Andreas

Do $100M+ in profit tell you that a movie is a flop? Or even that a movie doesn't have a great run? You're clearly biased.

Although we still have major problems with corruption, infrastructure and poor planning overall, Romania has changed quite a bit since the early 2000s. Bucuresti, Timisoara, Cluj-Napoca or Iasi are just some of the big cities where many things have changed, multi-national companies have settled in, the IT & Engineering business is booming and you pretty much can do anything you want on any day, at any time. In the post-communism era (1990-2005), Romania had a hard time growing and expanding on any field whatsoever. After that period, things took a turn for the better, in my opinion.

What part of Romania did you visit? As far as I know, you can do pretty much anything that you could do in the US, if we talk about Romania's major cities.

Romania box office update (July 29th): "The Incredibles 2" out-opens "Finding Dory" with $210K. FD managed to make $107K on its opening weekend back in 2016. "Adrift" opens with a good haul of $107K. "Hotel Transylvania 3" has already made it past the $1M mark, currently sitting at $1.002M. The movie could become the third, if not the second highest grossing animated movie in Romania. The top 3 include "Minions" at $2.03M, "Frozen" at $1.6M and "Despicable Me 3" at $1.3M. "Ant-Man and the Wasp", with its $632K to date, has made it past the final haul of "Ant-Man" ( $595K ) Other holdovers: Equalizer2 $388K, Mamma Mia! $199K, Tag $305K, O8 $739K. Next weekend sees the release date of "Mission:Impossible - Fallout" and "Christopher Robin".

MT Update: Mamma Mia! - 21.7% MI:F - 16.7% HT3 - 12.4% EQ2 - 7.5% AMATW - 7.2%

MT Update: Mamma Mia! - 22.9% HT3 - 14.5% MI:F - 12.3% I2 - 9.1% AMATW - 7.8%

Romania box office update (July 22th): "The Equalizer 2" opens at no. 2 with a nice haul of $188K. "Mamma Mia! Here We Go Again" disappoints, opening at no. 4 with just $93K. "Hotel Transylvania 3" is still on top and has already made it to $750K after its second weekend. "Ant-Man and the Wasp" sits at $564K and will exceed "Ant-Man"s final haul of $595K in about 2 days. "Skyscraper" took the no. 3 spot away from "Mamma Mia!" and has currently grossed $397K. Other holdovers: JWFK $1.286M, Tag $254K, O8 $709K, Sicario $215K, DP2 $1.775M, Overboard $501K. Next weekend sees the release date of "The Incredibles 2" and "Adrift".

Romania box office update (July 15th): "Hotel Transylvania 3" opens with $402K, phenomenal OW for an animated movie. It is the biggest opening weekend in the HT-franchise and one of the biggest animated-movie openings of all time. "Skyscraper" opens at no.2 with $175.2K / 702K RON, a good haul for this type of movie. Indie films "The Place", "Budapest Noir" and "The Process" open with $4.4K, $3.2K and $1.3K, respectively (small screen-count). "Ant-Man and the Wasp" shows strong legs and has made it to $440K after its second weekend. "Jurassic World:Fallen Kingdom" has currently made $1.246M, barely outgrossing JW's final haul (~$1.245M). Other holdovers: DP2 $1.77M, Tag $180K, O8 $654K, Sicario $190K. AIW will end its run at $2.56M ($2.55M to date) and Solo at $550K ($549K to date). Next weekend sees the release date of "Mamma Mia! Here We Go Again" and "The Equalizer 2". Should I include OW-admissions starting next week? Let me know! EDIT: Re- "Skyscraper"-OW

Still hope it won't end below BP or even A1's ow

Romania box office update (July 8th): "Ant-Man and the Wasp" opens with $233K ( $108K above Ant-Man's opening of $125K back in 2015 ). Ant-Man 1 made it to $595K in Romania, AMATW should easily pass that mark, ending its run with at least $700-750K. "Tag" opens with an ok $91K. "Jurassic World:Fallen Kingdom" has currently grossed $1.19M and will surpass its predecessor ($1.25M). "Ocean's 8" continues to amaze and has made $576K to date. "Show Dogs", a very well-liked movie in Romania, has grossed $453K to date and is still in the top 10. Other holdovers: DP2 $1.755M, Hereditary $105K, Solo $546K, AIW $2.55M Next weekend sees the release date of "Skyscraper", "Hotel Transylvania 3" and "The Place" EDIT: weekend*

Question: Did anyone think back in 2017 that AMATW might outgross Black Panther?

AMATW opened in line with expectations in the US and above expectations OS. The movie made considerably more than its predecessor both stateside and overseas. Deadline projects $100M+ in profits with a foreseeable $600M WW cume. AM made it to $520M WW, AMATW should easily pass $600M ww, it will probably settle at around $650M. In conclusion: Haters ain't got nothing on Ant-Man. The movie represents another Marvel/Disney win.

JW2 opened to $148M

Does AMATW have a release date?

Also almost 100% more than JW2

MT Update: AMATW: 31.2% I2: 19.2% JWFK: 18.3% First Purge: 11.5% Sicario: 3.3%

Should we expect a I2 > JW2 Thursday? (MT Trending)

MT Update (The First Purge shows up, AMATW not): JWFK: 28.3% I2: 27.4% Sicario: 6.1% Uncle Drew: 5.2% Purge: 5%

Romania box office update (July 1st): "Sicario:Day of the Soldado" opened with $92K "Ocean's 8" shows great legs and has currently grossed $468K "Jurassic World:Fallen Kingdom" sits at $1.08M, still struggling to catch JW's $1.25M haul. "Visages villages"(French documentary) opens to $3.7K and Romanian flick "Strajerii"/"Watchmen" opens at $1.4K (small screen-count) "Deadpool 2" maintains its 7th place in the top 10 and has currently grossed $1.727M Other holdovers: "Loving Pablo" $319K, "Solo" $537K, "Avengers:Infinity War" $2.544M

You may be right, yet families weren't interested in watching DP2 and it will end its run with $1.75-1.8M. "Venom" won't be R-rated and many, many friends of mine who usually don't know anything about CBMs or modern cinema are quite interested in seeing it

Venom. That movie could potentially make $2M, just like BP and Thor:Ragnarok. Just a gut-feeling, the hype is real for that movie

Romania Box Office Update (June 24th): "Ocean's 8" debuted with $221K on OW, a good haul considering the World Cup and the fact that it's a somewhat unknown title. "Jurassic World:Fallen Kingdom" has currently grossed $897K and will struggle to get to JW1's haul of $1.25M. "Love, Simon" bombed with $20K on OW. "Deadpool 2" passed DP1's run and is currently sitting at $1.67M. Romanian movie "Cateva conversatii despre o fata foarte inalta"/"Some conversations about a very tall girl" debuted with $2.5K (very small screen-count) Other holdovers: AIW - $2.533M, Solo - $517K, Book Club - $380K

it's really hard to make such a bold prediction, I really don't know... anyhow, I do think that JW2 will gross $135M in its OW or even less, coming at the low end of projections.

That's a bad assumption. Movietickets is just one of many ticket-selling sites. Many people go and buy their tickets in the theatre for I2, most of them actually rn. JWFK hasn't sold $14M worth of presale-tickets in 3 days, it probably hasn't sold $14M worth of presale-tickets overall. ( IW sold $50M overall )

JW2 closing in on I2! Starts looking like a real barn burner