Weekend Numbers: Fantastic Beasts 75M, Strange 17.6M, Trolls 17.5M, Arrival 11.8M, Edge of 17 4.8M, Bleed 2.35M, Billy Lynn 930k

[Mockingjay Raphael]

This big drop for Arrival is because it had an inflated OW, right? Because it was holding so well during the week that an over 50% drop makes no sense at all. 

[efialtes76]

7 minutes ago, Christmas Baumer said:

Fantastic Beasts is not getting a2.9x.

Why not?

MJ2 had a 2.75x and FB is much better.

Edited November 19, 2016 by efialtes76

[TimmyRiggins]

5.4 million $ OD in the UK, bigger than every HP except DH Part 1 & 2, geez !

Edited November 19, 2016 by TimmyRiggins

[Goffe]

Arrival number 

[Mockingjay Raphael]

3 minutes ago, efialtes76 said:

Why not?

MJ2 had a 2.75x and FB is much better.

 

Says you. And maybe because the THG franchise always was backloaded while HP movies were super front-loaded?

[terrestrial]

15 minutes ago, RyneOh1040 said:

does anyone know if this is good?  I don't follow international as much.  I believe it opened in the UK yesterday correct?

 

I think it is too esrly. In UK it does very good, in other countries better than DS, but not as good as the HP films. It isn't released everywhere yet and so on

But IMHO? I never expeted HP numbers, see missing books and known characters. And it's too early ....

 

 

If interested, here the direct link the the film's international thread:

 

 

[TimmyRiggins]

The numbers WW show this is anything but frontloaded as the HPs.

[MinaTakla]

ARRIVAL's drop is the best in the top 5

Strange and Trolls had -68%

Arrival -63%

So not that bad. I think it's due to inflated Fri.

[MinaTakla]

5 minutes ago, Mockingjay Raphael said:

This big drop for Arrival is because it had an inflated OW, right? Because it was holding so well during the week that an over 50% drop makes no sense at all. 

Its drop seems to be the least ugly of the top 5, so yes.

[filmlover]

Wouldn't surprise me if Nocturnal Animals gets a wide expansion in two weeks anyway just because theaters will be eager to drop Billy Lynn as soon as possible.

[Wrath]

6 minutes ago, efialtes76 said:

Why not?

MJ2 had a 2.75x and FB is much better.

Plus, while FB is viewed as an HP movie, its only vaguely connected and has very different tone. It MIGHT be front-loaded if the opening weekend is dominated by HP fans but I personally think it'll pull in less hard-core HP fans and have decent legs.

[baumer]

10 minutes ago, efialtes76 said:

Why not?

MJ2 had a 2.75x and FB is much better.

 

Lol it has nothing to do with quality. Its a Potter film.

[John Marston]

10 minutes ago, efialtes76 said:

Why not?

MJ2 had a 2.75x and FB is much better.

 

 

that's not how it works

[La Binoche]

11 minutes ago, Mockingjay Raphael said:

This big drop for Arrival is because it had an inflated OW, right? Because it was holding so well during the week that an over 50% drop makes no sense at all. 

 

It's also further proof that Americans are a lot dumber than we thought. 

 

 

[MinaTakla]

If we actually calculate Arrival's real Friday which was a holiday to this working Friday: 7.85m to 3.41m (-56% drop) compared to Strange (-68%), Trolls (-68%) and AC (-65%) real Fridays.

So there's a silver lining!

Edited November 19, 2016 by MinaTakla

[jb007]

37 minutes ago, RyneOh1040 said:

The “Harry Potter” spinoff from Warner Bros. earned $29.7 million on Friday at 4,144 locations, and is expected to earn a hefty $76 million by the end of the weekend.

 

- Variety

 

 

I have watched only the first and DH1 in the HP series. Can this be called a HP spinoff? It has a couple of references to HP locales. But beyond that, the time line is way different. May be a HP aficionado can educate me. 

[Spectre]

Arrival is still holding better than the rest of the top... not that that's saying much. Yuck.

Edited November 19, 2016 by Spectre

[La Binoche]

Fantastic Beasts did as well as it did thanks to Potter, and even then it still underperformed. Without the Potter connection it would have straight up bombed. A lot of the people who went because of Potter won't be back for the next installment. Without the Potter connection it might as well have been this: 

 

 

 

[filmlover]

What's everyone thinking for the Thanksgiving openers? Moana will obviously be massive but Allied is kind of a question mark and Bad Santa 2 and Rules Don't Apply look like blips.

[James]

9 minutes ago, Christmas Baumer said:

 

Lol it has nothing to do with quality. Its a Potter film.

Not showing it so far at all. The preview/OD ratio is the same as DS. And I have a feeling Sat will play really well.