Christmas Eve Awakens: SW 27.5-28.5m (Rth) So this is how Avatar dies, with thunderous applause

[Jayhawk the Hutt]

I was a pretty big fucking idiot last weekend when I thought TFA would fall 50%+.

[The Panda]

So if Deadline is correct, and SW7 just hits their minimum of 170m 2nd weekend, then that's a 31.06% drop from 247.9m OW and an 11.5% drop from the OW minus previews.

 

That is truly a Titanic kind of hold off of such a massive OW (which broke the last OW record by around 40m btw)

[druv10]

11 minutes ago, CJ Ren said:

Those are basically predictions. I mean, this is their number for Daddy's Home: 20-30M  I can do that as well.

 

Lol, we've started threads for less before. 

[e1828]

Largest DOMESTIC Totals – After Day 7

 

1) Star Wars: The Force Awakens – $391,051,329 (EST Thu - $27,591,000)

2) Jurassic World – $296,211,655 (Thu - $17,822,580)

3) Marvel’s The Avengers - $270,019,373 (Thu - $12,391,566)

4) The Dark Knight - $238,611,000 (Thu - $16,464,405) 
5) Avengers: Age of Ultron - $235,655,468 (Thu - $8,613,154)

6) Transformers: Revenge of the Fallen - $228,441,219 (Tue - $13,510,024)

7) Harry Potter 7b: Deathly Hallows Part 2 - $226,117,069 (Thu - $11,229,178)

8) The Dark Knight Rises - $225,011,359 (Thu - $13,202,371)

9) The Hunger Games: Catching Fire - $222,116,056 (Thu - $14,951,629)

10) Iron Man 3 - $212,421,084 (Thu - $7,609,602)

Spoiler

11) Pirates Of The Caribbean: Dead Man's Chest - $196,019,502 (Thu - $12,358,033) 
12) Transformers: Dark of the Moon - $194,088,858 (Tue - $13,437,461)(1)

13) Spiderman 2 - $192,085,360 (Tue - $12,012,472) 
14) Furious 7 - $191,930,470 (Thu - $8,228,890)

15) Star Wars 3: ROTS - $191,363,169 (Wed - $8,652,951)
16) The Hunger Games - $189,932,838 (Thu - $8,173,400)

17) The Twilight Saga:  New Moon - $188,077,665 (Thu - $9,204,544)

18) The Twilight Saga:  Eclipse - $186,950,082 (Tue - $10,567,862)

19) The Twilight Saga:  Breaking Dawn Part 2 - $183,724,670 (Thu - $8,014,701)

20) Spiderman 3 - $182,070,572 (Thu - $5,908,618) 
21) The Twilight Saga:  Breaking Dawn Part 1 - $179,148,435 (Thu - $7,732,709)

22) Harry Potter 6:  HBP - $177,457,914 (Tue - $9,511,151)

23) Pirates Of The Caribbean: At World's End - $173,339,068 (Thu - $6,102,449)(2)

24) Harry Potter 7a:  Deathly Hallows Part 1 - $169,969,028 (Thu - $11,475,980)

25)  Man of Steel - $168,790,947 (Thu - $7,011,050)(3)

26)  The Hunger Games:  Mockingjay Part 1 - $168,708,305 (Thu - $11,079,983)

27) Toy Story 3 - $167,551,682 (Thu - $13,056,504)

28) Minions 2 - $166,491,710 (Thu - $9,483,705)

29) Despicable Me 2 - $165,658,010 (Tue - $12,070,940)
30) Indiana Jones and the Kingdom of the Crystal Skull - $165,603,944 (Wed - $6,040,893) 
31) Transformers - $165,333,052 (Mon - $9,927,640)(4)

32) Harry Potter 5: OOTP - $159,300,110 (Tue - $9,169,473) 
33) Iron Man 2 - $159,159,871 (Thu - $6,338,848)

34) The Matrix: Reloaded - $158,242,565 (Wed - $6,323,052)(5)
35) Spiderman - $151,622,504 (Thu - $7,466,380) 
36) Shrek The Third - $150,338,458 (Thu - $5,859,631)(6)  
37) Lord Of The Rings: ROTK - $150,139,984 (Tue - $12,476,242) 
38) The Hangover Part II - $148,915,509 (Wed - $6,293,188)

39) Shrek 2 - $148,518,679 (Tue - $8,023,299)
40) Alice in Wonderland - $146,625,356 (Thu - $6,766,997)

