I see deadline has FB's OW pegged around $75 million. So after Sunday I can probably add "DS OW > FB OW" to the list of bets I would have lost if you'd offered me one a month ago.
2.) Trolls (DWA/20th Century Fox), 3,945 theaters (-121) / $4M Fri. (-67%) / 3-day cume: $17.46M (-50%) /Total Cume: $116.1M/Wk 3
Doctor Strange (DIS), 3,694 theaters (-188) / $4.96M Fri. (-67%)/ 3-day cume: $17.4M(-59%) /Total cume: $181.3M/Wk 3
I was hoping it could make more when websites started posting predictions of about 20m, but I guess they underestimated the effect of Veteran's day and the competition.21-25 million would be an insanely good hold. Last weekend friday was a holiday. And Fantastic Beasts is coming next weekend too. I would be very surprised if it only drops by 50%.
I would expect a 3rd weekend drop of about 60%, for a weekend somewhere in the 15-19 million range.
3.) Doctor Strange (DIS), 3,694 theaters (-188) / $4.8M Fri. (-68%)/ 3-day cume: $16.7M(-61%) /Total cume: $180.6M/Wk 3
Man, f**k this weekend. First FB's OW and now DS and Trolls with near abysmal drops. Even with the last weekend having been helped by veteran's day, I really thought DS would at least reach 19 million and Trolls will post north of 20 million. Damn this weekend.![]()
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$4,779,000 is the friday estimate. It should get about 17 million this weekend, guess my initial prediction was right after all:
I was hoping it could make more when websites started posting predictions of about 20m, but I guess they underestimated the effect of Veteran's day and the competition.
It should not drop much next weekend thanks to thanksgiving. TDW only dropped 22% because of that. If Doctor Strange manages the same it would end up with about 13m on the 4th weekend. It should still be very close to 200m after it's 4th weekend, it would need 6 million on monday through thursday to get there. With the help of thanksgiving I'm still confident that it will reach 200m by the end of the 4th weekend, and go on to reach about 225-230m domestically in total.
Argentina won't give it that much of a boost internationally. Civil war opened with 3.5m there, BvS with 3m and Suicide Squad with 2.5m. DS will probably open with roughly 2m, which isn't that significant, but it still helps.
It's def not bombing lol it'll end up making at least 100m profit but WB probably was expecting a lot more than that.
The thing that annoys me and which I hate is that even before they showed the first film they go ahead and announce 5 more. I hate when studios do this and from the looks of it, critically, it's just an ok film. Honestly kind of glad it isn't doing that great just for that fact alone.
Also, are people here genuinely not liking Fantastic Beasts- those that have actually seen it- or just looking for any and every reason to either dump on it or hope it doesn't rain on Doctor Strange's box office parade?