However, there's no way in hell that's gonna happen, for one primary reason; as noted by Deadline, these Thursday night grosses contain cash made from a special Fathom Events advanced screening of the movie Tuesday night, which, I have a hunch, significantly boosted its Thursday night numbers. That's actually where I saw the film and can tell you firsthand that A) the tickets were uber expensive, over $20 per person, and B) the screening was extremely well attended, though I'm not sure if my theater was an anomaly or not considering that Disney hasn't said how much of the Thursday night moolah came from those Tuesday screenings.
Still, this is an impressive start, no matter how you slice it. There's no doubt Inside Out will rank behind Jurassic World for the weekend, but I'm even more convinced that the film will easily get the biggest opening weekend for a movie not opening at number one. Who knows? With these sort of Thursday night grosses indicating immense interest in the project, it may just be able to squeeze past Avatar to grab the biggest opening weekend of all-time for an original movie.
Meanwhile, the other new release of the weekend, Dope, also got off to a strong start last night, garnering $425 thousand last night. Comparing it just to past R-rated June comedies, if Dope played like Ted (which made $2.6 million from Midnight screenings before grossing $54 million for the weekend) for the weekend, it would make just under $9 million. Even though this one played earlier in the Thursday evenings than Ted, this being a much smaller film makes me think Dope will be a tad less frontloaded, and may just narrowly cross $10 million for the weekend. That would make it only the seventh movie from distributor Open Road Films to have an opening weekend over $10 million.
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