Highly doubt that will happen.

We've seen studios muck with the numbers before. $100M being reported by the news on Monday looks better than $99.8M (or w/e). But other shenanigans could happen. Someone, on another forum, mentioned Paramount subtracted money out of the weekdays to pump up the weekend for the last Transformers movie to get it just past $100M.

I also seem to recall Warner estimated $170M for Batman v Superman when actuals were $166M.

Fast and Furious 7 definitely had a Paul Walker boost, not just because he died but because it was well publicized that he died prior to finishing his scenes and there was a lot of curiosity on how they would close that out.

Fate has pulled $530m+ Worldwide since opening last week, which includes $190m made off China alone. Their hope is $250m Domestic and $1.2 - $1.3b Worldwide. It had a $250 - $270m budget.

Toldja:

Box Office: 'Fate of the Furious' Nabs $98.8M in U.S. for Record $532M Global Start

http://www.hollywoodreporter.com/new...l-start-994377

International grosses is how the last few Fast and Furious movies made their money.

I noticed the last few have barely surpassed their budget for U.S. grosses, but made a killing overseas.

Furious 7 made like 1 billion total. Fate will make it's money that's a given.

Going to see a matinee today.

International gross is how many big budget movies will make their money nowadays. Seems like China is co-financing many of them.

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	LW	Title (click to view)	Studio	Weekend Gross	% Change	Theater Count / Change		Average	Total Gross	Budget*	Week #
1	N	The Fate of the Furious	Uni.	$98,786,705	-	4,310	-	$22,920	$98,786,705	$250	1
2	1	The Boss Baby	Fox	$16,012,349	-39.3%	3,743	-86	$4,278	$116,793,579	-	3
3	2	Beauty and the Beast (2017)	BV	$13,705,122	-42.1%	3,592	-377	$3,815	$454,720,873	$160	5
4	3	Smurfs: The Lost Village	Sony	$6,714,300	-49.2%	3,610	-	$1,860	$24,945,059	$60	2
5	4	Going in Style (2017)	WB (NL)	$6,288,402	-47.3%	3,076	+15	$2,044	$23,318,880	$25	2
6	16	Gifted	FoxS	$3,079,308	+589.8%	1,146	+1,090	$2,687	$4,449,330	-	2
7	8	Get Out	Uni.	$2,985,945	-26.4%	1,424	-150	$2,097	$167,615,960	$4.5	8
8	6	Power Rangers (2017)	LGF	$2,814,175	-54.6%	2,171	-807	$1,296	$80,527,923	$100	4
9	10	The Case for Christ	PFR	$2,758,271	-30.5%	1,386	+212	$1,990	$8,485,975	-	2
10	7	Kong: Skull Island	WB	$2,707,371	-51.4%	2,018	-735	$1,342	$161,284,775	$185	6
11	5	Ghost in the Shell (2017)	Par.	$2,463,906	-66.3%	2,135	-1,305	$1,154	$37,087,189	$110	3
12	11	The Zookeeper's Wife	Focus	$2,023,845	-24.6%	1,057	+251	$1,915	$10,626,800	-	3
13	9	Logan	Fox	$1,937,295	-51.8%	1,415	-534	$1,369	$221,656,574	$97	7
14	13	Your Name.	FUN	$733,722	-59.5%	292	-19	$2,513	$3,369,779	-	2
15	15	The Shack	LG/S	$654,814	-40.0%	1,048	-60	$625	$56,078,874	-	7

I took my kids to see Spark: A Space Tail this weekend. I knew it wasn't going to be good, but they had been seeing the trailers on Cartoon Network and Nickelodeon (where it had been airing a lot) and wanted to see it, and I had some rewards and stuff so that it cost practically nothing (and we have already seen all of the other kids fare that is currently out), so we went.

It was a limited release, only 365 theaters nationwide, and opened at number 27 with only $116,873, a $320 per theater average.

This was not surprising to me, because we were the only people in the theater at 4 o'clock on Saturday of opening weekend, lol.

Given how limited this release was, it's surprising how many ads I saw on Cartoon Network, as it was airing at least once during every show.

Anyway, my kids had more fun with the fact that we had the whole theater to ourselves than they probably would have if we had to sit quietly and watch the whole movie, so it wasn't a total waste of my Saturday, lol.

Get Out is still going strong!