41) The Hunger Games:  Mockingjay Part 2 - $146,540,534 (Thu - $10,314,742)

42) Harry Potter 4: GOF - $146,283,069 (Thu - $12,409,162) 
43) The Passion Of The Christ - $144,600,923 (Tue - $9,283,076) 
44) The Amazing Spider-Man - $144,578,697 (Mon - $7,556,439)(7)

45) X-Men 3: The Last Stand - $141,331,162 (Thu - $5,375,353) 
46) Transformers:  Age of Extinction - $138,345,769 (Thu - $9,660,418)

 

47) Avatar - $137,094,051 (Thu - $11,150,998)

 

Spoiler

48) Fast & Furious 6 - $135,839,525 (Thu - $4,993,170)

49)  American Sniper - $135,772,113 (Thu - $7,656,492)(8)

50) Star Wars 2: AOTC - $134,869,203 (Wed - $6,536,835)
51) Guardians of the Galaxy - $134,390,839 (Thu - $7,631,397)

52) Inside Out - $132,817,010 (Thu - $9,477,440)

53) Harry Potter 1: SS - $129,490,758 (Thu - $12,258,000) 
54) X-Men:  Days of Future Past - $129,469,103 (Thu - $4,968,474)

55) Iron Man - $126,634,395 (Thu - $5,328,031)(9)

 

(1) Includes $5.5 million on Day 0

(2) Includes $13.2 million on Day 0

(3) Includes $12.0 million on Day 0

(4) Includes $8.8 million on Day 0

(5) Includes $5.0 million on Day 0

(6) Includes $0.9 million on Day 0

(7) Includes $0.85 million on Day 0

(8) Includes $3.4 million before wide release

(9) Includes $3.5 million on Day 0

 

·         Star Wars: The Force Awakens extends its lead over Jurassic World to over $94 million.

·         The Dark Knight passes Age of Ultron for the first time, but Age of Ultron will come back for a brief lead.

·         Furious 7 drops three spots as Transformers: DOTM, POTC: DMC and Spider-Man 2 overtake it.

·         Twilight movies like to stick together as they occupy the #17, 18, 19 and 21 spots on Day 7.

·         Indiana Jones and the Kingdom of the Crystal Skull drops 4 spots as Minions 2, Hunger Game: Mockingjay 1, Despicable Me 2 and Toy Story 3 all pass it.

·         Harry Potter: OOTP jumps up 2 spots to #32.

·         LOTR: ROTK jumps up 3 spots to #37.

·         Harry Potter: GOF jumps up 3 spots to #42 on Thanksgiving Thursday.

·         Avatar with a strong $11.1 million leapfrogs 4 movies to the #47 spot.

·         Harry Potter: SS enters into the top 53 after having dropped out after Day 3.

·         3 movies crossed $150 million on Day 7:  Spiderman, Shrek the Third and ROTK.

 

Edited December 25, 2015 by e1828

[terrestrial]

15 minutes ago, LinksterAC said:

 

Unless you're in line. 

I am soooo glad here the reserved seating is typical (nearly all cinemas offer that)

[Poseidon]

13 minutes ago, CJ Ren said:

Those are basically predictions. I mean, this is their number for Daddy's Home: 20-30M  I can do that as well.

 

Quote

somewhere in the high $20M to $30M for the three-day.

 

http://deadline.com/2015/12/star-wars-the-force-awakens-box-office-pack-as-moviegoers-unwrap-gift-of-choice-1201672136/

 

[terrestrial]

2 minutes ago, druv10 Maul said:

 

Lol, we've started threads for less before. 

.... unfortunately

[smerfy01]

4 minutes ago, Jayhawk the Hutt said:

I was a pretty big fucking idiot last weekend when I thought TFA would fall 50%+.

You have balls. I like balls. ^{pls someone get this reference}

 

The crow being served is sodium-free, no worries.

[Orestes]

If TFA is gonna be in the 170s, then no lower than 175 please.

