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At last, I know why 6ixStringJack has been posting about this movie, which could be a two-part episode of Law & Order Special Victims Unit. No one would pay theater prices to see this, other than to show support for Trump. The more money the movie makes, the more support is shown for Trump.

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Nope. This is all news to me. I don't follow Trump on Truth Social. I don't go to church. I don't watch religious flicks. And I don't take anything somebody says that is hyper-religious like this seriously.

I've never seen Passion of the Christ. I did see Jim Cavezel in a remake of the TV show The Prisoner once. He's a good actor. I don't imagine we'd have a very interesting conversation in real life though. I tend to shut religious people talking about religion down very quickly.


I just love seeing a movie with a $14 Million budget destroy Hollywood, and then I get a double dose of entertainment when the people who hate on it are all pedophile groomer Democrats.

You should sit this one out and just let Hollywood take the L this time, son.

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Nope. This is all news to me. I don't follow Trump on Truth Social. I don't go to church. I don't watch religious flicks. And I don't take anything somebody says that is hyper-religious like this seriously.

I've never seen Passion of the Christ. I did see Jim Cavezel in a remake of the TV show The Prisoner once. He's a good actor. I don't imagine we'd have a very interesting conversation in real life though. I tend to shut religious people talking about religion down very quickly.


I just love seeing a movie with a $14 Million budget destroy Hollywood, and then I get a double dose of entertainment when the people who hate on it are all pedophile groomer Democrats.

You should sit this one out and just let Hollywood take the L this time, son.

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6ix and JewelStaiteFan and every Trumptard I know just so happen to have the same obsession with Sound of Freedom. You Trumptards are so full of bullshit that your lives fall apart and you have to find scapegoats like Woke/Disney/Hollywood and leaders like Mein Führer Donald Trump to give your shapeless lives readymade enemies, structure, and purpose.

The Joss Whedon script for Serenity, where Wash lives, is Serenity-190pages.pdf at
https://www.mediafire.com/folder/1uwh75oa407q8/Firefly

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But I have still been noticing trends, and I'll make a table to help show this.
I fully expect most folk will not have interest in this, but I think it is curious. Not only because Sound of Freedom is such a wonderful film, but also because it is breaking the mold, much like Maverick did last year.

Barbie has been benefitting from strong summer weekday sales, which SMB did not have. (SMB is a Seth Rogan film?) SoF has had strong Saturday and Sunday figures, the days when honest working folk are not working.

Over the weekend, Barbie made 53.0% of it's Production Budget. Sound of Freedom made 54.0% of it's Production Budget.

I m using $14M as the Production Budget figure for Sof, and $100M for Barbie. Barbie's international balances may bounce around, but this table is using the stated observation of 47.5% Domestic and 52.5% International.

All figures not tagged with % are Millions of Dollars.
For Barbie figures, the same figures are both $Millions, but also % of Production Budget.
1st column is Date.
2nd column is SoF Single Day BO.
3rd column is Single Day BO % of Budget.
4th and 5th are Total Cummulative Box Office, and then % of Budget.
6th and 7th are Last 7 Days of Box Office, and then % of Budget. All for Sound of Freedom.
8th column is Barbie single Day Domestic Box Office.
9th column is the % of Budget gain on SoF % for the same day.
10th column is the Total of Barbie's Domestic Box Office.
11th column is the total of the Last 7 Days of Barbie's Domestic Box Office.
12th is the % gain on SoF for the same Last 7 Day period.
13th column - 18th columns are the same things, but for Worldwide Box Office.

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July 30 was the first day that Barbie made less Domestic BO % of Budget than SoF did.
Then again on 5 and 6 August.
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It is currently taking about 7 days for Barbie WWBO to gain 100% on SoF.
Barbie will have Japan release this week.
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If trends continued, then according to this table, Barbie would not have enough to catch up to SoF in the next week. Barbie currently at 1201% of $100M denominator, and falling to less gains each day. Barbie behind SoF by 47% with these calculations, and currently takes 7 days to gain 64%.

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I think the green numbers at The Numbers is prelim or estimated figures, and black are the real figures.
They just turned black for the weekend.
Sunday SoF jumped up to highest take per screen, beating Indy5 and Red Door. It was estimated behind Red Door.

