Iron Lung weekend numbers – The Numbers

Thank you to everyone who has been reaching out to us regarding our reporting on the great opening weekend for Iron Lung. We want to give an update about what we reported, and acknowledge an error on our end.

Over the weekend, we didn’t receive official estimates for Iron Lung from Markiplier. The numbers we posted were industry estimates, based on trusted sources, including reporting in Deadline and Variety. We posted a weekend estimate at 8.34am. We didn’t have daily estimates until around 12.30pm on Sunday, and posted them as soon as we had them.

Unfortunately, we ranked all movies in the Saturday and Sunday daily charts, even though we hadn’t got estimates for Iron Lung. That may have created a false impression that we had stopped reporting on the film. We regret the error.

We’re working to get actual numbers from Markiplier, and have reached out to his team. If we receive numbers from them, we will mark them as actuals on the chart. If we don’t, we will continue to mark them in green text, indicating that they are industry estimates. For our final charts, we only report numbers reported to us, and all of our actuals come directly from the distributing studio.

Perhaps most importantly, congratulations to Markiplier on an incredible achievement. We’re excited to see a film like this bring people into theaters, and wish him all the best for a continued strong run!

Bruce Nash, bruce.nash@the-numbers.com