[ChiSoxRox]

1 minute ago, e1828 said:

Largest DOMESTIC Totals – After Day 7

 

1) Star Wars: The Force Awakens – $391,051,329 (EST Thu - $27,591,000)

2) Jurassic World – $296,211,655 (Thu - $17,822,580)

3) Marvel’s The Avengers - $270,019,373 (Thu - $12,391,566)

4) The Dark Knight - $238,611,000 (Thu - $16,464,405) 
5) Avengers: Age of Ultron - $235,655,468 (Thu - $8,613,154)

6) Transformers: Revenge of the Fallen - $228,441,219 (Tue - $13,510,024)

7) Harry Potter 7b: Deathly Hallows Part 2 - $226,117,069 (Thu - $11,229,178)

8) The Dark Knight Rises - $225,011,359 (Thu - $13,202,371)

9) The Hunger Games: Catching Fire - $222,116,056 (Thu - $14,951,629)

10) Iron Man 3 - $212,421,084 (Thu - $7,609,602)

 

 

Back when I was lurking on the Jurassic World threads I looked forward to your daily tallies. Glad to see you'll be doing them for TFA too.

[terrestrial]

Just now, Poseidon said:

 

 

http://deadline.com/2015/12/star-wars-the-force-awakens-box-office-pack-as-moviegoers-unwrap-gift-of-choice-1201672136/

 

 

Sometimes I think they read here too and adjust their articles... quietly (didn't check this time)

[grey ghost]

15 minutes ago, Daniel Dylan Davis said:

 

Point Break is D.O.A.

 

 

I think you mean E.O.A.

 

Extreme on arrival. 

[Poseidon]

5 minutes ago, terrestrial said:

 

Sometimes I think they read here too and adjust their articles... quietly (didn't check this time)

 

It was there from the start, but "high" was the last word in the upper row, so the 20-30m looked to be isolated, with only a quick look at numbers.


Btw:
I would take those numbers, all of them, with a big grain of salt (not only because they are early), as christmas day matinees usually are gigantic.

They say, SW is performing slightly below last week, so I would guess, that the gap would get bigger with later showings, as they tend to be a bit slower on CD.

Edited December 25, 2015 by Poseidon

[Caladbolg]

21 minutes ago, CJ Ren said:

Those are basically predictions. I mean, this is their number for Daddy's Home: 20-30M  I can do that as well.

Yeah but they gave a specific $1.2m previews for Daddy's Home which is normally enough to open a weekend thread

[terrestrial]

I think I haven't seen in this forum a quote out of The-Numbers weekend prediction he wrote at 23 Dec, or?

 

Star Wars: The Force Awakens is looking to set a number of records over the weekend, the biggest of which is Biggest Second Weekend. The film could fall exactly 57% during its sophomore stint and still top that record. Since Christmas is on a Friday this year, that is highly unlikely. The last time Christmas landed on a Friday, Avatar slipped just 2%. That's also highly unlikely, sort of. Back in 2009, Thursday night previews were really not a thing. They happened, but very rarely. Now it is rare when a film doesn't have previews. If we were to strip the Thursday previews out of The Force Awakens weekend numbers, we are left with $190 million. It is possible the film will drop only 2% from that figure, giving it $186 million over the weekend. On the low end, anything lower than $140 million will be seen as a shocking drop-off, given the time of year. I think $170 million is the best bet, but I'm also worried that irrational exuberance has taken hold of me, after nearly a week of records being crushed. Anything more than $160 million will be reason to celebrate

 

At 25 December he wrote:

Before this year, there was only one film to earn more than $10 million during Christmas Eve, Avatar, which pulled in $11.15 million. This year, Star Wars: The Force Awakens destroyed that record with $27.59 million on Thursday. More impressively, it fell just 27%, compared to 32% drop-off Avatar dealt with back in 2009. From Saturday onwards, The Force Awakens' legs have been almost as good as Avatar's were and I'm worried I might have underestimated The Force Awakens's box office potential this weekend.

 

[rustyspoons89]

My local theaters offer D-BOX seating. Force Awakens is sold out for D-BOX & D-BOX 3D into next week. Thinking I'll give it a try. About 20 bucks a ticket. 

[XXR vs XXR]

10 minutes ago, Poseidon said:

 

 

http://deadline.com/2015/12/star-wars-the-force-awakens-box-office-pack-as-moviegoers-unwrap-gift-of-choice-1201672136/

 

 

If it does $180 million this weekend the game is over. What game? I'm not sure. But it's OVER!

[druv10]

CJohn, when are you going to reopen my thread? Rth might not post something for a while and Deadline might not update as well. 

[CJohn]

3 minutes ago, Caladbolg said:

Yeah but they gave a specific $1.2m previews for Daddy's Home which is normally enough to open a weekend thread

 You guys win this time. The weekend thread is opened.

[The Futurist]

America has gone off the deep end.