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	LW	Title (click to view)	Studio	Weekend Gross	% Change	Theater Count / Change		Average	Total Gross	Budget*	Week #
1	1	The Fate of the Furious	Uni.	$38,682,095	-60.8%	4,329	+19	$8,936	$163,578,315	$250	2
2	2	The Boss Baby	Fox	$12,750,000	-20.4%	3,697	-46	$3,449	$136,991,870	-	4
3	3	Beauty and the Beast (2017)	BV	$9,973,000	-27.2%	3,315	-277	$3,008	$471,097,384	$160	6
4	N	Born in China	BV	$5,147,000	-	1,508	-	$3,413	$5,147,000	-	1
5	5	Going in Style (2017)	WB (NL)	$5,005,000	-20.4%	3,038	-38	$1,647	$31,765,843	$25	3
6	4	Smurfs: The Lost Village	Sony	$4,850,000	-27.8%	2,737	-873	$1,772	$33,387,985	$60	3
7	N	Unforgettable (2017)	WB	$4,805,000	-	2,417	-	$1,988	$4,805,000	$12	1
8	6	Gifted	FoxS	$4,500,000	+45.6%	1,986	+840	$2,266	$10,714,792	-	3
9	N	The Promise (2017)	ORF	$4,064,860	-	2,251	-	$1,806	$4,064,860	$90	1
10	28	The Lost City of Z	BST	$2,147,379	+1,849.1%	614	+610	$3,497	$2,296,792	-	2
11	N	Phoenix Forgotten	CLF	$2,000,006	-	1,592	-	$1,256	$2,000,006	$2.8	1
12	7	Get Out	Uni.	$1,692,710	-43.3%	965	-459	$1,754	$170,330,855	$4.5	9
13	9	The Case for Christ	PFR	$1,580,000	-42.7%	1,247	-139	$1,267	$11,356,709	-	3
14	10	Kong: Skull Island	WB	$1,510,000	-44.2%	1,203	-815	$1,255	$163,933,946	$185	7
15	12	The Zookeeper's Wife	Focus	$1,471,990	-27.3%	1,029	-28	$1,431	$13,236,140	-	4
16	8	Power Rangers (2017)	LGF	$1,380,000	-51.0%	1,292	-879	$1,068	$83,067,052	$100	5
17	N	Free Fire	A24	$1,039,612	-	1,070	-	$972	$1,039,612	-	1
18	13	Logan	Fox	$950,000	-51.0%	754	-661	$1,260	$223,378,262	$97	8
19	11	Ghost in the Shell (2017)	Par.	$900,000	-63.5%	913	-1,222	$986	$39,131,504	$110	4
20	17	Colossal	Neon	$584,461	+28.7%	224	+126	$2,609	$1,357,566	-	3

Looks like The Promise will go down as one of the biggest flops ever. $4M opening on a $90M budget. Yikes.

BORN IN CHINA has done pretty well for a nature documentary.

Weekend Estimates for 4/28 - 4/30/17

<<Last Weekend <Last Year	View Index: By Year | By Weekend
TW LW Title (click to view) Studio Weekend Gross % Change Theater Count / Change Average Total Gross Budget* Week # 1 1 The Fate of the Furious Uni. $19,389,780 -49.5% 4,077 -252 $4,756 $192,721,355 $250 3 2 N How to be a Latin Lover PNT $12,018,500 - 1,118 - $10,750 $12,018,500 - 1 3 N Baahubali 2: The Conclusion GrtIndia $10,138,189 - 425 - $23,855 $10,138,189 - 1 4 N The Circle (2017) STX $9,320,000 - 3,163 - $2,947 $9,320,000 $18 1 5 2 The Boss Baby Fox $9,050,000 -28.8% 3,739 +42 $2,420 $148,465,584 - 5 6 3 Beauty and the Beast (2017) BV $6,400,000 -33.8% 3,155 -160 $2,029 $480,100,233 $160 7 7 4 Going in Style (2017) WB (NL) $3,580,000 -27.1% 2,761 -277 $1,297 $37,319,770 $25 4 8 5 Smurfs: The Lost Village Sony $3,315,000 -32.1% 2,554 -183 $1,298 $37,734,501 $60 4 9 8 Gifted FoxS $3,300,000 -27.6% 2,215 +229 $1,490 $15,830,025 - 4 10 7 Unforgettable (2017) WB $2,345,000 -51.0% 2,417 - $970 $8,883,819 $12 2 11 6 Born in China BV $2,243,000 -53.2% 1,508 - $1,487 $8,677,031 - 2 12 10 The Lost City of Z BST $1,732,559 -18.3% 866 +252 $2,001 $4,833,385 - 3 13 12 Get Out Uni. $1,716,250 +2.9% 1,563 +598 $1,098 $172,540,260 $4.5 10 14 N Sleight BH Tilt $1,690,085 - 565 - $2,991 $1,690,085 $0.25 1 15 15 The Zookeeper's Wife Focus $997,225 -28.7% 997 -32 $1,000 $14,813,420 - 5 16 13 The Case for Christ PFR $950,000 -40.0% 1,050 -197 $905 $13,015,165 - 4 17 16 Power Rangers (2017) LGF $870,000 -36.3% 889 -403 $979 $84,248,508 $100 6 18 18 Logan Fox $760,000 -21.8% 614 -140 $1,238 $224,496,711 $97 9 19 20 Colossal Neon $502,130 -13.3% 326 +102 $1,540 $2,071,715 - 4 20 21 Their Finest STX $500,000 -6.2% 330 +154 $1,515 $1,815,046 - 4 21 19 Ghost in the Shell (2017) Par. $430,000 -51.3% 456 -457 $943 $39,941,668 $110 5

