Will COS have "legs"

[GulPlum]

Ali wrote:

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> What are "legs". I take it it's something to do with the number of 
> people viewing it, but what does it mean, and how does 10.8 rate?

"Legs" isn't a question of numbers per se, but of longevity. For 
example, My Big Fat Greek Wedding and Spiderman both had legs 
Stateside earlier this year, maintaining strong audiences well into 
their run. The first HP movie had an astonishing start by pulling in 
just as large audiences over its second weekend as it did its first 
last year, but I expect that this won't be repeated this year due to 
the new Bond's release yesterday. 10.8 million bucks in North America 
yesterday certainly doesn't bode well in that regard (for instance, 
Spiderman did twice that on its second Friday).

If you want to see some interesing HP US box office comparisons, 
check out the graph that Bruce at http://www.the-numbers.com 
maintains (scroll down the front page, click on the graph for a 
bigger and more legible version).

> Since the opening weekend, I've no idea how it's been doing here in 
> Britain. It will be battling against James Bond and later LOTR, so
> it has got it's work cut out. Today though, friends failed to see 
> it at any of the afternoon showings in our local cinema as they 
> were all sold out. Not bad I thought.

I spent most of today in my local multiplex (I ended up seeing, inter 
alia, Die Another Day [DAD] in thirds, in reverse order - long 
story!). DAD was showing in three of its four largest auditoria, and 
the four shows I looked in on  were completely full. CoS was showing 
in the equal largest auditorium (Screen 1 and Screen 2 are the same 
size; 1 was showing CoS, 2 was showing DAD) and three smaller ones, 
and the four shows I looked in on were equally full. So it seems that 
in that cinema at least, Bond and HP were pretty much neck-and-neck. 

The queues for tickets were interesting.I witnessed several groups of 
teenagers - those which had girl majorities seemd like they were 
going to see HP, whilst boys were more interested in Bond, and 
several of the boys were even arguing how crap and childish HP was 
(despite quite clearly knowing nothing about the film or story!).


To be perfectly honest, despite being an absolutely HUGE Bond fan, I 
regret that I don't have any plans to see this one again... Which 
isn't quite the case with CoS, which should be getting my attendance 
for the err... tenth... time tomorrow. :-)

BTW for info on CoS UK box office, check out 
http://www.screendaily.com/story.asp?storyid=10319