After grossing $10.1M in ten offshore markets off 9K screens,
Warner Bros.'
Fantastic Beasts: The Crimes of Grindelwald is eyeing an estimated Thursday night of $7M-$7.5M at approximately 3,300 locations that started showtimes at 5PM, per Deadline sources. These figures do not come from Warner Bros.
As we always footnote, this estimate could go higher or lower, and west coast shows just started an hour and 15 minutes ago. Two years ago at this time,
Fantastic Beasts and Where to Find Them, the first chapter in the
Harry Potter spinoff from author J.K. Rowling, made $8.75M, which repped close to 30% of its first day's $29.66M. The pic wound up opening to $74.4M in the U.S./Canada, but it was all about the global play with the movie, which debuted to $219.9M and finaled at $814M. This time around,
FB2 is global day and date in 79 out of 80 markets. WB thinks it's going to debut to $250M WW; others think it's higher, possibly even $275M.