Jayhawk the Hutt Posted January 4, 2016 Share Posted January 4, 2016 (edited) 8 minutes ago, hasanahmad said: Has MLK long weekend for schools ever shown to showcase an increase in weekend/Monday hauls? if so how much. It'll soften the Sunday drop (but should be under this upcoming weekend) and it should increase MLK Monday over next Monday. Overall, movies will drop softer than normal due to the holiday. Edited January 4, 2016 by Jayhawk the Hutt Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
hasanahmad Posted January 4, 2016 Share Posted January 4, 2016 MLK weekend has been shown to increase or flatten weekend to weekend loss Examples Avatar: 8%+ Titanic: 25%+ Hobbit1: 17%- I am Legend: 28%- Hobbit 2: 43%- LOTR3: 12%- Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Daxtreme Posted January 4, 2016 Share Posted January 4, 2016 1 minute ago, incognitoo said: So it has indeed passed American Sniper's opening/January weekend record according to the new estimates? In his third weekend. *inco shakes his head in awe* This thing really is out of this world. They're not "new estimates" anymore though. These are actuals. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
TalismanRing Posted January 4, 2016 Share Posted January 4, 2016 10 minutes ago, Darth AndyLL said: Did any of the numbers change for the weekend before? In theory those were just estimates until today Fox updated Joy & Alvin. WB & Sony are still with the 000 ending estimates. 3 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
terrestrial Posted January 4, 2016 Share Posted January 4, 2016 The-Numbers has the charts BOM has not SW 7 is on place #1, #12, and #50 of the biggest weekends of all time, no matter the days in release and all that stuff Biggest weekend by month - January Rank Date Movie Gross Theaters Per Theater Total Gross Days 1 Jan 1, 2016 Star Wars VII $90,241,673 4,134 $21,829 $742,208,942 17 2 Jan 16, 2015 American Sniper $89,269,066 3,555 $25,111 $92,693,844 25 3 Jan 1, 2010 Avatar $68,490,688 3,461 $19,789 $352,114,898 17 4 Jan 23, 2015 American Sniper $64,628,304 3,705 $17,444 $200,400,417 32 5 Jan 8, 2010 Avatar $50,306,217 3,422 $14,701 $430,846,514 24 6 Jan 15, 2010 Avatar $42,785,612 3,285 $13,025 $493,252,617 31 7 Jan 17, 2014 Ride Along $41,516,170 2,663 $15,590 $41,516,170 3 8 Jan 18, 2008 Cloverfield $40,058,229 3,411 $11,744 $40,058,229 3 9 Jan 9, 2015 Taken 3 $39,201,657 3,594 $10,908 $39,201,657 3 10 Jan 10, 2014 Lone Survivor $37,849,910 2,876 $13,161 $38,231,471 19 11 Jan 1, 2010 Sherlock Holmes $36,612,481 3,626 $10,097 $138,715,437 10 12 Jan 31, 1997 Star Wars Ep. IV $35,906,661 2,104 $17,066 $358,646,803 7,194 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
terrestrial Posted January 4, 2016 Share Posted January 4, 2016 10 minutes ago, incognitoo said: So it has indeed passed American Sniper's opening/January weekend record according to the new estimates? In its third weekend. *inco shakes his head in awe* This thing really is out of this world. AS still holds the record for 4th weekend, as the ~ $89 happened at the 4th weekend... if you can count it as that, due to the starting out as a small release Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Maxmoser3 Posted January 4, 2016 Share Posted January 4, 2016 Star Wars should get 45 million this weekend. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
baumer Posted January 4, 2016 Share Posted January 4, 2016 I don't see how SW stays above 10 today. In fact, I think Tele is right. It will fall to below 8 mill, probably around 7.1-7.3. But even if it were to follow a poor example like Hobbit BOF, you'd get something like this: Monday: 7.3 Tues: 7.95 Wed: 5.95 Thur: 5.5 Friday: 10.5 Sat: 18 Sun: 12 That's a 40 million dollar weekend. WOM is not nearly on the same level as BOF, so this scenario is unlikely. Granted if it did come in softly like this, a billion is dead and it would come in closer to about 950. 5 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Daxtreme Posted January 4, 2016 Share Posted January 4, 2016 2 minutes ago, terrestrial said: AS still holds the record for 4th weekend, as the ~ $89 happened at the 4th weekend... if you can count it as that, due to the starting out as a small release That's how the-numbers calculates it, but not BOM, and I must agree with BOM here. AS's $89M week-end was an opening, not 4th week-end. To count it as 4th week-end is cheating, because it wasn't a wide release, and undermines the real achievements here - huge movies having gargantuan 4th week-ends like Avatar, Titanic, and soon TFA. 3 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
