Thursday, August 28, 2008

500 million

I guess it'll probably round 500 million this time next week, assuming it keeps bringing in a million a day and 5 million over the weekend. Maybe it'll settle at around 510-515? It's definitely not going to get close to beating that juggernaut, though. Titanic had 30 million dollar weekends for 9 weeks in a row, and then double digit weekends for 10 more after that. Batman, in comparison, shows the more standard distribution for a blockbuster - giant opening weekend ($150 million) following by a long tail. Titanic's mass is in the early days, too, but it it sustains huge weekend draw for much longer than Batman did. Batman, in other words, looks more like a modern blockbuster, and Titanic looks like nothing we've ever seen before, and maybe nothing we'll ever see again.

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