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scarletspeed7 posted...

96.2 is pretty damn good!

Indeed. Perhaps most noticeably, Joker's figures have kept improving, going from steadily rising industry tracking to its weekend estimate to an actual almost $3 million ahead of said estimate. In terms of future prospects, Joker seems to have become a water-cooler movie, and word of mouth is average at worst, so I'd expect it to trend in line with Deadpool and Venom to finish over $250 million domestically.

Unfortunately, Joker wasn't enough to stop our year-on-year bleeding, since 2018 had the one-two punch of Venom and A Star is Born at this time, along with stronger holdovers. On the plus side, the rest of October looks quite healthy, and we should be able to come at least decently close to 2018's record for the month.

Internationally, Joker excelled to a $152.2 million debut from most of the world, with particularly huge debuts in South Korea ($16.1 million, fueled by a holiday) and Japan ($7 million), large markets that haven't taken to DC movies in the past. In other news, Gemini Man opened to a healthy $7 million from its initial few markets, including $3 million in France and Germany each, and looks poised to be a solid single for a beleaguered Paramount. In line with the rest of its run to date, Abominable didn't scale great heights in China, with $11.2 million in six days against huge holiday competition.

However, it was arguably local movies that produced the biggest international news this weekend, particularly in China where three overtly nationalist movies combined for over $600 million in 7 days, banking from releases timed for National Day. In India, action-showdown movie War was the big winner of the Gandhi Jayanti holiday with reportedly huge numbers, though I can't cite an estimate in good faith.
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