There is also disagreement as to whether early openings actually boost an opening-weekend gross.
Eight of the ten films with the highest-ever opening weekend box-office receipts were released either this year or last (see table).
The taxi drivers will be particularly busy on 28 and 29 July - the opening weekend of the Olympics - and 1 August when Surrey hosts the Olympic men's and women's cycle road race and time trial events.
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It was truly a mega blockbuster in the age of the massive saturation-level opening weekend, a phenomena kicked off by Batman four years earlier.
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The opening weekend includes large-scale productions such as the National Ballet of China's The Peony Pavilion and Mokwha Repertory Company's version of Shakespeare's Tempest.
The opening weekend will kick-off with a bang with derbies across the country and it includes the biggest game in Sierra Leone as East End Lions meet arch-rivals Mighty Blackpool on Sunday.
That movie brought in 71% of its opening weekend gross from 3-D.
The recent Puss in Boots earned 51% of its opening weekend gross from 3-D and Kung Fu Panda 2 earned just 45% , according to BTIG analyst Richard Greenfield.
None of the above examples were good movies (and for that matter neither was Snow White and the Huntsman), but Stewart delivered her Twi-Hards over the opening weekend of her big movie for blockbuster numbers.
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We expect Apple to announce 2 million shipments or more after its opening weekend, including pre-orders.
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Last month, 3-D attendance hit a record low for the opening weekend of Pixar's "Brave, " with just 32% of revenues coming from 3-D, says the Hollywood Reporter.
As Hollywood's obsession with the opening weekend filters into the general consciousness, cinema-goers may be rushing to the big screen for fear of missing the new release altogether.
Despite the "The Five-Year Engagement's" lackluster opening weekend, the film touched on a cultural phenomenon that's been adopted by modern couples such as Mar Yvette and Aram Brazilian, who will have been engaged for 11 years come Saturday.
Leinster travel to another of last season's play-off sides, Glasgow Warriors, on the opening weekend, then host Cardiff Blues in the second round of fixtures on 11 September.
The film set records when it opened last weekend, becoming the third highest-grossing opening of all time behind The Dark Knight and Spider-Man 3 and the biggest opening of 2009, according to Box Office Mojo.
Worse yet, this latest damaging stalemate came against a Sunderland side that - for all the upward mobility suggested by a five-game unbeaten run - last won away in the league on the opening weekend of the season.
Wales' Rhys Davies, who won his maiden European Tour event in Morocco in March and had consecutive runner-up finishes at the Madrid Masters and Celtic Manor Wales Open, improved on his opening 78 with a one-under 70 to go into the weekend at six over.
Forty-five people were hospitalized in various store stampedes during opening weekend.
The 3-D animated film should easily outpace the other new film opening this weekend: Bad Teacher.
Analysts have blamed supply-chain problems for lower-than-expected initial iPhone 5 sales of five million in the opening weekend.
That was enough to make it the third highest opening weekend of all time and the best opening for a 2-D movie.
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Leeds had twice beaten Bradford in Super League action this season, the first of those two victories, at Cardiff back on the opening weekend of the campaign, having seen them come from 28-10 down with just 20 minutes left.
Holland America is introducing the first five-day trip to Alaska in September, opening the market to the long weekend crowd.
Three of the biggest theater chains not selling online tickets for a massive (and probably somewhat front-loaded) franchise picture could theoretically make a dent in its opening weekend.
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Turnout was so heavy in Charlotte, North Carolina, that Mecklenburg County officials are extending voting hours and opening 20 voting sites this weekend instead of the originally planned five, WSOC-TV in Charlotte reported.
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When you take ticket-price inflation into account, fewer people went to see Green Lantern opening weekend than saw Daredevil or Ghost Rider, films that underperformed.
The opening weekend results are disappointing, but it was clearly the top draw for movie-goers.
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Which makes life difficult for would-be box-office draws like Jennifer Aniston and Jude Law, who both have new movies opening this weekend.
It was much-needed result for the Irish province, who suffered one of the surprise losses in the opening weekend at home to London Irish.
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