Menor the Destroyer

1 PM, DP has picked up the pace a little and I think it has a chance to match the estimate, I'll say 7-9. Pets 2 13-15.

If it can stretch a little to beat 2.755 billion, I will be satisfied with that

Aladdin was well received but its not like its hitting the max possible reception. That's like saying since CM was well-received than EG couldn't be any better received. I do agree with you that the opening will make a 3x multi much harder. However Aladdin will have significantly more than a 3x multi most likely.

I thought it might've been because they were too lazy to write around his powers/why he wouldn't be able to kill all the aliens quickly. Man those aliens were shit-tier villains. Vuk made Malekith and Steppenwolf look like masterful pieces of writing.

Pulse suggests 6-8 for DP, 12-14 for Pets. If DP is as Fandango heavy as the past couple of days, it may hit the lower end of the range.

Damn I was hoping Gregson Williams was returning for Wonder Woman 2, I really enjoyed his score for the last one as well as Aquaman

The lack of John Ottman's wonderful X-Men theme probably makes me judge the score a little more harshly than it deserved tbh. But I still wonder at the huge amount of praise for it. To me it seemed like one of Zimmer's more lackluster efforts.

So much was wrong with this. As other posters have said Jean's death has no impact at all and is just shoved aside in favor of yet another chess game reconciliation scene (sigh). Everything is just so rushed and crammed in. This really needed more than one movie, or at least a longer movie. Zimmer's score doesn't help either by being constantly on "intense and sweeping" mode and having nowhere near enough emotional variation. The villains were just lame.

I updated the post oops. Messed up both.

Apocalypse was MDW with deflated Saturday increases. Actually I messed up the calculation for DP, it has remained in the 11-13 range from the morning.

DP same. Pets same. These guesses may be a bit rougher than usual since I'm pretty busy today. Edit: Messed up the comp for DP and Pets, probably just gonna skip these updates for the rest of today rather than keep changing the numbers

TS4, FFH, TLK, could all be higher grossing than anything released in next summer

Given that Pulse overindexed DP yesterday I will guess 11-13 for today. Pets maybe 18-20.

I think I overshot and forgot that a kids movie would have much weaker late night business, it has slowed down a lot. So maybe back to the 14-15 range from earlier.

Yep

9 PM no change in my 10-11 prediction for DP but Pets is pacing well, will push my range to 15-16 rather than 14-15

Eh with that ugly drop predicted by Deadline...hopefully they're just Deadlining and the drop is better than that.

I haven't seen the movie so I can't say it's better or worse. But BvS had 60% definite recommend after its previews, Phoenix only 51% (for reference IW, Endgame had 83 and Aladdin had 69, BP 91, CM 73).

I'm thinking more like 200ish for TROS because TLJ had a big cliffhanger effect (TFA shot of Luke at the end) contributing to the big opening and the frontloaded (for December) run. Even though TROS is a finale I don't think it has that kind of "get to the cinema as soon as possible" hook, of course the flip side is that it would have better legs. I'm also not sure that Hobbs and Shaw will go that high (though the dead August may help it), I haven't really felt like there's as much hype as F8. Other than that I'm mostly in agreement with these (although I still think FFH has a big potential upside and, even though the presales have been below CM, it could catch fire once Sony actually starts marketing it more after MIB's release).

Somewhere in the Bs. PostTrak was very poor and lower than BvS but the Friday audience might not be quite as harsh.

Pretty sure Deadline is spot on today actually. 5 PM numbers suggest 10-11 for DP, 14-15 for Pets.

Yeah MIB looks pretty fun to me and I'll probably see it for the cast alone. I think there are two issues. A) No Will Smith makes people not associate it with the previous Men in Black movies. b) It's marketing is mostly composed of jokes without much of a hook to get people interested.

Still got Joker left. I think that will definitely be a big improvement at least. It seems to have a nice amount of hype.

Well, according to some on here the current highest grossing film of the year is also the biggest disappointment...

MIB. Looks like it'll be another flop though.