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[That One Girl]

https://deadline.com/2018/12/aquaman-bumblebee-christmas-thursday-night-previews-weekend-box-office-1202524462/

 

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EXCLUSIVE, Thursday 7:48PM: At this point in time, we’re hearing that Warner Bros./DC’s Aquaman is hooking a Thursday night between $8M-$10M. Meanwhile, Paramount’s Bumblebee is driving to an evening total between $2M-$2.5M. Both pics started showtimes at 5PM looking to capitalize on 15% K-12 schools off today, in addition to 78% colleges on break per ComScore.

 

 

 

[CJohn]

That is... not good for Bumblebee.

 

Does Aquaman include the 2.9M Amazon Prime previews?

[That One Girl]

Just now, CJohn said:

Does Aquaman include the 2.9M Amazon Prime previews?

 

Nope, they were reported separately.

[MrGamer]

Just now, CJohn said:

Does Aquaman include the 2.9M Amazon Prime previews?

No

[AdamKendall]

Venom did 10 in October ... it's hard to tell where it goes from here, I'd guess if it's nearer to the high end 75-80 is far more likely ... low end probably more so mid 60's 3 day.

 

Regardless, I'm thinking word of mouth should be good for the film going into the weekend.

 

 

Edited December 21, 2018 by AdamKendall

[Curtis1986]

I'll wait for real numbers to come out tomorrow. Do you remember when Mary Poppins was making 8 million opening day.

[MrGlass2]

The great Christmas showdown is upon us!

 

[VTKajin]

WoM will cause it to overperform both on previews and overall weekend. $85M+ incoming!!

[MrGamer]

The real Hunger Games begin now.

[excel1]

$10m would single $100m+ 3 day incoming IMO

[kitik]

1 minute ago, MrGlass2 said:

The great Christmas showdown is upon us!

 

 

It was over before it began. Aquaman has this one locked up.

 

Alita is looking really smart right now for being the one that ran away.

[TigerPaw]

Taking it with a grain of salt.

 

After what happened to MPR last night....

 

[VTKajin]

1 minute ago, TigerPaw said:

Taking it with a grain of salt.

 

After what happened to MPR last night....

 

Article explains the audience was skewed older. Aquaman won't have this issue.

[Darth Lehnsherr]

Here we gooo

[TigerPaw]

14 minutes ago, VTKajin said:

Article explains the audience was skewed older. Aquaman won't have this issue.

Hoping that you are right.

[Michael Seng Wah]

Shall wait for exact number. 

If it goes over 10m, 80m should be the floor.

[kswiston]

Pretty sure Deadline originally had Venom previews around $7M, so these early previews estimates can be off by a lot in either direction. 

[DAJK]

2.5 for Bumblebee would put it around mid-20's for the 3-day. WOM will be good, I'd say this is a decent start for this. Its goal should be over The Last Knight domestically. 

[ChipDerby]

Pretty confident in a $80+ mil OW. Should be pretty backloaded.

[narniadis]

Seems great for Bumblebee and good for Aqua.