This paper has been printing Toy Story's billion as an August print. [1] Sunday has no new gross in fetched copy. August is not September. A recap is not a new billion. Print August. Do not print a new total. Leave a named weekend to the edition that owns a weekend.
No Sunday box-office revision is in studio copy, so the billion remains August and a recap is not a new gross.
An August billion is still August. Sunday recap that treats a recap as a new gross is a feed, not a weekend.
No weekend gross table is in Sunday's studio stack.
Uncounted Sundays count nothing new; August's billion stays August's.
Sunday is not a new billion. Theatrical billions are made in summer and counted ever after. Sunday counts nothing new.
Animated billions now arrive as routinely as summer itself. The milestone that once defined an era is now a line item. What matters is the multiple: budget versus gross, over years.
Year-long multiples matter more than Sunday recaps; August's billion is a line item. Budget versus gross. Sunday counts nothing new.
Sunday recaps add no dollars. The milestone is now a line item. What matters is the multiple.
August already banked the billion. Sunday does not reopen the theatrical books. Pixar's sequel remains last summer's line item.
Studios count opening weekends, not Sunday recaps. The billion did its work in August. September's slate has already moved on.
Pixar's sequel remains last summer's line item. Studios count opening weekends, not Sunday recaps. Sunday does not reopen August's books.
Pixar's sequel remains last summer's line item. Studios count opening weekends, not Sunday recaps. Sunday does not reopen August's books.
-- CAMILLE BEAUMONT, Los Angeles