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I do not have updated data, but to be bigger in admissions that Sorcerer's Stone, a film should probably have to make about Jurassic World numbers. Going back to the topic, it is hard to reach DH2, but I still think that BatB has a chance. It will depend mainly on the Japanese reception, which is always a wild card. We'll see.

The only franchise which was able to match HP is Middle Earth (LOTR+Hobbit). And yes, DH2 ranks #3, maybe #4 in admissions among HP films (Globet of Fire was very big too). The real monster was HP1, and HP2 a bit lower.

That is the reported figure. BOM updates the numbers if there are re-releases. http://www.boxofficemojo.com/movies/?id=frozen2013.htm

You came a bit before me

It is locked. The question is if it can beat Frozen (1.276b) or even DH2 (1.341b).

I guess that Zootopia is the main guilty of that drop. Maybe F8 can invert that trend. Is there any other big title (local or foreign) coming in April beyond Furious?

DH2 had and has OS advantage. ER were great during 2011. Today those 960m would mean about 750m.

No, not even close. But I have spent too much time adjusting it http://forums.boxofficetheory.com/topic/18043-adjusting-exchange-rates-first-post-updated-with-jasons-new-list/?page=1

I know well that world

Titanic was released on January 16th, 1998 (according BOM). That day, ER was $1=R$1.12. In April it was at R$1.14. So if I am not wrong, Titanic grossed something like R$78-80m, not enough to be on that list. Edit: I have seen that @Fullbuster previously said it had grossed R$89m.

And remember it has not been released in Japan, France or Australia. I expect big figures from those countries.

You can blame Ghibli and Pixar. And among Disney classics I prefer Fantasia, BatB or Aladdin.

Jungle Book has been a good training. It has a human, but most of characters are animals and it already grossed (nearly) 1 billion. And Lion King IS THE MOVIE. Jungle Book has been praised along 50 years, but I think Lion King is the adaptation that more enthusiasm can create right now. And I am not suspect. It is not even in my top 10 of animated films, and I get your fear because a possible quality disappointment, but if there is a film with that gigantic potential is Lion King.

If BatB is able to make 500-540 DOM and 1.3-1.4b WW, I would go with +700 DOM and 2b WW for Lion King.

The animated film sold nearly 5 million admissions. Just to compare, like SW7 €20m should be reachable. Maybe more.

IMHO, nostalgia was not important for it, but dinosaurs. Films with an enormous menace or fantasy concepts use to do very well: Transformers, Pacific Rim, Warcraft, Jurassic World, Avengers, Resident Evil, it seems that Kong will be big too... the enemy is always something irrational, from other world.

LOTR was released in 2002-2004. Chinese market was a bit smaller than now...

For that reason I asked him. This kind of films are not specially massive in China. And it is not that China sucks, but they prefer another kind of films. Nothing wrong with that. Nobody complained when Zootopia grossed $235m there, for example...

What were you expecting?

I am conscious of that, but since you can not change the ER, you can insist in local increases, which at the end are the real increases. Instead saying the bad news that were that Age of Ultron dropped a 25% in dollars relative to TA, you should focus the interest in the fact that Age of Ultron grossed a 13% more in Real. I know that people just looks at dollars figures, but I think it is a good way to try to teach them that they have to look deeper at data to understand what is happening. Just a suggestion, of course

As a suggestion, I think you should focus more on local currency. I know that people here are way more excited about dollar numbers because the WW numbers, but at the end, people buy things with their own local currency. And since you seem very interested in Brazilian market, the best way to see the growth of the market, as you well know, is to look at Real grosses. I never look at dollar figures in Spain, for example. It has no sense to me.

Some relevant cumes after last weekend: Logan: €2,281,838 (NEW) - 349,104 admissions Es por tu bien: €4,023,288 (2nd wknd) - 642,182 (Local film) El guardián invisible: €1,213,880 (NEW) - 183,723 (Local film) 50 Shades Darker: €11,968,892 (4th) - 1,939,679 Moonlight: €1,428,289 (4th) - 226,885 Ballerina: €6,241,672 (6th) - 1,055,596 La la land: €12,744,616 (8th) - 2,045,694 Sing!: €17,291,249 (11th) - 2,860,199 Moana: €10,609,103 (14th) - 1,829,919 Rogue One: €15,764,483 (12th) - 2,509,483 Trolls: €9,446,081 (19th) - 1,617,727 Passengers: €6,821,606 (10th) - 1,103,678 Fantastic Beasts: €13,553,109 (16th) - 2,088,236

I think it is funnier to follow. You can never know what will be a success or what will fail. It was becoming boring that always the same films could win.

I am a bit confused. Both cbooo and Maoyan say that XXX3 is already at 1.119b Yuan, but it does not fit if yesterday it was at 1.089b and today it has grossed a bit over 2m Yuan so far. And something similar happens to Resident Evil. Both webs are wrong? or do I have missed something?

I thought I was the only one who is more interested in Dog's run than in Logan's. I get why people are more interested in Logan's final number, but its run seems quite predictable. But Dog's one is great to follow. Does it really have a chance to make $100m? It would be astonishing