Weekend estimates are in. TLJ did $6.57M, which is 8.9% below RO's take for the same weekend. It's also down 53.4% from TFA's take for the same weekend. This is the 2nd weekend TLJ has lost theatres, which is normal, but it's still at a much faster rate than TFA, and also faster than RO. TLJ started with 4,232 screens. That has fallen to 2,456, a decline of 42%. TFA, at this point, had dropped from 4,134 to 3,365, a decline of just 18.6%. RO had dropped from 4,157 to 2,603, a decline of 37.4%. It'll be interesting to see if TLJ can actually leg it out to 20+ weeks, like TFA and RO did.
Also, this is probably going to be the last time I update on an almost daily basis. The numbers are just too small at this point to drastically alter the percentage it is down from TFA. Right now, its final numbers seem pretty much certain. Domestic will be $618M-$625M, or 33%-34% down, while WW will be $1.32B-$1.34B, or 35%-36% down. A far cry from TFA, or from where they wanted to be with a reasonable drop of 15%-18%. And much worse than even the ~22% drop they were expecting after the 2nd weekend drop of 68%.
So, unless something changes, like a drastic uptick in sales or drastic downtick (like it dropping below $450K in the coming days), or there's an interesting convo being had, I probably won't be posting much until we get to the final few days.
