"Dune: Part Two" releases on March 1st. Its third weekend is March 15th-17th, where it will battle the second weekend for "Kung Fu Panda 4", and the opening weekend for "Arthur the King".
This market resolves YES if BoxOfficeMojo lists "Dune: Part Two" as the film with the highest domestic gross for the weekend of March 15th-17th.
I will use the "weekend" tab in BoxOfficeMojo to resolve this market.
For example "Dune" (2021) released on October 22nd, and in its third weekend at the box office (November 5-7), BoxOfficeMojo shows it as a distant #2 (grossing $7,790,194), miles behind the opening weekend for The Eternals at #1 (grossing $71,297,219) Link: https://www.boxofficemojo.com/weekend/2021W45/?ref_=bo_rl_table_3
I will use this same source, but for the weekend of March 15-17.
Other details:
I will use the weekend gross posted by BoxOfficeMojo, however it is defined.
For context, AFAIK typically the "weekend" is Friday/Saturday/Sunday, including Thursday previews for new releases, across all of North America. But that's just my informal understanding, not a rule for resolution—I will use their definition.
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3.00@traders It's close, but the actuals are in, and KFP4 holds its lead (kids on spring break have a lot of free time). Resolves NO.
NEW MARKET: KFP has won two weekends straight—now that spring break is over, can Dune pass it?
Just to clarify and make sure I'm understanding correctly, this is only the box office for the weekend of March 15-17, and there will be no cumulative values from previous weeks right? Just purely the numbers grossed from March 15-17 and that is what we are predicting, whether Dune 2 will be the highest?
@tsaitama Yup that’s correct. To use the example from the question description, on this weekend https://www.boxofficemojo.com/weekend/2021W45/, the comparison would have been eternals at over 70M Vs Dune at 7.8M (not dune’s total domestic gross up to that point, it’s a comparison over just that weekend)
ty for the clarification. I believe in Kung Fu panda!!! surely we win big here fr fr