19% Sunday hold is insane. Another rollercoaster weekend for IW. Is every weekend gonna be like this for it? I mean hey, if it keeps coming out looking so good by Monday, then fine by me. Very confident in 700+ again.
I'd be a lot more optimistic for AQM's OW if he wasn't in JL. His association with that movie + late December opening means there really is no floor here.
I'd rather go forward to December 21st for the lulz of Aqua Bro's 45m OW, Transformers: A Bumblebee Story's 15m OW, and Alita: IronJimbo Angel's 5m OW.
How the hell did Bad Samaritan manage to get such a wide opening in the first place? Can't think of a more perplexing choice for 2k+ since Oogieloves (never forget).
I honestly hope for Jimbo's sake that A2 does beat the first WW. Imagine spending 11 years talking nonstop about how it's gonna do it and then it misses. That would be too sad to even be funny.
Hell to the no. I'm not even convinced IX will open to Civil War numbers at the moment. Marketing campaign is gonna have to be about 5x better than TLJ's was to sustain a 200+ OW. No resting on their brand name this time.
I'm saying the execution of it is really all that matters for successful blockbusters, that's all. And no, good execution isn't easy, especially sustained good execution for a franchise.
The average might climb to 900m per film before AMATW comes out. Insane.
I'm rooting for AMATW to hit 300 DOM even though I still don't believe it will. If it does though, MCU will have at least a 10 consecutive film 300m streak DOM:
1. GotG2
2. Homecoming
3. Ragnarok
4. BP
5. IW
6. AMATW
7. Captain Marvel
8. TA4
9. Homecoming 2
10. GotG3
Interestingly enough, BP has only closed the gap from 55m to 47m in this first week. That's really not that much, especially when BP had a holiday first Monday.
BP showed summer/holiday weekdays don't really matter if the WOM is there. The movie will make up for it on the weekends. SM1 is still one of the best CBM multis ever releasing in early May.
Actually, 3 of the top 4 21st century CBM multis did so without summer weekdays for a large part of their run (SM1, GotG, and BP).