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Weekend Box Office numbers?

Asked by queenzboulevard (2553points) October 26th, 2008

I always thought weekend box office earnings were from Friday to Sunday, but I can look on Yahoo! at like 2:00 pm on Sunday and get this weekend’s numbers. Shouldn’t it be Sunday night before they would be posted?

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fireside's avatar

What you see on Yahoo if it is the same as my link, is for last weekend’s totals. Note:
Weekend Box Office Actuals (U.S.)
Oct 17 – 19 weekend

here are the estimates for this weekend.

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But shouldn’t they be posted after the day is over and all the numbers are in? It’s still the afternoon on the east coast and morning on the west coast.

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jrpowell's avatar

They call every night about an hour after the last show starts. At the theater I worked at they would call around 11pm PST to get the days numbers.

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boxing's avatar

The box office numbers you see on Sunday afternoon are estimates, which mean they estimate the Sunday night numbers. On Monday they will post the actual numbers.

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