Reviews are really promising which will mean A LOT towards older audiences. A HUGE opening is assured, but if legs are as good as the reviews suggest than this might just be the first sequel to ever top a $400M+ predecessor.

TDKR?

...didn't outgross The Dark Knight, which is what Dil meant.

I am staring to think a lower opening and better legs.

Nothing to suggest anything over 180 million based on box office logic.

POTC 2, TDK, and Shrek 2 would have grossed more than their predecessors if they had earned 408m. It's just a fluke of the numbers. Most movies to earn 400m have maximized their potential.

In other news CF is in 2D not 3D

Beause the only way some people's openings make sense if it were in 3D

Tomato Watch:

Catching Fire

Reviews: 29
Fresh/Rotten: 28 Fresh /1 Rotten NA
97% Fresh / 3% Rotten
Average Rating: 7.7 / 10

Cream of the Crop
Reviews: 5
Fresh/Rotten: 5 Fresh / 0 Rotten
100% Fresh / 0% Rotten
Average Rating: 8.0 / 10

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Can it be Thursday night already?

The early reviews are really promising but so were the reviews of the predecessor.

And it was quite good, so that pretty much works out.

What. The second half of Catching Fire is the exact opposite of boring. It's what makes the descent into dullness in the first half of Mockingjay so much worse.

I don't think anyone who claims to be a "Tomato Watcher" over the years, can have possibly missed the fact that producers release their films early to be reviewed by media sources friendly to them/owned by them.

Whether a big budget movie finally ends up being Fresh or Rotten on Rotten Tomatoes, the first 25 or so early reviews are almost exclusively positive.

Its like the HP films.

They are good to the base and pretty okay to GA.

I don't hate this franchise at all. And even if I did, it wouldn't be because of Jennifer Lawrence. She's average in every way. I don't like or dislike her. I think The Hunger Games was a shit movie. Lawrence was probably one of the better parts of it. And why did you start about that anyway? My comment that you replied to wasn't anything to do with this franchise, just a humourous observation about your choice of words.

THIS.

Previews/Midnights - 33
OD - 81
OW - 175
DOM - 400

I cannot see this movie opening less than $175m just to see what Manny does after that with his gloat and all

no my base is 180 million which is the max for a 2d film imo


32
52
84
173/400

Tomato Watch:

Catching Fire

Reviews: 45
Fresh/Rotten: 41 Fresh /4 Rotten NA
91% Fresh / 9% Rotten
Average Rating: 7.6 / 10

Cream of the Crop
Reviews: 9
Fresh/Rotten: 8 Fresh / 1 Rotten
89% Fresh / 11% Rotten
Average Rating: 7.6 / 10

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The expert has spoken. If it does $1 over $180M Manny's life work will have been for nothing.

I perhaps look at the box office as looking at past openers while others look at buzz and hype and just base a predict on that.

THG is wider then HP and Twilight but still is a fanbase film so the weekend will be more frontloaded then THG.

oh really

Tomato Watch:

Catching Fire

Reviews: 58
Fresh/Rotten: 54 Fresh /4 Rotten NA
93% Fresh / 7% Rotten
Average Rating: 7.7 / 10

Cream of the Crop
Reviews: 13
Fresh/Rotten: 12 Fresh / 1 Rotten
92% Fresh / 8% Rotten
Average Rating: 7.5 / 10

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Every sequel has a fanbase.....some have very strict fanbase (aka Twilight) some have a wider lot more casual fanbase (THG). You decide which one will be more frontloaded.