American Sniper is rumored to have just made 29.1M on Friday. If that number holds true, it’s a gigantic fucking number. Clint Eastwood’s biggest opening ever as a director is 29.5M for Gran Torino, and American Sniper almost did that in one day. 29.1M for an opening day puts American Sniper above major films like Star Wars: Episode 1, The Da Vinci Code, Transformers, and Avatar on the all time opening day list. A perhaps less impressive, but more specific number would say it is the 61st biggest opening day of all time. It is likely to shatter the weekend record for January, which is currently 41.5M. Hell, if it closed right now and only made 29.1M, it would be enough to secure the 11th biggest opening in January… ever. In ONE day. That’s how slow January typically is.

It is just decimating the competition. The Wedding Ringer is opening to a perfectly fine 6.9M, and a likely 20M weekend. Paddington opened with 4.8M on Friday, and could hit 19M for the weekend. Blackhat was a bomb, with only 1.4M on Friday, and a possible weekend of 4M. It might not even crack the Top 10. Paddington managed an A cinemascore, Wedding Ringer got an A-, but Blackhat got a C- cinemascore suggesting zero word of mouth.