No, the change of Emperors+calendar configuration this year seem to be granting an additional 3-4 holiday days that IW didn’t have. Assuming I interpreted the breakdown at the top of this page correctly.
So Endgame will have its OD followed by 10 straight days of no school+no work? Fun times.
20M USD looks pretty unlikely for CM off of that weekend forecast, right?
Not only sequels and remakes. But it is pretty telling imo that the really successful original films are making like 1/3 the really successful franchise films.
Turning to numbers for a bit, CM had a solid 2.52 Thurs. Some potentially relevant Thurs:wknd multipliers include:
CM 2nd — 7.35-> 18.5M
CM 3rd — 8.1-> 20.4M
BatB last March week — 7.5-> 18.9M
Kong last March week — 7.8-> 19.65M
Kong had the same release schedule, pretty similar weekdays, same multi this week as the previous. Thinking 20-21ish
Really funny how the default position from movies geeks is “sequels and remakes are inherently worse than original films” while the position from GA is pretty clearly “ sequels and remakes are generally superior to original films.” These corporations are efficiently satisfying people’s true entertainment desires, yet somehow they get held at fault while the real drivers of the sequel and remake culture (the audience) are almost completely ignored in the discussion.
Amusing thing I just noticed is that IW had a 2.63 DOM multiplier, 2.48 OS-C, and 1.88 China. Same for CM would be totals of 404 DOM, 544 OS-C, and 167 China, for 1.115 WW.
Added 16.4M since Sun, compared to 10M DOM in same period. Actually higher than I expected. Is now 938 WW, Thurs maybe 945 — think it may pass 1B on Sun after all (quite tough still), otherwise Mon/Tues.
If TA4 follow suit, US and China presales start same day. If 21 days in advance, probably even closer to US presales start since timezones. Wouod be an exciting 24 hours on the forum.
No.
418 DOM-> ~209 revenue
630 OS-C-> ~252 Revenue
261 C -> ~65 revenue
Total of 526M theatrical revenue via the 50-40-25 rule of thumb, Deadline estimated at 541. They’ve got the total costs at 612M, 170 production, 145 P&A, 200 participations, ~100 miscellaneous.
Didn’t theatrically breakeven (i.e. make enough revenue from BO only to cover all costs). But @expensiveho‘s main point is that this illustrates how stupid the very concept of “theatrically breakeven” is, which they’re absolutely correct about.
Dumbo’s 7600 on the rolling at 17:00 exists with a context of just 2350 full day yesterday. Today has sold 5250 more than the same hours yesterday, should end up near 10000 for more than a 300% increase from yesterday. Not staggering, but from 35% of HTTYd Tuesday to about 75% Wed.
18:00 reading is ~7900, +300 over same hour yesterday.
A lot of CM’s issues stem from prequel+amnesia imo.
Last time they made a prequel origin movie about a captain which led directly into their hugest movie yet, the Modern day sequel picking up after the events of that Avengers movie absolutely slayed it qualitywise. Hopefully history repeats.
The 3 big Disney superhero movies from 2018 will clock in at over 1.5B profit estimate from Deadline, not too far from the estimated profit from 4-10 combined.
Unless BR beats I2. I could see that.