SAT/Wkd Numbers (EST TASM $23.8m(+15%)/$65m; Savages $5.6m(-2%)/$16.2m; KP 2.5m(-8%)/7.2m

[The Hand of Illumination]

Official Friday domestic estimate: $2.705 million for KATY PERRY 3D from 2,730 locations. Location avg. = $991

As Duke Nukem would say, "Incoming!"

[fmpro]

With a 139 m 6 day and TF1's legs, ASM would end up 303.1 m.hmmm

[Fake]

YES! YES!Now the haters gonna shut up.... over 30% jump!!

[Samson]

then again, I wonder now if if there is any point in having a mid week opening for any film. It doesn't seem to help the film make more money, it just makes the same amount of money it would have made over the weekend stretched out over several days instead

TASM opening holiday midweek was like having two weekends back to back without needing to compete for the immediate audiences that may have chosen the alternate programming (Ted, MM) first. It allowed four wide openers to burnoff their demand before releasing.Opening midweek when a holiday isn't involved seems to be an odd holdover from the Phantom Menace days when the studio was worried about losing out on revenue from too many soldout showings.

[fmpro]

YES! YES!Now the haters gonna shut up.... over 30% jump!!

:circles:With 20% today this will explode

[theultimatebiu]

YES! YES!

Now the haters gonna shut up.... over 30% jump!!

[fmpro]

[druv10]

Hey , it was a good thing they were wrong.

[Fake]

:circles:With 20% today this will explode

sshhh.... otherwise haters are gonna say that TASM is bombing if it increased only 15%... they will say the number is bad since people were expecting over 20%.

[StarSaber]

Spectacular for Ted. That would be a mid-30% drop for the weekend! That's almost what the Hangover dropped!!

[Hatebox]

So after 6 days it's going to land just where expected, and the fighting continues.

[MovieMan89]

With a 139 m 6 day and TF1's legs, ASM would end up 303.1 m.hmmm

Lol, math fail.With TF1's legs and 139m 6 day TASM would finish at $285m. It won't have TF1's legs though. Not even close.

[fmpro]

Hey , it was a good thing they were wrong.

Yep. Thank god

[Fake]

This is what I had on Tuesday:Wed: 27MThurs: 17MFri: 20MSo Wed/Thurs were well below I expected, but Friday was actually higher!!

[fmpro]

sshhh.... otherwise haters are gonna say that TASM is bombing if it increased only 15%... they will say the number is bad since people were expecting over 20%.

Okey

[MovieMan89]

This is what I had on Tuesday:

Wed: 27M

Thurs: 17M

Fri: 20M

So Wed/Thurs were well below I expected, but Friday was actually higher!!

You expected $64m for Wed-Fri period and it actually did $59m so you still fail.

[rockNrollaDIM]

I'm gonna be sick.

[Samson]

So Wed/Thurs were well below I expected, but Friday was actually higher!!

At this point, I'm just waiting until Monday actuals. A 30.9% increase looks... Off. Sony has made this one hell of a rollercoaster!

[FTF]

So all things considered, and not counting the looney predictions like ijack's $200m, a 6-day of $140m is really good for TASM. It'll finish mid-high 200s, and ww it'll be around $850-900m or so, which is excellent.

[fmpro]

I'm gonna be sick.