jb007

Whatever amount TLJ does below $700M i.e. A Multiplier of 3.2, I feel is the impact of negative buzz. At $630m, the impact would be $70M i.e 10% of its potential.

Dude. Yeah Only one of those other than TLJ made over $200M OW. The best of the rest other than R1 made less than $85 OW. Context matters . Don't post for the sake of posting.

Yet TLJ will beat this garbage of a movie by $350m.

I wonder how many of those are really 01-01-1970 ????

If the negative buzz does exist and I feel it does exist, it is a small percentage. A $700M gross for TLJ would have satisfied everyone, but BJ. $660M (final projection) would be very good. So the difference between "Good WOM" and "Divisive WOM" is about $40M. That amounts to about 6% of the projected gross.

So did I,the first time. When they went with it second and third time, it got repetitive and boring.

As a diversion, a report of Jumani. After the heavy praise it got from many here, I was absolutely disappointed. It was a piece of shit ala Night at the Museum. A bland "Family" movie that is good only as far as the interactions go between the characters. Characters, story, villain, over used dick jokes make it a boring affair. The original was inventive and fresh.

The posts here deriding TLJ's run by the usual suspects are truly for the ages. The lack of historical perspective and basic understanding of box office grosses is astounding.

TLJ had a laughable $220M OW. If it was any other major sequel, it would have done a fantastic $73M OW like Hobbit 2. TLJ was severely affected by TFA WOM. You are onto something. But you really have to go 40 years back. It is A New Hope's mediocre WOM affecting TLJ. If ANH were any good, Star Wars would have been a very successful franchise. Anyway, I would expect IW, JW2 to blow past TLJ's "disappointing" gross at the domestic box office.

what a letdown. An uninspiring adventure. Once you get past the body swap part, the only thing that is good is the interaction between the characters. The adventure part is pure crap. It is the 2017 version of the blockbuster, Night at the Museum. A below average movie that is a mega crowd puller at holiday period. C

Excellent post, baumer. My thoughts exactly.

Sadly, due to higher expectations, a lot of people are overlooking the fact TLJ's run is really spectacular. It seems to be heading towards the 3rd best domestic gross of all-time. All we hear is negative talk for a special run. Marvel, DC, JP series could only pray that their IW and JW2 end up with the disappointing $670M gross of TLJ. Due to some hardcore fans having genuine issues with the arcs of some characters, there has been an impact on its potential gross. I would think it may be around $50M. I for one expected around $710M. Let's not compare it to TFA and lose our perspective. TFA is a once in a generation hit. It would be hard to match it for a long time.

Jumanji around 12.5? @The Greatest Rth

TLJ: 37.1%Jum: 20.2%PP3: 8.7%TGS: 6.9%Fer: 6.4% %wise for Wed, TLJ stayed at Tue levels. Jumanji dropped 2.5%. Now we have to wait to see if that gives us a correlation to actuals.

The Christmas projections are a little higher than we got yesterday, meaning more folks went to the movies yesterday than anticipated. That's good news all around, and it also meant that The Last Jedi's second-weekend drop was slightly less awful than presumed. To wit, The Last Jedi dropped "just" 67% on its second weekend, earning $72 million for a $368m ten-day total. That's still a $148m drop from its $220m debut weekend, a record for such a thing. https://www.forbes.com/sites/scottmendelson/2017/12/25/box-office-jumanji-and-pitch-perfect-3-dominate-christmas-weekend/#198cd3ee232e

Great numbers. Merry Christmas.

8x2 = 16 14 = 1.4 17.4 Or 16 14 jedi in a circle =1 R2d2= 4 17.4

8x2 = 16 14x4 = 56 16.56

Currently Disney is projecting a 50% drop with 14.6

29.178 Sat per the numbers

True. That would have been only a 15% drop from TFA.

No doubt. But there is a loss of potential. TLJ had the potential for 800 mil.

Good number for TLJ instead of an excellent number.