Disney Irish
Premium Member
A snapshot is meaningless, even opening weekend, especially when trying to use it to frame a narrative of success or failure and profit/loss, and use it to give a summary of the end of year totals, as several posters do here.I edited my comment (too late it seems). I agree that info is relevant. But I think it’s fine to wait until it’s actually earned to include it. And a snapshot isn’t meaningless. Opening weekend is a snapshot, for instance. They don’t tell everything of course
For example lets use a recent example of Mufasa, if you went based it on opening weekend it was considered a failure and written off by many here including me. It was still written off as a failure for many weeks after by those that track the weekly box office and give profit/loss summaries. Even now after we know for a fact that its moved into profitability during theatrical some still try to frame it as a failure, for reasons.
Its a snapshot, its not complete, and it really doesn't provide a lot of information even on the profit/loss which its trying to be used as for narrative purposes.