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Originally posted by Squall
No, I'm just saying it did not sell 10% of the previous TOTAL score with the help of streaming, which is nothing good.
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I understand what you were saying, it just seems a little silly.
The first one only blew up because of "Cups", which didn't take off til 7 months after and peaked a whole year later, almost. 212,000 in its year of its release. 793k in 2013, which means it sold ~200k between 2014-2015.
The film might have a following, but doesn't mean the soundtrack does. Most people likely opted to buy it because of Cups, not the film. At least I would think so.
Therefore, we shouldn't have expected a 500k opening or whatever you were expecting. Especially since folks probably spent excess of $20-25 to see the movie. Plus as mentioned, the film opened with more than the first film's entire run. Which is nothing bad.