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Wkd Box Office 01•08-10•16 - #1 (& Oscar? >_>) elude Leo as TFA 4peats & breaks China

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Bobby Roberts said:
I think it's mostly a knee-jerk reaction to statements such as these. Super-confident claims of total infallibility are going to bring out the contrarian in anybody, much less anybody who is even somewhat involved in the varying aspects of fandom beyond simply saying "I like thing."

That's basically all it is. Cameron is a great filmmaker when he's on, and a merely good one when he's off. He's never made a bad movie, and his tastes tend to the populist in a way that maybe only Spielberg's ever touched as consistently.

But even with that being more or less general knowledge, that sort of factoid is going to be brushed off or handwaved away when rooting interests come into play, and especially in the face of people who might be holding opposing rooting interests (silly as the entire concept may be) who say things like that with conviction approaching religious fervor. Maybe they don't actually get to that level of zealotry, but even hearing the ring of it echoing off the statement is enough to make otherwise common-sensical people go contrarian.
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I'd say it can go beyond approaching religious fervor. I mean, some of these people literally refer to Cameron as deity.
 
rostocker said:
sold tickets in Germany:
Star Wars 7 - 7.6M (as of 01/10/16)
Avatar - 11.2M

gross:
Star Wars 7 - €85M (as of 01/10/16)
Avatar - €114.7M
Titanic - €126M

source: http://www.filmstarts.de/nachrichten/18500472.html http://www.fr-online.de/panorama/kino--avatar--erfolgreichster-film-des-jahres,1472782,5054228.html
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No number of tickets sold for Titanic :(
It's like the movie industry doesn't want to show us that popular movies from today are actually less popular than before.

Regarding Avatar 2, it really depends on the new setting, which characters it follows and what's the story is about.
 
Lifejumper said:
Discount Tuesday.
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gamz said:
It's pretty common to jump a tad here and there from day to day.
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The reason why I'm asking is because there hasn't been a single day where a weekday has jumped above the previous day (non-Friday), except the 23rd where there was only an increase of 1.8%, if I'm reading Box Office Mojo correctly. Then all the sudden it jumps up 23% from yesterday, so I was wondering if there is a reason for it since no other weekday has seen an increase like this except for Fridays.. not even other discounted Tuesdays.

EDIT: Looks like I found the answer:

"Daily percentage increases were especially strong in general yesterday; due in part to Monday's grosses being deflated a bit by the NCAA College Football Championship Game."

So those who were worried about the 3.1M on Monday shouldn't be, which is good news.
 
Surfinn said:
The reason why I'm asking is because there hasn't been a single day where a weekday has jumped above the previous day (non-Friday), except the 23rd where there was only an increase of 1.8%, if I'm reading Box Office Mojo correctly. Then all the sudden it jumps up 23% from yesterday, so I was wondering if there is a reason for it since no other weekday has seen an increase like this except for Fridays.. not even other discounted Tuesdays.

EDIT: Looks like I found the answer:

"Daily percentage increases were especially strong in general yesterday; due in part to Monday's grosses being deflated a bit by the NCAA College Football Championship Game."

So those who were worried about the 3.1M on Monday shouldn't be, which is good news.
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Worry about what? It's a 700K jump.

Take Creed for example it had a couple of days with jumps. Typically on Tuesdays

http://www.boxofficemojo.com/movies/?page=daily&id=creed.htm
 
gamz said:
Worry about what? It's a 700K jump.

Take Creed for example it had a couple of days with jumps. Typically on Tuesdays

http://www.boxofficemojo.com/movies/?page=daily&id=creed.htm
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People were worried that TFA only hit 3.1M on Monday but I don't think most knew why it dropped. Yeah I get the Tuesday thing, but this is the first time we've seen that sort of jump on a weekday in its entire run (excluding Friday). So I was just pointing out the decline/rise through what was stated in the Box Office article.
 
Surfinn said:
People were worried that TFA only hit 3.1M on Monday but I don't think most knew why it dropped. Yeah I get the Tuesday thing, but this is the first time we've seen that sort of jump on a weekday in its entire run (excluding Friday). So I was just pointing out the decline/rise through what was stated in the Box Office article.
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Who is actually worried? We have a pretty clear picture of where it will end. Sub one billion domestic and in third place behind titanic ww.
 
Surfinn said:
People were worried that TFA only hit 3.1M on Monday but I don't think most knew why it dropped. Yeah I get the Tuesday thing, but this is the first time we've seen that sort of jump on a weekday in its entire run (excluding Friday). So I was just pointing out the decline/rise through what was stated in the Box Office article.
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Duh it dropped because everyone is buying lotto tickets.
 
Inebriated said:
Who is actually worried? We have a pretty clear picture of where it will end. Sub one billion domestic and in third place behind titanic ww.
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People expressed some worry when those numbers came out. And it's not set it stone whether or not it will beat Titanic..

Bobby Roberts said:
Well, that's definitely the lowest Monday so far.
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Inebriated said:
So when it's all said and done TFA best JW worldwide but not titanic or avatar.
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Anth0ny said:
the billion dollar domestic dream is dead :(




until they do the re-release with rogue one and episode viii footage :)
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Bobby Roberts said:
That seems like a hell of a lot repeat viewers, damn.
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I wonder how this will play out in future movies. That article suggests that if people don't continue to see these films 2-3 times, Ep 8 could see a big drop even if the audience of unique individuals stays about the same
 
Don't worry fam, I got you

And yeah, I wonder how 8 will do. The Mania of Star Wars will still be there, but it'll be interesting to see how it plays out.
 
BronsonLee said:
Don't worry fam, I got you

And yeah, I wonder how 8 will do. The Mania of Star Wars will still be there, but it'll be interesting to see how it plays out.
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I sort of think that Age of Ultron suffered from this. The MCU viewing audience turned up, but largely decided that once was probably enough.
 
55 million of that 90mil 3rd weekend was due to 2nd viewings, according to that article. 20 million of that was from people watching it for at least the third time.
 
Christ on sale, no wonder Disney is doing the spinoffs

They know that shit don't last, international gonna get hooked like it's whatever the Star Wars equivalent of heroin is
 
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