said it is pure positive to have the best possible subjective experience at the movie and something that you want (trying resisting having a good time to have some objective experience to give the movie the right score on your imdb list would be strange to do), after all here all the ticket are the same price and there is nothing else than having fun watching the movie involved.

Was in response to the comment about things being so more expensive in NA: Don't blame you. We get gouged on a lot of things in North America, Canada especially. Flights (especially domestic!), internet/cable, cell plans etc. Grand larceny. Europe is so much better in every way.

How ever said that no one really liked some acclaimed Disney film but were lying (to themselve or to others) that they liked it to sound cool or what not ?

https://www.numbeo.com/cost-of-living/rankings_by_country.jsp US has the highest purchassing power of all the major country ,only a couple of small one like Swiss, Qatar above it.

It make more sense for it;s placement imo: https://www.rottentomatoes.com/celebrity/quentin_tarantino Under Django-Unglorious. The metascore is probably the result of the MC average score inflation over time, I doubt Bastard/Kill Bill would be a 69 in today critics world, that what Hateful Eight got.

The 18-24 number were apparently giants (23%): Updated exits: a 58% definite recommend, still 59% guy heavy, with 56% of the crowd being 18-34. The biggest demo was 25-34 at 33%. Diversity range was Caucasians at 67%, 14% Asian/Other, 11% Hispanic, and 8% African American. https://deadline.com/2019/07/once-upon-a-time-in-hollywood-quentin-tarantino-box-office-lion-king-weekend-1202654606/

Wolf were even on the really good side, B isn't really telling one way or an other, considering the movie pace would tend to go in the good side or at least could have been easily lower, but audience could have been still on the Tarantino fans heavy side considering how high it seem to have been thursday.

You think they would have distributed only 5 movies in 2017, 7 movies last year and this year and in general went so much into that model without the acquisition and giant success of Marvel ?

Hateful 8/Jackie Brown got B's, could be the average score for a DiCaprio release.

Last jedi is the second biggest, 1.405 > 1.3325 Jedi has the dom crowd too.

Hum that does not help too much, just create an other strange gap, what the link with the also very East-Coast New-York politician Clinton and west coast California Hollywood movies?

I am not sure I get the very east coast Epstein connection with Hollywood here. Peggy Siegal ?

Early prospect is above Deadline mid day 16.5M (talk of 17-18M) and they went with 40M with that 16.5M figure. Much better than any 30M type of talk so it is good, but I think it is very in line with what people thought will be (not particularly good multiplier from previews that were quite high either), quite in line.

Obviously the Fast&Furious should change the behavior, but from what I remember of Dwayne Johnson fandango sales back in the days we could look at them and were more absolute numbers than relative, he had quite the high box office / pre-sales ratio really casual/walk up friendly.

12.2 true friday Dunkirk: 14.236m, added 2.16x true friday to is weekend Inglorious bastard: 12.5m, added 2.05x true friday to is weekend Equalizer 2: 10.2M, added 2.2x true friday to is weekend 18+ 2.05*12.2 = 43M 18+ 2.2*12.2 = 44.84M We should expect a 40M to 48M if that 18M happen ? I think that were a lot of people would have put it 2 weeks ago. EDIT: if it is RTH OUATIH 17 11.2M true friday 17+ 2.05*11.2 = 39.96M 17+ 2.2*11.2 = 41.64M Using Jordan Peele Us level of frontloading it could go a bit under 39M.

Will have to see, it is way less obvious if that is the case. If you look how much of outlier they were of their time Year biggest movie 1996: 813.2 1997: 1,835.4 (second biggest: 614.4), Titanic made 2.99x more than the second biggest release of 1997, 2.25x time the biggest of the year before, 3.3 time the biggest of the year after 1998: 554.6 Biggest movie of the last year,second biggest of it's year + next year biggest = 1982.2, Titanic made 92.55% of that 2008: 1,001.9 2009: 2,782.2 (second biggest: 934.0), Avatar made 2.98x more than the second biggest release of 2009, 2.78x time the biggest of the year before, 2.61 time the biggest of the year after 2010: 1,063.2 Biggest movie of the last year,second biggest of it's year + next year biggest = 2999.1, Avatar made 92.7% of that 2018: 2,048.4 2019: 2,792.0 (second biggest has of now: 1,128.3, Lion King, Frozen 2, Star Wars could raise that), EndGame 2.47 time for the current biggest movie, 1.36 time the biggest movie of the year before, 2.07 is we remove is own previous entry has a competition (that seem fair) 2020: ? Will see could be quite low without Avatar 2 It does seem closer in line to what the other big movie of is time do, now some quality of competition need to be taken into account and can be hard to do, but I think it is safe to say that Toy Story 3 isn't weaker competition than Toy Story 4 and that Phantom Menace was historically a big one and Titanic doubled that first Star Wars movie in a while juggernaut. The difference isn't that far but seem clearly a different step below.

You could have chosen Roma, Dazed and Confused, American Graffiti, etc... instead of this in your comparison , but it would have shown an important difference, wes exploring someone else personal life nostalgia well the other is designed to appeal to our own mass nostalgia about movies we have seen. Now I am not so sure how many people thing that Disney nostalagia is bad (you are talking to who ?), in that context: Toy Story 4: 98% Force Awaken: 93% on rotten tomatoes EndGame: 94% Jungle Book: 94% Saving Mr. Banks/Poppins: 79% Yes Tomorrowland got bad reviews but I doubt it was the nostalgic aspect that hurted it. Disney nostalgia tend to be immensely well received by critics, world audience, about everyone on this message board ( ), yet.....

Edgar Wright is one other with quite that phenomenon, but I am not sure how to read those link, is it the saturday from friday drop that are big ?

Considering how frontloaded the monster genre tend to be outside Jurassic Park, sequel, franchise and how bad that movie legs were going significantly under that for Hollywood sound quite terrible.