AdamKendall

or maybe it just never will.

Yeah, by end of Christmas Day very good likelihood Aquaman is already pushing close to 575-600 million worldwide.

Venom did 10 in October ... it's hard to tell where it goes from here, I'd guess if it's nearer to the high end 75-80 is far more likely ... low end probably more so mid 60's 3 day. Regardless, I'm thinking word of mouth should be good for the film going into the weekend.

Wow, Aquaman was a blast. Visually so impressive. The colors were something I hadn't seen since Avatar. Sure some jokes didn't really work, but the film didn't stop .... just kept pushing forward. Loved that it incorporated more of an adventure style. While Arthur is King ... Mera is the best. Oh and this Dolph Lundgren renaissance is great. In terms of MPR ... never really got the crazy hype on why it was going to be so huge. Granted that 4.8 was just the first day, but it's need to pick up quite a bit going forward.

Why is it always 'DC fans'? I mean, do you think DC fans give a shit about The Last Jedi?

Audience scores should just be ignored at this point because people will claim trolling for scores on both 'high' and 'low' scores, depending on the film. If the movie shows good legs (and this probably will), that will mean the audience probably enjoyed it. I just can't take RT seriously anymore. It's just so fucked up at this point between critics and audience and the finger pointing that goes on from each side.

Those two having the exact same # seems suspect, especially given it was already tracking for more than 65 2-3 weeks ago.

Yep, pretty much would need to max out on it's potential in all 3 areas. Regardless, it's already a win for WB/DC before even opening in NA. LOL

Can't really see Aquaman opening to under 60 million. Think 65 is the absolute floor and 70+ more likely Also, funny that they managed to believe MPR will also do 57-62 (over 5 days) ... do they just pick #s and go with it. LOL

Overseas is possible if China does over 275, but not worldwide.

Ant Man had South Korea for it's opening weekend and it did great there with over 20 million OW.

and that's too bad, because honestly I'd love to see more DC films get animated treatment (done with MUCH bigger budget than they give their animated direct to video films) ... although they've kind of fallen off a cliff in recent years from their peak work.

Would be a miracle if it wasn't given that the other years had Star Wars.

So are all the trades and box office sites really going to try to spin that 35.4 as some huge achievement? I mean, the movie is supposedly great and will hopefully have good legs, but man ... 'heroic 35 million'. LOL

Honestly, the vast majority of those people were likely not going to see it anyway then.

True ... If the movie's appeal is the underwater adventure/cgi/visual feast, seeing a cam version isn't going to stop people from checking it on the big screen. I can't imagine saying screw the theater experience for that, and guessing it will have minimal impact if any.

Based on Early returns, I guess it would extrapolate to pretty much 60-65 opening based on pattern from first film.

8.75

Much more likely to finish closer to 170 than just barely finish at 160. Will be closer to 152+ after Sunday.

Someone mentioned the other day that the last time a horror film was big on Halloween was PA3 and that film jumped over 40% on Halloween. (after jumping 40+ on Tuesday)

Holy shit, if 32 holds it just might reach upper 70's, near 80 million.

I would guess B+, but who knows for sure. I see the audience & critics scores are identical right now at 80% ... the audience score actually went up from 78% earlier today. Whatever the final weekend # ends up being (65-75) is kind of meaningless in the big picture because it's going to be so much higher than any other opening for the series by like at least 2.5-3x. Huge success.

For a horror film this might be the craziest theater situation I've seen at my local AMC. Halloween will be playing on 3 of the 9 screens in the evening this weekend. Usually you would see nothing more than the single screen for a horror film. I don't even think It had more than 2 screens opening weekend.

Finally taken over #1 on MT

Still sitting at #3 on MT with 10.5%, makes sense that it's not really jumping up too much with the Tuesday business. In terms of the opening, if Universal thinks 50 that's pretty much the floor, as you know they don't like to be high and look bad if opens lower. We'll see about the '70' possibility. Mid 60's sounds about right.