Wkd Box Office 12•25-27•15 - Star Wars never changes. 1B+ global BO for new record

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Yeah, no, it's a sequel wherein everything that happened before happened as is important and included the returning of all 3 core actors, plus a certain fire burned skull from Jedi.

Words have meaning and calling Episode VII a soft reboot is throwing out that meaning entirely.




Did you high five yourself after this because you thought you were being super witty. Watch the damn thing, a remake of ANH it ain't.

Exactly, no idea where this 'soft reboot' is coming from, perhaps all the ANH nods in the movie.

It's clearly a sequel.
 
Force Awakens is definitely not a reboot.

The term I would use is "palate cleanser", as it washed the taste of shit left by the prequels away. The franchise is now fresh and minty clean.
 
9:30am show West Orange NJ sold out on a Monday LOL

looked at my local theatre

almost every showing is "sold out" (everything but the front rows) up until 10:30 then those are mostly untouched

that's about as strong as saturday O_o
 
9:30am show West Orange NJ sold out on a Monday LOL

Which theater? Because according to Fandango there are no 9:30 AM showings for Star Wars in your town. I assume you meant the 9:15.

Now granted the 11:15, 12:45 and 2:45 are sold out in your town so I believe you :)
 
Which theater? Because according to Fandango there are no 9:30 AM showings for Star Wars in your town. I assume you meant the 9:15.

Now granted the 11:15, 12:45 and 2:45 are sold out in your town so I believe you :)

You're right 9:15. My cousin is seeing it at the AMC in west orange. He text me this morning to tell me it was sold out. He couldn't believe it.
 
I want to go see TFA for a second time on 31st and the IMAX 3d OV show here in Vienna is already 2/3 booked (only side places left), so I went for the 2d instead. I checked for the other days and all of the IMAX 3d shows have all the best places already booked (both English and German shows). It's true that it's only one IMAX cinema in town and several shows.
 
What we're seeing here is people trying to put a label ("soft reboot") on TFA when they really mean "this entry in the Star Wars series is easily accessible to a new audience." That's not the definition of a reboot. It's the definition of a film that wants to maintain previous film continuity without sacrificing an audience of people that haven't seen those previous films.
The pacing, story beats, and characters are extremely similar to A New Hope. At the very least, Force Awakens attempts to bottle what made that specific films (as opposed to even the franchise as a hole) a giant hit.
 
So, let me get this straight.

In its SECOND week of release, it made enough money to fit into the top 10 box office OPENINGS of all time.

Is that correct?

... This thing is historic.
 
So, let me get this straight.

In its SECOND week of release, it made enough money to fit into the top 10 box office OPENINGS of all time.

Is that correct?

... This thing is historic.

It's been out a week and it's already the 5th highest grossing movie of all time in North America. Give it another week and it might be top 3.
 
My God! I had no idea Star Wars had grossed so much already! It will surely pass Titanic's domestic total and probably claim the #1 spot, too.
 
Traffic seems light today at the LA area arclights, including the cinerama dome. A single seat was sold for the 845 am showing near me.
 
it will depend on their marketing for china, not a movie they can easily love


but can influence them into it a lot

just throw up a lot of money in china and say fastest money maker in american history blahb lah and that could work.

you'll have to wait a month to see how they do in feb in china though when all the kids and families are out of work and school for the month
 
Anyone that ever questions Cameron's chops of delivering action is delusional. He always delivers on the action front and makes things clear and easy to follow.

If anything, I am wondering if Fury Road has lit a fire under his ass like he was once influenced by Road Warrior. Cameron has become the apprentice again, and he has something to prove yet again. Even if Cameron's scripts aren't as tight as they once were, he is still in the top tier of action directing.

In my brain, I keep imagining Cameron as watching what George Miller pulled off in Fury Road and thinking, "I can do better. No one shows me up!" And then Cameron will deliver something absolutely fucking bonkers.

Finally something to get james cameron out of fucking hibernation and get shit done mode. His ego might get him to direct an action film better than fury road now.

Fucker is still playing in that avatar 09 dough.
 
I thought we've already established that Canada is weak compared to the unassailable might and destruction of the United States of America

Yall are nothing, we have Justin Bieber, Shania Twain, and Celine Dion.

And Cameron da gawd!
 
I want to go see TFA for a second time on 31st and the IMAX 3d OV show here in Vienna is already 2/3 booked (only side places left), so I went for the 2d instead. I checked for the other days and all of the IMAX 3d shows have all the best places already booked (both English and German shows). It's true that it's only one IMAX cinema in town and several shows.

IMAX 3D in Karlsruhe also is booked out until January. Madness :S
 
I like the description I read once. If this wasn't a Star Wars movie, it would be plagiarism.

It's not shot for shot, but fuck me if the movie isn't similar. :P

Won't get into this too much, but... well, yeah. It's a Star Wars movie riffing on previous Star Wars themes.

I was watching Back to the Future with the fiance and it repeats scenes and story beats over and over and over again. It's still a beloved trilogy... even if you pretty much know the same characters show up, will do or say the same things, and it'll ultimately have nearly the same outcome every time.

And let's not pretend that Star Wars was immune either. It outright stole ideas and scenes, some shot for shot, from dozens of sources, ranging from Flash Gordon to Buck Rogers to Metropolis to Kurosawa films.

It's like poetry. It rhymes.

Kind of fitting since Star Wars itself "plagiarized" several films, LOL.
What this person said.
 
Has anyone figured out, why Star Wars has so much more pull with American audiences than the rest of the world? At a glance it wouldn't appear like a series that should behave that way.

I want to go see TFA for a second time on 31st and the IMAX 3d OV show here in Vienna is already 2/3 booked (only side places left), so I went for the 2d instead. I checked for the other days and all of the IMAX 3d shows have all the best places already booked (both English and German shows). It's true that it's only one IMAX cinema in town and several shows.

Actually we do have two IMAXes in Vienna. Donauplex and Apollo. What is true though is that only the Apollo one regularly shows OVs.
And to add to your observations: Star Wars appears to sell best in IMAX OV (one showing per day since release) followed bei non OV IMAX. But for non IMAX showings there's plenty of tickets still available. At almost all times and good seats as well.
 
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