What in the actual fuck.
For reference, Avatar did $19.4m off a 20% Sunday-Monday drop at the same point (and day) in its run.
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What in the actual fuck.
For reference, Avatar did $19.4m off a 20% Sunday-Monday drop at the same point (and day) in its run.
It's crazy. I'm wonder how well it'll do on Friday. It being a holiday and all.
Bobby Roberts
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I wasn't expecting a 30+ million Monday. Wow.
Charles Foster Kane
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Incredible hold from the weekend.
ViewtifulJC
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"we'll see how the domestic goes" they said
AlphaStriker
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Woo! Star Wars mania is here to stay.
Bobby Roberts
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Is that guy known around here for making super-accurate predictions or something?
I'll give him that, he was carrying himself like he was supposed to be saying the things he was saying like they were things people should say.
I mean, they weren't, but the act was solid.
I was one of those that bought a ticket on Monday - to a packed 10:00am 2D no-frills showing. Just crazy.
ratcliffja
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Godzilla wasn't great. It's just that Looper was terrible.
I mentioned close to a week ago that people should get ready for more $30M+ days this week.
Avatar's second Monday-Thursday grosses were all higher than its first Monday-Thursday. Star Wars having 20-30% drops this week is pretty normal.
Sibersk Esto
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Star Wars will have the first and second best Mondays of all time.
excelsiorlef
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It's nuts that this still isn't going to be #1 all time
Ragnarsson
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If this number holds up, it means that its second Monday also beats Spider-Man 2's first Monday - and previous record - of $27,6 million.
Calling it now. Avatar goes down by Sunday.
Bobby Roberts
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nah. Not by any stretch.
Not only is this comparison still weird just at its base, it's weird in that we're comparing Gareth Edwards best movie (easily better than Monsters, even if it's not overall much better than "okay" at best) against Johnson's least, (both Brick and Bloom are better than Looper), which is still a fairly well put together film, especially considering the ambition in its plotting.
It's not like Looper is the only thing Johnson's made. I know that putting Bruce Willis in your movie makes your movie a little more noticeable to people, but he did make two other films that are very, very fucking good. Limiting any/all comparison of his works to just Looper is... well, limiting.
Rth won't be off by over 15%, so there is plenty of wiggle room.
BronsonLee
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Do snakes have legs
Bobby Roberts
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Yeah, but you also said we probably shouldn't be using Avatar's model as a measuring stick so much!
It's almost as bad as when Speedymanic made an avatar bet that Avengers would not gross more than 250M domestic. Gave him an ugly Whedon avatar for 2 months.
It's going to be #1 domestic by over $200m so that's pretty damn amazing. And over $2b ww and probably #2 ww is also still really great.
Avatar's Monday-to-Monday hold would give you a $47M second Monday for TFA
Amazing numbers. The Star Wars bluray is so going to be no.1
Good Dino sure could use 'em
Good Dino sure could use 'em
I would agree, but that works out to a 17.5% drop from last Monday; I think that's better than most reasonable forecasts.
Nostalgia is a powerful thing.
Bobby Roberts
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BronsonLee
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Maybe...Maybe WE are the Avatars
Hero_of_the_Day
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It will be in the US. Rest of the world just doesn't care as much.
I love Cameron, so I wasn't thirsty to watch Avatar fall. It is always fun to watch records fall, though. Like I've been saying for months, I think whatever takes Avatar down will be something no one sees coming just like Titanic and Avatar.
Charles Foster Kane
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WHICH IS IT K-SWISS. DON'T LOOK TO AVATAR? OR LOOK TO AVATAR?
TFA is following its own path.
It may not be having Avatar holds (we're also talking about much bigger numbers and a more frontloaded movie), but it's holding way better than the likes of JW and Avengers.
Warcraft it is.
BronsonLee
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N...no
excelsiorlef
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That's what I meant WW
Leona Lewis
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Battle Angel.
Cameron no longer has it.
Don't make me cry again.
Bobby Roberts
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You mean ROBERT RODRIGUEZ'S BATTLE ANGEL
Sibersk Esto
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Not with Robert Rodriguez at the helm.
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WHICH IS IT K-SWISS. DON'T LOOK TO AVATAR? OR LOOK TO AVATAR?
It's obviously not following Avatar, but it is having holiday holds.
In December 2009 pretty much every holdover had better weekday numbers from Dec 28-31 than they did the week previously (unless the film was gutted for screens to make room for Sherlock and company the week before). Star Wars is still recent and burning off insane demand, but good holds this week are to be expected.
In addition to school kids from ages 5-25, a lot of workplaces have the week off this week.
Ninja Scooter
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At this point in their respective runs Avatar had made $212 million. What the fuck was Avatar?!?
BronsonLee
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WHICH IS IT K-SWISS. DON'T LOOK TO AVATAR? OR LOOK TO AVATAR?
Look to Avatar as a point of reference for its trajectory and totals, but not tracking.
A tech demo.
Leona Lewis
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