Also, every single day since release, SoF has more $ per screen that Indy5.
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If trends continue, I expect SoF to gain another 50% this week (end 20 Aug), and another 30% the next week (end 27 Aug), making it about 1315%.
Using Oppy as a guide, 1/5 of the International Box Office comes from UK, Australia, Mexico. i expect $18M from these 3, which would make it about 1445% when these are tallied. Australia starts trickling in after 24 Aug, and UK/Mexico after 1 Sep.

I do understand that Barbie has a Production Budget of $145M. However, my other table is done to show the numerical trends I had noticed, and I will continue that without changing the denominator, to demonstrate the trend.
If Barbie had continued the trend, I had seen that Barbie would overtake SoF in 2 weeks, and then 2 weeks later would fall below SoF again. That would be IF the summer weekdays continued past 20 Aug, and SoF had no Box office from International.
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Green Lantern Vs. The Flash: Which DC Comics Hero Fared Worse At The Box Office?

https://www.looper.com/1365678/green-lantern-the-flash-dc-comics-hero-
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Speaking of The Flash...

You mentioned earlier than anybody else that I'd heard from that The Flash may have cost $300 Million instead of the reported $200 Million, but when I asked for links on that you didn't respond.

However, just yesterday I heard the same thing myself.

https://www.cbr.com/the-flash-budget-bigger-dceu/


They reference THIS article, which was about merchandising of movies this year:

https://www.hollywoodreporter.com/business/business-news/barbie-transf
ormers-ninja-turtles-summer-toys-1235566369/amp/

I'm not going to change anything in my lists yet based off of this source, which everyone is now reporting on. Given that the article wasn't even about the Box Office or The Flash specifically, this could possibly have been a typo that just got "telephoned" out of control once somebody caught it.

It will be on my radar going forward though.

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But I have still been noticing trends, and I'll make a table to help show this.
I fully expect most folk will not have interest in this, but I think it is curious. Not only because Sound of Freedom is such a wonderful film, but also because it is breaking the mold, much like Maverick did last year.

Barbie has been benefitting from strong summer weekday sales, which SMB did not have. (SMB is a Seth Rogan film?) SoF has had strong Saturday and Sunday figures, the days when honest working folk are not working.

Over the weekend, Barbie made 53.0% of it's Production Budget. Sound of Freedom made 54.0% of it's Production Budget.

I m using $14M as the Production Budget figure for Sof, and $100M for Barbie. Barbie's international balances may bounce around, but this table is using the stated observation of 47.5% Domestic and 52.5% International.

All figures not tagged with % are Millions of Dollars.
For Barbie figures, the same figures are both $Millions, but also % of Production Budget.
1st column is Date.
2nd column is SoF Single Day BO.
3rd column is Single Day BO % of Budget.
4th and 5th are Total Cummulative Box Office, and then % of Budget.
6th and 7th are Last 7 Days of Box Office, and then % of Budget. All for Sound of Freedom.
8th column is Barbie single Day Domestic Box Office.
9th column is the % of Budget gain on SoF % for the same day.
10th column is the Total of Barbie's Domestic Box Office.
11th column is the total of the Last 7 Days of Barbie's Domestic Box Office.
12th is the % gain on SoF for the same Last 7 Day period.
13th column - 18th columns are the same things, but for Worldwide Box Office.

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July 30 was the first day that Barbie made less Domestic BO % of Budget than SoF did.
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Today's updated International figures for Barbie put it at 1280% of $100M, which was the denominator used for building this table. So that would be 11% more than SoF on the same day. Barbie was showing 1227% as of yesterday. At that point, it had 45.5% Domestic and 54.5% International.

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Angel Studios pointed out that in the history of Hollywood, 10 films have made more than 35% more on their 2nd weekend than on their 1st weekend.
All 10 were during the Christmas Holidays.
Until Sound of Freedom.

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Yeah. I don't think it's going to outright flatline out of the blue, but you can already see the numbers coming back down to earth. It could stay in theaters as long as a movie like Guardians 3 did, with ever diminishing returns until it's making about $30 per theater.

