Work was pretty slow today, definitely felt a lot more mellow after the craziness on Friday. Hoping CF will at least stay even with actuals. An increase would be even better, only needs 700k to take largest 2D 2nd weekend, unadjusted of course.
My theater was definitely less crowded today so I was kinda expecting the numbers to be lower than what we were expecting. And one of my coworkers told me about Paul Walker's death and it literally bummed me out for the rest of my shift.
It's gonna be close, Rth did say that that the Wed. and Thurs. estimates would probably go up with actuals so Lionsgate has a little extra cash to get it over 300m, if it comes to that.
2 films in the top 10 increased on Saturday this time last year. The top 5 films all decreased less than 5%. In any case CF should do 30.5-32m today following the trends.
CF also has a chance to pass 300m on Sunday which would be a 10 day sprint. TDK also took 10 days although it cleared 260m+ in the process while TA took 9. It's hard to hang with the big dogs but Katniss is certainly doing her best.
The combination of Menace and Clones did subdue Sith's potential. I doubt it could have reached the heights of Phantom Menace because that was some next level shit but maybe something around what Spider-Man did (~69-70m admissions) versus the 60m it pulled.
I've been keeping an eye on SD. CF was killing it at the AMC Fashion Valley 18. Sold out every show from at least like 5 pm on which is when I was able to start checking.
It did look like most theaters gave more showtimes to CF than Frozen which is a little strange since Frozen has a 40 minute shorter runtime. I think that contributed to more sellouts for Frozen overall.