Weekend Estimates: Minions - 115.2M; JW - 18.1M; Inside Out - 17.1M; Gallows - 10M; Self/Less - 5.4M; MMXXL - 9.6M; T5 - 13.7M

[JohnnyGossamer]

Did Furious 7 need it when JP4 opened? For that matter, did Pitch Perfect 2? Maybe they want to push it past Titanic's gross.

Pathetic in every case for every studio any time.

[redfirebird2008]

Pathetic in every case for every studio any time.

 

Only Paramount IMHO.

[CJohn]

Oh my god. What ridiculous fudging. Best case scenario projection off of last night still put JW 400k short of that.

Your post is the only ridiculous thing here. Fudging happens all the time and every studio does it. I see no problem tbh.

[Boxofficerules]

JURASSIC WORLD earned an estimated $5.3M on opening day Friday. Domestic total is now $577.84M. #JurassicWorld— BoxOffice (@BoxOffice) July 11, 2015

Opening Day? Did I miss something?

[CJohn]

Pathetic in every case for every studio any time.

Why is it pathetic? You guys sometimes.

[Gopher]

Lol so you really care that they fudged it by less than 1%? Really Gopher?

I've just never seen fudging done when I had the real numbers in front of me. It's crazy.

(oh come on, I've long since given up on JW)

[redfirebird2008]

I suspect Inside Out will get similar fudge next weekend from Ant-Man's opening.

[JohnnyGossamer]

Why is it pathetic? You guys sometimes.

Personal opinion. I won't like when Ultron uses late fudge to try and challenge $460M either.

Edited July 11, 2015 by JohnnyGossamer

[CJohn]

I've just never seen fudging done when I had the real numbers in front of me. It's crazy.

(oh come on, I've long since given up on JW)

Don't you remember TF4 last year?

[Bishop54]

Opening Day? Did I miss something?

We got trolled, JW opened yesterday and it's crumbling right out of the gate.

[CJohn]

Personal opinion.

At least you are fair. You think it is pathetic for every movie or every studio.

[baumer]

IO and JW dropped badly from an already deflated weekend last weekend. Minions hurt everything.

Isn't Jurassic world on pace for around 19 or 20 million this weekend? That would actually be a fairly decent drop

[redfirebird2008]

We got trolled, JW opened yesterday and it's crumbling right out of the gate.

 

$572m in Thursday previews and $5m opening day...atrociously frontloaded.

[grim22]

$572m in Thursday previews and $5m opening day...atrociously frontloaded.

DH2's record finally went down.

[Heat Vision]

Minions is being under predicted

[Bishop54]

I've just never seen fudging done when I had the real numbers in front of me. It's crazy.

(oh come on, I've long since given up on JW)

So what you need to do for tonights numbers is take your JW number and tack $600k on top of it.

[baumer]

Do any of you guys remember that email I posted from Mario Kassar from a few years ago when he told me flat out. Every studio fudges the numbers? He said none of the other studios really care because at the end of the day the final gross is the final gross that is not fudge.

[JohnnyGossamer]

At least you are fair. You think it is pathetic for every movie or every studio.

Any time any studio does it for any movie.

[redfirebird2008]

So what you need to do for tonights numbers is take your JW number and tack $600k on top of it.

 

No thanks, I'd rather get a lowball from RTH/Gopher and then wake up the next morning with a nicely fudged bigger number from Universal.

[Gopher]

Don't you remember TF4 last year?

Oh no, everybody does it, I just hadn't seen it up close before. I'm not particularly calling out Uni.