It's called being realistic. It's not wrong to adjust your ratio based on the film's performance throughout the day and other factors (crowd reports).

For example, I think the projected ratio for Sith was 250 or 300. After updates of over 1,000 throughout the day, the same projected ratio doesn't seem realistic anymore.

i dunno...da vinci had TONS of presales...and those comes from the internet i believe .

Superman Returns never had those "big jumps"... the only big jumps it had was when it became unclogged. The only factor pointing towards a higher ratio is Crowd Reports... and imo, Yahoo is slightly more reliable.

so does my 22.5 million opening day look good?

Superman Returns 4108, +143, B+

PEACE, Mike.

With a ratio of 170, Superman Returns has $24.1 million for the day, with 3 updates still left.

PEACE, Mike.

Im going to go ahead and raise my ratio up to 400.

Granted, I have no idea where this "ratio" comes from, but Im confident in my rationality.

Crowd reports arent representing that though, it will be interesting to see how much it did.

Going by yahoo i say 24-27
Going by crowd reports 19-21

the rating remains strong.

Scott's theatre projection is $24 million, so I'm hoping Scott is right again.

PEACE, Mike.

is 5000 out of the question at this point? it is right? thats like 32 million. its defiently not clogged anymore, as it has 1300 written reviews, less the 1/3 of its ratings.

Cool, hopefully its right.

Its out of the question, i think it has about 350-400 more left in it.

I think it has a good shot at $25M, perhaps even $27-28M (which includes midnights). I still see the ratio being in the 160-175 range, but I'd by lying if I wasn't a little worried about it pulling a King Kong Ratio of 200+. From all indications, this will have an excellent opening day, which should bode well for a solid (but not record setting) weekend.

how are these "ratios" determined?

Superman returns: 4160, +52, B+

ight, possible clogging AGAIN

No, a 52-review hour at 10pm on the west coast doesn't mean it's clogged again. We just need to take the number as it is and project from there.

Superman returns: 4578 +418, B+

damn good.

He was right again.

1 more update left. To the people with expirience, whats your projections based on yahoo reviews?

lol wow. im a on a roll.

da vinci got estimated at 30 million 4700(it only got 28.5million though)

but atleast 25 million...alot depends on what comes next i guess.

and please how da fuck do you make this "ratio"?????????

looks like a 26m-29m opening day to me.

We take account how other movies that are similar to Supes performed.

thats it? wouldnt that be like.....20?

Still from the crowd reports, doesnt seem more then 22m is in store.