Wednesday numbers:

[sfran43]

Actuals for Aladdin stayed even with estimates 

 

[sfran43]

 

[Finnick]

4 minutes ago, sfran43 said:

 

 

A 25% drop from Tuesday, pretty good and a 30% drop from last Wednesday. Finally showing some good  holds.

Edited June 6, 2019 by Finnick

[filmscholar]

Aladdin is still bringing the magic.  This could be the only Live Action Remake with sequel potential with "Return of Jafar" and "King of Thieves" doing well on Home Video in the 90's.

[sfran43]

 

[Justin4125]

7 minutes ago, Finnick said:

A 25% drop from Tuesday, pretty good and a 30% drop from last Wednesday. Finally showing some good  holds.

Even though DP is getting poor reviews, itll still provide demo competition this weekend and cause AEG to shed more screens tonight. Would love to see a great hold but I think there are just too many wide releases 

 

EDIT: But yea it is a great hold

Edited June 6, 2019 by Justin4125

[tawasal]

We have too many DP's in here now... _{(dirty minds)}

 

Dark Phoenix = JG

Detectiv Pikachu = RR 2

Deadpool = RR 1

[DAJK]

3 hours ago, sfran43 said:

I remember this weekend, and all the meltdown that came after...

 

why the meltdowns? What was Prometheus projected to open to?

2 hours ago, tawasal said:

Why does it feel like it's mirroring a certain film... 

 

probably won't have the same drops post this weekend (labour day helped guardians a lot)

[tawasal]

1 minute ago, DAJK said:

probably won't have the same drops post this weekend (labour day helped guardians a lot)

The 4th weekend wasn't LD weekend and with nothing big opening in June 14th other than Thor & Valkyrie's mini teamup, Aladdin has a chance to produce similar drops. 

[DAJK]

5 minutes ago, tawasal said:

The 4th weekend wasn't LD weekend and with nothing big opening in June 14th other than Thor & Valkyrie's mini teamup, Aladdin has a chance to produce similar drops. 

Yes but 5th weekend was and it dropped almost nothing

[tawasal]

Just now, DAJK said:

Yes but 5th weekend was and it dropped almost nothing

I know, that's why I only mentioned the 4th weekend in my post above. And isn't TS4 opening on Aladdin's 5th weekend? 

[AndyChrono]

Father's Day on Aladdin's 4th weekend means it will probably have a very tiny drop. It will probably go into 5th weekend with roughly a 15m lead over Guardians 1 at the same point. It will then give most of that lead back on the 5th weekend since that was Labor Day for Guardians. But after that Aladdin will still have summer weekdays and 4th of July holiday, while Guardians 1 at that point was in September with schools opening back up so I wouldn't be surprised if it finishes above GotG1.

[Chaz]

3 hours ago, vafrow said:

Because there's money to be made. 

 

Back in the day, Disney chose not to make a theatrical sequel to the original Aladdin, as the philosophy was that less than perfect sequels dilute the IP value. I don't think they maintain that same mentality these days. 

 

They have a cast that's relatively cheap to lock up to a sequel, a story that has already spun off stories in its previous iteration and shareholders that have grown accustomed to Disney cranking out several billion dollar films a year. Discussion of a sequel seems inevitable. 

They didn’t do a theatrical sequel to the first Aladdin because they couldn’t get Robin Williams.

[a2k]

Aladdin dom > 3 * KOTM dom is still a possibility

330 vs 110 or something

[sfran43]

 

[sfran43]

 

[vafrow]

14 minutes ago, Chaz said:

They didn’t do a theatrical sequel to the first Aladdin because they couldn’t get Robin Williams.

That was definitely a key role. I've heard multiple reasons:

-Didn't want to tarnished the brand 

-Couldn't get Robin Williams (who did join the third one) 

-Timeframes for their theatrical animated was 4 or 5 years, and the video release allowed for a quicker cash grab

-They wanted to release an animated series, and use the video as a transition

 

I think it was also a matter of things being pretty different. Sequels to big movies were usually expected to perform worse. I don't recall many kids films getting sequels at that time in general. Disney being in a successful run probably wanted to put their energy to new properties. 

 

[sfran43]

59 minutes ago, DAJK said:

why the meltdowns? What was Prometheus projected to open to?

It wasn't just the opening, but it's entire run, both domestic and OS was disappointing for a lot of ppl.

[sfran43]

Endgame run comparison for week 7 so far...

DAY

The Avengers

Avengers: Infinity War

Avengers: Endgame

Star Wars: The Force Awakens

Star Wars: The Last Jedi

Fri	$3,336,924 +69% / -40.9% $564,387,649 / 36	$2,819,868 +100.4% / -33.4% $635,318,800 / 36	$2,074,012 +82.4% / -51.5% $809,762,796 / 36	$3,535,257 +87.6% / -44.1% $868,567,603 / 36	$1,625,633 +91% / -39.1% $599,344,109 / 36
Sat	$4,546,865 +36.3% / -49.6% $568,934,514 / 37	$4,511,768 +60% / -30.3% $639,830,568 / 37	$3,380,393 +63% / -47.6% $813,143,189 / 37	$6,814,652 +92.8% / -38.2% $875,382,255 / 37	$3,168,473 +94.9% / -36.5% $602,512,582 / 37
Sun	$3,365,949 -26% / -42.2% $572,300,463 / 38	$3,175,643 -29.6% / -51.8% $643,006,211 / 38	$2,583,086 -23.6% / -60.1% $815,726,275 / 38	$3,728,739 -45.3% / -58.5% $879,110,994 / 38	$1,761,329 -44.4% / -58% $604,273,911 / 38
Mon	$1,385,505 -58.8% / -32.2% $573,685,968 / 39	$1,163,591 -63.4% / -77.4% $644,169,802 / 39	$869,816 -66.3% / -82.1% $816,596,091 / 39	$1,295,742 -65.2% / -80.6% $880,406,736 / 39	$539,120 -69.4% / -80.6% $604,813,031 / 39
Tue	$1,547,796 +11.7% / -30.3% $575,233,764 / 40	$1,555,271 +33.7% / -21.4% $645,725,073 / 40	$1,208,347 +38.9% / -35.3% $817,804,438 / 40	$1,574,483 +21.5% / -33.9% $881,981,219 / 40	$676,890 +25.6% / -38.7% $605,489,921 / 40
Wed	$1,349,418 -12.8% / -27.5% $576,583,182 / 41	$1,073,676 -31% / -26.7% $646,798,749 / 41	$900,345 -25.5% / -30.1% $818,704,783 / 41	$1,324,479 -15.9% / -27% $883,305,698 / 41	$531,967 -21.4% / -38.2% $606,021,888 / 41

[KP1025]

SLOP2 will end up the second widest release of all-time (widest animated release).

 

1	Avengers: Endgame	BV	4,662	$357,115,007	43.6%	$76,601	$818,704,783	4/26/19
2	The Secret Life of Pets 2	Uni.	4,561	n/a	n/a	n/a	n/a	6/07/19
3	Despicable Me 3	Uni.	4,529	$72,434,025	27.4%	$15,993	$264,624,300	6/30/17
4	Aladdin (2019)	BV	4,476	$91,500,929	45.0%	$20,443	$203,136,661	5/24/19
5	Jurassic World: Fallen Kingdom	Uni.	4,475	$148,024,610	35.4%	$33,078	$417,719,760	6/22/18