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Well done, Chien, you had an amazing run. You had the best possible slate about 3 or 4 of those weekends. Bravo!

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Those last few weekends were good to me. Here's hoping I'll keep it like that for the new season ;)
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speaking of, what words of wisdom do you have for us this week? What should we pick? ;) :D

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I'm going with Logan (I think it can take in $80 million) and seven Moonlights (the Best Picture win combined with physical copies being backordered on websites like Amazon should help make it a contender for the bonus).

Get Out will probably drop 50% despite the A- Cinemascore while the other three openers look like flops (I haven't seen anything for The Shack or Table 19 while Before I Fall aka Nickelodeon's The Butterfly Effect with Lea Thompson's Daughter is being dumped despite positive word out of Sundance).
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I don't know, Get Out had a very strong Monday and Tuesday. I'm thinking it will have a very good hold. Hidden Figures is priced very well too.
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Tempted by 8 LEGO Batmans. Would only really work if Logan underperforms, and it holds well, being the only cartoon in the market.
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undeadmonkey wrote:speaking of, what words of wisdom do you have for us this week? What should we pick? ;) :D
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To be honest I haven't even looked it yet. Everytime I do it on the friday.
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Well Six, we're the only one who didn't bet on Logan for our weekend's slate. If Deadline is right about The Shack numbers, that was a good move to bet on it.
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Yeah tracking was higher than I expected and the midnight number suggested a decent opening. Though Moonlight could surprise and get the bonus.

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The Shack is so high right now, Moonlight would need to have a gigantic boost over saturday and sunday to get the bonus.
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Yep, The Shack was the one to bet one this week.
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Ugh, what is the rhyme or reason why some of these Christian movies work and some don't?!

And why did Moonlight jump 250% after winning Best Picture while Spotlight/Birdman (which were both out on DVD also at the time) only gained 40%/119% after winning?

Doing a little research, that's the biggest jump after winning BP in at least the last 12 years.
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The Shack probably promoted itself through churches and Christian bookstores rather than using traditional marketing (it's based on a popular book). I never saw anything for it but I never saw anything for the first God's Not Dead (another film that used non-traditional promotional methods as Pure Flix believes all their films need to become a sort of social/political statement) pre-release either.

As for comparing Moonlight to Spotlight or Birdman, the latter two were played out by the time the Oscars occurred. Moonlight had a relatively small release pre-Oscars (the widest run before Friday was 1,104 theatres in a crowded late January weekend). Also, Lionsgate timed the home video release with the Oscars (Birdman and Spotlight were already available before the Oscars) and with copies being a difficult find (Amazon's still backordered) combined with the film not being free to stream on Prime yet, it simply made people want to see it in the theatre.
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I've got a bad feeling, I'm gonna break a leg or something soon, it's been the third consecutive week I got the perfect slate at this game, luck is gonna turn its back on me soon. I'm happy though :D
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