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It'll be interesting to see how reviews end up being. If they're good like I suspect they will be, that'll go a long way towards expanding the audience.

I don't expect reviews to be great, but they should be solid enough to maybe draw in an older audience interested in a film that's not all fight and 'slosions and juvenile humor.

Movietickets.com:

1. Maleficent - 36%
2. The Fault in Our Stars - 23%
3. X-Men: Days of Future Past - 12%
4. A Million Ways to Die in the West - 6%
5. Godzilla - 4%

At this pace, TFIOS should be #1 by tomorrow morning.

Maybe tonight!

Malificent 32%
Fault In Our Stars 29%

They need to not update so frequently. The temptation to F5 the shit out of their main page is intense.

Now the top 5

1. The Fault in Our Stars 32%
2. Malificent 30%
3. X-Men: Days of Future Past 10%
4. A Million Ways to Die In the West 5%
5. The Night Before Our Stars 3%

Holy Crap! The Night Before Our Stars showings cost $25 on Thursday! The one showing within 40 miles of me is sold out.

Yeah I was going to do that "Night Before Our Stars" thing but opted not to since it's $25 a ticket.

And that's amazing for it to be #1 already.

I presume the Night Before the Stars earnings will be dubiously folded into the film's Friday total.

Of course. Making it seem even more front-loaded.

I don't see why not. All other preview showings on Thursday nights seem to count. That will just make it drop that much harder on Saturday though. I wonder if it will drop as much as Sex and the City did on it's opening Saturday (34.4% drop).

I could see it being like the Wl-Mart previews with Man of Steel, where they're added to the film's gross but as a Thursday-only gross, since all of the screenings are strictly on Thursday only before midnight (as of now anyway).

The Walmart previews were a totally different animal. Walmart bought all those tickets, but didn't sell them all. The Night Before Our Stars is basically like buying a special edition of the movie with extras at the theater. The tickets were still sold for a viewing of the movie though. Plus there are all the other regular showings of it Thursday night.

I wasn't around for the Walmart/Man of Steel thing. What happened?

Why would Walmart even buy tickets for a WB movie?

Boost traffic during slow season per not fabio. Said it worked very well.

Looking really good and selling tickets so far ahead would mean good things. People could still buy tickets of Saturday which is one of my theories that Saturday's have been better these days.

Sorry for sounding uninformed but what the heck is night before our stars?? a special show of fault? And do we know if it will be included in the weekend gross or is this all up in the air??

It is a live Q&A with the stars, the director, and the novelist which will lead into a screening of the film. It costs $25. It is up in the air as to how its earnings will be reported.

Fault in our stars- 50
Edge of tomorrow- 32
maleficent- -50%
x-men- -45%
Godzilla- -48%

Fault is doing 50 minimum.
Cruise no clue at moment

Edge of Tomorrow reminds me of the A-Team, where it was a high-profile film with an all-star cast but it only opened just above $25M. I'm thinking $29M OW for this one.

Edge of Tomorrow reminds me of Cowboys & Aliens, which opened to 36.4 million.

Reviews for Edge of Tomorrow though are much better than they were for either of those films, and I think that kind of thing can help out a film like this - I don't think World War Z would've done nearly as well as it did if reviews were harsher. It could add a few million to the opening weekend, which would in turn add a lot more in the long run.

It'll be cool if both Edge of Tomorrow and Fault in Our Stars stay above 75% on RT by the weekend. Right now they're both at 90%.