Jurassic World Weekend Thread | Official Est. 204.6M | 208.8M - Actuals

[The Panda]

Jurassic World is winning the summer now. It could potentially win the year.

[Lordmandeep]

Lesson learned this week.

 

Nostalgia is a powerful force in America.

[Deep Wang]

LOL. JW just surpassed JP3's 5 day opening in 1 day.

 

It just outgrossed JP3 entirely in 3 days.

[druv10]

It is possible, but remember that JP4 did have college and high school kids on summer break during school hours while TA1 didn't. So it would have been easier to hit that kind of day business in June than early May.

 

Still an unbelievable number. I don't think anyone other than Excel thought a Jurassic Park movie would be the one to take that day business record. It blew past the number by over $2m. Spielberg's dinosaurs are awesome.

True, if it really does 70M on Saturday like I think than OW record is a done deal.

[The Futurist]

So Star Wars doing less than 450m dom would put half this forum on suicide watch ...

[theultimatebiu]

IO is pretty much fucked by the schedule. Opening after a family movie makes 200M is hard. Add the fact that it's legs will be destroyed by Minions a few weeks later and even te lower expectations of people around here might be too much.

 

I am a big PIXAR fan but I honestly see IO under-performing. It just doesn't have that hook. It's marketing material has been solid rather than good/great. Minions is going to destroy records.

[kayumanggi]

JW will kick F7 out of the top 10.

 

1	Marvel's The Avengers	BV	$207,438,708	33.3%	4,349	$47,698	$623,357,910	5/4/2012
2	Avengers: Age of Ultron	BV	$191,271,109	43.4%	4,276	$44,731	$441,102,218	5/1/2015
3	Iron Man 3	BV	$174,144,585	42.6%	4,253	$40,946	$409,013,994	5/3/2013
4	Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows Part 2	WB	$169,189,427	44.4%	4,375	$38,672	$381,011,219	7/15/2011
5	The Dark Knight Rises	WB	$160,887,295	35.9%	4,404	$36,532	$448,139,099	7/20/2012
6	The Dark Knight	WB	$158,411,483	29.7%	4,366	$36,283	$533,345,358	7/18/2008
7	The Hunger Games: Catching Fire	LGF	$158,074,286	37.2%	4,163	$37,971	$424,668,047	11/22/2013
8	The Hunger Games	LGF	$152,535,747	37.4%	4,137	$36,871	$408,010,692	3/23/2012
9	Spider-Man 3	Sony	$151,116,516	44.9%	4,252	$35,540	$336,530,303	5/4/2007
10	Furious 7	Uni.	$147,187,040	42.0%	4,004	$36,760	$350,222,520	4/3/2015

 

[Bishop54]

Relative to my own predictions, this is without question more shocking than any opening weekend in recent memory. Maybe ever.

 

A possible $200m? Maybe the all-time record? For a fourth movie in a franchise not named Star Wars?

 

Just stunning.

Good to see you Shawn.

[Poseidon]

"Spielberg creates Dinosaurs, Johnston kills Dinosaurs, Spielberg creates Trevorrow, Trevorrow kills Spielberg, Trevorrow brings back Dinosaurs"

[FTF]

Lesson learned this week.

Nostalgia is a powerful force in America.

Sky's the limit for SW.

[Jandrew]

I think those are two big television events for sure but it's not the Supernova of Entertainment that "Avengers 2" had on Saturday.    The Sunday Drop is important but I'm wondering how it holds today.  So many reports on social media of it being Sold Out so many people are going to try today to see it for sure.

Like i said pages ago, I feel like many theaters didnt order enough prints, so theres still alot of unsatisfied demand. My 14 screen only has JW on 4 screens I beileve, 2 3D and 2 2D, they werent expecting such an opening, and thats why I think Sat and Sun will be strong. I feel like theaters all over the country is this way, and sell out were commonplace last night.

Same with Avengers, demand was unexpdcted and theaters had to scramble, whereas with TA2, they knew what to expect. I see spillover.

[Bonenash]

Guys can JW do 20m+ on its first monday cause me the most phenomenal box office history is the first monday and the first tuesday of TDK can iit reach that?

[theultimatebiu]

Lesson learned this week.

 

Nostalgia is a powerful force in America.

 

Star Wars is going to be HUGE!!!

[redfirebird2008]

True, if it really does 70M on Saturday like I think than OW record is a done deal.

 

Yes. Even a 20% Sunday drop (offsetting summer bump with NBA/Game of Thrones) would give it $208.8m. But we've got a long way to go. Curious to see how it can perform today.

[grey ghost]

I'd say this weekend is just as shocking as Avengers 1.

The predictions were both around 135 m OW.

Then again JW had much lower estimates until the final week before release.

[PDC1987]

It just outgrossed JP3 entirely in 3 days.

And it's going to obliterate it internationally.

 

Seriously, what happened to JP3 outside of NA? Barely matching its domestic overseas was so uncharacteristic of the franchise.

[Boxx93]

"Spielberg creates Dinosaurs, Johnston kills Dinosaurs, Spielberg creates Trevorrow, Trevorrow kills Spielberg, Trevorrow brings back Dinosaurs"

Dinosaurs... kill Trevorrow, Cameron inherets the Earth

[Poseidon]

Lesson learned this week.

 

Nostalgia is a powerful force in America.

 

Not in Canada, though, where it's a massive bomb!

[Noctis]

Lesson learned this week.

 

Nostalgia is a powerful force in America.

 

EVERYWHERE.

 

I'm seeing the film on TUESDAY. 

 

No good seats aren't fully booked until Tuesday. It's fucking insane. I have never seen anything like it.

[baumer]

Not in Canada, though, where it's a massive bomb!

 

Yes, it's playing to empty houses here.  I heard people ask for their money back.