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BJ
Killing With Kindness
Joined: Mon Oct 11, 2004 8:57 pm
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BJs Kong Prediction:
Worst Case:
Fri: 14.254m +126%
Sat: 17.104m +20%
Sun: 12.828m -25%
Wknd: 44.186m
Best Case:
Fri: 14.254m +126%
Sat: 19.995m +40%
Sun: 15.996m -20%
Wknd: 50.245m
Im hoping for the 50m+ wknd.
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El Maskado
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 Ripper wrote: Libs wrote: El_Masked_esteROIDe_user wrote: Nah I think it will struggle to 200 million. It will probably get between 185million or little more. As shown by its backloadedness, it probably wont have the wonderful holiday weekdays from late dec to Jan2 which is where most holiday movies money comes in. Its 3 hrs long and seems more suited for weekends But people have work and school off so weekdays will function as weekends. Most peple only have Christmas off unless they are teachers/professors/students, they only get Christmas Eve off this year because it falls on a Saturday. Sure mnay people take vacation time, but lots of people have to work the day after and before holidays. Yup exactly. Im probably going to up my Kong prediction to 220 million. I just saw the movie today and although I have been making fun of Kong and I came to the theater with low expectation. Surprisingly, I really enjoyed the movie, even moreso than Batman Begins. Hopefully it will have low drops next week. There was a concern though how numbers will pan out today since at the Krkorian where Im at a few showings of Kong were cancelled. However, there were quite alot of people clapping at the end so the legs may end up being better than Batman Begins. What worked for me about Kong is how it plays that tragic element of the movie at the final scene. I guess it was like watching ET except he dies at the end
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xiayun
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Actually that's not necessarily the case. Since both Christmas Eve and Christmas fall on weekend, my company (WindRiver) has both Friday before and Monday after off to compensate the fact. And since the same case apply to New Year Eve and New Year, we will have next week's Thursday and Friday off as well. So in essence, we only need to work for 2 days next week (Tuesday and Wednesday), and a lot of us are basically just taking the whole week off since two vacation days give you a 10-day break. The policy applies to a lot of other companies as well.
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Chippy
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I don't get why people are saying Kong will drop next Saturday?!?!?
No time in history has a movie dropped on the Saturday which Christmas Eve fell...
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Amos
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ChipMunky wrote: I don't get why people are saying Kong will drop next Saturday?!?!?
No time in history has a movie dropped on the Saturday which Christmas Eve fell... Are you sure? If you have some daily figures from the last Dec 24th Saturday I'd be interested in seeing them btw... 
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| Sun Dec 18, 2005 2:37 am |
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Chippy
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Amos wrote: ChipMunky wrote: I don't get why people are saying Kong will drop next Saturday?!?!?
No time in history has a movie dropped on the Saturday which Christmas Eve fell... Are you sure? If you have some daily figures from the last Dec 24th Saturday I'd be interested in seeing them btw... It's not dailies... but If I had a premier pass to BOM I'm sure I could get them... maybe...
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zingy
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ChipMunky wrote: Amos wrote: ChipMunky wrote: I don't get why people are saying Kong will drop next Saturday?!?!?
No time in history has a movie dropped on the Saturday which Christmas Eve fell... Are you sure? If you have some daily figures from the last Dec 24th Saturday I'd be interested in seeing them btw... It's not dailies... but If I had a premier pass to BOM I'm sure I could get them... maybe... 1994 Christmas WeekendBOM's daily information only goes back until 2002.
It's not available, so we'll have to go off the assumtion that Christmas Eve acts like any other year, even if it does fall on a Saturday.
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Chippy
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Zingaling wrote: ChipMunky wrote: Amos wrote: ChipMunky wrote: I don't get why people are saying Kong will drop next Saturday?!?!?
No time in history has a movie dropped on the Saturday which Christmas Eve fell... Are you sure? If you have some daily figures from the last Dec 24th Saturday I'd be interested in seeing them btw... It's not dailies... but If I had a premier pass to BOM I'm sure I could get them... maybe... 1994 Christmas WeekendBOM's daily information only goes back until 2002. It's not available, so we'll have to go off the assumtion that Christmas Eve acts like any other year, even if it does fall on a Saturday. When you assume you only make an ass out of u and me _________________trixster wrote: shut the fuck up zwackerm, you're out of your fucking element trixster wrote: chippy is correct
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lilmac
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I don't know what's more underwhelming, Narnia or Kong's Friday $$
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STEVE ROGERS
The Greatest Avenger EVER
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baumer72 wrote: Well, suddenly I feel like buying a beer for MAV, BKB, Rawsaw and myself. Finally, the loonies are crying in their King Kong underoos and are praying to the gods that Kong somehow makes more than 150 mill. It doesn't matter that the Christmas weekend is coming up. There is lots of competition this weekend with Jim Carrey about to launch his film on the box office. Kong is an unmitigated disappointment. Deal with it.
Dign Dong the loonies are dead...the wicked loonies are dead!!!!!!!!!!!!1 
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Bradley Witherberry
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ChipMunky wrote: When you assume you only make an ass out of u and me That is the most senseless saying I have ever heard. This site is founded on assumptions...
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STEVE ROGERS
The Greatest Avenger EVER
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bradley witherberry wrote: ChipMunky wrote: When you assume you only make an ass out of u and me That is the most senseless saying I have ever heard. This site is founded on assumptions... 
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DP07
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ChipMunky wrote: Amos wrote: ChipMunky wrote: I don't get why people are saying Kong will drop next Saturday?!?!?
No time in history has a movie dropped on the Saturday which Christmas Eve fell... Are you sure? If you have some daily figures from the last Dec 24th Saturday I'd be interested in seeing them btw... It's not dailies... but If I had a premier pass to BOM I'm sure I could get them... maybe... 1994 Christmas WeekendThose weekend increases and decreases are comparing a 3 day weekend to a 4 day weekend. Since Monday was likely even higher then Friday Sat or Sun, I think we can say that the 3 day weekend will show normal drops at the very least. In fact they are probably abover normal for the week. Saturday drops will be a fact for all films. The 24th is always like that.
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Goldie
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xiayun wrote: Actually that's not necessarily the case. Since both Christmas Eve and Christmas fall on weekend, my company (WindRiver) has both Friday before and Monday after off to compensate the fact. And since the same case apply to New Year Eve and New Year, we will have next week's Thursday and Friday off as well. So in essence, we only need to work for 2 days next week (Tuesday and Wednesday), and a lot of us are basically just taking the whole week off since two vacation days give you a 10-day break. The policy applies to a lot of other companies as well. With Xmas eve on Saturday and Xmas on Sunday, I think you will see most companies just getting Monday off. Same logic goes for New Year the following week.
Also Friday and Saturday could be big shopping days if people are late???
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