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Runa216 said:
Tower said:
Runa216 said:
Figgycal said:
Cloudy with a chance 2 bombed? That's disappointing.

Nope.  Didn't quite make what the first did, but only off by like 30 million.  Can't even say it was a dud, since it made MORE relative to its budget than the first one.  

First one - 100 million dollar budget, 243 million total, worldwide
Second one - 78 million dollar budget, 207 million total, worldwide (and counting)

Keep in mind, the second one is still in theaters, so once its worldwide run has concluded, it'll be almost perfectly in line with the first one, at a 22 million dollar difference in budget.  So no, not a bomb. 

As for Catching Fire, yeah, looks like estimates will have it down around 157 or 158; BoxOffice Mojo almost always goes a few percent above the actuals. 


Those estimates are official studio estimates, Box Office Mojo just copies them to its site.

Doesn't matter, he was right.  Ended up jsut below The Dark Knight at 158.1 million opening weekend.  

Still an amazing opening!


I was just saying that it isn't Mojo that gives the high estimates, the studio does because they want those headlines of "biggest 2D opening of all time".



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Catching Fire has pretty good legs so far already passed the $200 million mark domestically with yesterdays numbers.



Oddly enough, its Tuesday AND Wednesday numbers rose from Monday! Kind of insane! Imean, Tuesdays usually go up, and Wednesday was a holiday, but even so, movies never go UP from their monday immediately following their opening weekend, especially if the opening weekend was that huge!



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Runa216 said:
Oddly enough, its Tuesday AND Wednesday numbers rose from Monday! Kind of insane! Imean, Tuesdays usually go up, and Wednesday was a holiday, but even so, movies never go UP from their monday immediately following their opening weekend, especially if the opening weekend was that huge!


Well it makes sense to me Tuesday is obvious because that is a good day to go to the movies because of discounts and Wednesday makes sense also since most of the target audience is free on that day because of Thanksgiving.



Runa216 said:
Oddly enough, its Tuesday AND Wednesday numbers rose from Monday! Kind of insane! Imean, Tuesdays usually go up, and Wednesday was a holiday, but even so, movies never go UP from their monday immediately following their opening weekend, especially if the opening weekend was that huge!


Actually films always go up on Tuesday and Wednesday on Thanksgiving week.



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Tower said:
Runa216 said:
Oddly enough, its Tuesday AND Wednesday numbers rose from Monday! Kind of insane! Imean, Tuesdays usually go up, and Wednesday was a holiday, but even so, movies never go UP from their monday immediately following their opening weekend, especially if the opening weekend was that huge!


Actually films always go up on Tuesday and Wednesday on Thanksgiving week.

Most go up tuesdays regardless, and any holiday wednesday will do the same, but you're minimizing the effect of such a huge opening weekend; when a movie makes over 100million in its opening weekend, it almost never goes up on tuesday or wednesday, regardless of what time of year it is. 



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Runa216 said:
Tower said:
Runa216 said:
Oddly enough, its Tuesday AND Wednesday numbers rose from Monday! Kind of insane! Imean, Tuesdays usually go up, and Wednesday was a holiday, but even so, movies never go UP from their monday immediately following their opening weekend, especially if the opening weekend was that huge!


Actually films always go up on Tuesday and Wednesday on Thanksgiving week.

Most go up tuesdays regardless, and any holiday wednesday will do the same, but you're minimizing the effect of such a huge opening weekend; when a movie makes over 100million in its opening weekend, it almost never goes up on tuesday or wednesday, regardless of what time of year it is. 

When I said films go up on Tuesday and Wednesday of Thanksgiving week, I meant every single film does, including the Twilight films which are notorious for opening big and then fading quickly. If Catching Fire went down during either of those days it would have been completely unprecedented. 



Just over $250 million domestically for Catching Fire in eight days it will easily make more money then The Hunger Games.



Holy shit...31 million for a second friday?! That's bigger than The Avengers! can we see this making highest second weekend ever? Will easily beat The Dark Knight for highest second 2D movie.



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Considering the first one made $408m...this is defo gonna hit $500m :o