Gravity and Dinosaur are expansion weekends, Frozen and FOTR seem cleany ahead as well as life of Pi. Should be above Frozen finally for 17th, can maybe set some 1st places for 20th/21st if it increases from ds2.
The amount of words spilled in this thread about "OMG marketing so late, will it be delayed if we don't get a hit by XYZ???" is pretty amazing considering this has been a pretty unremarkable rollout that never at any point suggested a delay
Avengers is relatively most popular in Asia, Spiderman (especially old ones) more Dom/eur heavy. Tied in part to avengers being newer franchise while spider-man crossover angle played on nostalgia a bit more.
Also more covid impact in Asia at that time, on average. Finally lot of Asia biggies have pivoted more to locals over past two years as HW releases dried up, some signs the shift will be durable.
Was that really the stated reason? Believing there would be much omicron in mid March would be crazy.
I guess we’ve seen studios do sillier things, but still.
Edit: I agree with Eric though — even with the best possible date this is like a 40M movie or something. What’s the draw?
Pretty clear top 10 next weekend of:
Sonic
Morbius
Ambulance
Lost City
Batman
EEAAO
Uncharted
NWH
Dog
JJK
EEAAO reported expanding to ~1200 locs @CJohn