Yes, but my point is that what is true now was true six days prior. Box office works on "legs", which is its lifetime in its first wide release. Mathematically for about 90% of films they follow a general trend, which means there is a finite point of time of which something is guaranteed. So because SLoP debuted higher than these films in different conditions, they are poor comparisons to track with.
The best ones are Despicable Me films and Minions, which all debuted in similar timeframes with similar results. For example: SLoP is projected to have a better drop than Minions last year, significantly so. (50% rather than 57%), that is a great sign that SLoP may end up outgrossing Minions. However, Ice Age 5 is coming up as well as Pete's Dragon, whereas Minions faced very little competition. So where this comes into what we are discussing is that Universal is tracking SLoP in comparison with Minions most likely as that will give them a better understanding of what to view ahead. So IO and Zoo are useless to compare because they don't matter right now. Minions does.
Supercharged had nothing to do with budget. It was decisions started by the snowball that was Kong 360.
F&F franchise is a goldmine for Universal, so I highly doubt box office factored into why F&F is the way it is, but more of why it exists in the first place.
SLoP did better than Uni and Comcast's expectations already. Everything else is gravy.
