http://www.boxofficeguru.com/weekend.htm

Guru's predictions.

near my 108.5 million.

am i da only one who thinks pirates 2's u.s. marketing really wasnt all that big?

Nope.

I have heard there a lot of TV ads but i haven't seen them(I don't watch TV). Other then the boards on the net I would have had no idea it was coming out this weekend. The only poster I have seen is across the street fromt eh Moscone Center at the Metreaon. Zero Billboards, Hell I have seen more posters for a Scanner Darkly than PoTC 2.

It doesn't need to be everyone new about this from about a year ago.

I am not convinced. THE internet Fanboys know about it. The General public may know about it but not 100% knows it is coming out this week.

I believe someone posted a while back that the general interest and first-choice among the audiences were an all-time high. I think. xiayun would know.

Awareness is there. Marketing isn't as extreme as some other films, but it's just enough.

I beleive it was DPo7 and he was relieing on the Yahoo Buzz meters. I don't think there was any actual studio tracking for that.

No, I'm not referring to Yahoo!. It's another form of tracking, notfabio posted about it a while back.

A lot of the big openers Shrek 2, X-men 3 and Rots and Hp4 had a lot of hype but not many tv ads.


I also heard Disney wants to lower hype so it will not become a massive dissapointment. So i think its good for hype to be at matrix reloaded levels.

see if this had gotten sith-sized promotion id be saying it might do 150million+cause the demand is so high. but ill keep itat 140 cause awareness

Here it is.

http://www.worldofkj.com/forum/viewtopi ... 782#674782

And you can scroll down to see comparisons to X3, Da Vinci and others. That was three weeks ago.

Apparantly there are tons of TV ads.

The TC for potc2 is 4,133, third best ever.

Yeah but there is something fishy going on. For example, for some reason the theater has only 3 screens for Pirates and a normal blockbuster has 4-5. WHY??

Apparantly disney didnt make enough prints.

those idiots that can limit its opening weekend!!

I want to know why this movie is selling out in Denver and not SF. AMC Van Ness is 30% full right now for midnight showings apparantely. Yet elsewhere it is selling like mad? LA and Orlando make sense Disney is like god over there. Oh well I wonder how it is doing in New York?

Disney reported that they wanted to keep Cars in theaters long enough to make $200 million total or something. Kinda stupid, since it'll make it this weekend, but whatever.

I dout that. There will be sell outs(there are always sell outs) but the release is wide enough that it will sustain the demand for the film. Which I project is not as great as you guys seem to think it is.

i don't think it will be able to fill demand for this film at our theater if x-men 3 and hp4 sold out at evenings and nights on 5 screens.

pta is looking to be north of 30,000 even with its enormous 4133 count.

The way some of you guys are talking, an OD gross of 39mill would sound dissapointing, lol!

With the lowest possibile theater average i can forsee is $24,000 and it breaks 99 million

an opening day under 40 million WOULD be dissapointing.