Baahubali 2: The Conclusion, running a full 2hrs 47m, is now the highest opening and 2nd highest grossing for a Bollywood production in the United States (This is counting Monsoon Wedding which is debateable, it grossed $13m over its full run). It's the 3rd highest opening weekend for a foreign film and did so on only 425 screens (it may be #2 come tomorrow, #1 is Hero, #2 is Jet Li's Fearless)

Otherwise yeah, pretty boring weekend at the talkies.

That's pretty amazing. Two films aimed at ethnic audiences (Hispanic and South Asian) occupying the #2 and #3 boxoffice slots. When has that ever happened before? (It probably has. I just don't remember.)

Can someone decipher this paragraph about FATE OF THE FURIOUS from Box Office Guru for me?

It seems to be saying it's "second best all-time among Hollywood films" in China after F7, but then it says it passed F7 to rank "number one all-time among US films." Doesn't one contradict the other?

Must have something to do with the word LOCAL currency. Guessing maybe exchange rate or something?

So with Power Rangers not hitting it's budget in the US, are they really going to do sequels? Bummer The Circle pretty much bombed. And surprising Latin Lover actually crossed $10m

Yeah current currency exchange rates. The Chinese Yuan was stronger when Furious 7 came out. So while F8 made more yuan, the conversion isn't the same.

AND both surpassed the gross of a new thriller, based on a big best-selling novel and starring Tom Hanks and Emma Watson. I can't imagine anyone involved in making or marketing The Circle saw that one coming.

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	LW	Title (click to view)	Studio	Weekend Gross	% Change	Theater Count / Change		Average	Total Gross	Budget*	Week #
1	N	Guardians of the Galaxy Vol. 2	BV	$145,049,000	-	4,347	-	$33,368	$145,049,000	$200	1
2	1	The Fate of the Furious	Uni.	$8,528,965	-57.2%	3,595	-482	$2,372	$207,136,495	$250	4
3	4	The Boss Baby	Fox	$6,175,000	-34.1%	3,284	-455	$1,880	$156,735,525	-	6
4	2	How to be a Latin Lover	PNT	$5,250,000	-57.2%	1,203	+85	$4,364	$20,653,320	-	2
5	6	Beauty and the Beast (2017)	BV	$4,943,000	-27.6%	2,680	-475	$1,844	$487,594,615	$160	8
6	5	The Circle (2017)	STX	$4,020,000	-55.5%	3,163	-	$1,271	$15,715,113	$18	2
7	3	Baahubali 2: The Conclusion	GrtIndia	$3,242,532	-68.9%	418	-7	$7,757	$16,175,528	-	2
8	9	Gifted	FoxS	$2,055,000	-38.9%	1,874	-341	$1,097	$19,240,331	-	5
9	7	Going in Style (2017)	WB (NL)	$1,900,000	-47.3%	2,033	-728	$935	$40,600,918	$25	5
10	8	Smurfs: The Lost Village	Sony	$1,820,000	-48.8%	1,902	-652	$957	$40,570,574	$60	5
11	11	Born in China	BV	$1,210,000	-49.3%	1,414	-94	$856	$10,933,911	-	3
12	12	The Lost City of Z	BST	$1,047,249	-42.0%	815	-51	$1,285	$6,643,443	-	4
13	N	The Dinner	Orch.	$755,348	-	505	-	$1,496	$755,348	-	1

Weekend Actuals 5/5 - 5/7/2017, their estimate for Guardians was off by $1.5m, pretty reasonable margin for how much it actually made.