terrestrial Posted January 4, 2016 Share Posted January 4, 2016 4 minutes ago, Daxtreme said: That's how the-numbers calculates it, but not BOM, and I must agree with BOM here. AS's $89M week-end was an opening, not 4th week-end. To count it as 4th week-end is cheating, because it wasn't a wide release, and undermines the real achievements here - huge movies having gargantuan 4th week-ends like Avatar, Titanic, and soon TFA. I agree, but I like The-Numbers for providing the missing charts, see p.78 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Daxtreme Posted January 4, 2016 Share Posted January 4, 2016 Just now, terrestrial said: I agree, but I like The-Numbers for providing the missing charts, see p.78 Yup, both websites have their short-comings! 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
#ED Posted January 4, 2016 Author Share Posted January 4, 2016 No OS Actual? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Jim Shorts Posted January 4, 2016 Share Posted January 4, 2016 34 minutes ago, Jayhawk the Hutt said: It'll soften the Sunday drop (but should be under this upcoming weekend) and it should increase MLK Monday over next Monday. Overall, movies will drop softer than normal due to the holiday. As with every Monday Holiday. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
terrestrial Posted January 4, 2016 Share Posted January 4, 2016 (edited) @#ED Screendaily usually reports those earlier as the others, as in at Thursday after the weekend = generally speaking I guess Disney or others will report in between again, so fingers crossed we get earlier OS actuals Edited January 4, 2016 by terrestrial Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
terrestrial Posted January 4, 2016 Share Posted January 4, 2016 The space saga finished the New Year’s weekend with a stunning $90.2 million — or nearly $2 million above Sunday’s estimates — to lift its 17-day domestic total to $742.2 million, including $21.5 million on Sunday. It trails the six-year-old “Avatar” record of $760.5 million by only $18.3 million. “The Force Awakens” also demolished the domestic record for a third weekend in a row, finishing 46% above the previous record of $68.5 million for “Avatar.” they mention the $96m plus for the OS weekend, but no details http://variety.com/2016/film/news/star-wars-box-office-avatar-record-1201671141/ Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
VGPOP Posted January 4, 2016 Share Posted January 4, 2016 (edited) Comparing Avatar's drop and TFA. I think movie gross $8.7 million today in its 18th day. Monday - $8.7 million Tuesday - $7.7 million Wednesday - $7 million Thursday - $6 million Friday - $12.1 million Saturday - $18.0 million Sunday - $12.8 million $42.9 million weekend (-52.5% drop) $72.3 million week $814.5 million at that moment. Also, movie just finished another unbreakable "record" 17 straight days grossing at least $20+ million. Edited January 4, 2016 by VGPOP 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
BadAtGender Posted January 4, 2016 Share Posted January 4, 2016 Here's a fun list. Avatar $312,128,206 Titanic $188,215,666 Meet the Fockers $125,979,665 Night at the Museum $102,351,320 The Lord of the Rings: The Fellowship of the Ring $96,698,725 Sherlock Holmes $95,498,566 The Lord of the Rings: The Return of the King $94,686,068 The Lord of the Rings: The Two Towers $93,561,514 Cast Away $94,337,073 Frozen $89,854,639 Alvin and the Chipmunks: The Squeakquel $88,567,715 Catch Me If You Can $85,924,324 Mission: Impossible - Ghost Protocol $80,700,258 Those are all the films which had their wide release in December (or earlier in the case of Frozen) and still earned at least $80m in January. TFA's already #10th on the list. It'll be interesting to see how high it goes. 3 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
DeeCee Posted January 4, 2016 Share Posted January 4, 2016 Did actuals over Christmas change at all for TFA? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
tokila Posted January 4, 2016 Share Posted January 4, 2016 I could see 8 million today. JW made 17million its 3rd Sunday, TFA made around 21.5 its 3rd sunday. JW fell to 6.5 million despite it being the summer. Part of me thinks Sunday was somewhat depressed by people not wanting to go to a movie the last day of holiday break, so we already had a portion of the drop. That is how I see 9-10 million, but if it falls like JW (or worse since its Jan), I could easily see 7-8 mil. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Tubes Posted January 4, 2016 Share Posted January 4, 2016 The final run: Now TFA is performing less Avatar-like and more like a normal blockbuster. It's still due another $200 million plus, especially since it'll probably hold on to it's PLF and IMAX screens for another 3 weeks. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...