Online Ticket sales ahead of Harry Potter!

[Darth23]

At least accoring to Variety/Yahoo:

http://movies.yahoo.com/news/va/20020510/102108251700.html

[JonathanLB]

Well I just hope it can do $75 million opening weekend, because I'd be quite happy with anything in that range, but I think it has a shot at $85 million. Anyone who thinks it's going to make $115M like Spider-Man is on drugs, though, haha, or very optimistic ;)

I think Episode II is going to be surprisingly strong. Many people are under the impression that automatically less hype = less money, but I disagree. TPM made most of its money after the opening few weekends, in fact, and that was not hype, that was word of mouth.

This type, the lack of really overbearing hype may actually help. Only time will tell, but I'm optimistic.

[Jedi Master Carr]

Thats a good early sign, I think opening day should be at least 30 million maybe more, not too much longer until we find out.

[JonathanLB]

$30 million? lol, that should be easy.

I think $35 to $40 million. I'd personally guess $35M.