Remember, this is a holiday weekend, so they're rolling up five days of sales and presenting it as three days worth.
If this was released a week later, it would've been closer to $111m gross (before theater split, before taxes), which is far short of the $300m-$350m total expenditure.
If this film doesn't have legs, and there's a substantial drop-off next week, they're going to have to take the L to offset something on their taxes from another film or the parks or D+.
Remember, this is a holiday weekend, so they're rolling up five days of sales and presenting it as three days worth.
If this was released a week later, it would've been closer to $111m gross (before theater split, before taxes), which is far short of the $300m-$350m total expenditure.
If this film doesn't have legs, and there's a substantial drop-off next week, they're going to have to take the L to offset something on their taxes from another film or the parks or D+.