The Fans Have Spoken, Last Jedi Drops A Massive 68%

[thismeintiel]

TheDarkShape said:

thismeintiel said:

The Last Jedi, a movie that has greatly disappointed, or even angered, a great many of fans of the Star Wars saga, has just dropped a massive 69% WOW.  This is much worse than many were predicting, regardless of what they claim now.  It is much worse than the mere 40% that The Force Awakens fell.  Much worse than the ~50% other $200M+ openers did.  Even worse than the poorly received Justice League, which fell 56%.  TLJ is now $175M behind TFA after just 9 days.

Hope you sold enough Porg dolls to make up for it Disney.

Christmas Eve killed Sunday's box office, hurting the drop.  The last time the holidays shook out this way (i.e. Christmas Eve on a Sunday, Christmas on a Monday, etc.) was in 2006, and The Pursuit of Happyness - a super leggy hit - fell 44% over the same weekend.  

Using 2006 as a barometer for New Years weekend, everything will increase.  (i.e. PoH made $14m over Christmas weekend and $19m over New Years; Eragon made $7m over Christmas and $9m over New Years, etc.)

Hmm, let's compare it to TFA.  TFA launched the same time this year in 2015.  Now, Xmas eve fell on a Thu, not really the largest day for the box office.  Even if there is an opening, those numbers are rolled into Friday's numbers.  So, it did $27.4M, almost twice as much as TLJ did.  It also only fell 28% from the previous day, where TLJ fell 50%.  Of course, you aren't addressing the massive fall it saw on Fri of 76.4% WOW, and the still poor fall it saw on Sat of 54.4% WOW.  Even if Sun were a little better, it still would have fallen ~65%, which is still god awful.