Thursday early est. SW 7 $5.97m = $770.38m | DH 1.48 | H8 1.29 | Sisters 1.1

[terrestrial]

http://deadline.com/2016/01/the-revenant-star-wars-the-force-awakens-weekend-box-office-1201678383/

 

Meanwhile in early AM estimates, Disney’s Star Wars: The Force Awakens stands at $770.4M, with industry projections seeing the J.J. Abrams crossing the $800M mark stateside on Saturday.

 

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‘The Revenant’ Raises $2.3M In Thursday Previews – Box Office

article of DL = that number is in the newly created weekend thread

(by WrathOfHan)

Edited January 8, 2016 by terrestrial

[kitik]

That would be a very good Thursday hold for Star Wars. Even 5.8 or 5.9 would be great.

 

I wonder how it did internationally.

[spazz91]

Saw TFA again last night, almost an empty theater (maybe 10-15 people). There were a couple snorers, but the movie itself was still great.

[MovieMan89]

So it is basically at the same gross as Avatar's Thursday heading into the weekend. Will be interesting to see what happens this weekend. Beating Avatar's 4th weekend will be pretty tough. 

[AndyLL]

5 minutes ago, MovieMan89 said:

So it is basically at the same gross as Avatar's Thursday heading into the weekend. Will be interesting to see what happens this weekend. Beating Avatar's 4th weekend will be pretty tough. 

 

Avatar had a 26.6% (!) drop its 4th weekend to hit 50+.

 

TFA only need ~43%... very doable in my opinion since TFA should be playing as a family movie and it's weekdays were better then I expected.

[MovieMan89]

1 minute ago, AndyLL said:

 

Avatar had a 26.6% (!) drop its 4th weekend to hit 50+.

 

TFA only need ~43%... very doable in my opinion since TFA should be playing as a family movie and it's weekdays were better then I expected.

The only caveat there though is that it has to have just as good of holds as Avatar this weekend to make that much, and TFA has yet to do that. Its Friday holds have been significantly worse thus far. 

[terrestrial]

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[spazz91]

3 minutes ago, MovieMan89 said:

The only caveat there though is that it has to have just as good of holds as Avatar this weekend to make that much, and TFA has yet to do that. Its Friday holds have been significantly worse thus far. 

 

to be fair it's hard to have good Friday jumps when your Thursdays so far are $27.4m and $22.9m

[baumer]

Im expecting a 45-50 mill weekend

[terrestrial]

Just now, Baumer said:

Im expecting a 45-50 mill weekend

I'm not into predicting, but that sounds sound to me

[AndyLL]

1 minute ago, Baumer said:

Im expecting a 45-50 mill weekend

 

I don't think it's going to drop 50%.   50-55.

 

And my Derby predictions show how accurate I've been predicting TFA. 

[lilmac]

30 minutes ago, MovieMan89 said:

So it is basically at the same gross as Avatar's Thursday heading into the weekend. Will be interesting to see what happens this weekend. Beating Avatar's 4th weekend will be pretty tough. 

 

Yea, um, not happening. $45ish. Maybe $48m.

[MovieMan89]

10 minutes ago, AndyLL said:

 

I don't think it's going to drop 50%.   50-55.

 

And my Derby predictions show how accurate I've been predicting TFA. 

55 would be so awesome. Can still stay on top next weekend in that case. 

[DAR]

I'm trying to wrap my head around a film not only making 800 million domestically, but that it still has enough left to make a 150-200 million more.

[Fake]

If this does over 50m, chances for 1B will remain good.

 

Anything below 48m, and it will be in trouble.

 

Below 45m, and 1B is dead!

 

Roughly I see:

 

FRI 13m (+120%)

SAT 22m (+70%)

SUN 14m (-35%)

[druv10]

Great hold which I contributed $25 last night. 50M sounds good for the weekend and 1B continues to live!!!!

[Daxtreme]

Also, ROTK dropped 50% on its 4th week-end, like I said in the other thread, and then went on to have great legs. If Star Wars mirrors that, $1 B is still possible.

 

But a more than 50% drop effectively kills $1B as far as I'm concerned, unless Disney does something about it.

[rustyspoons89]

Good Thursday number. 

 

Im hopping for a 48-50 M weekend

[Daxtreme]

2 minutes ago, rustyspoons89 said:

Im hopping

 

 

48-50 W-E, here we come!

[rustyspoons89]

2 minutes ago, rustyspoons89 said:

Im hopping

 

 

48-50 W-E, here we come!

Hahahahah ... Give me a break. It's early here, okay! And it was probably auto corrects fault anyway [emoji13][emoji6]