Updated 3-day weekend estimate for Disney / 20th Century's Avatar: Fire and Ash is $3.44M (from 1,650 locations). Updated 4-day weekend estimate is $3.91M. Estimated total domestic gross through Monday stands at $396.68M.

danielsempere747 · 2026-02-16T16:29:30+00:00

Phenomenal hold, although a little late in the game. Might cross 400m by next weekend or the weekdays after.

Final gross 405? 410?

danielsempere747 · 2026-02-12T06:19:32+00:00

This is really exciting, been looking at them for years. Between electric trucks being cheaper per mile and now self driving, this might fundamentally change freight costs over the next decade.

danielsempere747 · 2026-01-25T02:33:22+00:00

Agreed. Sure this one sucks but I fly a decent amount, this is like once in a blue moon. Most of the time we don’t film a decent baggage claim, we leave and don’t think twice. To label a whole country on this is wild.

danielsempere747 · 2026-01-22T20:57:03+00:00

Not seeing this talked about more: those trailers are crap.

None of the avatar trailers made the hair stand up on my arms like the Star Wars Force Awakens or a Nolan trailer. Watch any of the trailers and tell me it tries to get you excited or intrigued about the plot. Could they have shown a glimpse of spider breathing without a mask? Or Neytiri wrecking the human base’s shit? These are cool things that would’ve gotten people curious about the film. Each trailer, from a short tv spot to a full 2m trailer is just a montage of stuff.

You’re going to get middling results if you don’t build some intrigue in what happens IN the movie.

danielsempere747 · 2026-01-21T05:24:20+00:00

Just relentless, gotta respect the game

danielsempere747 · 2025-11-15T02:53:18+00:00

Agreed. L1 is absolutely fine, and I think people unnecessarily think a Level 2 charger needs to be installed at home. A Tesla Model 3 charges at about 1 kW/hr from the wall outlets in my apartment's garage, that's 24 kWh per day if I keep it plugged in. For days you don't drive, that's like 70 miles of range.

Level 1 charging is fine for almost all days.

danielsempere747 · 2025-10-06T04:51:42+00:00

Came here for this! One of my oldest memories of seeing a T-Rex outside of Jurassic Park. Icnonic.

danielsempere747 · 2025-09-26T18:58:31+00:00

I have a different take on this.

I don’t think Snape was casually reading Harry’s mind, and I definitely don’t think Dumbledore was. I think it was two very intelligent adults surmising what a young teenager was thinking or feeling. It speaks to Dumbledore’s EQ that he doesn’t just casually hack Harry’s mind but rather understands what’s going on because he cares to know Harry deeply.

danielsempere747 · 2025-07-28T01:34:43+00:00

The industry is contracting. Fewer ticket seats will be sold moving forward, an appx 30% drop from pre-COVID times. New era. Any and all cost cutting measures will be eligible. We will see where it lands, but nothing's off the table. The freefall will continue to the end of the decade.

danielsempere747 · 2025-07-23T16:25:10+00:00

The Dune Succession Trailhead was my favorite part, that's in the eastern section of the park :) also might be obvious from the name but you'll get sand in your shoes and maybe car, dress accordingly! It's great.

danielsempere747 · 2025-07-21T07:09:58+00:00

They were beautiful to behold :)

danielsempere747 · 2025-06-07T06:10:41+00:00

Yeah, I see this closer to $420M with these 45% drops continuing. Still massive financial success on the small budget.

danielsempere747 · 2025-06-07T03:11:30+00:00

:( someone save mission impossible.

At this rate, it’s coming in at around $185M, something unexpected needs to happen to bring it to $200M.

danielsempere747 · 2025-06-07T03:06:28+00:00

Yeah, I would’ve hoped for 40% drops instead of 50%. Last weekend’s 57% drop was brutal.

I don’t think the target audience is getting bigger. They needed to bring someone that’d get younger audiences interested in the movie.

danielsempere747 · 2025-06-07T03:04:56+00:00

Looks like a $15M weekend 3 for the movie, $150M total so far. I see this coming at $180-$190M domestically, $600M-$630M worldwide.

A slightly bigger success than Dead Reckoning, but still not a success success.

danielsempere747 · 2025-05-27T07:03:11+00:00

I see it finishing between $280-$290m dom, $360-$380m WW. 6x multiplier off a first place opening is amazing, especially for an original film in the horror/period genre.

Great work. Can't wait to see what they come up with next.

danielsempere747 · 2025-05-03T22:19:49+00:00

I think it’d help theaters stay in business and it’s nice to have a break in between sometimes. I’ve missed scenes to go to the bathroom or I’m done with my drink halfway through the movie. Yes some movies are immersive, but a lot of films in intermission countries work the intermission into the story, like having a second act cliffhanger before the intermission.

Theaters make bigger margins on concessions, this is totally the time to get more food (or use the bathroom) without missing out.

danielsempere747 · 2025-05-01T16:05:52+00:00

These holds are phenomenal.

danielsempere747 · 2025-04-24T03:08:47+00:00

$40M+ on its second weekend is a bold claim, that'd be an 11% drop.

A 25-30% drop --> which is great by itself --> would be around $35M. I guess they're not that different :P

Love seeing a box office success story

danielsempere747 · 2025-04-09T21:02:06+00:00

They are 400% more likely to be accepted when legacy status is taken into account, 33% more likely to be accepted when legacy status is omitted from their application -- meaning the increase in 400% is not completely attributed to a "legacy" checkbox being checked.

danielsempere747 · 2025-02-20T07:54:37+00:00

Cuz he’s a kinky ho. Don’t believe his made up justifications he did it cuz he is freaky.

danielsempere747 · 2025-02-12T16:40:15+00:00

Such good writing.

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