I do not remember that
Pre release projections are just that, and trolling based on them is foolish (I mean, even relative to trolling based on actuals). But there is a huge interest in prerelease projections nonetheless and similar international markets are a perfectly legitimate source to throw into the stew-- keeping in mind an appropriate amount of uncertainty. For instance, uncharted's weekend in the UK should certainly be incorporated into a forecast for this upcoming weekend.
I understand it can be annoying to see tepid reactions based on expectations that you might personally think got overheated, but high expectations usually don't come out of thin air. "It will be the second best pandemic presales/previews/OW so people should automatically be enthused about that even if it comes on the lower end" doesn't really make sense either.
Not really. They're solid but they seem to be pointing toward like 20-27ish (roughly) which is solid but below what some people were getting hyped for.
So over 20B, nice. Easily top grossing China franchise (as it is in almost every territory, considering number of films) though it will probably fall to some local franchise this decade.
I already know unadjusted, useless
Can’t really PTA adjust since NATO hasn’t released any ticket prices since 2019 ( 😡). If we use 2019 adjustment +8.5% (CPI from dec 2019 to dec 2021) it comes out to about 193M for BatB and 212M for DH2. Rank adjust takes DH2 to 357M (LOL) and BatB to 209M, but it gets rather impacted by outliers when you’re talking the very top OWs.