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SIX: Yeah. It could very well still beat M3GAN and take number 1. But that depends on if the international release is "REAL" or not. If it gets 700+ theaters in places like UK and Australia like Barbie did, it should not have any problems finishing out the year in first place. However, if this is simply a formality and they're going to just dump this movie in only about 50 theaters in each international location, the international box office numbers are only going to amount to a few million dollars.

Time will tell. It's a shame that the international release dates are so late and aren't even going to start until all the hype in the US has long died down.

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'Sound of Freedom' Funder Fabian Marta Arrested For Child Kidnapping

By Aleks Phillips On 8/4/23 at 10:39 AM EDT

St. Louis Metropolitan Police confirmed to Newsweek that Marta, 51, from Chesterfield, Missouri, was charged on July 21, and was arrested on July 23.

https://www.newsweek.com/sound-freedom-funder-fabian-marta-arrest-chil
d-kidnapping-1817498

A child molester funds a movie about child sex slaves. 6ixStringJack, that is "odd behavior."

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Possible hit job. They can't verify anything that they've claimed.

You don't know he's a child molester. The article doesn't even claim that he's an alleged child molester. They don't have any details at all about the kidnapping. For all we know he took his own kids back from their abusive mom and step-dad.

But hey... If he was diddling kids, cut his fucking balls off and throw him in the ocean with cement shoes on. I don't protect pedophiles like you regularly do.

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That's demonstrably false. Sound of Freedom REGULARLY beat the likes of Indiana Jones and Mission Impossible and thoroughly embarrassed them and their $300 Million and $290 Million budgets with its paltry $14 Million budget at the domestic box office in July.

Date - SoF DomesticBO / Indy5 DomesticBO / MI7 DomesticBO

Jul 4, 2023 / $14,242,063 / $11,698,989 /
Jul 5, 2023 / $4,047,558 / $5,536,113 /
Jul 6, 2023 / $3,697,749 / 5,308,265 /
Jul 7, 2023 / $5,208,443 / $7,741,455 /
Jul 8, 2023 / $7,176,860 / $11,098,980 /
Jul 9, 2023 / $7,295,576 / $8,580,641 /
Jul 10, 2023 / $4,000,345 / $3,234,182 /
Jul 11, 2023 / $3,829,243 / $3,460,627 / $7,000,000
Jul 12, 2023 / $4,424,714 / $2,258,921 / $15,516,660
Jul 13, 2023 / $4,576,030 / $2,279,730 / $8,286,890
Jul 14, 2023 / $7,491,176 / $3,278,407 / $16,660,010
Jul 15, 2023 / $10,225,969 / $4,876,616 / $21,190,469
Jul 16, 2023 / $9,563,034 / $4,113,402 / $16,837,868
Jul 17, 2023 / $4,954,802 / $1,520,754 / $5,304,094
Jul 18, 2023 / $5,449,143 / $2,227,509 / $7,273,490
Jul 19, 2023 / $4,722,496 / $1,580,304 / $4,740,147
Jul 20, 2023 / $3,702,736 / $1,362,005 / $3,443,841
Jul 21, 2023 / $5,706,503 / $1,936,077 / $5,562,737
Jul 22, 2023 / $7,434,144 / $2,662,443 / $7,801,540
Jul 23, 2023 / $6,684,928 / $2,079,981 / $5,990,234
Jul 24, 2023 / $3,168,715 / $961,273 / $2,374,770
Jul 25, 2023 / $3,391,237 / $1,276,920 / $3,178,059
Jul 26, 2023 / $3,001,183 / $955,978 / $2,216,022
Jul 27, 2023 / $2,568,118 / $893,333 / $2,131,202
Jul 28, 2023 / $3,766,483 / $1,152,500 / $3,009,552
Jul 29, 2023 / $4,813,624 / $1,655,071 / $4,366,343
Jul 30, 2023 / $4,233,910 / $1,165,676 / $3,245,008
Jul 31, 2023 / $2,001,037 / $579,876 / $1,390,126
Aug 1, 2023 / $2,061,068 / $619,031 / $1,682,109
Aug 2, 2023 / $1,561,130 / $448,769 / $1,181,994
Aug 3, 2023 / $1,440,581 / $413,269 / $1,169,605

Days in July that SoF beat Indy 5: 22 straight days out of 28 days they were both in theaters in July. (06/10 - 06/31)

Days in July that SoF beat MI7: 3 days in a row (06/19-06/21) and then 9 days in a row (06/23-06/31), for a total of 12 out of 21 days they were both in the theater in July.

