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[RealLyre]

5 minutes ago, cdsacken said:

Zero spoiler rush, summer, and competition. Gonna have a fantastic rest of July along with a great August.

if there's no rush factor why was Thursday previews/internal multi front-loaded relative to the weekend 

[RealLyre]

8 minutes ago, a2k said:

about 10m more than I2?

 

Disney

 

BOT

I2 Sat was 58M

[The Futurist]

The lions in the Lion King (2019) are not real by the way.

In the first Lion King (1994), they weren't either and they were drawn.

Edited July 20, 2019 by The Futurist

[ThomasNicole]

Great saturday, especially if hit the high end like yesterday

 

$ 195M is doable which a standard sunday drop, $ 200M can happen if sat go up a bit and sun have a little tiny drop, but i won't count on that.

 

Good to see FFH and TS4 holding well against such a big opener

[Andreas]

Just now, RealLyre said:

I2 Sat was 58M

He means for the whole OW.

[ThomasNicole]

Just now, RealLyre said:

I2 Sat was 58M

he talk about the OW

 

I2 was $ 182M and TLK should do $ 192-196M

[Mekanos]

3 minutes ago, ScoobyDoo21 said:

Can we really spoil Hamlet though?

 

On that note. Schools go and make us read Hamlet instead of showing the play being played and then they wonder why half the class dislikes it.

That applies to all of Shakespeare really. I read Shakespeare during middle school, high school, and college, and never once did we see it performed.

[Porthos]

20 minutes ago, RealLyre said:

not sure which expectations you're referring to but industry tracking had TLK opening at 150M-180M a couple of days ago. so 193.5M is well above that range. 

"tracking" 

 

edit:  I'll buy the tracking that had 175m+. 

 

But that 150m stuff was pure reactionary bullshit garbage and was being rightly mocked by most people who saw it, from what I can see.

Edited July 20, 2019 by Porthos

[CoolioD1]

4 minutes ago, ScoobyDoo21 said:

Can we really spoil Hamlet though?

clear you haven't seen the modern-day ethan hawke movie.

[Porthos]

11 minutes ago, a2k said:

about 10m more than I2?

 

Disney

 

BOT

 

Disney on 200m OW:

[Ms Lady Hawk]

TLK was awesome. So happy to be able to share a bit of my youth with my son. I honestly don’t know why it was so harshly reviewed. Was it perfect? No. But it was a heck of a good time for families at the movies. People clapped at the end of my show, which was 90% capacity in a theater that holds more than 400.

[Molek]

12 minutes ago, a2k said:

about 10m more than I2?

 

Disney

 

BOT

BOT with 200.0 opening vs BOT with 199.9 opening

[ScoobyDoo21]

6 minutes ago, Mekanos said:

That applies to all of Shakespeare really. I read Shakespeare during middle school, high school, and college, and never once did we see it performed.

Yeah and they ask us the meaning of whatever random philosophy Ye olde English gibberish that comes out of hamlet's mouth.

 

All and all, these classes do their best to make Shakespeare seem completely boring as shit.

 

At least i remember seeing that weird Leo Dicaprio Romeo and Juliet movie so that was kind of cool i guess.

Edited July 20, 2019 by ScoobyDoo21

[Mekanos]

Glad I wasn't here for AOU, people must have been losing their fucking minds over a not-as-good sequel with no novelty opening to 92% of the predecessor. 

Edited July 20, 2019 by Mekanos

[Neucentro]

34 minutes ago, RealLyre said:

not sure which expectations you're referring to but industry tracking had TLK opening at 150M-180M a couple of days ago. so 193.5M is well above that range. 

Some predictions in the tracking thread pointed to a $200m+ opening.

[Thrylos 7]

Bububut the original lion king had done this and that a few centuries ago and this was bound to explode and become the biggest movie of the 21st century. Those were the days.......

[XXR vs XXR]

TLK 2nd biggest OW ever in New Zealand. Bigger than TFA and IW. If only it could have done that here.....

[cdsacken]

20 minutes ago, RealLyre said:

if there's no rush factor why was Thursday previews/internal multi front-loaded relative to the weekend 

Same reason previews have been steadily increasing. Sucky movies that leg out ok grossers often have decent to great multipliers.

 

DH2 had a weak multiplier yet was awesome. I meant zero rush due to spoilers or anything else. It will do good but not legendary which is consistent with the quality of the film.

[Minnale101]

I would love to know what the numbers are for Canada. 

 

Every show is packed here. 

 

It just combined into domestic 

[keysersoze123]

6 minutes ago, Neucentro said:

Some predictions in the tracking thread pointed to a $200m+ opening.

and its going to end up at 190m. That is within margin of error. Its not perfect science.