Let's just pretend this weekend didn't happen and jump to next one!

I'm expecting huge jumps. Avatar has a chance to make a run for top 3rd weekend of all time but could definitely eek out its predecessor for #2 ($68,490,688).

Avatar hopefully can crack 70m.

It would be cool if Puss in Boots could have a huge increase to like 20m, but 15m would be more reasonable.

Everything else that did low single digits this weekend should do high single digits

AVATAR 2 $87m (falls 3m short of the record)

Actuals for Avatar 2 came in much higher than estimates. The nationwide winter storm probably negated what....... $10-$20M from what it would have gotten? And it still held up well.

$600M here we come....
It could match Titanic's original unadjusted. And that's just domestic. WW is what will ultimately decide if we get an Avatar 4 and Avatar 5. I'm sure Cameron is immensely grateful for the China release. That will boost its WW totals even more.

I want to see:

Avatar - $75M+
Puss - $20M+
Dance - $10M+
Black Panther - $7M+
Whale - $2M+

We deserve it after last weekend.

Rough estimates on where these films will end up for the fun of it.

Avatar $588M
WF $447M
PIB $121M
Violent Night $48M
Dance $41M
Whale $30M
Babylon $20M

I hope there is another $20 million in Wakanda Forever's tank, but I don't hold out much hope. I have it and Violent Night in my draft, and I was estimating that I'd get about another $20 million from them combined. I feel after New Year's Day it will plummet.

But I share your hope re: The Whale. I have a feeling it will slow-burn its way to a $25 million or more gross.

You think it's only going to make another $4 million? It just did $870k on Tuesday. I get that it's a Christmas movie and it's bound to nosedive after Christmas, but it still has, what, five days left of the holidays? I definitely see it finishing over $50 million.

Avatar Wednesday- 20.4
Puss in Boots- 5.8

Yeah it will probably hold better. Let's see how quickly it holds on to it's audience but the lack of big competition helps.

COMPARISON:

NO WAY HOME
1st week - 600M
2nd week - 1.05B
3rd week - 1.37B
4th week - 1.53B

AVENGERS INFINITY WAR
1st week - 640M
2nd week - 1.16B
3rd week - 1.60B
4th week - 1.81B

AVATAR THE WAY OF WATER
1st week - 441M
2nd week - 863M
3rd week - 1.3B+
4th week - 1.5B-1.65B

Puss has been holding well over the week and could be at $70M by the end of the 4day weekend. It would be at a 5.63 multiplier from its $12.4M 3day opening already. If it holds well and gets another strong bump MLK weekend it could have a shot at passing its predecessor but is definitely recovering quickly.

I definitely see $120M right now since it would just edge out Lightyear. Feel DW wouldn't be able to resist getting Puss there if it were that close!

Cool, so WOW is going to have seven consecutive days above $20 million, and it's not its first seven days.

Well, it didn't hold all that much better. I expected (when I wrote that) that it would finish a couple of million above $50 million, not a few thousand, lol. But at least it reached the milestone. Good for it. Universal forced it over, lol.