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Sacha Baron Cohen is scheduled for 112 of the 128 performances of Quentin Tarantino's first play. The 16,000 tickets under £50 are 125 a night, or 12.4% of the Phoenix Theatre run.
Resident Evil reached $320.2m worldwide and took the franchise record from The Final Chapter. Strip China out of both and the new film is 83% ahead; on the usual studio splits, the record is worth about 31% more.
The Social Reckoning took $650,000 in Thursday previews and is projected at $6m, about 27% of The Social Network's 2010 opening. Other Mommy outsold it five and a half times over on a $19m budget.
Tiny Ltd closed Friday at a market capitalisation of US$117m. Its 60% stake in Letterboxd is being marketed at $300m, which works out at $9.77 a member, against the $458 a head the New York Times Company paid for The Athletic.
Resident Evil took $24m on Friday including previews and is heading for about $50m. That is 48% of the weekend on day one, against 41.8% for Weapons, which is why forecasts of $58m to $68m, ours included, were too high.
Resident Evil's $8m-$9m in previews is more than Welcome to Raccoon City took in its entire opening weekend. Applying the preview multiples of Weapons and Mortal Kombat II gives a $59m-$68m opening; the tracking says $40m-$50m. Here is the arithmetic, and why it may still be wrong.
Spider-Man: Brand New Day has passed The Force Awakens' $936,662,225 to become the biggest domestic release ever. Divide each gross by the price of a ticket in its year and the new record holder sold about 70 million seats against 111 million. It also took a bigger share of its year's cinemagoing than Star Wars did.