Agreed. Honestly with the low budget this could make significantly less than Ant-Man WW and still be profitable. Not sure why a 45ish million opening would be considered so terrible.
Dumbo 11 Days out - 3630 tickets on Fandango
Shazam 11 Days out - 5040 tickets sold on Fandango
And that's even with the early previews for Shazam burning off demand
I still have high hopes for TLK, Favreau at least showed he can make a well-received remake with Jungle Book. That said I thought this movie would get good reviews as well based on the trailers...ah well.
It's not disappointing, its just (as we also saw with Captain Marvel) when presales go absolutely crazy like this has in the final week there's often this urge to pull up expectations. Which makes sense, because "absolutely bonkers" numbers are more fun to follow than just "good" openings.
Hopefully the number goes up to ~9.5. I wonder if Tuesday is more PS heavy than other weekdays as the Monday early estimate was significantly lower while the Tuesday early estimate was actually higher than final.
Largest theater where I'm at has also gone crazy with 29 Thursday night showtimes for CM, not sure exact comps but I don't remember ever seeing previews come anywhere near this amount of showings before.