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Apparently I had a stroke mid-post.I'll be curious to see if territories outside of China will see a feclineto the levels of 6 or not.
It does seem probable that both BatB and F8 will both end up around $1.2B. I don't see DM3 getting there thanks to the reception of Minions, but I could be wrong; trailer views are very strong and, anecdotal but disturbing, that Minions ride at Universal had a 90 minute wait when I was there.I wouldn't be all that surprised if that happens.
Fast 6 made about $720M worldwide outside of China. Given that China looks set to at least match Furious 7's total of $390M, the rest of the world could pull Fast 6 numbers and we'd still get a $1.1B total.
I feel like this year is going to be BatB and Fate of the Furious fighting over second place worldwide, with Despicable Me 3 potentially pulling an upset if Minions didn't cool people on the talking bananas.
If the films are appealing, people will definitely show up. Summer 2013 was similar, with just hit after hit after hit every weekend until mid-August. It led to some very bad legs for movies, but that's still the biggest summer ever by about 10%.I still think there's going to be an aspect of "a rising tide lifts all boats" with some of these packed back-to-back weekends. More people at the box-office is a good thing, generally, so long as your film doesn't have shit word of mouth.