Moneyball has just been revised (9/3)upward significantly to $63m cume. It once was in the $30-35m range. Contagion has been revised upward as well from $60m to $70m but is now back down to $62m. I only go by what the estimates are from boxoffice.com. I do not use any gut feeling or hunch just what their experts think.
Do not get me wrong, I am very pleased to see the huge increase. As I am with any movie. No apology owed no matter what they do as this is far from an exact science. Contagion has a pretty wide open to go up against while Moneyball has a bit more competition to deal with it. In the end I expect both to be within $10m of each other.