Yeah, Strictly speaking Ant-Man is a phase 2 film. Looks like in a month Phase 3 will be 7 films with an average of 1.1B+.
Edit: Phase 3 ends with Avengers 4. Looking like it will be 10 movies with an average gross of 1.1B+.
To add some actual content based off this stat, let’s suppose that IW stays about flat for a 25M Tuesday. Then with a similar Tuesday multiplier as Avengers it would make an additional 562.5M, for a total of... 845
The Avengers had a 22.5x multiplier off its first Tuesday.
If IW follows suit based off this figure, it will earn approximately an additional 0 dollars, for a domestic total of roughly 282M and a final opening weekend multiplier of about x1.095.
Movie that contributed the most to April played in April for 4 days.
Movie that contributed 6th most had been playing for 44 days already when April began.
700 is 700, whether the other member of the top 2 that same year does 750 or 650. Rankings can be fun to track as hobbyists, but the absolute number is waaaaay more important.
Optimistically it could be 5th this weekend after IW, AQP, IFP, and Overboard.
7th on its 13th weekend after those+Breaking in+Life of the Party.
14th weekend DP2, Show Dogs, Book Club, push it down to 10th — but depending on how hard it is hit by DVD release it could maaaybe pass Overboard or IFP here for 9th or 8th.
Nothing but Solo opening 15th weekend, might be able to cling to 10th and beat Avatar.
This is happening in BP’s 11th week. If they move A4 up to the international date for spoiler reasons again (date is open), then that would be Captain Marvel’s 8th week — and it’s possible she’ll have an even bigger role in A4. I really have to wonder just how much the timing there could end up being worth for Captain Marvel.
400 would be perfectly reasonable compared to last Tues, Wed, Thurs, which had no double features. They were obviously affected by IW despite that, so all I’m really wondering about/hoping for is for that to continue after IW’s OW.
60M OS Monday is perfectly comprehensible given the previous record of 55M.
This is is a 60M OS-China Monday though, and I don’t really know what to do with that kind of a number.
This, pretty much. When a year has 4 good superhero movies, I’ll buy 4 or 5 tickets. If a year had 0 good superhero movies, I might buy literally 0 tickets that year.
Everything else has less of an ongoing narrative that I care about so I don’t mind waiting until I can watch it on a laptop.