Puss in Boots 25m 3 day/ 46m 5 day
I Wanna Dance With Somebody 15m
Babylon 9m

Avatar The Way of Water- -40%

Babylon will bomb big;

Call the flopbulance, Babylon ingested "3 hours long" and "Margot Robbie" at the same time and is about to OD

Puss in Boots 30m 3 day/ 50m 5 day
I Wanna Dance With Somebody 25m
Babylon 10m

Avatar The Way of Water- -20% to -25% (will top 100m again)

I can potentially see Puss In Boots make a run for $250M+. Lyle/Strange combined won't even reach $90M total.

Superpets was the last family film to open with $12.5M+ OW FIVE months ago.

Puss could play as the defacto family movie people end up seeing too since Avatar may be too long for a larger family gathering or it'll be hard to secure high quality screens/seats for a while.

Dance is also going to break out but Boots could do a Meet The Fockers type jump here and almost double it's predecessor. People love Whitney but it will have Judy vibes in the sense that you know it doesn't end well though it's box office will be much higher.

Boots is the most viable option lots of people heading to the theaters will see as the fun stress free family movie. A generation raised on Shrek will only certainly help as will 11 years of no Shrek franchise films.

I didn't think Puss would make much. Maybe $80m total. So now it'll go and make $60 million opening weekend, lol, because all of this makes perfect sense:

Puss in Boots: The Last Wish - $16 million ($22 million 5-day)
I Wanna Dance with Somebody - $10 million
Babylon - $7 million
The Whale - $2-3 million (looks like it's expanding to 500-1000 theaters on Wednesday?)

Christmas Eve falling on Saturday is probably gonna make this a really underwhelming weekend. But I think most of them will increase next weekend at least, and Puss in Boots should have a nice leggy run like Sing 2 last year.

No reviews for the Whitney biopic...does not bode well. It seemed way too cheery from the trailers considering her life is actually a horrible tragedy (both her and her daughter ended up dying from drug overdoses). And they keep giving these biopics to uninspired directors because of unspoken representation rules. The Aretha biopic suffered the same middle-of-the-road fate. That said, Whitney was very very famous and has some very very famous songs, and this should have a solid audience. I see a $20-$25M opening over the 5 days.

Puss in Boots....absolutely no idea if this is still a relevant franchise with kids. Could go anywhere from low 20s to high 40s I feel.

Avatar I see dropping about 40-50% over the 3-day. I don't think reception is as good as the first.

Babylon will be completely DOA. Unless it's starring Leonardo DiCaprio (Aviator and Great Gatsby), audiences have proven time and time again they do not care at all about these grand old Hollywood tales of excess type films set in the 20s. And Margot Robbie is not a draw. Too beautiful to be relatable. American women like their movie stars pretty but not model-esque. Reese Witherspoon is the archetype. Same reason JLaw was huge for a while. Attractive but not intimidatingly so. Margot meanwhile is too perfect-looking. Sub $10M for the 5-day.

Making a Whitney movie about the good years is a waste and derivative of any other music movie. I want to see the crackhead Bobby Brown stuff.

I'm getting Bohemian Rhapsody vibes from Dance in the sense that I feel the audience will embrace it even if critics don't. BR had 60% from RT but an 85% audience score. Mariah is that same era and people that love these 90s icons REALLY love them so those fanbases will be there. Reviews will certainly help expand the net but Whitney is much more relatable to today's generation compared to Elvis and BR which were in their heyday much earlier. Clive Davis being actively involved will help with those Whitney fanbases.

Puss in Boots had no previews.

Thinking 9-10m today

Feeling that Avatar can hit 80m in its second weekend

Let's hope Puss In Boots pulls A Greatest Showman but looks like a very underwhelming holiday weekend but at least the dailies will be fun Christmas on!

Whitney biopic has horrible reviews as expected. They need to stop giving any creative control to the families with these biopics. It always results in a mediocre, watered down film.

The actress they chose is so fucking smug, too. She isn't like Whitney at all.

Devotion and Strange World slaughtered this weekend with that theatre count.

Strange World is also streaming today on Disney+ so no Christmas dailies for it to enjoy!

I heard about a week ago that Disney wouldn't report grosses anymore but it seems this week they decided to continue.

47% for Whitney, ouch. I mean, it's not deathly low but it's lower than I expected.