@Shawn can correct me on this but
Numbers we see on trades for Sony and Universal films is what studio is providing.
For others, Deadline usually provide their estimates and I think they cut off few mil just in case as they won’t like to be one to set a film as underperformer.
So if a non-UNi & Sony film matches Deadline’s early numbers, that means it did the do as well as it could have. UNI projections are very close. somy is mostly LOL low.