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Not as nice as 16.9, but great hold. Isn't a fair bit of the country off?

Why is Nintendo be absent from that list?

I think that's a poorly tabulated internet metric that's not quite legit. Pokemon's definitely up there but I don't think this was ever accurate, I think someone on Wikipedia just added up what they could find/was found and Pokemon resulted in #1. Can't back that statement up right now but I'll try to look into it and get back to it sometime.

Any reports on matinees yet?

Thanks for clarifying Shawn!

Asgard sends its blessings, good to see! 😄

Oh regarding Empire tweet I was more focusing on his Weekend 2 comments, not current weekend. For this weekend I agree, DL pulled $59M out of their ass. Sat I expect a jump as well, this with its demos + 90 minute runtime should be a matinee monster which means Saturday will be highest attended day easy and IMO enough for a jump from 54M.

Expect Sat jump? Also, Empire tweeted this: Are you seeing what he's seeing for Weekend 2? Or is this just guesstimating?

Well he's probably got better Sat/Sun projections than Deadline. If it really did $59M I'd be confident in like $220M, but DL is only at $195M.

Yeah I just tried to cool down another forum with that 59M number. You still think >55M looks good? Charlie said 53M earlier today>

DL finally gets their act together. They're still ~20M too low methinks but I'm no insider.

They need $9M in refunds in order for those figures to work. 92M 3-day + 58M 2 Day = 150M, but they're saying 141M lol.

It won't drop on Saturday. Early signs and trend suggest its not performing like a fan-driven film (otherwise Wednesday should have been way more rabid and in $50-60M). It's just behaving like a regular family/animated film but with much larger volume. Saturday should see a small jump from 55-60M Friday. Maybe not even small, but Good Friday probably adds a little bit of Sat deflation compared to a regular Friday.

Math totally checks out.

Nice and @keysersoze123 sees >$55M for Fri, so maybe we're inching towards $60M with about +115-125% increase. $220M here we come.

I try to stop by anytime something CRAZY happens. Also trying to help launch BO discussion in another community so I needed to come here for the Charlie & the Tracking Thread's insights. 😁

LOL what a fun summer that was. Up Hangover ROTF Bruno Potter 6 The Proposal District 9 Inglorious Basterds

Felt like it was multiple converging factors. I was in HS & on BOM back then and my memory of that time was that Potter 6 that summer really made midnight/rabid shows a thing for my age-group (as opposed to just a fanbase thing) and then that factor just ramped up further with NM later that year. Then there was a bit of Lautner craze plus Edward v Jacob craze & early memeing. Then there's the fact that I guess Twilight theatrical and later HV performance probably solidified its conversion to cinema in the eyes of the fanbase and so they were sold on the rest of the franchise. A little bit of all of those I'd say.

Awesome. So that's why Charlie tweeted >$175M maybe $200M. It's performing like a 4-quad blockbuster for Fri/Sat presales.

Spicy Charlie paaji. Presales for Fri/Sat must be looking huge.

Yup Indy or MiP somehow expands after decades and pulls the Maverick crowd.

Fun. As of now I think this'll take the year.

Not surprising. Super Saturday should always have a flattening effect at this demand level, which helps spillover into Sunday. TFA/Avatar were closer to Christmas by a single day, so I don't expect that much deviation. I think the drop will land between 10-15%.. Separate note - TFA we had a >50M Christmas Day thread, missed the cutoff by pocket change. If the week trends hefty, this time with CD on a Saturday, threshold should be $60M unless Omicron scare catches momentum. Friday CE is going to be super deflated anyway.

So will be a tight race against IW OW % wise, though nominally something like $265M vs. $257M is a clear victory. Or Sat jump higher than normal due to such an early Thu start?

Yes the entire DC area had only 2 theaters with reserved seating even in the early 2010s. Back during TDK I think it was only the AMC in Arlington Courthouse that offered reserved seating. For SM3 I sat in the bottom row corner of a native 90ft IMAX screen lol. Tele and I put in a hell of a run in 2011-2012 when we first moved to this place, tracking Hobbit/Twilight/THG/Avengers/TDK. It was so manual.