Insider on BOT suggesting that those predictions are indeed looking to be too low, going by early friday numbers. So it begins. Preview numbers should be here soon anyway.
Edit: $8.5M previews. Solid but nothing spectacular. We should get early friday numbers soon. BOT guys are estimating about a $50M friday (incl. previews) based on pre-sales, which would be absolutely fantastic and probably lead to a $150M+ weekend. Saturday presales seem to be exploding everywhere in the world compared to friday, which is a rather odd consistent trend to have.
New edit: openiung day heading to more like $42M. Apparently Frozen 2 is as presale heavy as Infinity War, which is crazy. Cinemascore A- is disappointing (first was A+) so legs won't be spectacular. Looks like its heading for a good but not amazing run domestically, should still improve over the first film but not much. Needs overseas to go crazy if it wants a historic run.
Speaking of, the film is going absolutely mad in Japan. Seems like the all time admissions record for Saturday is being demolished - in fact its 6pm now and it looks like the record is already broken. Still, OW in Japan will be tiny compared to total due to nature of market, legs are way more important. South Korea is a similar story, its racing Endgame for the #1 all time saturday admission record and its gonna be close.
Edit: $8.5M previews. Solid but nothing spectacular. We should get early friday numbers soon. BOT guys are estimating about a $50M friday (incl. previews) based on pre-sales, which would be absolutely fantastic and probably lead to a $150M+ weekend. Saturday presales seem to be exploding everywhere in the world compared to friday, which is a rather odd consistent trend to have.
New edit: openiung day heading to more like $42M. Apparently Frozen 2 is as presale heavy as Infinity War, which is crazy. Cinemascore A- is disappointing (first was A+) so legs won't be spectacular. Looks like its heading for a good but not amazing run domestically, should still improve over the first film but not much. Needs overseas to go crazy if it wants a historic run.
Speaking of, the film is going absolutely mad in Japan. Seems like the all time admissions record for Saturday is being demolished - in fact its 6pm now and it looks like the record is already broken. Still, OW in Japan will be tiny compared to total due to nature of market, legs are way more important. South Korea is a similar story, its racing Endgame for the #1 all time saturday admission record and its gonna be close.