Wkd Box Office Est. 0323-2512 - audiences hungry for Games
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ohhthegore
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Broken to me
Sam use to bang Rose which somehow makes him top Cameron.
Ugh, they still together?
Always thought it would be Leo and Kate. ;P
There were some at $150 mil I believe, but they were considered INCREDIBLY OPTIMISTIC.
By the way, these are just estimates. The weekend haul could potentially go up with actuals and snatch The Dark Knight's wig. THG has already bulldozed the OW of every Twilight film, and if I'm correct, it also surpassed the OW attendance of every Potter film?
Not together any more.
ViewtifulJC
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Solo's gifs fail more then his BO predictions
:lol
FrenchMovieTheme
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GIF fixed! I guess I need to stop hotlinking :lol
Party time!
god damn spiderman 3 was embarrassing
GTP_Daverytimes
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I think the Amazing spiderman will enter the billion dollar club with most of the money coming from overseas. People are just not that enthusiastic stateside but i believe people will eat it up overseas, it won't open big (90 million at most) that's for certain.
GTP_Daverytimes
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God, that is the most awesome action movie trailer i have seen. I need to see the movie, it seems very bloody though.
Well based on that HG should gross about $1.5 billion domestically. Sounds right.
GTP_Daverytimes
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Not worldwide figures no, Avatar will reing for the next 5 years until Avatar 2 comes out.
Yea, that record is going to stick around for a very long time.
Because........................................................cameron
ohhthegore
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Problem?
SCULLIBUNDO
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What? I always said Hunger Games would do gangbusters. But I also said that I'm not sure The Hunger Games' April take would out gross Titanic's April take.
ViewtifulJC
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GTP_Daverytimes
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Nope, just an observation.
Messofanego
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Because Nolan has a mole.
Whoooah what the?! Where can I get that shirt?
SCULLIBUNDO
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Hey, it's possible! It's got the Cameron wild card multiplier, even if it is a rerelease!
Pachterballs
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ha ha ha.
Biggest-Geek-Ever
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What'll be really funny is when Battleship outgrosses John Carter in a single weekend.
In some respects Amazing Spiderman grossing a billion dollars worldwide at the box office would be a bigger shock than Hunger Games' three day opening numbers.
Fixed and...,
*retches*
SCULLIBUNDO
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Same.
Battleship will easily make more in it's opening weekend than John Carter in it's entire theather run.
Biggest-Geek-Ever
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But Battleship also stars Taylor Kitsch.
Uhh...I really doubt that.
GTP_Daverytimes
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Lol, never say never.
I hope so. It has Tim Riggins and Landry. In the same movie!
I'm hoping for a little on-deck football between action shots.
Good Job Bob
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John Carter is the main character of Battleship.
John Carter has been in theaters for three weeks and only made $62,347,000 thus far. The Hunter games made $155 mil in one weekend which is beastly. If Battleship makes $100mil in it's first opening weekend, it will still make more than John Carter.
I wouldn't be so sure about that. It hasn't exactly been lighting up the place with buzz. In fact, if anything it's been struggling to raise any sort of hype at this point. And that's after Universal pissed away $8m on that Superbowl ad that did nothing to raise the film's awareness among it's core audience.
Hell even the thread for it here on GAF (which should be it's primary demo, for better or worse) is barely 6 pages long IIRC.
Thankfully.
But Battleship also stars Taylor Kitsch.
And Universal have made a point of almost editing him totally out of the latest trailer instead concentrating on Rihanna and Liam Neeson
whose character is in the film for all of twenty minutes
Universal are clearly worried that some of that bad 'John Carter buzz' might attach itself to Battleship. But personally I think that particular ship has already sailed. Or sunk in Battleship's case.
I don't think you realize just how few movies make 100mill their opening weekend. Battleship will open at 50-60 max. It's not passing John Carter in one weekend.
Edit: i just bothered to look up tracking. It's being predicted at a 46 mill opening right now. So, even less.
SCULLIBUNDO
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Oh fuck. The Hunger Games just made me remember how much of the teen girl audience Avatar captured. The midnight opening screenings for the sequel are going to be painful, aren't they?
Kung Fu Jedi
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Katniss is the worst sci-fi/fantasy character name I've heard in some time.
I wouldn't worry about it. By the time Avatar 2 comes out all those chicks will be menopausal.
:lol :lol
EVERYONE saw Avatar but it doesn't have some kind of rabid teen fanbase obsessed with it like Twilight, Harry Potter, or Hunger Games.
Which reminds me, the lack of a rabid fan community obsessed with the Avatar universe and Avatar merchandise has always surprised me. There is no real large fanboy community obsessed with the universe and devoted to collecting and so forth that existed for franchises like Star Wars soon as the first film was in theaters.
The fact that merchandise sales for Avatar like action figures were a dud was strange.
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You might be right, but the film is pretty much targeting that Transformers demographic (I've even had a friend ask if it was a Transformers spinoff, which is kind of understandable lol), and I have a hard time not seeing them showing up in droves. Universal has also been on a remarkable hot streak for the last year or so with their films (see Fast Five, Bridesmaids, Lorax, and others), so I feel like they know what they're doing.
Hahaha, that's a very good point.
Bahahhahahahhahaha brilliant.
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Anyone in this thread who doesn't know who this guy is needs to go get an education.
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