Not only that, it's going to beat both of those movies every single day for the rest of their runs, and it will have the highest domestic box office of all 3 of them when they leave theaters.


When they're going to be petty enough to lie about this when it is so easy for joe nobody to refute, why would you believe the entire article wasn't just a hit job by some wackjob with an agenda like you?
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Yes, the resident pedophiles and groomers have jumped on the pedophile and groomer bandwagon.

These allegations are made by Jim Stewartson, who labels himself an "anti-disinformation activist" - which should give the big hint right there.

Who's disinformation is he against? Fake News disinformation? Biden disinformation?
He states that he is an activist against Qanon.
He considers truth and facts to be disinformation. He also expresses displeasure at being called out as a pedophile and groomer, just like most pedophiles and groomers dislike being called pedophiles and groomers.


Much of what Tim Ballard does could also be called Child Abduction, without permission of "guardian". When stoln children are being held or trafficked by Fake Parents, rescuing these children victims is often called "abduction" - especially by Libtard festering sh!thole cities like St. Louis.

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Still no updates to the Sound of Freedom situation.

There was no Domestic Box Office for it on Wednesday, and it is not on Bruce's Theater Count list for the weekend.


Now he hasn't put a Place for any movies on Wednesday after 6th place, which one could argue is because he's waiting on those numbers before determining what place MI7 and Haunted Mansion got for the day, but he only listed up to 5th place the day before and 6th place on Monday as well, even though Sound of Freedom was on those lists.


I went to Fandango and started an order process for one of the local theaters they have listed as showing it for tonight, and up until the point where you put in your email and credit card information it appears to go off without a hitch.

The AMC nearest me appears to have 2 showings today... both matinee. Looking at surrounding AMC theaters it appears to still be showing in most, but not all of them. The smaller ones that show it appear to have 2 showings per day, both in the morning and early afternoon. Larger ones might have 3 showings. None of them at night. Barbie has gotten as many as 9 showings, and Blue Beetle around 6 or 7.

So it would appear that SoF is still in theaters, so I don't know what's going on here.
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But I have still been noticing trends, and I'll make a table to help show this.
I fully expect most folk will not have interest in this, but I think it is curious. Not only because Sound of Freedom is such a wonderful film, but also because it is breaking the mold, much like Maverick did last year.

Barbie has been benefitting from strong summer weekday sales, which SMB did not have. (SMB is a Seth Rogan film?) SoF has had strong Saturday and Sunday figures, the days when honest working folk are not working.

Over the weekend, Barbie made 53.0% of it's Production Budget. Sound of Freedom made 54.0% of it's Production Budget.

I m using $14M as the Production Budget figure for Sof, and $100M for Barbie. Barbie's international balances may bounce around, but this table is using the stated observation of 47.5% Domestic and 52.5% International.

All figures not tagged with % are Millions of Dollars.
For Barbie figures, the same figures are both $Millions, but also % of Production Budget.
1st column is Date.
2nd column is SoF Single Day BO.
3rd column is Single Day BO % of Budget.
4th and 5th are Total Cummulative Box Office, and then % of Budget.
6th and 7th are Last 7 Days of Box Office, and then % of Budget. All for Sound of Freedom.
8th column is Barbie single Day Domestic Box Office.
9th column is the % of Budget gain on SoF % for the same day.
10th column is the Total of Barbie's Domestic Box Office.
11th column is the total of the Last 7 Days of Barbie's Domestic Box Office.
12th is the % gain on SoF for the same Last 7 Day period.
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July 30 was the first day that Barbie made less Domestic BO % of Budget than SoF did.
Then again on 5 and 6 August.
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Today's updated International figures for Barbie put it at 1280% of $100M, which was the denominator used for building this table. So that would be 11% more than SoF on the same day. Barbie was showing 1227% as of yesterday. At that point, it had 45.5% Domestic and 54.5% International.
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DR is having better Box Office than SoF lately, but it's Domestic total remains $13M behind.


