Cooper Legion

The Friday number from China was perfectly solid, and we’re talking about a difference of like under half a million dollars. It probably won’t be the difference between 2B or not.

Well he did have a 70 year head start. And even still, he's going to start losing next year and never catch up

I would have saved either that Thanos shot or the Captain Marvel one for the final 2.4 poster though. That Thursday number is a bit below what we were expecting, right? Fingers crossed for a nice Friday number.

Man, these are all so cool. Why doesn’t the US make posters like this for box office milestones?

AUJ is clearly out of the question, but it looks like it would need to make another 2.8x this week or so to pass Shrek 2. Is that within the realm of possibility based on TA/TR/BP late legs, or nah?

I’m not sure I could handle it if it got so close to getting 3 in a row MCU films here and then had just 1 or 2 breaking up the streak. Rank Title (click to view) Studio Adjusted Gross Unadjusted Gross Year^ 26 Forrest Gump Par. $720,110,000 $330,252,182 1994^ 27 Mary Poppins Dis. $716,145,500 $102,272,727 1964^ 28 Grease Par. $705,037,900 $188,755,690 1978^ 29 Marvel's The Avengers BV $704,231,900 $623,357,910 2012 30 Black Panther BV $699,194,100 2018 2012 31 Thunderball UA $685,168,000 $63,595,658 1965 32 The Dark Knight WB $682,085,700 $534,858,444 2008^ 33 The Jungle Book Dis. $674,908,000 $141,843,612 1967^

It’s .045 away from 1.6 😛 690 isn’t quite impossible yet, wait for the next few weekends.

Eh, it round to 1.6, so I’m happy. Does seem seem to be legging better than GotG2 the past few days, but GotG2 was dealing with WW. I think it might drop below when I2 and JW2 are both in the market, but we’ll see. Should be a close finish with TDK adjusted.

The last few days have been.... not encouraging. Still has time to potentially pick up the pace or get a good PS multi.

Wow, I didn’t realize the HLWILUCU was such a big deal.

They have 3 upcoming DC movies and 23 ideas that have been kicked around to various degrees but could very well go nowhere.

Should convert pretty close to $9-9.5M.

IW was $35M behind FF8 end of third week, but could make nearly $40M after vs $10M for FF8 to narrow the gap to single digits. Not nearly as close in Yuan of course, but still taking real nice advantage of the competition free schedule.

200*1.9 is a great performance, but it would probably have beaten TFA with say 240*1.7, which would be a low-but-not-seriously-record-breaking-low OW PS multi.

He’s just saying that the DOM 2nd weekend was low relative to first weekday numbers, and the China total is low relative to the insane presales (record breaking presales led to a record low presale multi). Those two factors combined look to lead to a very near miss of TFA. All reasonable points, it’s not like anyone is claiming that IW numbers are bad overall

Too bad we can’t open A4 on Memorial Day

Stupid HP3, screwing up nice orderly increases. Why couldn’t you have done 1.5 more :/

The ProTony/AntiSteve people are so obviously wrong that it doesn’t count as true fandom division

Highly optimistic take is 990+385+685 for 2.06. Could get a lot closer than I thought it would in the middle of the run.

Ah, I see what you meant. It seems to me that Book Club’s arc is also pretty locked as a well-received piece of counterprogramming with fantastic legs, but the estimate vs actual variation will certainly be a much larger % of its overall numbers.

Maybe Disney movies with marvel characters can do over 2B DOM this year after all

Very good job with the new trailer, I’m totally down to watch Iron Man, Elsa, and Stormtroopers in the same movie.

Pretty odd longer view where the Infinity War numbers matter less than the Book Club ones. Edit: To be clear, I am actually also most interested in the Book Club actually this weekend. I’m just not sure what it’s supposed to mean for the others to “matter” less.

Cmon R$250. I believe!

It just occurred to me that the total WW grosses of the 2 Thanos films vs the 3 sequel trilogy films could be very close. Phase 4/Avengers 5 will probably involve some relatively self contained plot and a medium tier villain. Then if they want to do another multi-phase arc I’d say the most important thing is to make sure it doesn’t feel too similar to Thanos, so ideally: not space/alien based not trying to kill/conquer/destroy large portions of the entire universe not trying to acquire and wield some huge collection of macguffins maybe not even a single super powerful individual Depending on the status of Sony and Fox relations at the time I could see drawing a bit from Dark Reign being cool, with Doom, Osborne, and maybe Namor/Frost/Sinister.