Weekend Actual #'s | Furious 7 outperforms estimates -- $147.2m actuals!

[Neo]

So it's a BOM thing? Because clearly that "WW OW" is false. 

So when is WW OW?

[grim22]

Always fun when a movie breaks out and surprises. Just under $400M WW and that's with the bogus exchange rate I keep hearing about from OS, no? If the exchange rate was what it was this time around this year does Furious breaking the WW OW record?

 

On average, the exchange rate is 17.42% lower in the major territories compared to a year ago. So yeah, add in roughly 20% to that OS opening, and you add almost 50M to that weekend

 

International box office this summer could be lower-than-expected due to strength of dollar vs. foreign currencies... pic.twitter.com/2TuRnxj0qv

— Ray Subers (@raysubers)

March 30, 2015

[Neo]

Right, but that would also mean, anytime it opens OS(in this case for F7, China, Japan, etc), those grosses should be added to the WW OW as well.

No. Because China, etc didn't open in the OS OW which was this weekend.

[#ED]

So when is WW OW?

 

Umm, the weekend it's released in most countries WW?

[Neo]

Umm, the weekend it's released in most countries WW?

Doesn't work that way.

[JohnnyGossamer]

Right, but that would also mean, anytime it opens OS(in this case for F7, China, Japan, etc), those grosses should be added to the WW OW as well.

Guess, so far box office records go, it would've already opened OS. So... No.

[JohnnyGossamer]

 

On average, the exchange rate is 17.42% lower in the major territories compared to a year ago. So yeah, add in roughly 20% to that OS opening, and you add almost 50M to that weekend

 

 

International box office this summer could be lower-than-expected due to strength of dollar vs. foreign currencies... pic.twitter.com/2TuRnxj0qv

— Ray Subers (@raysubers) March 30, 2015

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So, in the end, Furious 7 accomplished this amazing feat sans 3D stateside and with a poor exchange rate stripping it of nearly $50M when converted to US dollars? Truly magnificent!

[CJohn]

Furious 7 also smashed OW records in tons and tons of markets. That helps. The opening here is almost 2M. That is insane. Other bigger markets and bigger and records OWs as well. I still can't believe today, a frikking normal work day, the movie is sold out again everywhere here. I have never seen something like this. This is all for Paul. People want to say goodbye. 

Edited April 6, 2015 by CJohn

[The Futurist]

It seems the definition of WW OW is not quite clear.

If you follow Disney s Avengers logic, Universal should add Russia,China and Japan FF7 OW to the number we have right now.

Edited April 6, 2015 by The Futurist

[kitik]

It seems the definition of WW OW is not quite clear.

If you follow Disney s Avengers logic, Universal should add Russia,China and Japan FF7 OW to the number we have right now.

 

wait, is Disney the one claiming that WW OW number for Avengers?

[Neo]

It seems the definition of WW OW is not quite clear.

If you follow Disney s Avengers logic, Universal should add Russia,China and Japan FF7 OW to the number we have right now.

It is clear. Why should it add. We get day and date releases DOM and OS meaning releasing on the same weekend and then staggered releases. The way you are saying it, it would be DOM OW+2nd or 3rd+OS OW=WW OW (if 1st OS OW doesn't include every country).

[Blankments]

That weekend number

 

[#ED]

The system is silly.

 

I think BOM is the culprit. 

[kitik]

The system is silly.

 

I think BOM is the culprit. 

 

 

so wait, who's trying to make this claim of combining OW's, Disney or BOM?

[Neo]

The system is silly.

 

I think BOM is the culprit. 

No. This is what we have followed since BOM opened so shouldn't be a surprise. Again the way you want it done wouldn't be a WW OW would be WW OW (2nd OS OW or 3rd OS OW).

[Neo]

so wait, who's trying to make this claim of combining OW's, Disney or BOM?

Doesn't BOM get the numbers from the studio?

[#ED]

It is clear. Why should it add. We get day and date releases DOM and OS meaning releasing on the same weekend and then staggered releases. The way you are saying it, it would be DOM OW+2nd or 3rd+OS OW=WW OW (if 1st OS OW doesn't include every country).

 

So basically...

 

Avengers 1st Worldwide Weekend - 185M OS

 

Avengers 2nd Worldwide Weekend - 157M OS | 207M DOM

 

 

We're combining the the first OS weekend, to the 1st DOM Weekend to give us the WW OW even though it's on 2 separate weekends.

 

So the 1st overall weekend gross wasn't considered WW OW because it didn't have a U.S. release. 

 

BUT the 2nd weekend's WW total gross was actually 364M.

Edited April 6, 2015 by #ED

[cookie]

It seems the definition of WW OW is not quite clear.

If you follow Disney s Avengers logic, Universal should add Russia,China and Japan FF7 OW to the number we have right now.

 

You got this wrong.

 

BOM counts the OS gross from the weekend a movie first debuts in any overseas market at all, regardless of how many markets it opens in that weekend. Whatever it makes in the OS markets the movie debuts in after that weekend don't count. It's simple really:

 

Avengers first commercial debut overseas was the weekend before the movie came out in the U.S. In those markets it made 185m.

 

Then a week later it opens to 207m on the domestic front.

 

The OS debut weekend and the domestic debut weekend are added together for the WW opening.

Edited April 6, 2015 by C00k13

[CJohn]

So basically...

 

Avengers 1st Worldwide Weekend - 185M OS

 

Avengers 2nd Worldwide Weekend - 157M OS | 207M DOM

 

 

We're combining the the first OS weekend, to the 1st DOM Weekend to give us the WW OW even though it's on 2 separate weekends.

 

So the 1st overall weekend gross wasn't considered WW OW because it didn't have a U.S. release. 

 

BUT the 2nd weekend's WW total gross was actually 364M.

LA FAMILIA WINS AGAINST THE SHITTY SUPERHEROES. ALL HAIL LA FAMILIA. #ForPaul

[#ED]

By that logic, if the movie opens up in CHINA on the 3rd WW weekend, shouldn't that also count toward the WW weekend?