Went to see SoF again yesterday. The 3rd time I tried, it was Sold Out again and I was not allowed to see it. This time I did see it, the 3rd time. This was in a vintage cinema, with $4 shows, every show, every seat, and the largest screens in the county. Right next to Barbie's $4 shows.
Planning to see Retribution next week, so wanted to sneak this one in before running out of time.

Angel Studios pointed out that in the history of Hollywood, 10 films have made more than 35% more on their 2nd weekend than on their 1st weekend.
All 10 were during the Christmas Holidays.
Until Sound of Freedom.

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Nope. No new info from the predictions article. Since Bruce only mentions the Top 10 predictions, and he doesn't have Sound of Freedom in the Top 10 this week, that article was no help.

Mission Impossible 7 somehow started beating SoF on a daily basis in the last week by a moderate amount, given how little they're both taking in per day. Haunted Mansionwas sandwitched in between both of them and only beat SoF by around $7k yesterday.

MI7 is gaining 72 theaters for Cinema Day week, and Haunted Mansion is going to lose 550 theaters, and they'll be at 1,680 and 1,630 respectively. On the flip side, The Little Mermaid is going to show in a stupid 1,600 theaters this week and SMB in an equally stupid 1,451 theaters. If I didn't suspect that SoF is going to get bumped hard to make room for those two, I'd say that SoF would normally have dropped to somewhere around 1,500-1,600 theaters this weekend... But who knows.

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I saw recently that the Producer said the film started shooting in 2015.


Thanks for pointing out that Box Office Mojo posted International figures - I did not know this, nor would have.
I am not familiar with this site, and it does not have decent navigation, and most of the tabs and buttons seem to not work.
I found the $267K figure you mentioned, but nowhere found "in 5 countries" stated.

After poking around there, I found some info.

UAE had $153 K last weekend, in 39 theaters. $ per theater was 6th, less than Barbie in 146, Jailer in 116, Gran Turismo in 67, Oppy in 38.

South Africa had $87.9 K last weekend. SoF has the lowest theater count of the top 6 Films for the weekend. #2 Box Office, and highest $ per theater - more than 2x of Meg 2, which was 4th.

Iceland had $11.9 or $14.7 in 8 theaters. I'm not sure which, that table is unclear. Distributed by Sam Film. #3 ranked, and also #3 in $ per theater, unless counting DR in 1 theater. Widest release is Turtles in 13.

New Zealand had $5.6 K in 3 theaters last weekend, and did not have the yellow-coded "new entry" this week. Distributed by Icon - address in Australia, I think this is still a Mel Gibson unit. #5 in $ per theater.

Lithuania had $5.6 K in 16 theaters, and was ranked #2 in $ per theater. DR also had 16 in 6th week. Widest release was Barbie with 111 theaters.

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I think the green numbers at The Numbers is prelim or estimated figures, and black are the real figures.
They just turned black for the weekend.
Sunday SoF jumped up to highest take per screen, beating Indy5 and Red Door. It was estimated behind Red Door.

Also, every single day since release, SoF has more $ per screen that Indy5.
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If trends continue, I expect SoF to gain another 50% this week (end 20 Aug), and another 30% the next week (end 27 Aug), making it about 1315%.
Using Oppy as a guide, 1/5 of the International Box Office comes from UK, Australia, Mexico. i expect $18M from these 3, which would make it about 1445% when these are tallied. Australia starts trickling in after 24 Aug, and UK/Mexico after 1 Sep.

I do understand that Barbie has a Production Budget of $145M. However, my other table is done to show the numerical trends I had noticed, and I will continue that without changing the denominator, to demonstrate the trend.
If Barbie had continued the trend, I had seen that Barbie would overtake SoF in 2 weeks, and then 2 weeks later would fall below SoF again. That would be IF the summer weekdays continued past 20 Aug, and SoF had no Box office from International.
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Topsy turvy figures at The Numbers this weekend.
SoF was showing Friday and Sat theater counts the same as last week, then dropped to about 2,100 on Sunday.
Currently listing 2,152 for Friday; 1,501 for Saturday; and 2,152 for Sunday.

Today is the 49th day of release for SoF. 7 weeks. Saturday was showing more theater count than in it's opening days. Although practically at the bottom of the 11 wide-release films, still bouncing up to 9th place (Sunday). And more than 4 times the Box Office of the next tier, the 12th place film. And hitting 8th place for $ per theater (Saturday).

