The Girls Are Fighting: Warner Bros. and Sony Feud Over Who Won Box Office, Barbie or Gran Turismo

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[just444]

the studios are all cheating with the previews tbh

[lovelylaura23]

The mission impossible previews being added to the "weekend" total was embarrassing cuz it was like a week's worth of previews.

[green_monsterx]

Sony is including $1.4 million it earned in Thursday previews and the $3.9 million it generated in weeks of special pre-show screenings.

I can see counting the Thursday previews, but not the weeks of special screenings

[kris_terror]

Yeah but the article says there is precedent for including the previews, so if they allowed it for previous movies I see Sony's argument

[green_monsterx]

I didn’t read the article clearly lol so I wasn’t aware there was a precedent but it also seems like a stupid rule then in general

[sandstorm]

Someone asked ERC on Twitter ages ago; This isn't unprecedented to count special screenings (although I too think it's bs; it's how Dungeons and Dragons was #1; They counted the previews on March 19th in the opening weekend.)

[champagnexdream]

IDGAF about Gran Turismo but I saw Barbie for the third time yesterday and regret nothing. Hope I can see it in IMAX too

LOL I forgot Gran Turismo existed or came out

[sockymous]

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[scriptedending]

Lol. I honestly don't care who wins the weekend - Barbie is clearly winning the whole damn year - but yeah, weeks of preview screenings should not count as opening weekend numbers. They basically did a platform release (like you would do for an indie) for Gran Turismo, and that's fine! They fully had several prime weekend showtimes at my local AMC for the last few weeks. But I don't think that number should be rolled into the "opening weekend" number because it's not opening weekend. They are already stretching it with opening films on Wednesdays.

At any rate, let's just pick a guideline for this stuff and stick to it so it's consistent.