<<Last Weekend <Last Year	View Index: By Year | By Weekend
TW LW Title (click to view) Studio Weekend Gross % Change Theater Count / Change Average Total Gross Budget* Week # 1 N Guardians of the Galaxy Vol. 2 BV $146,510,104 - 4,347 - $33,704 $146,510,104 $200 1 2 1 The Fate of the Furious Uni. $8,577,175 -57.0% 3,595 -482 $2,386 $207,184,705 $250 4 3 4 The Boss Baby Fox $5,976,818 -36.2% 3,284 -455 $1,820 $156,537,343 - 6 4 2 How to be a Latin Lover PNT $5,144,904 -58.0% 1,203 +85 $4,277 $20,548,224 - 2 5 6 Beauty and the Beast (2017) BV $5,087,749 -25.5% 2,680 -475 $1,898 $487,739,364 $160 8 6 5 The Circle (2017) STX $3,959,045 -56.2% 3,163 - $1,252 $15,654,158 $18 2 7 3 Baahubali 2: The Conclusion GrtIndia $3,394,061 -67.5% 418 -7 $8,120 $16,330,025 - 2 8 9 Gifted FoxS $2,024,001 -39.8% 1,874 -341 $1,080 $19,209,332 - 5 9 8 Smurfs: The Lost Village Sony $1,838,424 -48.3% 1,902 -652 $967 $40,588,998 $60 5 10 7 Going in Style (2017) WB (NL) $1,835,383 -49.1% 2,033 -728 $903 $40,536,301 $25 5 11 11 Born in China BV $1,219,025 -48.9% 1,414 -94 $862 $10,942,936 - 3 12 12 The Lost City of Z BST $1,035,875 -42.7% 815 -51 $1,271 $6,632,068 - 4 13 14 Sleight BH Tilt $768,005 -54.9% 591 +26 $1,300 $3,001,200 $0.25 2 14 13 Get Out Uni. $711,155 -58.4% 818 -745 $869 $173,836,140 $4.5 11 15 10 Unforgettable (2017) WB $670,067 -72.2% 1,003 -1,414 $668 $10,630,178 $12 3

So King Arthur is "berried" this week I see. Got to be a joke in there somewhere.

Estimates have King Arthur around $14.4M. Yikes. Snatched at $16M. Not great but far lower budget. And Guardians 2 is looking at $60M (-59%).

5.3M for King Arthur on Friday. Ouch.

So much for the 6 film King Arthur plan.

$175M budget (and that's just the reported one, probably easily over $200M + advertising).

TW	LW	Title (click to view)	Studio	Weekend Gross	% Change	Theater Count / Change		Average	Total Gross	Budget*	Week #
1	1	Guardians of the Galaxy Vol. 2	BV	$63,007,000	-57.0%	4,347	-	$14,494	$246,164,419	$200	2
2	N	Snatched	Fox	$17,500,000	-	3,501	-	$4,999	$17,500,000	$42	1
3	N	King Arthur: Legend of the Sword	WB	$14,700,000	-	3,702	-	$3,971	$14,700,000	$175	1
4	2	The Fate of the Furious	Uni.	$5,301,160	-38.2%	3,067	-528	$1,728	$215,035,090	$250	5
5	3	The Boss Baby	Fox	$4,600,000	-23.0%	2,911	-373	$1,580	$162,379,270	-	7
6	5	Beauty and the Beast (2017)	BV	$3,860,000	-24.1%	2,172	-508	$1,777	$493,191,164	$160	9
7	4	How to be a Latin Lover	PNT	$3,750,000	-27.1%	1,123	-80	$3,339	$26,143,001	-	3
8	N	Lowriders	BH Tilt	$2,413,205	-	295	-	$8,180	$2,413,205	-	1
9	6	The Circle (2017)	STX	$1,740,000	-56.1%	2,132	-1,031	$816	$18,902,562	$18	3
10	7	Baahubali 2: The Conclusion	GrtIndia	$1,550,000	-54.4%	375	-44	$4,133	$18,934,072	-	3
11	8	Gifted	FoxS	$1,370,000	-32.3%	1,426	-448	$961	$21,434,033	-	6
12	9	Smurfs: The Lost Village	Sony	$1,175,000	-36.1%	1,605	-297	$732	$42,193,264	$60	6
13	10	Going in Style (2017)	WB (NL)	$1,040,000	-43.3%	1,244	-789	$836	$42,352,407	$25	6
14	N	The Wall	RAtt.	$891,590	-	541	-	$1,648	$891,590	-	1