For the weekend, SoF came in at 10th., just ahead of Bram Stoker's Ship. And just below Dead Reckoning - which is still $13M behind in Dom BO.

I don't expect South Africa figures to show up soon. But I would not be surprised to see Australia figures next Monday.

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I think the green numbers at The Numbers is prelim or estimated figures, and black are the real figures.
They just turned black for the weekend.
Sunday SoF jumped up to highest take per screen, beating Indy5 and Red Door. It was estimated behind Red Door.

Also, every single day since release, SoF has more $ per screen that Indy5.
Even when it added more than 13% more theaters for the weekend.

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If trends continue, I expect SoF to gain another 50% this week (end 20 Aug), and another 30% the next week (end 27 Aug), making it about 1315%.
Using Oppy as a guide, 1/5 of the International Box Office comes from UK, Australia, Mexico. i expect $18M from these 3, which would make it about 1445% when these are tallied. Australia starts trickling in after 24 Aug, and UK/Mexico after 1 Sep.


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Note: in the last few minues, International data started trickling in for SoF on BOM. For instance, NZ updated, but still no Australia. Others updated also.

Anyway, SoF was ranked #1 in $/theater in S Africa for it's first seekend. So much for hype being needed for overseas success at Box office.

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$14 M for UK
$7 M for Mexico, Australia, Brazil
$5 M for Peru
$3 M from NZ, Colombia, Argentina

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Note: in the last few minues, International data started trickling in for SoF on BOM. For instance, NZ updated, but still no Australia. Others updated also.

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But I have still been noticing trends, and I'll make a table to help show this.
I fully expect most folk will not have interest in this, but I think it is curious. Not only because Sound of Freedom is such a wonderful film, but also because it is breaking the mold, much like Maverick did last year.

Barbie has been benefitting from strong summer weekday sales, which SMB did not have. (SMB is a Seth Rogan film?) SoF has had strong Saturday and Sunday figures, the days when honest working folk are not working.

Over the weekend, Barbie made 53.0% of it's Production Budget. Sound of Freedom made 54.0% of it's Production Budget.

I m using $14M as the Production Budget figure for Sof, and $100M for Barbie. Barbie's international balances may bounce around, but this table is using the stated observation of 47.5% Domestic and 52.5% International.

All figures not tagged with % are Millions of Dollars.
For Barbie figures, the same figures are both $Millions, but also % of Production Budget.
1st column is Date.
2nd column is SoF Single Day BO.
3rd column is Single Day BO % of Budget.
4th and 5th are Total Cummulative Box Office, and then % of Budget.
6th and 7th are Last 7 Days of Box Office, and then % of Budget. All for Sound of Freedom.
8th column is Barbie single Day Domestic Box Office.
9th column is the % of Budget gain on SoF % for the same day.
10th column is the Total of Barbie's Domestic Box Office.
11th column is the total of the Last 7 Days of Barbie's Domestic Box Office.
12th is the % gain on SoF for the same Last 7 Day period.
13th column - 18th columns are the same things, but for Worldwide Box Office.

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July 30 was the first day that Barbie made less Domestic BO % of Budget than SoF did.
Then again on 5 and 6 August.
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Took me a few days to build this table, but finally got it.
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Today's updated International figures for Barbie put it at 1280% of $100M, which was the denominator used for building this table. So that would be 11% more than SoF on the same day. Barbie was showing 1227% as of yesterday. At that point, it had 45.5% Domestic and 54.5% International.
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DR is having better Box Office than SoF lately, but it's Domestic total remains $13M behind.


Went to see SoF again yesterday. The 3rd time I tried, it was Sold Out again and I was not allowed to see it. This time I did see it, the 3rd time. This was in a vintage cinema, with $4 shows, every show, every seat, and the largest screens in the county. Right next to Barbie's $4 shows.
Planning to see Retribution next week, so wanted to sneak this one in before running out of time.

Angel Studios pointed out that in the history of Hollywood, 10 films have made more than 35% more on their 2nd weekend than on their 1st weekend.
All 10 were during the Christmas Holidays.
Until Sound of Freedom.

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